Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-08-20
AROUND THE STATE.

AhUUNU THE STATE.
a bogus optician was arrested at
Langdon.
Thrashing has begun at SERIAL points
in the state.
Mott and Dickinson are to PLAY ball
for $500 side.
Winter wheat is said to be one OF
the solutions for clearing fields of
weeds.
Bishop Stanley recently confirmed
a class OF one hundred young people in
Hanknson.
From nearly every section Of the
state there are reports of premature
chicken-shooting.
Peter Martin, aged eighty five, and
the father OF nineteen children. was
divorced at Devils Lake.
The rest OF the state extends SYM
pathy to Bismarck, where cattle and
horses still roam In the streets.
just because man attempted to do
a cake walk, barefooted, in the streets
OF Larimore, he was regarded asnutty.
The Mandan Republican denies that
the commission plan OF government,
which is being tried in that city, is
failure
The people Of Hazelton kick because
it costs p cents to telephone messages
TO Mckenzie and % more to send them
anywhere by telegraph.
Milton has laid thirteen Thousand
square feet of cement sidewalks this
season, and wants to hear from some
OF the surrounding towns.
With Mclean, Steele, Williams and
Ward and some other counties want
ing 10 be divided. there is some fun
in sight for the fall election.
The city council at Dickinson has
decided to enforce the ruling that
bathcis in the n. p. dam must wear
suits-or wait till after dark.
The Fairmount News tells of two
Indians and their sqauws being poi
soned by drinking a bottle of wood
alcohol they had stolen out of a barn.
A lady contortionist ard trapeze
performer has been working towns
along the 500 in Mclean county by
giving street exhibitions and taking
up collections.
1t is stated that it is possible for
North Dakota farmer in a single year
to raise wheat sufficient to feed 1000
persons whole year. This is due 10
improved methods and machinery and
fertile soil.
There are sixty-eight automobiles
at Dickinson, and 1t is rather imma-
terial to real-estate men aud such
whether or not the railroads construct
cross-country cutoff tracks, or not, for
the time being.
Down at Cakes they are not taking
very kindly to buzz-wagons, and the
owners OF some of the small streaks
claim that people throw broken bot
ties and tacks in the streets on purpose
to even up the game.
a trio Of Bismarck boys who have
been on camping expedition in the
Bad Lands brought home numerous
trophies in the shape of rattlesnake
rattles, and report seeing numerous
herds Of antelope and black tailed
deer.
Mrs. j. A. Johnson, wife of IA former
Fargo mayor, has donated to the civic
league of Fargo a handsome silver low
ing cup, to be awarded to the citizen
having the most beautiful and we'll
kept lawn between June lst and Octo-
| ber list.
Valley City Times Record: Louis l..
Krauss, of New York, was registered
at local hotel recently, and follow
ing his name was this inscriptions:
Travelling around the United States
and Mexico on q wager. Left New
| York penniless June l6, 1909, to return
June rs, 1910, with 81, OO0." The CON
ditions of the wager are that he shall
not beg, borrow orsteal, or "bum" his
way. but earn all expenses and save
81, 900 by selling gknick-knacks, Of which
he has an original variety. lie has
been out forty nine days, and is just
even with the game at present.
The new United States land Office at
Lennon, S. d., has been opened for
business, with Edward Coleman as re-
ceiyer and Cyrus Carpenter as register.
The new district is the only Interstate
land district in the country, being
composed OF territory taken from the
Bismarck and Dickinson, N. d., dis
tricls and Rapid City, S. ID, district.
Sixteen townships in southwestern
Morton county are taken from the
Bismarck district, all OF Heltin9el
and Bowman counties. With :'2 town
ships each, from the Dickinson dis
tric', AID l5l townships out of north
ern Butte county, OF the Rapid City
district.
In Cavalier county they hav. way
OF ,uua!izing taxt;s which is unique
ana eff ciive- so far Auditor jtvne
stated 10 h. stare b 'ari Of eauaiizl-