Emmons County record., 1909-07-22
AROUND THE STATE.

Complaints continue about land
proofs being held up.
Stutsman county has established
its first consolidated rural school.
The baseball teams in MANY of
the towns Of the state are disband-
ing.
Pure-Food Commissioner ladd is
hot on the trail of violators Of the
food laws Of the state.
A Northwood man raises straw
berries measuring five and half
inches in circumference.
Judge Engerud denies the report
that he will be candidate against
Senator McCumber next year.
State Auditor Brghtbill is moving
his family to Bismarck. in accord
ance with the terms Of the new sala-
ry law.
1t is predicted ,ha, at least two
and half millions of bushels of
grain will be marketed in Dickin.
son this year.
A Wahpeton man was indignant
because some one swiped the beer
he had put in the ice-box to cool for
hot moment.
The farmers in the northern part
OF the state who We're hit by the big
hail-storm report total losses on all
fields struck by the ice pellets.
The sheriff's Office at Jamestown
is to be supplied with an automobile,
and those who tamper with the stat
utes will be run down in a hurry.
Now that Fargo is to have an ad
ditional lighting service, some of
the people of that city want Broad
way converted into a great white
way"
Presiding Elder Danford. of the
Fargo district of the Methodist
church. has greater territory than
whole conference in many eastern
states.
At the fair recently held in James
town bunch of Young ladies' CON
Quoted a shooting gallery, and as "A
result two young boys were serious
ly wounded.
County Superintendent Olson. of
Mclean county. has had his name
changed to .Loftsgaarden, because
there were SO many Olsons that he
had difficulty in getting all of his
mail.
People from all sections of the
state who have been in Bismarck for
medical treatment speak i'm the
highest terms of the efficiency of the
hospitals and the surgeons and
nurses of those institutions.
M. L. Sullivan. whose large barn
near Langdon was blown down dur
ing the recent big storm there, had
just taken out tornado-insurance
policy few days before the storm,
and the other day he received
check for $2O.24 to cover the dam
age.
The Wahpeton Globe Gazette notes
that the elevator papers of the Twin
Cities continue to knock Senator Me
Cumber. and that the Fargo morn
ing sheet and other North Dakota
democratic papers chime in to help
out the millers and the. grain com
bine.
A human skeleton was unearthed
at Williston last week. The body
had been placed in shallow grave
in a sitting posture and rocks had
been piled upon it. The skull had
been fractured. Williston's oldest
inhabitants can't throw any light on
the evident murder mystery.
According to the Tribune. State
Treasurer Bickford and wife and
Insurance Commissioner Cooper and
wife broke few speed records, or
dinances and other things in making
the return trip from a ball game at
Hazelton on a recent Sunday, dis
tance of forty-two miles in less than
an hour.
Even the thrilling rescue of a
young couple on Lake Kampeska
when their boat was swamping by
bailing out the craft with a lady Is
slipper, is made the subject of un-
kind jokes. Col. Vallandigham. of
the Valley City Patriot. intimates
the rescue is an awful comment on
the size of South Dakota girls feet.
Manager Crum, of the farmers
elevator at LaMoure. reports that
the elevator, although only three
years old, has made something of a
record in the matter of dividends.
The first year the company declared
dividend of so per cent; the sec
ond year. 80 per cent; and this year
it will be about 60 per cent. Divi-