Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-07-26
IN TOWN AND OUT.

sprouting.
will pay cents per pound for butter.
j. L. Boutillier.
Thlrty.two bars of New Style Soap for
81, at j. L. Boutlllicr's.
Smut in the growing wheat is frightening
the farmers of the Red River Valley.
Fourteen pounds of Rice for dollar, at
j. L. Boutillier's, Williamsport, N. D.
Harper Slmcokc and Clayton Worst left
last Monday for the new ranch in Stutsman
county, to cut hay.
North Dakota's potato crop will be i'm.
mense this year. One farmer in the Red
River Valley has whole section in potatoes.
: Warden Wilson informed the Record man
the other day, in Bismarck, that L. A.
Couch was making q faithful and efficient
guard
The Red River Valley newspapers report
that swarms of farm hands--many more
than can find work-are crowding into the
valley.
S. E. Coover killed big rattlesnake in
the hills few miles from the river, the
other day. The reptile had nine rattles
and a button.
Mail Contractor kupitz says that if the
Beaver Creek line connected with his line at
their mail day sooner.
Mcssrs. Lot Koker, John Kennedy and
Myrtle Kokcr, with their families, and
possibly Harry Procunier, expect to leave
soon to take up their residence near Mos
COW, Idaho.
1t will pay you to deal at Nicholson S,
Bismarck. You can trade cattle, sheep,
hogs or any farmers produce for grocer
les, binding twinc or machinery. He will
give you the lowest figures for cash.
Squire Edick 'The finest garden l
have seen is on the Wesley Baker ranch,
Livona. Mrs. Baker did the principal
part of the work. And now Wesley
takes visitors out to see my garden, and
gives away the vegetables"
Three-legged races ought to be barred from
Fourth we have been kept busy responding
to demands for assistance in untying hard
knots in strings with which two of the Rec.
ord's he kit,a lad coupled a port and STAR
board leg together.
Mr.. G. Haak, of Hull, who was III town
Saturday, is going out to Big Timber,
Mont, soon, to see the country. Mr..
Rowerdlnk has already made trip out
there. The Big Timber country is settled
by Hollanders and people of that descent,
among them being Jacob and Arnoldus
Ouwersloot, formerly of this county.
Crops are raised there by irrigation.
Wall Paper is what we are making low
prices on now. Also, Child's celebrated
and world-renowncd Sheep Dip; non
poisonous, very effective, and the cheap
est dip that you can use for the money.
am headquarters for Machine Oils of all
kinds also, Coal Oils, Gasoline, and
Tar. Paints of all kinds always on hand,
and color cards furnished on request. At
Faunccs Corner, Bismarck, N. D.
Editor Tuttle has been visiting Lieut..
Gov. Worst at the agricultural college,
Fargo, and writes to his paper, the Mandan
Pioneer us follows "NIr Worst tells me
that he has purchased ranch nine miles
north of Medina, Stutsman county, to which
he will remove his sheep in the fall. He
says that things are getting SO much crowded
i'll Emmons county that it is hard matter
to cut enough hay for wintering his sheep
and cattle. Emmons county will regret los
ing SO good citizen as Mr.. Worst"
Reports from the various sections of
the county indicate that as a whole,
crops are better in Emmons this year
than they have been since 1895. In the
Willlamsport country several farmers
who have guessed for us at the yield put
the average of wheat at about fifteen
bushels per acre. Mr.. Gerrlt Haak, who
was in town on Saturday, says that there
will be big yield in the Hull and West.
field neighborhoods. Early-sown crops
are now being harvested in many parts of
the county.
Fargo Argus There is host of newspa-
pers in the country districts of North Da.
kota making the good fight. North Dakota
needs these papers. 1t requires the services
Of the editors and publishers who are
managing and contriving to make newspa-
pers in advance of the times. The state is
known abroad by its newspapers. Without
them it would scarcely be known at all.
This is true of any country. And it is also
true that the people who succeed and who
have good Dame among strangers are the
people who patronize their home papers.
Perhaps an outsider whose visits to the
Capital City are infrequent notices the
change more than the residents but one
thing that impressed itself upon the writer
during recent trip to Bismarck was the
improvement in the way of ornamentation.
Dwelling houses have been repaired and re-
painted and additions bnilt thereto; old, di-
lapidated buildings sold for the lumber in
them, torn down, and cartcd away; good
houses in the suburbs have been moved
nearer to the business center, and more trees
than usual have been set out this year.
There is a great change for the better be.
tween the Bismarck of to-day and the Bis.
marck of boom years. But we noted that
the omnipotentand omnipresent COW is still
on deck as in.days of yore. She roameth
where she listeth but the trees on which