Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1907-07-04
BRADD0CK BREVITIES.
ltrom the News. June S.

ltrom the News June y.
Mrs. H. w. Allen and daughter left
Tuesday for a few days visit with
friends at Wishek.
A. C. Staak left this noon for his old
home at Winona, Mimi. He will be
gone about two weeks.
John Anderson, of Armstrong, is
finishing the laying of rock for Rev.
Laman's new building.
w. s. Lee returned to Braddock
Wednesday, after weeks visit with
his son at Emmonsburg.
Postmaster Shepard has ordered a
new $3.50 cabinet for the Braddock Of
flee, which is due at any time.
F. j. Bauer, the Hazelton photog-
rapher, was in Braddock to-day and
made arrangements to open branch
studio here.
S. E. Coover disposed OF another Of
his livery teams Saturday, leaving but
one other team of work horses to sell.
Mr.. Coover will engage in the machin.
cry business.
T. b. Nelson returned last Tuesday
from his trip to northwestern Canada,
and has had enough Of sunny South
ern Alberta" to last him during the
rest of his lifetime.
During the progress Of the ball game
at the pioneer picnic, Saturday after
noon, August, the tifteen-year-old son
of Mike Vessel, was struck squarely
on the mouth by foul ball, knocking
out several teeth and rendering the
lad unconscious for the time.
Saturday night Will F'ulmer received
his new motor cycle, ordered through
DIR. Welsh, of thiscity, Emmons coun-
ty agent for the American Motor com.
pany, of Brockton, Mass. The machine
is strictly high grade and will develop
speed OF thirty miles an hour on q
level road.
VIM. Fulmer, who has the contract
for DIR. Welsh's new cement building,
went to Linton during the latter part
of last week and secured the services
OF tirst-class workmen to do the mason
work. The manufacture of the blocks
will be completed this week, and the
work will he pushed as rapidly as pos.
sible.
The Sunday school picnic held last
Wednesday by the Sunday schools of
Hazelton and Cherry Grove was GER
tainly pleasant affair. About two
hundred people sat down to q magnii.
icent dinner provided by the good
ladies. The ball game between Hazel.
ton and Cherry Grove was won by tile
former.
Will Carmichael came up from Lin.
ton with nice bunch OF bronchos,
Saturday, disposing Of several fine
ones in this vicinity. He was accom-
panied by his son Clayton, Fred Kyes
and John Ramey, all of whom are
characterized as '.twisters'' in the
language Of the ranch. Little Clayton
is but nine years old and small for his
age, but he rides like veteran, and
would try the wildest-eyed outlaw in
the bunch, ii permitted.
Ed. Torrison, a well-known former
resident Of this city, and now pros
porous farmer living five miles west,
returned Friday of last week from a
two weeks visit to Fargo, Grand
Forks, Crookston aud other Red River
Valley points, and he is eloquent in
his praise of the crop prospects and
other indications OF prosperity he
found upon reaching home. On both
sides Of the Red river, and particularly
on the Minnesota side. twenty years
since the boasted bread basket of the
Northwest, he found the fertile farms
of his childhood either seeded to grass
or running wild to foul weeds-prac-
tically useless waste. For years 1t
has been wet and gettiag wetter, and
during the past tive years it has be-
come useless. Mr.. Torrison assures
the News that the crop in the Brad
dock district is not only from two to
three weeks earlier than any in the
Northwest, but that it is heavier ON
the ground and shows the healthiest