Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-01-02

trip was declared off. Mrs. San didge,
(mother Of Mrs. Peterson) and Mrs.
Pearson are sisters.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. b. Piitchard went
over to Wishek Tuesday of last week
to spend Christmas with Mrs. Pritch-
ards relatives. They returned home
Sunday, accompanied by Miss Lizzie
Pfeife, Mrs. Pritchard's sister.
A letter received by Mr.. Raven
from VIM. Mittlestedter. formerley Of
this county, but now of south central
Missouri, conveys the information that
Mrs. NJ. has gone to the Kansas City
hospital to have an operation per-
formed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franz Wolf, Of the
Hague country, and Mr.. and Mrs. VAL
entine Wolf, of Hillsview, S. D., came
up from Hague, Thursday of last week
to visit their relatives. The last
named couple have three sons -in-law
John Bosch, Joe Eberle and Michael
Lipp-in Linton and vicinity.
Mr.. Ed. G. Kruger, manager of the
Exchange elevator, returned by last
evenings n. p. train. And, when a
party Of young people met him aud
his lady companion at the depot and
showered them with rice, the fact be-
came public that he had gone and
committed matrimony." Mr.. Kruger
and Miss Albina Lareau, of Tower
City, Cas- county, were married at
Fargo last Monday evening at $50
o'clock.
Knudt knudtson aud Peter Soug-
stad, Of the Tell neighbo1hood, ''arose
with the lark" last Monday morning,
but, finding the day so foggy that they
could not pillow on account of being
unable to see the burrows, concluded
to make a trip to Linton for the pur-
pose of paying their taxes. They re-
gretted the trip, however, as they
came very near to being sun.stluck
while on the way here. Darn a coun-
try where there's no winter, any way.
Ole Sathern returned Tuesday from
a visit in the extreme southeastern
part Of South Dakota. Sunday there
was big snow.storm in that region,
and when he left, Monday, about
foot Of snow was on the ground. A
report was prevalent there that nine
teen trains were stalled on the North
ern Pacific between Mandan and
Jamestown, and he expected to find
this country showed under when he
got here. He was much surprised to
see the ground entirely bare and the
weather balmy and pleasant.
1t is reported that, Thursday OF last
week, in Hazelton, one johnson
was rounded up in short order by an
elderly lady whose residence in town
he had rented while she was living on
her claim. She heard that her tenant
was running poker joint in her
house, and contemplated adding other
attractions as soon as he could pro-
cure said Attractions from Bis
marck. Whereupon the owner APP
peared on the scene and carrienation-
lied the gambling paraphernalia with
neatness and dispatch.
The following-named Linton stu
dents at the Aberdeen normal left by
yesterdays Milwaukee train to re-
sumo their school work: Clara Clay
ton, Frances Petrie, Clifford Sims and
Harry Petrie. Frank Streeter, Aber-
deem high school. will go Saturday.
Maggie Tough. Aberdeen public
school; Lucille Grain. Stanley Hall,
Minneapolis: Frances Patterson, st.
Mary's, Faribault, Mimi: Fay Mar
chant, Humboldt, Iowa, will depart
by Mondays train.
A game of base ball was played New
Year Day on the grounds of the Lin
ton club. Quite a good sized crowd
was in attendance. Many Of the reg
ular nine played. Sides were chosen
and quite an interesting game was the
result, although it was not as close as
the noted one-to-nothing Hazelton-
Linton game Of last summers tourna-
ment. Photographs OF the players
and parts Of the game were taken by
Or. Smith. Snapshots of Will Car
micheal speeding his trotter around
| the haf-mile track were also taken
Several OF the stores have on exhibit
ton peculiar kind Of machine, inn
plement, vehicle. or what-yOu-may-
call-i'. The dingus has tongue like
a wagon: but, instead, Of wheels, there
are four pieces Of timber rounded in
front and shod with iron. and SEEM
ingly intended to slide over the
ground. What the stores procured
these ,hings for no one seems to know.
as none of them are being sold. Prob
ably they we're shipped here by mis-
flake, aud were intended for New
York. Illinois or Iowa. Some people
who profess to know say that they
have seen these contrivances in use
farther south. where kind OF flour
colored substance falls, making the
ground slippery, over which they are
pulled by teams.
Z. l.. Halves writes from Stewart
M.nn to the editor OF the Record as
follows: aPlease change address Of my