Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1891-01-02
IN TOWN AND OUT,

How the turkeys gobbled !"
LFho board of county commissioners
will meet next Monday.
Mr.. John F. Cell will receive and re.
ceipt for money due the RECORD.
Mrs. s. F. Coover visited frlends in
the Williamspor. neighborhood last Tues
day.
A regular quarterly meeting of Will.
Transport school board will be held Tues.
day. Jan 6.
1.-The state legislature meets Tuesday,
Jan. 9. The constitution limits the ses.
sion to sixty days
GIL Higbee has settled down at Rose
mount, MINI. He is getting good wages
as foreman on a stock farm.
Merchant Connor has purchased the
ISohn shormer ranch. on tue river road
between Liyona and Glencoe.
Buy all kinds of Groceries OF George
Jennings Bismarck if you wish to have
little money 60 long ways.
1t is reported that business in most
North Dakota cities shows marked i'm
provement over this time last year.
| GThere are about dozen pupils attend.
ing Wllliamsport school, and the number
will be increased to upward of twenty
within fortnight
George Jennings, Bismarck, will buy
good butter put up IN jars, tubs orrolls,
and will sell you groceries in exchange at
the lowest cash prices.
Mr.. Henry A. Bcrgey, who spent some
time in Minneapolis, and who recently re-
turned to Emmons county. visited Will
Transport last Monday.
Rev. j. W. Mahin will preach at Will
Transport next Sunday, at II a. m., and
at Danbury at 3p. m. of samc day. All
are invited to be present.
kCounty Superintendent Andrus is visit.
ing Fargo this week in attendance at the
meeting of the North Dakota Educational
ASSOCIATION and gathering of the county
superintendent of the state.
sPhe Catholic Union and Times, of Buf.
falo, N. Y, recently offered a prize for
the best story written by boy. Several
hundred tried for it, and the successful
writer was Master John Haley, Of Livona.
Bronson ito the editor of the Boom
town Banner): THAT was pretty tough
story about the cyclone. I don't know
how you managed to swallow It," Edi-
tor: "Well, you know, 1 have patent in.
Sides"
Fred Argast paid up four years SUBJ
scription the other day by hauling to
the RECORD Office two big loads of wood.
And it was good, sound, dry wood, too
such as country publishers do not always
receive in payment of debts.
FThc RECORD devil--likc most boys in
North Dakota, where horse can be kept
for ten cents a year--has pony. The
said devil is of lean physique but when
he says that the sore back of his pony
was caused by his bare back riding it is
hard to believe him.
Steele Ozone Mrs. Charles Allen was
| taken seriously i'll at the home of II. I.
Barnaby, south of town, the first of the
| week. DIR. Harcourt was telegraphcd for,
| and under Ais skillful treatment her many
friends hope to soon see her about again.
| We understand Charles will take tie road
this winter as collecting agent for ma
chine house. and Mrs, Allen will reside
With Mrs. p. D. Lyons.
k/Flax, says the Northwest Magazine, is
Zone of the profitable crops of North Da-
kota. 4 single crop from the sod has
been made to pay for a farm and i'm
proyements. The fiber is of unusual ex-
cellence. while the seed is oily to degree
| unknown back east. The Dakotas lead
| the country in tax production. There arc
fine chances for manufacturers to engage
in handling fiber and making faxseed oil
in many parts of North Dakota.
/Mr. Cell isn't much taken with the
methods Of certain loan company.
The company wanted IA per cent, and in
tho first papers sent by the loaners they
made ''mistake" of several dollars in
their own favor After considerable cor
respondence with Mr.. Cell, they con-
cluded that they wouldn't loan money in
Emmons county--not just yet awhile--on
account Of 1.-THE Indian scare" It was
added, however, that if any settler want
ed to take 800, and give mortgage for
$400 on his claim, he could be 'accom-
modated."
Bismarck is and will continue to be the
railroad market town of the north half of
Emmons county--at least until we have q
railroad town with the various profess
sions, trades and lines of mercantile busi-
ness represented. Any week day from
two or three to dozen or fifteen people
from this county can be seen on the
streets of the city--besides those who go
up to attend church on Sunday. Not an
issue Of the Tribune appears without the
presence of the names of Emmons county
citizens in its personal columns and list