The Bottineau courant., 1900-09-08

Thos. Babington was seen on our
streets early In the week with his left
arm in position which would in
dicate that he had either been hit by a
brick or was a victim of the vaccin-
alton fad. It was neither, however,
just an enlargement of a gland in the
arm. Mr.. Babington's condition is
much improved at this writing.
Joe McKinnon is confident that the
barn which he is making preparations
to erect will be the best in this section,
and if completed according to the
present plans it certainly will be,
which will mean barn 40 by 100 feet,
with stone foundation, a basement s
feet high. and the upper main portion
entirely Of brick.
A. g. B(rr handles real estate.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Matthews and little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Shaw, both of Scotia,
were buried in the Coulterville, Man.,
burying ground Sunday afternoon and
the sermon was preached at $50 p. m.
The entire community sympathize with
the bereaved in this, their hour of
trial.
The rural delivery people were
forced to wait for their mail Thursday
morning. A young man started out
with the mail, doing the errand for
the regular mail man, but unfortunate
~ bicycle was used for the trip and
bicycles sometimes break. This one was
no exception to the rule, for the strain
of crossing the railroad track was too
much for the bicycle and the frame
broke in two places.
Mr.. McInnes, of Omemee, filed the
Presbyterian pulpit last Sunday, and
impressed his hearers with the fact
chat he will be heard from later in
Fife, as a clergyman Of considerable
ability. We understand that Mr.. Nc
Innes will deliver sermon in Gaelic
next Sunday at Omemee, also that
It is the intention of number of
people of this vicinity to attend the
services.
Tablets cheaper than yon can steal
them at Brot9 zen & Co.'s.
The Scottish Concert company were
greeted Saturday night by larger
audience than on the previous night,
but the entertainment, though along
the same lines was not as we'll received
! as the previous one. Where, on Fri
day night, even smile from the fair
entertainers was signal for burst of
applause, the program Saturday even
ing was strangely free from any such
demonstrations, only two encores be-
ing responded to-.
Mrs. Geo. Fletcher brought us in
some tomatoes last Tuesday which we
did not have to put on our glasses to
see and after we had viewed them we
were not long in arriving at the con-
clusion that they were little the finest
which we have seen in this section.
Mrs. Fletcher tells us that they are
abundant in her garden, which is only
another proof that the farmers haYe
not all come to a realization that the
soil of Bottineau County is as willing
to produce garden truck' as it, is No.
1 Hard.
While we are very we'll warmed up
to our work of producing as good a
newspaper as the circumstances permit,
a few cold, damp days like some of
those during the past week have re-
minded us that when winter arrives
with it's chilling blasts, our Journalistic
fervor will disappear if not kept tat a
normal temperature by a good steady
fire. For that reason those who are
ambitions to help along good cause
and at the same time relieve them
selves of debt can furnish us with
wood for the amount due-provided
the cash is inconvenient, and we
presume that this will be the case in a
good many instances.
In the Norwich, (Ont.) Gazette we
note paragraph which will be of in
terest to the friends Of Warren and
Murray A. Moore, referring to the
birthday celebration at their former
home in Ontario, in which their father
was the center of attraction
Mr.. Nv. 8. Moore's eighty fourth
birthday was fittingly celebrated by
about twenty-five intimate friends on
Monday last at his home east of this
and most enjoyable evening signaliz-
ed the event, which will be further re-
ferred to- One remarkable incident in
connection with the occasion was the
fact that ''Aunt Katie Stover," aged SO
years, was present and thoroughly
enjoyed herself, and as an example to