Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-01-02

year were about the same as in EN-
mons county. Mrs. HAYES and my
self send "a Merry Christmas aud
Happy New Year" to our friends We
haven't yet made up our minds where
we shall settle, and it may be in En-
mons county.
The \. p. train is quite an "onsar-
til" proposition for mail carrier. |
The crew has SO much work to do that |
1t is impossible to always make time.
When it is very late the mail is, OF |
course, not distributed until next
morning, and that is too late for a
reply to be sent out by the morning
train. Another member of Old Scrap
Iron Bins family is pulling the cara
van. and he is SO greatly invaded by
old age, ringbone. SPAWN, heaves and
sweeney that he has to he treated as
q pet. One day last week the process
sion came in about ten o'clock. II |
was delayed at starting by BINS rela- |
tive having a severe case of collie, ne
cessitating the washing out of his |
bowels. Then, the other side of Ha-
zelton, IA toad was found sitting ON a
rail, and the Snail Special was COM
PEELED to wait until he hoped Off, for
Paragraph % of the Book of Rules
says that on the Linton branch, when.
ever toad, frog or gopher disputes
the right of way the train shall stop
until the obstruction removes itself,
because the rolling stock is too fragile
to stand the bump of running over the
monster. Monday night the funeral
procession again came in unusually
late, the cause being frost on the
rails, and it was found necessary to
procure the services of a snow-pIow
before the journey could be resumed.
Were a pedestrian sent ahead Of the
train to drive from the track the wild
beasts to which reference is above
made, we might have better mail
service.
| Several people have spoken to us re-
garding the articles going the rounds
of the newspapers in regard toa recent
ruling OF the postollice department as
| to the requirement where subscriber
is in arrears. The ruling is substan-
TALLY as follows: In order to head OIL
the many snide publications that are
virtually sent free to subscribers it is
hereafter required that where sub
scriber to weekly newspaper is more
than year i'm arrears ii is prima facie
evidence that he is not a paying sub
scribcr, and the publisher will not be
| given the benefit of the cent-a pound
rate in sending papers to him, but
will have to put one-cent stamp on
such paper. The postmaster at the
office of publication can require from
local publisher an affidavit to the ef-
feet that none OF the papers he mails
are sent to persons more than a year
in arrears. Although the new rule
went into effect the first of the year.
it is understood THAT two or three
weeks will be given in which to revise
the lists of the various newspapers
and give delinqneDts time to settle up.
The Record has number of subscrib-
ers who owe for more than years
subscription, and whom he is perfectly
willing to trust. as many OF them have
paid up at one time several years that
were owing. But, the penalty for not
complying with the law or OF making
a false affidavit is severe. and hence
the Record. as we'll as other newspa
pers, will have to soon discontinue
copies of the paper sent to those sub
scribers who are more than year IN
arrears.
An Early Williamsport Settler.
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