Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1898-02-11
IN TOWN AND OUT.

M TOWN AND OUT. 1
/ Sheriff shi1r kas III to@h Tuesday night.
Dirk Hasper, Of Hull. was in town last
Friday.
R.. F. Chase, Of winona, was in town,
yesterday.
Master Wellie Mandigo has been quite
sick for several days. ;
County Judge Rowsrdink was In town
the fore part Of the week.
Representative BAkss ard WHO were visit
ing friends In williamsport Last Saturday
Mrs. P. J. Casey Was over. from Hamp..
ton yesterday. She IL talking "Klon-
dike.'' =
Jerry Casey, Of Hampton, will start for
the Klondiks gold-aelds about the 6rst Of:
March.
Exeter postod,ce. this county. has besn
re-established, with Hiram Scott - post.
master.
Treasurer Allen has been absent in the
southern part Of the cousy this week on
tax-receiving tour.
Parties up from Winona state that
petition is being circulated there asking
the authorities TO close the saloons.
ltis reported here that sixteen head of
cattle in the Omio neiehborhood and
five or six In Burr Oak district have died
of blacklsg.
Miss Edna F. Connor. away back in
blizzard. stricken New Hampshire. writes
to lady friend here that she 10 home.
sick for North Dakota.
Word has been received that Mrs. Asa
| Cssselman. whose husband died on the
31st of last December, is seriouslY i'll and
] is not expected to recover.
Lincoln Cell has received bib commits
! mission and taken charge Of the post
Office. Commissioner Baxter, n. Rush
aud T. P. Lee are his bo1dsmen.
Major Pitts. at the practically unanimous
request of his fellow.townsmen. has beer
recommended BY Congressman johnson for
appointment Is postmaster 1t Wanona.
Mr.. Roop was worse ct the beginning ol
the week. Dr.. Harcourt was again sen,
for, and reached the sick man Sunday
afternoon. Mr.. Roop is again improving.
Owing to little sickness in the neighbor-
hood, williamsport school was closed las.
Friday. But. it having been ascertained
that the complaint was ordinary sore throat
school began as usual Monday morning.
The Bismarck public schools were CLOSED
last Monday, to remain closed for week
At that time there were nearly q score o.
cases OF diphtheria in town, and there ha.
been four or i've deaths from tAA disease,
Al. shier is really going to slart in fev
days for Dawson City and tho Klondike
and the Record chap and Ais many othe
Emmons county friends hope that the eenia
young man may bring back whole cart
load Of gold. dust.
! Forum: Consider Are q few rsilwa,
passes distributed through the state, and ,
few thousands of dollars put in to carr
elections for favored ones. to weigh agains
the vast amounts wrongfully taken from th
people in unfair taxes and unjust fteigh
ntesi
John Haley has leased his placs over q
Livona to Mr.. Tyson; at present Of L
Grace, 8. D., who viii change locations o,
account Of scarcity of good water, limite,
range. and deafth Of hay. he will brinl
in about e5 head Of cattle, IA horses, hogs
poultry. etc.
I 1u publishing the decision Of the supreme
court in the Wells county tax matter, SOM
of the papers have misrepresented Judg
Bartholomew's position. It. IL teporte,
; that he dissented on several propositions
whereas there was only one point of dissen
sion, that being the part of the dscisio,
which states that the 1880 taxes in Well
county are illegal. having been levied in
percentages instead of in specific amounts
Judge Bartholomew believed that the PET
oentage levy was legal.
It must be an extremely cold day when {
visitor in Bismarck doesn't meet there {
crowd Of Emnons county people. "Darby
Dolan" was up there one day Last week
aud he says: "Mesndering around the city
met Sheriff shier. Commissioner Maodon
aid, Clarence Keebler, Frank Jaszkowiak
Fred Whittier. Tom Morton, Mrs. wesle,
Baker, Miss Mamie Baker, Tommy Kelley
Jimmy Boyle. Miss Lizzie Knudtson, Alou
Suter and G. Gutjahr, most of whom wer,
guests Of the popular and convenient Gus
ter Hotel"
Last Tuesday the writer Of this para
graph was in Bismarck. The weathe,
all day was - balmy and spring like a. /,
had been for fortnight. But the cold.
wave flag was flying; and, sure enough.
along about dark the cold wave came,
the mercury dropping about 40 degree,
inside Of ten minutes. However, It va,
| . well-behaved cold wave, and, although
there has been . somewhat cooler atmos
phere since it came, the thermometer ha,
not registered a. low - zero. This 4
indeed remarkable winter In thep,