Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-04-12
IN TOWN AND OUT.

two months earlier than last
Daily can be seen large focks of wild
geese and ducks flying northward.
"With hand on the spade and heart in
the sky, dress the ground and till it,
l~squrc Weller of Hampton, was a
visitor to the county seat last week
1t is said the ice has made no trouble
| thus far, either in the Missouri or Heart
| river.
The title of one of the newest popular
| songs is you can't hollar down my ram
barrel"
Old timers say the large circle round
the moon the last few nights means
something.
l. Robinson, accompanied by two
young ladies, returned from Bismarck
last Thursday
Michael Walter passed through town
Tuesday last. He was on his way to his
homestead in Selz.
1t ls SAID that potatoes are going to be
planted quite extensively this season
throughout the state.
Miss Augusta Herolz, accompanied by
her brother Richard. was in town on
| Wednesday of last week, on land busi-
ness.
K. D. Knutson, of Williamsport, has
rented the McGarvcy place on second
street and will start dairy business,
supplying customers with milk.-Settler
This locality was visited by light
showers of rain Wednesday and Thurs-
day last Rain ia what we need and we
hope that there will he great abundance
this year.
AL. Morrison, of Winchester, has
ordered a big pump and will use water
from Beaver Creek for irrigation rur-
poses. He will use horse power to run
the pump.
Mr.. B. F. Mckay, an o1d-time printer,
we'll known in the Red River Valley,
arrived from Grand Forks on Wednesday
of last week, and has taken position on
the Record.
Uncle Thomas Bottomley is very i'll at
St. Alexiu's Hospital, Bismarck. 1t is
doubtful if he will live for week. Hc
is dying from the effects of Bright's
! (kldney) disesse.--rOr--z,.--. -,-... ....
u While Postmaster Yeater and the
| writer were coming down from Sterling,
the other day, they saw prairie chicken
sitting by the roadside with a bttcrs
| bottle for perch.
tMr. c. H. Miles, of Detroit, Mich,
| father of Mrs. Lincoln Cell, arrived on
| Tuesday of last week to visit his daugh-
ter, sou-in.law and the little folks. lie
returned last Monday.
Frank Jaskowiak is putting up a
wind mill for DR.. Muench ut Emmons,
burg. The windmill will be used for
pumping water from well, for lrriga.
ton purposes. The wei, is one of the
exhaustless kind.
Constable VIM. Pagel passed through
|'Williamsport on Tuesday, en- route to
Burleigh county to get witnesses in the
case of State vs.. August Bcnz-said case
having been taken from Justice Flick s
court to Justice Southwick's court at
Winona, where the trial was going on.
At the teachers examination held here
last Tuesday, there were seven appli'
cants for certificates, as follows! Misses
Eva D. Campbell Lille " Braddock
Pearl Fuller, Lizzie A. Farrell, Anna r
Farrell, Maggie O'Conners and Maudt
Robinson. The latter was competing
for first grade,
An Emmons county man (who hasn'
been herc,very long) asked an old-timer
the other day, to "give him the road'' t.
Bismarck. The latter described the roa,
IN Emmons county, and then sald:. AT
ter you cross the county line, follow tn
road with most 'empties' lying by 1t.
What did he mean?
A newspaper man started the repor
that a girl IN his town kneads bread witt
her gloves on, whereupon needy ex
change remarked: "Tbat's nothing W.
need bread with our shoes and stocking
on. We need it badly, too, and unles
some of our delinquents pay up soon, W
will need bread with our pants on"
Let us carefully distinguish betwee1
positive and negative interest in schoo
work, says an exchange. The former
alert, spontaneous, cheerful, active, th
latter dull, compulsory, sordid and al
but dead. Teachers and parents set th
example by showing, as they must, in
terest of one kind or the other. 1t
needless to say which will show the bcs
results in the training and development
l of our children.
We are told that smutty wheat shoul
be soaked with solution of blue stone
one pound of blue stone to three gallon
, of water, This is enough for ten bushel
: of wheat. Blue stone costs 10 cents
pound. Spread ten bushels of wheat o
a floor or in wagon box. sprinkle til
solution over it and mix thoroughly wit
a shovel. Treat over night only enoug
e for the next days seeding. and as it wi
n he sOmewhat syy0llen rao n n,,art or = a,