Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-08-27
THE STATE.

r''4'' apout harvest weather this wear
he Democrats have arranged to have
'iyaii speak At Grand Forks and Far
go on September lst.
a man at Grand Forks lost out in
lawsuit because he oversight and fail
e'i TO get to the hearing in time.
The government is taking an interest
IN the iorcstation OF the Bad Lands.
and has sent inquiries as 10 conditions
there.
some OF the papers arc warning the
poslnastcrS and bankers to be on the
lookout for the fall production of burg
lars and safe blowers.
\ hired man on the farm OF Anton
Svensrud, OF Willow City. jumped from
grain tank. \ ring on his finger
caught on a nail in the cnd-eatc and
tore the finger off.
Lighting struck a farmers house near
''ackle. l'he farmer who was sitting
III the house AT the time, had his shoe
torn off, and the house was DESTROYED
by fire
Lisbon had burglar scare last week,
and half the town was called out OF bed
To AID in the capture OF gang of bank
Robbers. There were no burglars and
no burglary
\ woman at Walcott leapcd into a
ciscrn. thinking she was to save her
pei cat. Her husband fishcd her out OF
The cistcrn. and the cat was discovered
ON the roof OF the house.
JasS were so numerous at Fargo the
other night that it was necessary for
The police 10 use dray wagons in get
lins them all in limbo. And thus pro-
hibiIon prohibits in North Dakota.
\ lot of velvet cllati wheat and winter
wheat has been raised down in the Red
river valley this year, and tllrashing re
turns show that ii turns out all the way
| from eighteen TO thirty bushels TO the
acre
The success which farmers in North
Dakota are meeting in raising clover is
resulting i'm 4 lot of missoncry work
for that plant. Many growers claim it
cradcates not only ordinary weeds, but
| such dangerous pests as the Canada
thistle
The editor OF the Edinburg Tribune
wants iratc subscribers to be careful
when they approach his sanctum, as he
has several kinds of shot guns and war
clubs around the Office, and the editor
is no lightweight when il comes to
scrapping.
Nm itincrant trying to sell cores
pondcncc school scheme OF veterinary
4 knowledge. combined with a cabinet Of
medicine. TO a farmer near Wallpeton.
was struck over the head by the farmer
with a piece OF fence from which nail
protrsded almost fracture, Nthe skull
The Dickinson Post publishes pic
turc oil the check issued by the national
government in payment for a little over
| S2o"0oo worth of horses Not all of
us have the opportunity to handle that
much money all at once. but ii is pleas
ami TO be able TO see picture OF it.
In the early days complaints were
made that wild and reckless cowboys
converted the main streets OF the small
lcr towns into race courses for their
cayuscs Now its the autoists who do
the break k-neck stunts In few years
| IL will be the air-ships dragging anchors.
Mike Lucy tells the Bowbclls 1'rib-
unc that ten-pound pickerel invaded
his garden out in the hills country re-
Gently, having made its way from a
ncarbs lake through, a small irrigation
ditch running 10 the garden and ate up
a lot oi Strawberries That tale, if true.
certainly takes the shortcakc.
(. Manager Dickerson, OF the Jamestown
poultry yards, has hatched over a thou
sand chickens this year. and is unable
10 keep up to tile demand. lie set 3,0op
eggs. but owing to strange malady
which effected the chickens after hatch
icnp and before being fed, he lost large
Members He runs six incubators.
Grafton Record Millions OF little
hug were in evidence ON the sidewalks
and wards of Grafton last week and
arc here yet But don't try TO drive
N them off. because they are eating away
al tic roots OF the pc,ky dandclionS,
hundred, of them getting at one plant,
and wc hope that they will fill up Ia
their hearts content
lie danger OF cattle and horses in
pastures being killed by lightning can be
,n,ilelv eliminated by atfixine wire to
one posi- in every twelve or fifteen III
sacl. manner that one end will be buried
"a .i,r earth Wllile the other has contact
with each strand Of wire on the post
III atford> perfect ground by which
the electrical charge passes into the
saill Grand Forks Herald
STATE Game Warden Smith. OF Graf
lal. has a good -,hcme 10 spot 'l'eaa
lnu';ns and will try 10 convince llis
nesl Legislature ii is the correct medl-
cine His idea is to prohibit spring