Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-05-21
THE STATE.

he new bank at Napoleon starts
rlsht-with page ad in the Home.
stead
The people of one part of Ward
county are still agitating the organiza-
ton OF Lake county.
Attorney Purcell, OF Wahpeton,
seems to be leading favorite for the
democratic senatorial job
The wheat crop is more even. up
earlier and looking stronger than ev-
er known in North Dakota.
Many papers over the state believe
| the chance for prairie chickens this
fail is larger than in most seasons.
The Mandan Methodist minister was
con. plclcly eNonerated of the serious
charge preferred against him by a
| Ncung woman
Tho Mclean county newspaper boys
recently organized and one of the
boys is accused OF drinking his soup
at the banquet
Editor Wardwell wants farmers
to treat their horses gently and re
member that animals, like humans,
have spring fever.
Some of the Turtle Mountain ndi-
ans are getting wise to the ways of
the white men-and putting their
property in the names of their wives.
Unlike some other towns in the
state which are shipping potatoes
Anamoose is shipping them our by thu
carload.
One of the bad men OF the vicin
| ity of Ambrose was chased ont of the
country by an armed posse-after at
tempting to make gun play on the
streets.
The growth of North Dakota-espec.
tally the western parts a great sur
prise to people who have been absent
a few years and failed to keep in touch
| with the country.
A FargOan who sat behind merry
widow hat at the church the other
Sunday now insists he has about sew
enteen more reasons for not attend
ing church.-Forum
The wife OF a man arrested at Blu
ford objected to her lord and master
being taken into the tolls, and is re-
ported to have threatened to carve
the officers with an AK
Bismarck and Mandan merchants
are engaged in a lively scrap for
4 farm trade, and the Mandanites are
publishing broadcast tales of tho
smallpox scare at the capital.
Wonder how our insurgent friends
like the result of the county conven
tion over i'm Emmons. OF course there
was no issue over there-frolL the
Ozones standpoint-S Herald.
The fact that one of the WilamA
county candidates for the republican
nomination for states attorney pub
fishes his legals in democratic paper
isn't making him many votes among
the republican editors.-Forlm.
Col w. G. Plummer. formerly
known as North Dakota's silver
tongued orator" is visiting friends al
Bismarck and elsewhere. He is now
living at Fort Fairfield, Me, where his
daughter, married some years ago, re
sides.
Wells Co. Free Press: A j. Gron
ma, our present representative in the
national congress, is a candidate fol
reelection. He has made an excel
lent congressman and is entitled to be
returned on the good record he has
! made.
/ 1t required only a few hours for the
people of Valley City to raise $1,000
for the entertainment OF the q. A. TX
oncampment The people OF tha
, town may be insurgents, all right
but when it comes to a patriotic ob
sarvance of Memorial Day, and
! knowledge of why they observe it, M
/ city in the state outclasses Valley Citv.
Ellendale is to have dandy nev
! opera house The citizens have
I agreed to go in together in putin.
up a building that will be a credit Il
the CITY. The new building will b.
S2xll0 feet and will be a handsome
structure. three stories high; the con
traci price exclusive OF heating
4 liehtiag and furnishing the oper
house being $4,000.
Il While trying to drink from. buck
I ct thai stood near the edge OF the wei
at the rear of her south-side home
, little four-year-old Carolina Nirae
Youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs
4 tasDar Virag. OF Dickinson, lost he
balance and fell into the water, es
. caping death only by her rare pres
q encc Of mind. The we'll is thirty Zee
deep and contains ten feet OF water
y Mrs Virag. who was attending I
ho,sework duties, heard the child
cry as she went over, and arrived a
a the we'll lust as her daughter was ris
ING for the second time The mothe
called to the little girl to seize tn