Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-02-09
IN TOWN AND OUT.

ECharley Parker was visitor to the
county seat Monday.
There will be big dance at Winchester
on the evening of Friday, Feb. le.
Mr.. William Wiley, OF Livona, was q
Williamsport sojourner, Monday.
<Prof. Keim expects his family to arrive
at Williamsport in two or three days.
From present talk, quite large acre.
age in Emmons county will be seeded to
fax this year.
Stop at the Corbin house, where there
are stables for "a horses and the best we'll
in the county.
Stop at the Corbin house, where you
have a good wind break when you un-
hitch and hitch up.
The dispatches state that the general
opinion in Washington is that the Wilson
bill will not pass the senate.
Eggs are high, and will be all winter.
Buy package of Poultry Food of
George Jennings and double the produc-
ton or your hens.
x Born-Either on Monday or Tuesday of
this week (the Record did not learn the
exact date( to Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony
Kalberer, of Logan school district, son.
At the last meeting Of the county board
it was discovered that the law only allows
$3.50 day to road supervisors and fire
wardens. Heretofore, they have been
paid So day.
The Inventor: All, ha Ny fortune is
made Hooray His Wife How7 The
Inventor I've just perfected duplex re-
versible device for automatically indicst-
ing to a woman whether her hat is on
straight. Chicago Record.
What = terrible indictment against our
so.called American statesmen. A fertile
| land groaning with good crops, and with
| untold mineral treasures awaiting to be
| dug from the earth, overrun by hundreds
| of thousands Of homeless and hungry
workingmen.--Fargo Forum.
.lt is reported that the reason Commits
rsioner McLain was not present at the first
January meeting of the board was be-
|cause he considered it more important
duty to stay at home and guard the Sand
Greek prairie. chickens. to keep Perry
Gilman and Tommy Jones from putting
salt on said prairie. chickens tails.
X A correspondent writes from Winches-
ter IS follows There is going to be a
hop at Winchester school. house on the
evening Of Friday, the 18th of February.
There will be basket supper. Every
body invited. The latest fad will be
The Coyote Whirl,' led by Johnny
Bartu.' By order of the committee"
HkThere was dancing party at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Shier, in
Burr Oak district, last Friday night A
big crowd was present, thirty-nine mum.
bers being issued. There was good
supper and good orchestra, the music
being furnished by Messrs. George Su.
verify, Barney Burbage and Will Packer.
A superstitious subscriber who found a
spider on bis paper, says an exchange
wants to know if it is bad omen. He
was told that it was nothing of the kind
The spider was merely looking over the
columns to see who was not advertising
so that he could spin his web across the
shop door and be free from disturbance
From occasional paragraphs in eastern
papers, says the Valley City Times
Record, it would seem that there is muct
exultation oyer the low price of whea
on the part of some of the Wall stree
operators, as 1t causes England to buy
and consequently brings gold to thi
country. They get the gold but wha
does the farmer get?
The present diabolical dressmakers' de-
vice of balloon shoulders, says the Water
bury American, was denounced as Ions
ago as the time of Ezekiel, that prophe
having uttered this solemn warning
"Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to th'
woman who sews pillows to her arm
holes" The doubling can verify thi
curse by turning to Ezekiel kills.
In the Winona Times; a couple of week
ago, there was an item 10 which one O.
the editors fellow-citizens took offense
and he assaulted the editor and is said t,
have famed him severely. All Of which
the editor intimates in his last issue woult
not have happened if the editor had bee,
allowed to remove his overcoat and glove
and spit on his hands. However, th,
editor has evened matters, for in las
weeks Times he smites his adversary des
perately with weapon patterned ate
the one used by Sampson in his famous
bout with the Phiistines.
A Washington dispatch dated Feb.
says: Senator Hansbrough to-day secured
authority from the senate committee or
agriculture to favorably report his bill
making an appropriation of $1,000, 00(
for the extermination of the Russian this
tie or cactus, which is gaining such {
foothold in the Northwest as to make
many of the lands worthless. The bill
was amended so as to permit the letting
of contracts for the destruction of thu
weed, rather than have the government
employ people by the day for this work
Senator George, chairman of the commit
tee; was the only member present who
dissented from the report ~
! Fargo Argus: Mr.. A. steinbach, editor
of Der Pionier, Of Jamestown. made th'
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