Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-11-19

to come to this country in six weeks
or two months. Mr.. Will is a brother.
in-law Of Michael Weber, WHO lives
about twelve miles west OF Linton.
I. D. Potwin, city editor of the Alb
erdeen American, came up by the
Milwaukee Tuesday to visit his wife's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Sims. He re-
turned home yesterday.
L. c. Turner, father of II. y. Turn
er, arrived Tuesday from Chicago,
where he had an operation performed.
He is doing very we'll, considering the
seriousness Of the operation.
c. III. Gontka made complaint
against NJ. b. Morford that resulted
in the latter being placed under bonds
to keep the peace, yesterday. Both
reside in the Hartford neighborhood.
j. r. Davis, of the Beaver Greek
Stock Farm, recently shipped car
load Of hogs probably the first car
load shipment from the county OF
hogs raised and fattened by the ship
per.
An assault case was tried in Linton
Monday in which G. II. Craig was the
complaining witness against w. L.
Anderson, both residing about dozen
miles west of Hazelton. The defend
ant pleaded guilty and was tined IS
and costs.
Peter Shier, of Linton: Il. Reynolds,
of Fargo; and A. " and Geo. Lane,
of Chicago, brothers Of Robert Lane,
of Glencoe, were out on deer hunt
in the river bottoms this week They
killed three deer.
A cattle train left Linton by the n.
p. Saturday, with 3 cars for w. E.
Petric, , cars for Tom McCrory, car
for l.. ID. Seeman, car for John Pos
tie and III. Backhaus lin cah0ots,
cars for John Postle, and car for G..
S. Stedman. The stock was all for
the Chicago market.
The highest price yet reached for
land hereabouts, as far as the Record
has knowledge OF the matter-was in
the recent sale of an unimproved
quarter-section about six miles west OF
Strasburg by Valentjn Dinis TO Peter
Mitzel: the consideration being $1,000,
or more than $50 AN acre.
Jack Ramey, with his assistant,
Jerry Fyree, brought in Tuesday from
his farm near Emmonsburg 30l and
l4-60ths bushels Of flax with his
sixteen-horsepower Hart-Parr gasoline
engine. He received 1927 per bushei
for the flax 1t took him just seven
hours to make the trip hauling four
wagons.
When the canvassing board got to
the returns from Union precinct, dur
ing the canvass made last week, they
found them imperfect. So there was
nothing for them to do but send the
sheriff for the election officers in that
precinct, which was done, the cOrrec-
lions made and the precinct counted.
A postal-card from Dale to Linton
friend shows Farmer George Acheson,
former tonsorial artist for Britts and
catcher for the Linton baseball club,
standing on the prairie, and by him a
pet colt apparently of the 1908 vintage,
and on the colts back, smiling and
s'as happy as a clam little Master
Acheson, in years scarcely maturer
than the colt. 1t is a 'scute picture.
There is JOY is the house Of Fogle,
and smile on the face OF the head OF
the clan that cannot be scrubbed OIL
with concentrated lye. After five lit
tie girls-five: count 'em-had fol-
lowed one another in regular success
sion, last Sunday an hour or so before
midnight bouncing boy.baby ap-
peared upon the scene, much to the
| joy of father, mother and the tive lit
tie sisters. All we'll.
A serious and painful accident re-
Gently happened to Lizzie, the sixteen
or seventeen year old daughter Of our
old friend, Andrew Marsh, just across
the state line in Campbell county.
She was attending a governments school
in South Dakota-the location we did
not ascertain. While in the laundry
of the school one of her hands was
Icaught in "A roller used for wringing
clothes, and the hand was so badly
crushed that for a time it was Thought
| 1t would have to be amputated. Later
information, however, is to the eflect
that it islikely the hand will he saved
Ina recent letter to the editor OF
the Record, Comrade G. w. McAllls-
ter, formerly OF southern Emmons
writes that he is In the Soldiers Home
at Hot Springs, S. d. He sees Com
rade Ed Wescott, Of this county, oc'
casionally. The latter is an inmate
of the United States Sanitarium,
about mile from the Hon Com
rades Wescott and McAllister are both
troubled with their sight, and Ed says
his ewes are in no better condition
than when he left here \ paragraph
! in the letter says: II have seen 10
Wescott once in the last thr weeks