Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-02-01
IN TOWN AND OUT.

school district, on fourth page.
Ex-sherif Mahaney was sojourner in
Willia,nsport, Wednesday night.
The weather Is again mild and pleas
ant. Later.-No it isn't. Please "cop.
per" tho foregoing.
Judging from the talk Of farmers,
good deal more fax and less wheat than
usual will be planted in Emmons county
this year.
Steele Ozone Driver Hill reports the
Williamsport road to be in poor shape
for travel-snow being drifted axle deep
in some OF the low places.
NJ was so cold last Saturday evening
that the flame in the lamps frozs, and
words would CONCEAL and fall to the
ground as fast as they were spoken.
Last Friday the pupils Of Wllllamsport
school were treated to some vocal and
instrumental music. Frank Hart, Fred
Shearer and Rob Yeatcr being the musi-
clans.
Our legislators who are looking for sug-
gestions fer laws to purify the ballot,
says the Fargo Independent, should look
up the Indiana law, which permits any
man who il brlbed to sue the briber for
$500, and the blber must 20 to Jail until 1t
is paid.
The Record will again state that under
recent law postmasters are allowed to
sign all papers for pensioners. 1t Is not
necessary to go before notary or justice,
and be compelled, where justice signs
to send the papers to the county seat to
have the signature authenticated.
Harper slmcoke's shepherd dog re-
turned home, the other day, as mysteri-
ously as he departed. "Jack" IL q very
intelligent dog, and he probably heard
some one reading Harper's wall for the
departed, IN the Record. "Jack's"
prompt return shows the value of adver.
Using.
The success of the resubmission move
ment in South Dakota, says the Pioneer
Press, is contribution to the interesting
story of the wans of the prohibition
movement. The excited discussions of
an earlier period on the propriety of
prohibition, on Its relation to personal
rights and individual liberty, have died
away. 1t is Judged now by its practical
operation, and condemned as failure
A Forman, N. D., dispatch says :
III. L. Cooke, of this county. is the in
ventor of corn-planter that bids fair to
increase the acreage Of corn in North
Dakota to twice It's past proportions. 1t
is very simple arrangement attached to
the rear of gang pillow, dropping the
corn as the soil is turned over, and is
pronounced by old Iowa farmers to be the
best thing Of the kind they have ever
seen."
The sedgs. grass seed which was dscov-
cred last fall by William Dwyer, of Lo-
gan county, says the Dawson Standard,
is turning out a great success. When
mixed wltA bran it makes capital food
for horses or hogs, and those who have
used it say that for fattenlng stock it
beats anything they have yet tried. 1t
resembles fax more than any other grain,
and is too rich and oily to be fed alone.
1t is found growing in large quantities in
some Of the sloughs in Kidder and Logan
counties, and thrashes out about ten
bushels to the acre.
Northwest News: The state press gen
orally does not speak very favorably of
Major Edwards municipal suffrage bill
for women. 1t is illogical to begin with.
The women aid in paying taxes to the
state rs well as to the municipality; and
there il no reason that can be urged in
favor of one that does not apply to the
other. There is only one way that they
can get state or municipal suffrage, and
that is by constitutional amendment.
A letter to Consul Duffy from residents
Of Indian Head, N. W. T., has been rs.
ferred to the customs Office at Pembina
for answer. The writer says there are
about twenty-five families IN that local
ity who are smigrants from the United
States and who desire to return next
spring, and want to know If they can
pass the customs with their stock and
effects without paying duty. The writer
says. For Gods sake help US ali you can
to get cut Of this God-forsaksn country"
Supt Lorin in Mandan Pioneer: 1t has
just come to my notice that one Thomas
Evans il in the county selling 4 certain
kind Of chart to school boards. So far
as possible, school officers have been
warned to pay no money to any one for
any purpose whatever, unless bill be al.
lowed at = meeting Of school board,
held in due form, according to law.
School clerks should issue no warrants
unless directed to do so by the school
board, while in session as board. And
school treasurers are authorized and it is
their duty to pay no warrants unless they
be properly and legally drawn.
The geo graphical position Of North
Dakota, says the Grafton News.Times,
has been much used in the past against
us. Our hyperborean winters have been
pointed out A. something to be dreaded,
and the old gag Of nine months winter
and three months of bad slelghlng hurled
at us with derision. Yet we have lived
and,fought on, andete-day the young state
of North Dakota stands forth with all the
pride Of . winner and fears not the crit
ical eye Of investigation or the pencil of
the statistician. And what q winter we