Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-12-07
IN TOWN AND OUT.
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF Lo.
CAL HAPPENINGS.

the Highways and Byways of
Emmons County for the
Record Readers.
Henry Chapman is laid up with an
extremely painful swollen knee-joint.
Will Derr is just able to walk around,
being sufferer from muscular rheuma-
tism.
/Henry Reamann on Tuesday shipped
Kbatch of fourteen jackrabbit carcasses TO
Chicago.
There was well-attended and well.ens
Eoyed dance at s. E. Covers, down at
fthe river, last Saturday.
THE Forum says: "Miss Nellie Baxter,
lof Emmons county, niece OF Mrs. Fred,
Hendershott. has come to Fargo to at
ktend school,"
31essrs. J. D. Wallace, VIM. McTag-
Kgart and Aart Van de Vorste, Of southern
Emmons, came up last Saturday and
made dnal proof on their homesteads.
Messrs. John McTavish. Jr., Of Mich
igan, and William McTavish, Of Wash
ington (state) are visiting their father,
Mr.. John McTavish, Sr., in Cherry Grove
district.
Billy Robinson. of Glencoe. has Just
been discharged from St. Alexius Hospi.
tai, Bismarck, where be had been laid up
for couple of weeks as result Of com
ing in collision with the hind foot of q
horse.
A five-yearold Billsport boy started
for the postoff1ce, the other day. On
the way he saw large gentleman swine
that was running loose. He beat a re-
treat for home, and reported that blind
pig had got after him.
The weather thus far this winter has
|been balmy and springlike. No snow to
speak of has fallen, and cattle and sheep
as we'll as horses are getting their living
on the prairie. Coal piles and hay stacks
are about the same in size as they
>Gere month ago.
Tommy Rsams was in town Monday.
When he began mining as he was not an
expert at the business, he sent out few
loads Of coal that were taken from the
bottom of the vein, in the water. 1t
looked as good as any; but did not burn
WE'LL Now that part of the vein is skipped,
and the coal that is sent out from the
mine is A No. /.
The Globe believes that the farmers
who have accumulated flocks of sheep
are making serious mistake in selling
them of at this time. 1t is true that
wool is very low and that mutton is
cheap, because the markets are glutted
with those commodities. Hundreds of
thousands of western sheep have recent.
ly been dumped on the market. The
Globe believes that both wool and NUT
ton will be worth much more than at
present. within q few months. We
believe that the present is good time to
buy rather than to sell young sheep
Wahpeton Globe.
The end Of scrub focks, the end Of
scrub fock.masters, may be at hand, bat
not the end Of American sheep husband.
ry, says the Grange Bulletin. "This has
come to remain, and on safer, broader,
more progressive and better conceived
principles than have been practiced. save
by the few. When the reconstruction
has been completed, as it will be in year
or two, it will be seen that greater
progress has been made in '94 than in
any decade of the past history Of sheep
raising in this or any other country of
the world. We do not profess to know
much, but VIC are willing to go on record
with these representations of the future
of sheep-raising.
Not little of the growing tendency of
the people all over the country 10 take
their politics with an Independent air.
says a state exchange, must be attrib-
uted to the influence of the Australian
ballot Indeed, it is probable that the
new system of voting, in the compare
lively few years that It has been in force,
has done more for Independent voting
than all the years Of agitation and all ths
clubs that were formed to promote indie.
pendent political action in the years
before. Or. rather, itprovided the means
for gathering in the rich harvest which
they had prepared. The American citi-
zen is just beginning to get used to the
privilege of voting exactly as he pleases,
not only without the dictation but with.
out the knowledge of any one but him.
self. :,
Truthful Words.
Mr.. E. J. Raymond, one of the pub
fishers Of the Dawson Times. is ill and an
inmate Of the: Sisters Hospital at Bis.
marck. Speaking of his illness, the Times
has the following kind words regarding
the hospital; and great many other nom
Catholics who have knowedge Of the
good work that is being done by the true
Christian women in charge will say
"Amenp to the statements contained IN
the paragraph taken from the Times and
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