Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1907-03-21

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 Il WELL Now that the village is
dry, all day long 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. MIR. Zieser
disposed OF his live stock and farm
machinery. He and his family will
move to Linton to reside, SO that he
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 a Ford runabout. With
the magnificent distances between
points in North Dakota's big coun-
ties, an auto Is becoming almost u me-
cessity to a business man, and espe
cially where one has anything todo
with the buying and selling of land
l.. ID. Seeman, the cattle buyer, re.
turned Monday from Sioux City, to
which city he took q Car of steers. He
reports a great flood in the Missouri
river bottom at aud 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, $. ID.
w. r. Groen, Il well-knowm carly
settler of the Hull neighborhood, is
proprietor OF hen that not long ago
launched upon the world 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 in every way.
At the village election, Tuesday,
very little interest was manifested,
only thirty-siX votes being pollcd.
Albert .Junge, w. D. Irwin and A.
w. Sims were reelected village trus-
tees: j. A. Lang, treasurer; a. G.
Wagner, Justice; VIM. Pagel, mar
shall: Earle Smith, clerk: Lycurgus
Aristides Weatherby, assessor. There
was no opposition to either of the
candidates.
For Sale-Seyeral good teams oI
working and driving horses. Call al
VIM. Carmichael's livery barn.
The weather is getting quite spring
like. The snow is melting rapidly
The condition OF Unions streets az
to drainage -or lack of it-impresses
upon every one the necessity OF not al
lowing another merry springtime t.
roll around before the village shall
have improved said drainage by pro
viding permanent cutters on boil
sides of Broadway But there III have
to be a village-tax collection first.
The United States civil-service ex
animation will be held in Bismarck
next Monday, beginning at 9o'clocl
a. M, for the position Of railway mai
clerk, several of which positions are a
present vacant, or soon to be so, TO
the reason of certain clerks taking
other employment. A persons wish
ing to take tile examination should z,
at once to Bismarck, secure blank
and fill them out, i'm order to ALLOW
time for any necessary corrections.
A fair-sized crowd just enough I
have plenty of room for dancing at
tended the X. Of P. dance at HazeltoI
: Monday evening. The Stoddard OF
; chestra, consisting OF Mr.. and Mrs
Stoddard, Will Fulmer, Henning Has
/, selstrom and Frank Haas, furnishes
the music. Had it not been for TIL
: fact that arrangements for tral
: could not be made, because Of til
, damaged locomotive pulling out Il
] the engine-doctor' shop somewher
on the main line. there would hav
been crowd from Linton present a
= the dance. But, as the roads were j
!, bad condition, no one here cared abol
making the drive.
h eBThe First Bank Of Linton, Lii
= ton, N. d.. has real-estate money
loan on good farm lands, three to fin
years.
At Ashley. recently,a well-attcnde
dance was givenfor the purpose Of raj
: ing money for the local baseball trea
: ury. All over the state the vi
lagos as we'll in the cities the new
papers are giving accounts Of meeting
being held for the purpose Of putin
a local team in the field. AlthOut
e not much has been said about it
. far, it goes without saying that LII
Y ton will be in the swim-not the sou
70 gentle reader-but away up in Il
q front of the procession. There seel
]. to be as much, il not more, mater
II here for creditable team than the
u was last year. A countrytown ba!
ball nine doesn't usually do much
l. the way Of playing match games beft
1t the first OF June. The Linton he XII
st away at school will he home by til
G. time. Then, too, there's Roy Bryan
VI who is among the good players, a
Of Druggist Kohl, who formerly play
a with crack team at Fort Dodge,