Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1907-05-30
AROUND THE STATE.


ing lot of success
There Is decidedly optimistic tone
In the state press ON crop conditions
| Pat Lyons OF Steele is said To have
sole his llidder county realty holdings
for 100000
Adjutant General Poole wants each
militia company in the stat" To have
a rifle range.
The body Of Charlie 500, IA China
man who died at Mandan. will bc
shipped to the orient.
n number Of the Red River valley
farmers are paying more attention
than formerly To stock.
Rcd-headed woodpeckers are re-
ported by the Transcript to bc injur-
ing trees at New Rockford.
The Gazette notes tllat'l large mum
Der "f Courtenay people have been
purchasing hard coal to he ready for
next winter.
The Hazelton Republican is cndcas
oring to discrcdit the soldier record OF
Editnr Streeter of the Linton Record.
Fargo Forum.
The recent high prices in wheat
have caused many North Dakota
farmers 10 put In u few acres more
| than they intended
The farmers are fearing an unusual
rush during the harvest season, as all
crops are expected To ripcn about the
same time. Forum.
The Bisbce Gazette and the school
teachers at Bisbee are in Il ;lcontrovcrSy
over the quality of plays selected by
the dramatic club of the school.
The country between Dickinson and
the Milwaukee extension i'm the south
ern part of the state is developing so
rapidly it is difficult TO keep pace
with it.
\ South Dakotan who has dctied
the health authorities on u small p0N
quarantine was arrested 10y the Sar-
gent county people and turned over to
to the officials ON the other side of the
state line.
Editor Stager. of Rugby, Is adver-
tising for Il ten-dollar bill which he
lost on the streets uf that town re-
Gently. The Kuhn Messenger says
that AN editor has no business Carry
ing SO much money at one time.
Lillian V. Jefferson has applied for
a license To sell Intoxicating liquors,
as IA druggist at the town of Strecter
on tlle Edgeley Streeter branch OF the
| n. T.. 1t Is said Ia tie the first time
an application was made 10y a lady in
this state.
According to the Sheldon Progress,
the people in the southern towns got
excited over a statement In the For
unl that four cars Of book beer had
been shipped down there, and we're
disgLsted when they noticed that the
paragraph was i'm the 80 year ago
column.
j. G. Glynn, OF lIansboro, returned
last Saturday from Kansas, where hc
spent q month In the interest of an
insurance company. His mission was
to make special report Of crop CON
ditions, and in order TO do that intel
| ligently he visited every part of the
state He found that winter crops
there have been badly damaged, and,
on he strength Of his report, the in
surance company he represented has
cancelled nearly all the hail insurance
it had written. j. G. says North Da-
kota looks good to him this spring.
The rage tor big farms, enormous
barns and unnecessarily large resi-
dences seems to have passed and, we
hope has passed forever, says . west
ern exchange. One by one, the once
famously large farms, and many on
the unwieldly barns that once brought
noturicty tn their owners, are disap-
pcaring. Several of North Dakota s
large farms were deyided up the past
winter. and now comes the report
from Gladstone that the great barn
there, said to he the largest in the
State about three hundred feet square
has been found unpiotilablc aud is
about To he torn down. II is the
small, well-handled farm, and the cozy
rather than elaborate home that holds
the greatest hope of happiness
Grand Forks Herald.
One OF the largest and most imppr-
tant live stock transactions that has
| ever been made in this state will bt
completed on July 18th next, on which
date the live stock firm of Badger y
Parkin, Of Mandan, will have com
plcted the delivery Of 5000 head Of
cows and heifers TO the q. S. govern
ment, at Fort Yates. This stock vii
be delivered and distributed TO the In
dians by the government agent In in
tiliment ut treaty contract entered
into With the Indians several year
ago. Badger & Parkin have large
force Of buyers in the field now buying
cattle and intend purchasing as manl
AS possible in the Mandan country anf
drive them over. What cannot b
bought there Will be purchased u
eastern Washington, shipped u Man
dan. and driven acros> This conlrac
involves a alllarter million Of dollars