Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1896-12-11
IN TOWN AND OUT.


the Willinmsport ighborhood this week.
There is new boy out at the home of
Johnny Baker-born on day of last
week.
Deputy County Treasurer l. H. Robin
son returned Tuesday from trip to Bis.
marck.
Trahcrn pumps, for any depth of we'll,
always kept on hand. Francis Jaszko.
WAX, Williamsport, N. d.
There will be grand ball at the Lee
House, at Emmonsburg. ON the evening
of Dec. rs. Everybody cordially invited.
Mrs. Chalfin, of Mckenzie. is visiting
her son ,in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Baker, in the Williamsport
neighborhood.
Do you see that diagonal fracture of
the "R. Monarch" flask, on fourth page,
How did 1t happen? Why. the contents
froze during the blizzard and cracked the
bottle.
Mrs. l. H. Robinson has been numbered
among the invalids during the past two
or three weeks. Not sick enough to be
confined to her bed, but yet in very poor
health.
Hello, there, Grandpa Derr And why
is it that everybody is calling Will Derr
"grandpa," Because there is young
native North Dakotan - the sex and date
of birth of which will be given uext week
at the home of MIR. and Mrs. N. Ora.
ham.
Kidder county's states attorney, Char
lie Stanley, of Steele. places the Record
under obligations by sending in the vote
of Kidder. The vote of Oliver county
has also arrived. We are, therefore. able
to give. elsewhere. the complete official
vote for judicial and legislative candl.
dates.
We have heard number of citizens
speak IN complimentary terms of Walter
Boutilller for his persistence in keeping
the Steele mail-route open, in spite of
bitter storms and bad roads. 1t is no
easy matter to drive, day after day. over
q road but little travelled and with the
houses few and far between.
Mandan Times: Don Stevenson was
caught in to wn by the storm, but started
for home Saturday with three teams and
full complement of snow. .shovels. Sat.
urday they reached Welsh's dairy farm,
three miles out, and the last heard of
them they were not yet through the Little
Heart settlement. 1t will be hard trip.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press gives the
legislature soon to assemble in North Da.
keta this seasonable pointer: "lt is said
that an editor is to be valued more for his
ability to keep silent on great number
of topics than for his ability to write
we'll on few. So the legislator who
can refrain from over-much legislation Is
worth more to his constituents than one
with his gripsack full of new bills"
A report is gong the rounds of the
newspapers to the effect that there was
loss Of life by the "unpleassntness"
on and about Thanksgiving day. 'Taint
10. There may have been loss Of hu-
man life from sun-stroke IN Emmons
county during the past week. but none
from storms during the past winter.
And there has been very little loss of
stock.
Auditor Braddock reached the county
seat yesterday and is again at his desk,
after an absence Of couple of weeks. 1t
took him seven days to reach his home at
Dakem, going. He was tlizzsrd-bound
at Winchester, and after the etorm went
on snow-shoes up Beaver creek. The re-
turn trip occupied three days. He found
everything o. K. at home-no sickness in
his family and no loss of stock.
Our meteor has been heard from. The
Ransom county newspapers state that a
meteor of goodly proportions fell on the
farm of P. o. Williams, in tho southern
part Of that county, on recent Saturday
night. A neighbor, driving homeward.
saw it and was badly frightened. He de-
scribes it as large ball of fire, and says
that it struck the ground within couple
of hundred yards Of him. An effort
next day to locate the thing was unsuc-
cessful, the snow having drlfted over it
during the night.
The weather during the week has been
mild and pleasant. A portion of the
snow has thawed, and on some of the
hlll-tops the grass is beginning to peep
out. With the difference that there 10
snow on the ground, and that the winter
came early, is it not possible that the
present winter may yet prove to. be .
counterpart of that of 1690-'91? At any
rate. the lovely weather of the past week
would seem to show that the worthy old
dame. Nature, is seeking to give US par
tial recompsnse for her unkindness along
about the ides of November and imme.
diately thereafter.
The writer was in town yesterday and
called at the residence of Mr.. Rush. Tpe
weather was bslmy and pleasant, and the
father and mother and little ones were
gathered in the Office of the hotel, in or.
der that the sick rooms might he aired
through open windows. The sorrowlng
mother was there, still weak and Ill, but
much improved over her condition of
the several weeks Immediately previous.
The father. devoted as he Is to the family
of little ones growing up around him,
under the influence Of the beautiful day