Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-26
IN TOWN AND OUT.

The latest reports are that Mr.. Croghan
is better.
Treasurer Lees hnll sale will take place
to morrow.
The board of county commissioners
will meet next Tuesday.
Election tomorrow afternoon ON the
question of moving Flelden schoolhouse
farther south.
Stop at the Corbin house, where you
have good fire to sit by and warm
room to sleep in.
George Jennings buys butter, eggs,
poultry and hides, and sells goods in pay.
ment therefor OF cash prices.
Eggs are high, and will be all winter.
Buy package of Poultry Food of
George Jennings and double the produc-
ton of your hens.
There is now plentiful supply of coal
ready for loading at the Worst & Edick
mine. and it is the intention to keep big
pile of mined coal ahead, hereafter.
Jack Perry is at home again. There is
now good lot of coal in the shed at the
Edck g. Worst mine, where Mr.. Perry
has been working, and a supply will be
kept on hand for all comers.
Stop at the Corbin house, wh ere you
can pay your bill with wheat oats, bar
ley rye, corn, beef. pork. or furs of any
kind. have bought 20 tons of hay al
SO per ton. and will give So per ton for
some more good hay. B. Corbip.
There is rumor here, says a Bismarck
dispatch to the Twin City dalies, that in
furtherance of Tom Lowry's plans to
complete the 500 road into the capital of
the state and north to the Mclean county
coal fields, ex-senator Pierce is to re-
turn here in the spring and take charge Of
the Tribune. The senator is now on the
coast, and is said to be regainng his
health, and hopes to be ready for work
by April.
Henry Reamann, who recently made a
trip to Brown codnly, South Dakota, says
that the farmers down there are much in-
terested in tho building of artesian wells.
There are number of these wells on
| small farms. Near Mr.. Remnants old
home, three farmer acquaintauces of his
bought an artesian-well, boring plant and
put down their own wells. There. is a
good flow from each, and the expense was
| not great deal. 81 ,,@s-r---sFa'
The particulars of seduction case in
which young girl tn her teens was led
astray and is destined soon to become a
mother are current in this neighborhood
! and along the river, Williamsport set
tiers who have been over at the river
lately report much Indignation there over
the matter, as the young girl was away
from homo and friepds, working to earn
her living and help her family, at the
time she was betrayed.
No one will question, says Dakota
Farmer, but what pound Of mutton can
be produced upon our best farming lands
| about as cheaply as can pound of pork.
But in the west-particularly in localities
where perfect sheep feed grows wild, and
| hog.feed must be grown arti1cially--
mutton can be produced nearly or quite
| one-half cheaper than pork, and then we
have the wool thrown in, When corn
grows wild, needing only to be gathered,
and salt and pork bagrels roll along our
prairies like tumbleweeds, then and not
ill then can the farmer who lives where
wild grass and hay grow in abundance
| afford to change cattle and sheep for
hogs.
Several times the Commonwealth has
called attention to the substantial growth of
the western part of the state, and pointed
out that its prosperity was of more stable
| character than that of the eastern wheat.
raising portion of the state, being diversified
in its interest stock-raisipg mining, farm
ing, etc. Even their farmers are better sit
uated apparently, State Senator McGi!li-
vray, Of Dickinson, is quoted as saying that
the farmers Of the Red River valley are not
$50 prosperous as those in the western part Of
the state. He attributes this condition of
affairs to the fact that tho western farmer
diversiies has few head of stock to sell
every year-while his eastern neighhor is
buying stock, losing money on his wheat
crops and mortgaging his property to pay
losses. .--Fargo Commonwealth
Familiarity with every. day occurrences
tends to make them commonplace. But
when one stops to think Of the work done
by the staI-route mail carriers during such
weather as that of the past week. it can
hardly I've denied that their acts come
pretty near to the heroic. 1t is too bad
that the system Of letting mail contracts
is such that competition cuts the pay be
low a fair compensation for the value Of
the work done. Its to be regretted that the
postoff1ce department does not formulate
plan by which all the pay for star-route
service would 20 to those who did the
work. 1t is against all principles Of lives
and-let-live equity that the man toiling
through the snow>drifts when the mer-
curry is thirty degrees below zero should
Re compelled to give a bonus for, the
privilege TO somo middleman who sits by
his comfortable Office fire inanother state.
During our recent trip through South
Dakota, says the editor of the Oakes Re
publican, we took occasion to talk with q
number of farmers on tho train in regard
to the Russian thistle and the treatment
Ot ii in THAR sertinn nf the cnuD fry