Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-01-23
AROUND THE STATE.

AROUND THE STATE.
A Richland county man has a mink
farn.
The Norwich Item is "a booster for
Col Little.
The school enrolment at Minot nov
exceeds 1000
Failure to advertise estrays got a
Stutsman county man into trouble
Blind pig spotting is not "a lucra-
tive business in North Dakota-under
the supreme court ruling.
The Mimic Journal wants you to
notice that the water wagon joys
harder the farther you go along.
Commissioner of Agriculture Gil
breath gives an illustration Of the
proper use of printers ink for adver-
tising the state.
II the summer weather continues
much longer North Dakotans will be
forced to take of the storm windows
and put on the fly screens.
After the greeting given him and
his bride after their marriage tho
editor oil the Douglas Herald declares
that he will never do 1t again.
The old maid who claimed the
bachelors of Minot were quitters-
and afraid TO propose-will have q
chance now to test her own nerve.
The Rugby optimist is demanding
that some of the rabid insurgent pa
pers explain the damphOOl letter Tom
Marshall wrote Editor Bratton must
expect the impossible.
The Milnor Teller says the Cakes
Times Is butting into Sargent county
| politics and attempting to discOur-
| age the candidacy of Dad" McKen-
zie for state treasurer.
The Devils Lake journal thinks
Torn Marshall Is taking l.4OO extra
copies OF the Grand Forks Press
democratic. because of the boosting
that publication does for the Dickey
county statesman.
The supreme court says the old
statute for 5000 reward for the
conviction of blind piggers was re-
pealed by law enacted last winter
and SO the spoilers will be out of
business. 1t was durn phoOl law,
any way. Wahpeton Globe Gazette.
While trying to dodge pretty
young woman who acted as II she
intended to kiss him. Editor Lind
stronl fell over barrel of salt on the
Langdon depot platform and then
discovered the young. lady had had
her eye ON another man all the while
The primary election law doesn't
seem TO stop the slate making. The
little cOterie of Office seekers wh0
seen to have got control of the ma
chinery of the insurgent wing Of the
republican party have their slate al
most completed and the primary ia
five months off.
Efforts are still being made to ex-
plain the delay of the school appOr-
tiOlnlents. Tie Bismarck Tribune
now blames 1t OH the county superin-
tenGsnts who DELAYED their reports
but that does not explain the first
explsnatiOn-that the sum was so
small it was decided not to send 1t
out.
The track laying crew has complet-
ed the line TO within about thirty
five miles of where it is completed
from Miles City and 1t is announced
that trains will be running into Miles
City by February !. This will mean
chearer lumber, shingles and posts
when they can be supplied direct
from the west
As soon as prohibition becomes
general all over the United Stateb
the buttinsky people-who know how
to run eyerybody's business better
than their own-threaten war on
Lady Nicotine and an attempt to Sc
cure the enactment OF anti-tObacct
laws in states wherever they can find
enough of damphoOl legislators
Forum
When a man persuades another
man to break the law OF the state
that he may lodge complaint agains
him, land him in Jail and receive q
reward, there is something wrong
When a man buys drink Of liQuoI
which he knows is being sold lille
gally, he should be punished as wei
as the man who sells it, instead o
bein., rewarded Valley City Times
Record
The Grafton News and Times tell!
of !, farmer who estimates that hi
cleared at least 81, 40 by the use d
pria;er's ink. He had an auction SALE
and was not satisfied to get along
with ltsD or 300 handbills. Tie adver
tisel for weeks in the local paper
winding up with half page ad. ant