Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-10-15
AROUND THE STATE.

Cavalier county has IS licenses to
sell booze.
The building boom over the state
has been big this year.
Morton county wants a number of
well-qualified school teachers.
A bold footpad slugged the village
marshal at Bowman the other night
1t takes four banks to take care OF
all the money that is brought into
Goodrich.
A fax thief at Scranton was sc
closely pursued that he had to aban
don his wagon.
Eighteen-pound cabbages and Ii
pound turnips are the way things
grow In Foster county.
Fourteen people in Dunn county
near Halliday, have died as result
of an epidemic of dysentery.
Forty New York orphans have been
placed in homes along the line of
the Great Northern railroad.
At Drake the trunks of three
young ladies were stolen and the con-
tents later found on the prairie.
The Milton Globe had notices in
the same column of three cutting
affairs in that and nearby towns.
Charles Rogers stabbed Joe La
France, the owner of a thrashing rig
near following row over
wages.
Many papers note the absence of
the cards of thanks that used to be
SO much in evidence in the news
papers.
No small lamount of death, dis
aster, broken limbs and fire has fol
lowed in the wake of thrashing rigs
this fall.
The police Judge at Minot reads
the riot act to policeman there
for assaulting man after he had ar
rested him.
The Mandan Pioneer is getting
some nice notices about its souvenir
edition and the enterprise shown in
other lines.
A young girl died mysteriously in
a hotel at Minot and it is thought
that her death resulted from Grim
inal operation.
The weekly press of the state is
doing lot of good work toward in
creasing the interest in corn growing
in North Dakota.
i The ticket sales at the passenger
depot at Devils Lake are said tC
amount to about 81 200 a day with
no sign Of letting up.
The agricultural college will have
bureau that will send out college
items of news to the farmers of the
state during the winter.
A The muskrats have built small
houses and they are poorly con
structed-hence it is to be milo
winter. That listens good.
AS result of county division agi
tation in Ward and Williams some
other features of the campaign arr
not attracting much attention.
Another crusade has been started
against the red light district il
Fargo and the ministers there arr
making the war loom up in grea
shape.
More Indian buring grounds arr
being unearthed in the western par
of the state. Even the "good In
dians" are not permitted to rest il
peace.
II The Calvin Times has taken to en-
4 tertaining it's friends with phOno
graphic songs, and Taft and BryaI
speeches right off the reel. once
a week.
j. b. Streeter noted real estat
dealer at Larimore, has disposed o
4 practically all his interests in Gram
Forks county, for consideration O
$65.0OO.
The Fargo Knights of Columbu
have let the contract for the con
struction of their new lodge build
ing to Thomas Powers at the pric
of $31, 900.
In decade the bank deposits o
North Dakota have quadrupled
That's a good record for a countr
that General Hazen called the "Grea
American Desert.
Strangers visiting North Dakot
often comment on the evident desir
of almost every property owner t
add TO the attractiveness of his plac
by planting trees.
Underwood will get fine new de
not to replace the one recent
burned the people of VAST
burn are rather praying for fire t
wipe out the shack they have.
F. p. Baker. of Minot, complain
that the police of the Ward count
capital went out Of their way to pre-
vent his getting evidence agains
some of the disreputable house
there