Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-05
IN TOWN AND OUT.

seat last Wednesday.
The snow is deep, and most Of the
trails are not in very good condition.
There will be dance at Danbury one
week from tonight (Jaa. 12). Everybody
| invited.
Stop at the Corbn house, where you
can pay your ferc with furs and get the
difference. In cash.
George Jennings buys butter, eggs,
poultry and hides, and sells goods in pay
\ ment therefor at cash prices.
I Charlie Allen cut his knee the other
day, while chopping wood over at the river.
but the wound Is not severe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Kelly, of the
Spring Greek ranch, were in town on
Tuesday, en- route I'd Bismarck.
People travelling along the river road
should stop at the Corbin house, where
| you oaly have to draw water six feet.
Born-on Dec. 26. 1898. to Mr.. and
Mrs. G. H. Burtts, of Glencoe, an eight
| pound boy. Mother and son are doing
nicely.
Eggs are high, and will be all winter.
Buy a package of Poultry Food of
| George Jennings and double the produc.
ton of your hens.
Rev. w. Gimblett, of Carrington, is as
sistlng Rev. Thurston in holding series
of revival meetings at Dawson. Rev. g.
is described as being an interesting and
| fluent talkcr.-Dawson Times. In other
] Words Hi. the Rev. Gimblett is not a
| bore.
Some time ago Franz Wolf and q num-
ber of other Germans of Selz school dis.
trict asked Ira Mandigo, who is teaching
down there, if he would be willing to
teach night school for grown people.
Ira consented, and now, he has fifteen
evening pupils at dollar head, and
they are said to be learning rapidly to
read English. :
| A Norwegian who intends TO dispose
Of his farm and embark in business IN
Watertown, 8. D., says in regard to it,
according to an exchange: "Ay been
tanken all summer bout dees farm and
livestock beesnes. Ay tank ay ken
maxim damsite more mona by won blind
peeg on Vattertown in tree mont as ay
ken maken Won years by dees har farm
so ay tank ay skall get me Won of decs
blind peegs en- do beesnes to beat hal
I The primary effect Of the present stu
aliop, ,issys.ah exchangs is to makse, .peo;
pie understand that the hsrd times were
not due to the coinage of Silver, for tha,
coinage has been stopped. while the har.
times persist. More than this, it has
spread dastrast of the entire wisdom of
! the newspaper organs Of tie moneyed
classes in circles which four months age
were solidly against anything except the
single gold standard for money.
The selection of Secretary Morton for
the Bureau of Agriculture, says thu
jamestown Alert, was an unfortunate
one. Morton has already gained the rep
utatiou Of trying to instruct farmers in
something that has no connection Will
his Job, viz the relation of the farmer tc
politics. If the farmers depended on the
advice of. such agricultural experts at
Morton, in matters of consequence, tht
mortgage statistics would show more fore
closures than ever, at the next census
Attorney Z. s. Rolfe of N1innswaukan
has been making trip ia eastern Oregon
and Washington. He says of Spokane
There is foreclosure out there about every {
minutes. People are getting down to {
substantial basis You can get q shave for IL
cents and.a meal for IS cents. The country i.
very, very dull. They are roasting Cleveland
democrats and all, and every man of then
is silver adygcato I think North Dakotf
IS better off than the west country We
have gone through our worst experiences
and believe things will get better from now
on. They certainly can't be worse. - Alert
Prot. Thomas Shaw, after making O
trip through Minnesota. wrote as follows
to the Northwestern Agriculturist u
saw other men anxious to sell their sheep
because sheep We're selling cheaply, and
yet those farms were better adapted to
sheep raising thereon than to anything
else. IT were to speak my mind on this
question, l would say, Farmers, don't
slaughter single eve this year, unless
they are troubled with age--no, not even
though you have the sheep bound and
the knife upiiftcd when this article
reaches you. Save it and let 1t live. We
want to multiply the sheep of this state
by ten as quickly as 1t can be done. and
| there never before was better time for
! investing in sheep than now. because
they are cheap. Ii you arc bound to go
out of sheep, be charitable enough to sell
| them to your neighbor. Do him a great
kindness when you have an opportunity"
The Chicago Record says that because
the increase In gold for1893. in this coun-
try. promises to be nearly thirteen mill
ions mure than 1892. the apprehension
that there will he insufficient gold for
money of ultimate redemption seeing
wholly groundless. The paper named
also proceeds to argue curious coodi.
tion fora gold-standard advocate. uame-
ly: that there has grown to be such dis
use of gold that Its chief function now 10
to settle international balances. This IS
the very position that the, most extreme
psper.money advocates have tnken, and