Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-09-17
AROUND THE STATE.

is being done early.
The Pioneer says the Mandan fair
VIII be better than ever this year.
Jimmie Foley's recent poem in the
Youths Companion has scored big
hit
Labor day was observed in North
Dakota this year more generally than
ever.
Some people want jail sentences for
sooner" hunters and auto-speed ma
MACS.
The towns in the Mouse river val
ley are making war on the oating
| hOboS.
| There is excitement at Conway be-
cause the marshal was accused OF SELL
ing booze.
The government Indian-school at
Wahpeton now has 773 pupils, 3s boys
and b girls.
Mlnst merchants have agreed TO
keep their stores closed evenings until
November lst.
Tame cherries have been successful
ly grown around Columbus, near the
international boundary.
The commission plan Of city govern
ment seems to work with complete
satisfaction at Mandan.
Some rural carriers find they can
make their routes on motor cycles
much easier than by team.
Bowbells gets a sl5, 600 school build
ing this fall and Minot will have a
new 500 depot to cost $4,000.
There is discouraging feature for
bachelors when they see married men
with buttonless clothes. Forum.
At Larimore few people paid taxes
on their dogs. Others didn't. The
people who paid now want their money
back.
Editor Irysh was on hunt at
Wheatland when an ungentlemanly
COW chased him into the next town.
ship.
State Dairy Commissioner Flint
urges the people of the state to he
careful about the schemes of profess
sional creamery promoters.
Jean Mott, a nine year-old girl at
tended the teachers institute In Nor
ton county. She vows she will be a
schoolmarm when grown up.
That military post at Bismarck fur
nishes some criminal items for the
Bismarck papers. Two of the soldiers
recently tried to hold up the sheriff.
At Michigan City a blacksmith
reached reservoir in time to save the
life of young boy who had tumbled
into the water and had already gone
down twice.
A horse belonging to Frank Hen
ming, of Lakota, "suicided' by crush
ing its skull. There was sharp stake
above It's head and the animal struck
that in fighting flies.
The Wyndmere Pioneer objects to
police and police courts in different
cities chasing out undesirable citi-
zens." The Pioneer wants each town
to take care of its own.
The Tribune reports that some peo-
pie near the lakes around RowbelIs
were afraid to get out doors during
the open season for shooting, for fear
a stray Shot would hit 'em.
There are many people Of the state
who are of the opinion that the game
laws are more OF a benefit to the dis
trict game warden than to any one
else. Bismarck Palladium.
| AT Minnewaukan two ladies met for
the first time. Each had been told
the other was deaf, and the screech-
| ing they did at each other furnished
plenty of amusement for the others.
| The Audubon society of Fargo is
undertaking to discourage the use OF
birds and feathers by the ladies OF the
city, making an exception OF ostrich
and cocque only; but the job is dis
couraging one.
Now that the North Dakota wheat
crop has run the gauntlet from grain
experts, hail, tornadOes, rust, smut
and few other things, the line ele-
vator men are getting in their work
on the grades. Forum.
The big Russell Miller flour mill at
Minot, which has been idle for the
last six weeks for want OF wheat to
grind, has started up again with a
crew OF 80 men and turned out AS
barrels of flour the first day.
The number of North Dakotans at
tending the Minnesota state fair this
year was not as large as in former
years. North Dakota is developing
some fairs OF her own that seem "a
hold the crowds within the borders Of
the state.
Lightning recently struck farm
house near IIillsboro. The lightning
entered the room where the man and
wife were sleeping, broke a looking
glass, smashed bureau and tore a
child's shoes to pieces: but none Of the
occupants OF the room was hurt.
\ North Dakota farmer, writing u
friend back east, was trying to give
some idea of the productiveness Of the