Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1897-02-05
IN TOWN AND OUT.

The grounding saw his shadow, last
Tuesday, all right enough.
Ex-Sheriff Mahauey and Mr.. Al. Hons.
tain we're up from South Prairie, Wcdnes.
day.
Mrs. Lindsay returned to her home in
Burr Oak few days ago, after a stay Of
several weeks in the Wllliamsport coun.
try.
Next July. when the snow begins to
melt, there will undoubtedly be some
pretty high creeks and sloughs in these
parts.
There is money on hand to pay school
warrants Nos %, 81, IS and SO of Will.
lamsport district. Same will he paid at
First National Bank. Bismarck.
Robert Buchanan was in town Tues.
day. A letter dated Pana, Ill.,, received
by him recently from Mrs. Epler, states
that her husband died last fall
Mr.. j. W. Wcscott, the Spripg.creek
stockman, was in town Saturday. He
reports that 81 of his $50 head of horses
have perishcd 80 far this winter.
A letter received by Mrs. F. D. Smith
from her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kokcr,
formerly of this heighborhood, states
that they will leave Idaho for Montana
IN the spring.
A Beaver Creek correspondent writes
that there will be grand ball ut Emmon-
burg, in the Lee Heuse, on Monday
evening, Feb. %, 1897. Everybody is
cordially invited.
A man in the central part Of this county
wants the service of our physician to kill
or capture his tapeworm. We wish the
doctor success. Times are too hard now
a-days to waste grub feeding tape-worms.
Auditor Braddock and his daughter
Anna left their home at Dakem last Sun.
day for st. Joseph Mo, where Anna will
attend school. The auditor IS expected
to return some time during the latter part
of next week.
Purchase bicycle now, and he ready
when the beautiful spring days come !
have for sale, cheap, Model uS96)
Fenihcrstone. not used six months Call
on or address F. B. Irvine (carc of w. f.
Petrle), Omio, N. d.
Supt Kuiper came up from Westficld
last Monday to investigate charges of
cruelty brought by some of the patrons
of Williamsport school against II. II.
Howard, the teacher. The hearing will
take place tomorrow.
Warren Mandigo was up last week from
the Russian settlement to spend a few
days visiting relatives and friends in the
Williamsport neighborhood. Warren
has begun another term of school IN the
settlement this time in SELF district.
Robert Dickson brought in some horses
from tile range The other d,y. He found
colt dead, with its head badly bruised
The tails and names of two other horses
had been clipped and the hair therefrom
tied in the heAdstull worn by one of
/ them.
Mr.. George w. Ryckman came up Sat-
urday with the balIot.box from Union
precinct, No. IA. He reported that the
general health of the people in bis
neighborhood was good, and that there
was no loss Of stock from troubles caused
by winter
| Dr. Carson was called to see Mrs. John
r.. Edick, Tuesday, who was quite sick.
On his return he found that his services
were needed out in Logan district by
Baby Charlie Cell, who had succeeded in
accomplishing the feat of swallowing 6
great big button. A son of Kaspel
Mostle was also waiting tor HIM, the
boys father being sick. The doctor
will go down to Dakem to-day or to.
morrow.
Naturally, after man has driven over
the long, wind-about winter road from
Emmons county to Bismarck, he'd like
to find a place where he knows that ar
effort will be made to make his stay ir
town comfortable, and that his team vii
be properly cared for and their rib
tickled with sufficient oats. Contiguity
to the Capital City has made our peop]
sort O. blooded, and, when one goes to tn,
Slope metropolis to hobnob with states
men or to tell our delegation that they
WON'T be reelected unless they get him
clerkship, he doesn't want to appear will
hayseed IN his hair or stable dirt on hi
shoes. But the fact we want to get at l
that these drawbacks will not ensue i
he takes up his abode at the Western
House, where everything IS neat, nev
and clean, where the food and beds ar
good, and where he will have his tear
taken care of as it should be.
The attention of the school treasurer
of Emmons county is called to the fol
lowing extract from the Revised Codes o
North Dakota: "The school treasure
shall keep such accounts and make sucl
reports as are required of him by law
and shall publish his annual statement il
newspaper published in the city o
town nearest to his district" Tho lav
also makes an offense q mlsdemeano
where no specific punishment Is named
The law calls for the publication of til
i Treasurer's Report-the report he is re
quired by law to make to the dlstric
board--and not an emasculated, sawed
off table of figures without the necessar,
affidavits and signatures of the schoo
board necessary to show the aacial ch al