Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-08-06
out OF dollar on the Hazelton-Lin-
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Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kyes. Mrs. w
=. Petrte and Miss Laura Petrie de
parted last Friday for Elwell, Mich
TO visit relatives. They went by n. p
to Duluth, and thence by that pleas
ant summer route = steamboa,
across the lakes.
The Record editor was visited yes
terday afternoon by a worthy couple
Who caused his thoughts to 90 back t.
the old days. The visitors were Mr.
and Mrs. c. w. Isham, who resided
about eight miles south of Sterling
who had many friends among people
OF the Williamsport neighborhood
aud who left the state about nineteen
years ago. They are now living a, La
Crosse, Wis, and are out ON visit to
their old friends and neighbors.
The station of Mckenzie seems to
be an unlucky point in the way of rail.
road accidents. Only a few weeks ago
the station agent there lost one of his
eyes through blow received upon II
by the crane on the mail-car that
catches mail at stations where there
Is no stop. Last Saturday stockman
from Columbus, Montana, was struck
by the frame of the engine pilot of a
train that was running through with.
out stopping. The man was instantly
killed. Sunday boy named Edward
Heat0n had been to church in Mcken-
zte. While returning home on horse
back he was struck by a train at. a
crossing about two miles east of the
station. His leg was broken and the
horse was killed.
1t has been Said-and wisely that
1t is the so called little things of life
that give the most trouble, and are
the most annoying. The average man
or woman will brace up to meet great
misfortunes, while they will he both
cred to death with minor annoyances.
The aforesaid remarks are brought
about by the fact that the editor of
this compendium Of knowledge has
for fortnight been the victim of the
doggon' dest combination of troubles
that IL has ever been his lot to meet.
OF course an old morning newspaper
printer is not by any means hog for
sleep, IS in his younger days, when
hand composition was in vogue, he
put In long hours by the light of the
gas or the kerosene lamp. But even
q person such as is here described must
Of necessity have few hours Of sleep
each day. And that Is where the
trouble comes in. Somebody in the
neighborhOod owns a dog with basso-
profundo voice and leather lungs. He
generally starts his communication
with the moon about 3 O'Clock and
keeps 1t up till midnight. This voice
exercise takes place on the vacant lots
or In the alley near the Record Office.
| AT first the serenade was quite inter
esting to the wouldbe sleeper in the
dormitOry in the rear Of said office,
But continual repetition of the same
old bark soon became monotonous
and now II is as palling on the ear--ol
both ears-as the repeated airs OF
those hot-air machines known as
monographs. 1t was bad enough tt
have the musical dog keep one awake
until l2al O'Clock; but now new
nuisance has appeared on the scene
A Plymouth Rock rooster, his wife
and bunch of their children about a:
big as ones fist appear at . a. m. un
der the sleeper's window and another
serenade in different key begins ant
is kept up until an old shoe or de
funct stereotype is SHED at the visit
ors. The rooster has q crow like
siren auto whistle. and there's ne
sleep after he begins. With the purl
at the front end of the night and thu
rooster at the hind end of it, sleep il
cut to less than five hours and life il
made burden And 1t keeps RICH,
on, night after night. If we coulo
ascertain to whom the rooster belong:
we would gladly purchase him at a.
high a price as six bits and snuff ou
his miserable life. lie would have
been surreptitiously made away Will
ere this, only that, were such his fate
and the scribe should again run 10
Office, the editor of his esteemed con
Temporary might refer to him as 7
chicken thief" Hence the desire t
find his owner and purchase the nols.
} old rufiian. We would also be Willing
to buy the dog; and. could we DO so
we would send him to our old frlen'
. Shambo, over on the reservation ant
have him made into soup for IN
: French duke and his aboriginal
friends. The fact is that this double
, ender nocturnal disturbance ism
} funny at all. IL person cant sc
, enough sleep he can't think or write
or work much at any thing AND,
one can't work. he will eventualI
reach the poor -house. Should he VII
writes ..these few lines" meet such
/ fate, the respective owners OF tina
) dorR and that rooster would oe Y
. blame. We trust that they VIII no
, longer allow the possibility OF such
sin being placed to their credit o
n discredit and that when they rea
this they will either corral the tw