Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-05-28
THE STATE,

tles where bOunties are paid.
More corn will be planted in North
Dakota this year than ever before.
One of the filthiest habits is spit
ting on a floor of hall at a public
meeting-Forum.
There were two sets of twins one
day at Ambrose. All four of the new
North Dakota boomers are girls.
A woman is being held in durance
vile at the Wahpeton county Jail on
charge of blind pigging at Lidger-
wood.
a circus at Wahpeton fell prey to
storm last week and had its tent
blown down, and several people were
injured.
There are three ladies engaged in
the thought-molding business, as news
paper publishers, in Mclean county
one at Washburn and two at Dogden.
The kenmare Journal has discoy-
cred that the travelling men of the
state are enthusiastically in favor OF
z. A. Johnson's candidacy for GOV
ernOr.
Some of the democratic papers are
fearful that the required number of
votes won't be cast by their party to
get their candidates on the regular
ticket this fall.
So far, Jim Kennedy is the only
candidate mentioned for the place of
state senator from Fargo, and it
looks as though he had a walk-awav
for the nomination.
The Minnewaukan Siftings feels
sorry for Fargo, if the new dem
ocratic daily is to be conducted along
the same lines as Editor ReineclSe
formerly ran The Grand Forks Press.
+. F.. Smith of Wahpeton, stalwart
candidate for state superintendent of
public instruction, has been appoint
ed grand marshal of the Odd Fellows
of North Dakota.
Where the soil is heavy clay it is
claimed that the new prairie land
should not be broken more than two
inches in depth. Where the soil is
sandy the depth can be greater-as
much as six inches.-Forum.
The Fargo Forum raises the perth
nent question as to whether the
Grand Forks Herald and Valley City
Times Record will support the nom
nations made by the people or
whether they will attempt to assas-
sinate the ticket
The Fargo Forum thinks the
Grand Forks Herald is rather fresh
in demanding of the senatorial can
didates whether or not they will
stand by the mandates of the pri-
mary law, and then keeping mum
itself on the proposition
The modest manner in which Alex.
Mckenzie has accepted the victory
of the Minot convention should be
sufficient to convince the Insurgents
that there was no disposition on the
part of the Stalwarts to rub it in at
any stage of the game-Bismarck
Tribune.
The Walhalla Mountaineer thinks
that, with Jud LaMoure at the head
| of the delegation to Chicago, he is
anything but down and out, but, on
the contrary, as chairman of that
delegation, he occupies position of
honor and trust that any man might
feel proud of.
Editor Cole, of The Fargo Search
light, ran The Grand Forks Herald,s
attack on Colonel Little, but it was
so rank that even Cole couldn't stand
it, and in his last issue he ran anoth-
er supplement containing Little's re-
futation, explaining that the reply
was run free.
Some idea of the development of
the new counties can be CLEANED from
the table of the May school appor-
tionment prepared by the department
of education. Hettinger county has
i LISP school-children enumerated,
and draws $3,144.12 for its appor-
tionment of the state tuition fund.
Fessenden, Grafton and Harvey are
some of the towns that are no longer
attempting to support paid baseball
team. They tried it year after year
and found the burden too heavy. The
trouble is that the rivalry becomes so
great the managers engage too ex-
pensiye eams.-Grand Forks Herald.
Most of the contractors of North
Dakota seem determined to keep
their work within the state. Con
tractor Bowers. of Fargo, has just
placed an order for 75 900 pounds OF
iron through the Fargo Iron COmpa-
ny, to be used in the construction OF
the new hospital at the jamestown
asylum.
a Washburn man. commenting on
former communication in the Lead
er on the nuisance of posters and
things of that sort. writes: II read
the article in your paper last week
signed by X. Y. a., and wish to say
that ! wholly approve of what was
said and only wish it was little
stronger. If person wishes to ad-