Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1907-05-30
store until they can secure better ac-
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sture until they can secure better ac-
commodatiOns
AS the Record went to ,press last
evening word was received from Bis
marck that the law creating the Of
flee OF temperance commissioner had
been declared unconstitutional by tile
supreme court.
The Linton State Bank has pur-
chased the Hague Bank stock belong
Ing to the estate Of the late Anton
Vetter. This gives the Linton insti-
tuition u majority Of the stock Of the
bank at Hague.
There is a great shortage of dwell
lighthouses in Linton. There are
three families of newcomers ia Linton
this week people who came here to
reside permanently-who are finding
1t hard task TO secure residence
quarters.
Monday the county board OF i'm
sanity met and passed upon the sanity
Of John Schumacher, residing near
Strasburg, and concluded to send him
to Jamestown. Sheriff Jones took
him to the asylum Tuesday. He is
about tllirty-six years old, and is in an
almost idiotic condition. He has been
growing worse for some time.
Monday, in Bismarck, Uncle Ben
Corbin was found to be insane and
was sent by the Burleigh county In
sanity board to the asylum at James
town. For some weeks he had been
out Of his mind, but harmless. A few
days ago he began togrow violent, and
it was found necessary to send him
to the Jamestown asylum, where he
could have proper care and treatment.
People in 1.-THE old Williamsport
country" will remember Mr.. and Mrs.
Halstead, who lived there year or
two - near Tom Kelley's homestead
Immediately after the spring of 1884.
Attorney Armstrong received a bust
ness letter from the lady the other
day. Mr.. Halstead died several years
ago, and she remarked. Her present
name is Mercer, and she lives in Chi
cage.
The Linton school-children were
disappointed last Friday because the
weather was so inclement that their
picnic could not be held in grove ON
the banks Of Beaver. However, the
picnic came of just the same i'm the
school-honse, and, with the good din
ner and the knowledge OF the fact that
1t was a ''picnic" and not SCHOOL,,
the little people enjoyed themselves
thoroughly.
Albert C. Remley, the young lawyer
who came to Linton about nine
months ago, and was associated with
Mr.. Armstrong in professional prac-
tice, left Tuesday for Minneapolis, his
home. He will remain there few
days and then 60 to Spokane, where
he will enter into partnership with
an attorney Of that city. Mr.. Remele
has made many friends and no enc
mics during his residence in Linton.
and everybody wishes him success in
his new location.
The unwelcOme news spread rapidly
among baseball fans the early part OF
the week that Sylvester Flanagan
csSib. ~ who has been holding down the
| job ON the third rubber for the local
team this season, had accepted an offer
to pitch the season for the Linton,
North Dakota, club, Of when Auber
Wheatherby, formerly of this city, Is
manager. ..Sib' received Il check i'm
advance payment of expenses Saturday
and will leave the Goth, to reach Linton
In time to pitch the Decoration Day
game. New London, Wis., Press.
Druggist Flaherty received two
dollar prize from the Ladies' Home
Journal people for one of the best
dressed show windows advertising
their magazine. Seventeen prizes We're
onered-one Of $l5, two Of SO and
fifteen Of O.. AS announced in ll'
Record at the time. the window Wa
arranged by Frank Kohl. and the pl"t'
submitted to- l,e publishers was takel
by Prof. Smith. With thousands Of
news-dealers competing, in the bit
cities as we'll as in good sized town