Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1893-09-15
IN TOWN AND OUT.

Go to George Jennings with your eggs
andbutter.
Treasurer Lee departed yesterday on a
visit to Winona.
Fire Warden Kalbcrer has burned ten
miles of frc-guards.
Don't let the dance at the schoolhouse
Tonight escape your memory.
Mrs. w. w. Goodwin, of Buchanan,
was visitor to Willlamsport yesterday.
Miss Alice Carmichael, for week past,
has been visiting friends in this neighbor.
hood.
George Jennings buys more butter and
eggs than all the other dealers in Bis
marck.
If you want good accommodations and
cheap rates go to the Pacific Hotel, Bis
marck.
The "clty folks all turned out Mon.
dey forenoon and burned the Blllsport
fire break.
Letters uncalled for at Williamsport
postofflce George G. Otto (3). jeremiah
Kelleher (2).
Sell your products at tile Butter aud
Egg Market, Bismarck - George Jen.
uings, proprietor
Are your stacks properly protected by
fire guards7 This means you--you who
are reading this item.
Sheriff Mahaney, who visited South
Prairie the latter part Of last week,
brought the news that Mrs. Flick was
very Ill.
The windy weather of the latter part of
last week and the fore part of this week
hiudcred thrashing and hay making con-
siderably.
"Old Ben" Corbin has bought the Will
son place, in the northwestern part Of
the county, and hereafter his address will
be Glencoe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Doerschlag. Supt. Andrus
and Miss Lottie Griggs, of the southern
part Of the county, have gone to the
Worlds Fair.
Miss E. F. Connor will leave about the
8th of October for her old home in New
Hampshire, where, it is said, she will res
side permanently hereafter.
One of the leading features in the way
of permanent improvements made in the
Williumsport neiyhborhood this year is
The dwelling house erected by MIR. Peter
Klapprich.
The Russian thlstles are slowly but
surely making Roadway in this part of the
county. 1t IS said they were brought
here during the building of the 500 grade
brought ia horse feed from 6ttuth Da-
kota.
When Mr.. Mills Beech reached his home
at Hampton, last week, after the trial, he
found that during his absence his wife
had removed the various household artl.
cles which she had claimed were her indi-
vidual property.
1t is reported that a Missouri Slope
party who recently returned from the
Worlds Fair complained to another citi-
zen because he had to ride on Chicago
street car with a number of workingmen
seated near him. Poor fellow!
Ed Campbell is greatly pleased with
his corn crop this year. He has gathered
it, and there are about 500 bushels oil
good ears-very few nubbins. There are
! large number of good corn crops III
Emmons county this year.
The Record Acknowledges the ~fcccip,
of the following invitation: "Mrs, M. H.
Yeater requests your presence at the mar
riage of her daughter, Ella, to Herbert D.
Connor, Wednesday evening, Sept. 90
1893, at 8 o'clock. No. "A Grant street,
Ashland, Ohio.'
The Winona Times should amend ITS
standing article headed "The Land
Laws. 1t says : "The ex-soldier who
served in the rebellion more than ninety
days." etc. This makes the law apply
only to Confederates, and is misleading
It.should read ANY Union soldier" etc
Last Sunday prairie fire broke out d
few miles north of town, and gave Dick
Thlstlethwaite considerable trouble tc
save sheep range; but he succeeded. Al
to damage done In Burleigh county by
the same fire the Tribune says: Later
reports of the prairie fire near Sterling
show the damage to have been fully a!
bad as reported. 1t is supposed to have
started near Thlstlethwaite's place, in
Emmons county, and it travelled to ster
ling at about thirty. .mile-an. hour pace
Swetts loss ,s not as bad as reported, his
horses not being burned to death, bu,
pretty badly scorched, and they will
probably pull through. HIS range is
gone, and one OF his colts had its lee
nearly severed IN wire fence while run,
ming to escape the fire. Another loss il
that of Martin Knudson, of Logan town.
ship, who lost his granary and the wheat
he finished thrashing few days before
At one time the fire was within 200 yard.
Of Sterling, and every man, woman anG
child in the town was called to fight Il
and keep 1t from entering the town
Water cars and section men went down
from this point and assisted. The blaze
jumped the railroad track at Mckenzie
burning many of the ties so that they had
to be replaced, and pursued Its way north
ward, and last (Monday) night the re-
| Hpction IF tho fro could In nj OF in1,, die