Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1896-12-25
IN TOWN AND OUT.
Merry Christmas !
Beautiful weather.

Merry Christmas
Beautiful weather.
That baby at Nick Graham's is boy,
and it was born on the Sth of this month.
Attorney Lynn and Samuel Clark. of
Beaver creek. were in Billsburg Wednes.
day.
Robert Campbell, of Bismarck, was in
town Wednesday on his way to the Cap.
ital City.
Hardlya day passes now but from one
to u dozen Emmons county people visit
Bismarck That is now the only railroad
point on the N. P. to which the road Is
open from Emmons county.
Said an Emmons county man, just
back from Bismarck. to the writer, the
other day: Il stopped at the Western
House wien was in the city. 1t Is q
good hotel. The rooms and beds are neat
and clean and the;food plentiful and we'll
cooked. Landlord Livermorc spares no
trouble to make their stay in town COM
Portable and pleasant Cor his patrons"
WIN. Ray, Of Dickinson, thinks that
bells on cattle keep wolves away. He
has adopted the plan Of putting cow
bell on every fifth animal; and he says
that, while his ne,ghbors are losing more
or less stock by wolves, he loses nothing.
Mr. Ray buys his bells by the gross, and
puts them on with small chains. ut an cx.
pense of little more than so cents per
head
The Record man saw Merchant Dwyer,
of Napoleon, in Bismarck last week. He
was pleased to learn that there was
strong probability that Emmons county
would soon have resident physician.
Logan county has no doctor, and this
point would be the nearest one, where
the services of physician could be OBJ
tained, to large part Of the population
Of that county.
Here is problem published by an ex-
change: A farmer owned a hog and
wanted to weigh 1t. The man weighed
100 pounds and his wife 1876 pounds.
They put board across the fence so that
when each sat upon an end 1T exactly bal
anced. Then they exchanged places, the
wife taking the pig in her lap, just bal
ancing the board again. What was the
weight OF the porker2
Dec. 18th Johan Weber made home
stead proof at Williamsport, with Jakob
Trautmann and Matthias Senftner as wit
nesses Dec. 18th John Blake made tim
ber-culture proof; Dec. 10th Andrew
Marsh made tlmber-culture proof. with
Albert Seymour and Stephen Silk as wit
nesses John J. Kalberer made timber
culture proof on Dec. 10th, his witnesses
being Elmer Brindle and Peter Klap-
prich.
Worth, the minstrel man who shot and
wounded his partner, Moore, at Winona,
near the end of last October, was taken
to Bismarck on Monday by Sheriff
Shler. Tuesday afternoon he was taken
before Judge Winchester, in district
court, and pleaded guilty of assault with
intent to kill He presented to the court
number of testimonials as to previous
good character, in consideration of which
he was given the minimum sentence of
one year in the penitentiary. He was
taken to prison Tuesday afternoon.
After the blg blizzard Olaf Pehrson. of
Logan district, hitched horse to a
Jumper" and went forth boldly to break
trail. When about two miles from
homo the nag laid down in snow.drift
and apparently gave up the ghost--if
horses have such things to give. So, as
the animal was dead, Mr.. Pehrson un-
hitched and embarrassed and slowly and
laboriously wended his way homeward.
Forty.eight hours afterward Olaf was
agreeably astonished to see the dead
horse enter the door-yard, said horse ap-
parently none the worse for wear. Durn
broncho--he never dies; you can't kill
him.
Eugene Waldrof has patent conglom-
meration that he feeds himself with when
he happens to be called upon to act az
chief cook and bottle-washer. II is q
interchangeable compound. You can
start pot of it when cold weather be.
gins. then keep adding to it. and you
need not empty and wash the kettle. ia Z
the warm days Of spring. War, has
named his discovery .Slnmgullion dc
Poverty Reach" !" and he says iii jus. the
thing for people who are keeping bach.
and haven't much time or lnclinstinn for
cooking. Folks who are trotting inlsis
class should see Mr. Y. and -
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