Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-03-19

81 will give photographic con-
cert at the Winona school.house on
saturday evening, March 2lst. A fine
selection Of records. More than four
hours entertainment. Records for
sale It wanted. H. NJ. Spencer.
In this issue Of the Record appears
the announcement Of F. H. Register
IS candidate for Judge Of the Sixth
judicial district. Mr.. Register is .
gentleman With whom the writer has
no affiltation Is to state republican
policy, but that he Is an honest and
upright advocate, who never betrays
. client, even his bitterest political
enemies will not deny.
Lyman Clayton is not improving in
health. He has about made up his
mind to visit the Battle Creek mich.
santtarium for a while. Lyman is
steady, industrious young man, as the
Record publisher knows, because Of his
having 1t times been employed as
composit0r on the paper, and his many
friends wherever he has lived hope
that as he grows older he will regain
his former good health. The trouble
seems to be with his heart.
A committee appointed by the dem
0cratic state central committee last
January for the purpose Of preparing
. list OF candidates Of that party for
state offices has made It's report. In
the list, for railroad commissioner
candidates-three to be elected-there
are ten names. Among them is the
name OF p. g. Rocks, of Emmons
county. We understand that the APP
pearance Ut his name in the newspa-
pers was the tirst intimation to Mr..
Rocks that he was . candidate.
II you have few minutes time,
drOp In at Smith 4 lrvine's and hear
the new medley record. 1.-THE Polite
ian's Dream" Bert has taken
blank record aud very ingeniusly ar
ranged potpourri Of airs popular
with groups Of our voters, interspersed
with shouts for Jones' ''Old Bill
JONES'" and demands for his re-elec.
ton Is sheriff. ''In Lauderbacb,"
Comm Thro' the Rye an Irish air,
American airs, ETC., are given; but
ell are interspersed with stentorian
demands that "Jones-Bill Jones'
be once more chosen for sheriff.
Pollock items from the Progress of
March 18th: George N. Fiddler re-
turned Friday evening from Minneap-
oils, where he had been for the past
two weeks, on business with thrash
Ing machine company for which he
intends to work this year., Billy
Busby was somewhat painfully injured
last week by being thrown from a load
Of hay. He lhs now recovered, how
ever, and is again at work. !. Tom Nc
Keever received the sad news this
morning that his father, Thomas Nc
Keever, ST., had just died ut his home
In Spokane, Wash. He was seventy.
one years Of age, and had lived in the
west nearly forty years. Winfield
Vermillion was . Pollock visitor Mon
day. He has had government con-
tract this winter cutting and hauling
cord-wood to Standing Rock agency,
and the work has proved quite profit
able.
The publisher Of our esteemed CO.
Temporary on the corner is very much
put out because, as he asserts, pros
pective candidate up north has at d.
vers times INDUCED in the national
game Of poker. He also asserts that
said prospective candidate was ''ar-
rested" therefor. He neglected, how
ever, to state that anybody can be
arrested" provided the necessary
statutory complaint is made, and that
the gentleman referred to was
promptly acquitted. The publisher Of
our contemporary might also have
stated that he knows man named
Patterson who is the most inveterate
gambler In the county; who bets
hundred dollars on . single base ball
game land, when he loses, sbeefs" and
roasts his home club, who puts UP y
fake horse-race and swindles several
Of his home people who had misplaced
their confidence IN him; who has been
known to lose horse worth several
hundred dollars in card game; aud
who has even been known to gamble
With . quarter-section Of land as .
stake. To be consistent he should
have stated these things, also.
The Northern Pacific train was de-
lsyed yesterday morning for some
time, while q strike Of one person was
being settled. Pursuant to the COM
pany's policy to make things disagree
able for its patrons because of the law
passed by the last general assembly
providing for the reduction Of passen-
ger fares, Division Superintendent
Burt, who was along the branch line y
few days ago, concluded that it would
be q '.pious idea to lump two jobs in
to one down here. So they tackled on
: lot Of extra work to the duties Of
Paul Martin, who kept fires going
In the cars, used the curry-comb on old
Scrap-Iron Bills Cousin, and did
things like that. AS Martin wanted
TO sleep once Ia while-he quit. Then