Emmons County record., 1907-09-05
AROUND THE STATE.

AlIOOlVO xQ1 OxAl1.
Bismarck hopes to osecure an armory.
Prairie chickens are scarce in Rich.
land county.
There are eighteen newspapers In
Mclean county.
Many Of the state papers are raising
their advertising rates.
Over hundred teachers attended
the institute at Minot.
The Hannah Moon publishes mum.
ber Of notices Of liquor licenses.
AS result Of q factional fight 1T
Maxbass, there may be no school this
fall.
The U. S. marine corps will estab-
lish recruiting station at Fargo,
N. ID.
Farmers throughout the state re-
port the wheat exceptionally we'll
filled.
In some localities the owners Of
thrashing rigs are advancing the
prices.
Two Grand Forks women had
hair-pulling. and the police made
social call.
The Cando Herald heard rumors of
damages to crops in that vicinity from
IIessian flies.
In the northern part of the state
railroad laborers are taking to the
harvest fields.
Senator McCumber has gone to
Washington to attend to some i'm
portant matters.
The Nome Tribune thinks North
Dakota is not temperance state
|simply prohibition.
Mott won from Mandan in the base
ball game, but the Mandanites appear
to have their suspicious.
A bunch of horses unloaded at Bu-
ford died there, presumably from the
water drank at Glasgow.
Telephone companies have suffered
heavy losses this summer as a result
of lightning striking the poles.
| A farmer at Northwood was crushed
to death between thrashine engine
and the feeder Of the separator.
Some farmers who raise rye have
contracts for the straw at sl2 per ton
to be sold to horse-collar factories.
The Hansboro Pioneer was sore over
some extra players being hired for .
ball game, and then at their failure to
make good.
| 1t is said the first white boy born in
North Dakota is Martin Thompson
at Galchutt. He was born near Aber.
crombie in 1872.
The exhibits to be shown at big fairs
in eastern states have been sent out
by Commissioner Gilbreath. There
are two of them.
The skating-rink craze seems to
have tizzled out at Bathgate and the
rink built there twenty-five years ago
is being demolished.
There is a bunch Of lightning-rod
fakirs working around Milton, and
the Globe says they are catching their
usual crop of suckers.
North Dakotans who have recently
returned from the Canadian north
west report the boosting of that coun-
try has been overdone.
Insurance Commissioner Cooper is
out with sharp stick for few fire.
insurance companies that are not
complying with the state laws.
A calf was swallowed up by quick
sand at Devils Lake, and the COW COM
mitted suicide in her grief. How is
that for nature story?-Forum.
The Devils Lake Journal says the
rains are bringing down the ducks
from their breeding places in the
Canadian lakes earlier than usual.
The recent census taken at Minot
shows that city's population to be
6, 76l, which fills the requirement fol
the establishment Of an Elks' lodge.
A carload Of shingles OH a Great
Northern freight caught on fire near
Knox. The train crew uncoupled the
rest of the train and let the shingles
burn.
Columbus, according to the Report
er, has thirteen good-looking girls,
and the boys evidently do not regard
them as being an unlucky number.
Forum.
The trouble between the editors ol
The Courtenay Gazette and the Car.
rington Independent have reached
the affidavit stage, and libel suits are
threatened.
Editor Nye, of the Medina Citizen,
calls on the people who owe the editor
to be sure and get into the game, as
he wants to make some needed i'm.
provements.
A pathetic feature Of the Ellendale
fire was the loss sustained by A. Grif.
fin, am aged man who had sold his
farm and invested all in city property
which was destroyed.