Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-05-07

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The baseball season is opened in
good shape in the new counties in
the southwestern part of the state.
And now Minot, the Magic City, is
out after the $4,000 Methodist hos
pital and also the Odd Fellows home.
The state press is printing many
fiattering comments on the candidacy
of Col. G. B. Little for the U. S. SEN
4 ate.
The New York World refers to the
new battleship-the North Dakota
as Uncle Sans Biggest Peace-mak-
ei."
Fargo is figuring on filtration
plant to strain the bugs and germs
n out OF the drinking water for the
city.
n Prospectors will be drilling for oil
soon in the vicinity of Westhope, and
it looks as though it was good prop
ositon.
When the assessor comes around
look him square in the eye and at
least make him believe you are telling
the truth.
A correspondent of the Under
wood Republican makes an earnest
appeal for the reelection of Judge
Winchester.
Peter Levi, of Grand Forks, went
to Winnipeg and filled up on Scotch
whisky and was robbed Of large
sum of money.
Hon. G. A. johnson of Minot, Re-
publican candidate for governor,
seems to have the support of all the
Ward county papers.
Superintendent Stockwell thinks
the teacher who does not convene
school on Arbor Day should not re-
ceive pay for that day.
Prairie fires got hard jolt by the
recent storm but got in their work
plenty all over the state prior to the
marshaling OF natures forces.
The democrats of Cass county are
! going to amuse themselves this cam
paign by putting up complete tick
ct of county cadidates. Forum.
A father and son were sentenced at
Minot to serve good sized terms in
the penitentiary for poisoning five
horses that belonged to neighbor.
Their case was long fought one
The city water at Dickinson has
been analyzed by Professor Ladd and
found to be of good quality much to
the delight of the people there.
According to the Forman News, NJ.
n johnson will soon have Tom Mar
shall backed off the boards as the in
surgent candidate for United States
senator.
The Northern Pacific has offered a
viction of the men attempting to hold
up the North Coast Limited in Mon
tana last week.
There will be greatly increased
/ acreage in North Dakota this season
/ as a result of the opening up of the
. new farms in the western and south
western section of the state.
The New Rockford Transcript
, thinks the attempt of the insurgents
to discredit Congressman Gronna will
4 fall rather fiat, as the congressman
has record that cannot be besmirched.
An effort is being made to divide
the Dickinson land district SO some of
, the counties i'm the southern part of
North Dakota can be annexed to the
new South Dakota landofficc at Lem
mon.
A farmer near Anamoose decided
I to remove manure pile by setting
fire to it, The next day the wind
changed and it was only by consider
4 able effort that the greater portion
of the town was saved from a prairie
|, fire.
4 Out of the l.:lSS COWS which help to
Y supply Fargo with milk and dairy
\ supplies that have been examined by
City Milk Inspector A. Z. Dunham
4 and his assistants since the first OF
lhe year, o4S have been found that
! were infected with tuberculosis. and
they have been condemned to be
shoi.
4 Evidently there is a difference i'll
snow and rain. The bible says that
rain falls on the just and the unjust
in about the same ratio-but when
the snow was cavorting around the
northwest recently ii fell heavily in