Emmons County record., 1907-03-21
How appropriate. And what co.

HOW appropriate. And what CO.
incidence. Just as the recently enact
ed rock-ribbed prohibition laws begin
to work, the town Of Linton begins to
dig a we'll. Now that the village is
dry. all day long a big crowd stands
around the we'll, patiently waiting for
water to be reached.
James ZieScr's auction sale at Car
michael's livery barn in Linton last
Saturday was satisfactory. Mr. Zieser
disposed Of his live stock and farm
machinery. He and his family will
move to Linton to reside, SO that lie
may be better located to attend to
his stone mason work.
"a Try some of those delicious waf-
files with pure maple syrup at the Ar
lington.
Billy Irwin has received his auto
mobile. 1t is Ford runabout With
the magnificent distances between
points i'm North Dakota'S big coun-
ties, an auto is becoming almost ne
ceSsity to business man, and cspe
cally where one has anything to do
with the buying and selling of land.
L. ID. Seeman, the cattle buyer. re
turned Monday from Sioux City To
which city he took Car of steers lie
reports great flood in the Missouri
river bottom at and near Nermilion,
S. ID. The river there is about twenty
miles wide. Milwaukee railway trains
to and from Sioux City are compelled
TO run by way OF Canton, $. u.
w. =. Grocn, IA wcll-known early
settler of the Hull ncighborhood, is
proprietor OF a hen that not long ago
launched upon the world u peculiar
specimen in the poultry-fruit line. 1T
was an egg of normal shape and size.
which, upon being broken, was found
to contain, in addition to IA perfect
yolk and white, smaller hard
shell egg also perfect i'm every way.
At the village election, Tuesday,
very little interest was manifested,
only thirty six votes being polled.
Albert .Junge, w. o. Irwin and A.
w. Sims were reelected village trus-
tees: j. A. Lang, treasurer: "A. G..
WAGNER, Justice: VIM. Pagel, mar
shal: Earle Smith. clerk: LycurguS
Aristdes Weatherby, assessor. There
was no opposition to either of the
candidates.
For Sale-Several good teams Of
working and driving horses Call at
Wm Carmichael's livery barn.
The weather is getting quite spring
like. The snow is melting rapidly.
The condition OF Lintons streets US
to drainage or lack of it -impresses
upon every one the necessity Of not al
lowing another merry springtimc to
roll around before the village shall
have improved said drainage 10y pro-
viding permanent CUTTERS on both
sides of Broadway. But there II have
, to be a village-tax collection first.
The United States civil-service eX-
animation will be held i'm Bismarck
next Monday. beginning at 9o'clock
"A. M, for the position of railway mail
clerk, several of which positions are at
present vacant, or soon to be so. for
the reason of certain clerks taking
other employment. All persons wish
ing to take the examination should 90
at once to Bismarck, secure blanks
and fill them out. in order to allow
time for any necessary corrections.
A fair-sized crowd just enough u
have plenty of room for dancing at
tended the X. Of p. dance at IIazelton
: Monday evening. The Stoddard or
chestra, consisting OF Mr. and Mrs
Stoddard. Will Fulmer, Henning Has
: selstrom and Frank Haas, furnished
the music. Had it not been for the
: fact that arrangements for train
could not be made, because OF the
, damaged locomotive pulling out fol
j the engine-doctor's shop somewhere
on the main line. there would have
been crowd from Linton present at
. the dance. But. as the roads were in
bad condition, no one here cared about
making the drive.
4 eBThe First Bank Of Linton, Lin
n ton, n. d.. has real-estate money Il
loan ON good farm lands, three to fivt
years.
At Ashley, recently. a well-attendet
dance was givenfor the purpose ofrais
. ing money for the local baseball treas
: ury. All over the state in the vii
). lagos as we'll in the cities the news
:. papers are giving accounts OF meeting
being held for the purpose Of puttin
a local team in the field. ALTHOUGH
not much has been said about it s.
3 far, it goes without saying that Lin
Z ton will he in the swim not the soup
. gentle reader-but away up in th
front Of the procession There seem
!. to be as much. il not more, matera
Y here for creditable team than ther
y was last year. a country town base
ball nine doesn't usually do much j
L the way Of playing match games befor
It the first Of June. The Linton he kia
IT away at school will he home by tina
= time. Then, too. there's Roy Bryan,
If who is among the good players, an
" Druggist koll, who formerly playe
Il with a crack team at Fort Dodge, |;
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