Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-08-24
IN TOWN AND OUT.
THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF LO.
CAL HAPPENINGS.
Neighb o hOOd Items Gathered from
the Highways and Byvvays
Emm ons County for the
Record Readers.

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Tom. Kelly visited the county seat last
Wednesday.
Fred Carlow was up from Winona the
fore part of the week.
Rolled oatmeal, 81 pounds for 81, at Geo.
Gussner's, Bismarck.
w. A. Patterson, of Winona, was visitor
to the county seat last Monday.
Sheriff Mahaney was up from South
Prairie on Friday of last week.
Five hundred dozen fresh eggs wanted at
once by George jennings Bismarck.
+ The Record learns that Billy Beard is like.
ly to lose the sight of one of his eyes.
Fresh eggs and all kinds of butter wanted
every day in the week by George Jennings,
Bismarck.
Aug. 90 having come and gone, you .caifl
now take your gun and go for the prairie
chickens
Miss Rettie Yeater went to Hebron, Nor
ton county, last Saturday, to resume her
SCHOOL duties.
Billy Jones was in Williamsport last Sat-
urday He came up to take part in the
bridge bidding.
Wm. Pagel and Tommy Jones came up
from Winchester last Saturday to go east
with the Allen thrashing crew.
Jasper Denhem, of Burroak, went to the
hospital in Bismarck, last week, suffering
severely with bone erysipelas.
Who is DeRaff, who runs double-colump
'ad," on the first page of the Winona
Times? DeGraff is probably meant.
It is amusing to see the winona Times lie
outright-and then attempt to reach definite
conclusions through its false premises.
George Jennings wants 1000 pounds of
good fresh butter and all the poor butter
he can get. He pays from to 12l cents per
pound according to quality.
Geo. Payne came up from southern En-
mons last Saturday to prove up on the tim
bcr-claim Of his deceased father, Samuel
Payne. Messrs. L. NJ. Doerschlag and L.
5. Clover came with him rs witnesses.
The Winona Pi.Box had more mechanical
errors last week than usual-which is saying
IL good deal. The horse jockey and the type
butcher are an outfit that the Van Beck
Armstrong combine ought to be proud of.
before the storm on Thursday of last
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prairie in the rank grass in Buchanan valley, :
and there was promise of big prairie fire.
But, luckily, the rain came and put out the
fire,
When transacting business in the Capital
City, Emmons county people will find it to
their advantage to call upon E. G. Broholm,
Fourth Street, where all kinds of boots and
shoes are made, subject to order. Also, re-
pairing neatly done.
: A great many expressions Of sympathy are
heard for MIR. and Mrs. F. NJ. Burge,
whose little son, Merriam, aged years,
died on the 9th of this month. He was
their only child. The. funeral took place in
Winona on August 10, and was largely at
tended.
A letter received by Harry Procunier
week ago stated that the Dahbury boys, Jack
Kennedy. Myrtle Koker and George Pro.
5cunier, had secured work for themselves and
two Of their three teams, near Darlington,
Foster county.
Mrs. Thurber, Mrs. Greer and bright eyed
Baby Della came up from the river Saturday,
returning Wednesday. If this wasn't elec-
ton year, and if most every family didn't
have one of 'em, we'd say the little lady was
the prettlest baby in the county. As it is,
We'll say. one Of the prettiest.
The Minot Journal says that maple sirup
can be made from the sap of the box elder.
So it can, the box elder lash. .leaved maple)
being member of the same family as the
sugar maple. The writer has eaten it; but
not with relish, as it has strong and ex-
tremely sweet taste-too sweet for use as o
sirup.
New York bankers, says the Fargo
Sun, are beginning to talk about the ad.
visibility of another issue of national
bonds. Out in the west we have been
talking for some time of tile advisability
of getting president who will not listen
to New York bankers when they talk that
way.
Captain Gleason, in jamestown Alert:
"You can say that expect to make a
campaign tour with Mr.. Fancher and Mr..
Worst and speak to the farmers of Barnes,
LaMoure and other counties and tell them
why I am an Irish republican. Am lit
tic old, but have 1t all in my head yet,
and will give the people some school.
house speeches later on" l
Wash Hawkes., who came down from Oliver
county on Wednesday of last week, Is great.
ly taken with that region. He says there's
plenty of hay, plenty cf coal and wood, lots
of game, and fish Of large size can be spear
ed in the clear waters of Knife river without
half trying. Charlie Stuart is up there, and
is also greatly pleased with the possibilities
Of the country.
The settlers were called out to fight
prairie fire southeast of town last Tuesday