Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-12-30
AROUND THE STATE.

A1VOONO 1A1 Ol "A j u.
The days are getting "a leetle
bit longer.
There are complaints about the
red tape in the estray law.
The Edmore Herald thinks some
of the congressional mushroom can
didates will be dried up bfore June
The Rutland Leader doesn't seem
to enthuse great deal over the
candidacy of Tom Marshall for the
United States senatorship.
The farmers of North Dakota will
have an opportunity of hearing j. j.
Hill speak at the Tri State Grain
and Stock Growers Convention in
Fargo, Jan. 2st.
A movement has been inaugural
ed by the Sons of Norway lodge of
Petersburg for the erection of
memorial to the late United States
Senator M. N. johnson.
If the state supreme court should
decide that the senatorial ballot
must be arranged in free-for-all
style as to the long and the short
terms, would the present team work
and Damon-and- Pythias friendship
between Marshall and Gronna con-
tinue?- Forum.
Joseph Wentz was killed in Minot
last Thursday evening in the electric
light plant, receiving the full voltage
of the plant through his body.
While engaged at his work about
the plant, he in some manner re-
ceived the heavy charge of electrici-
ty. causing his death instantly.
Senator McLaurin, of Mississippi,
died yesterday while sitting by his
fire. Steele Ozone. CAS- the de-
ceased was a statesman. and the late
Tom Reed defined a statesman as a
politician who is dead." it may be
that Br'er Woodson intends to init
mate that the gentleman is still
Sitting by the fire."
The Walhalla creamery has closed
down for the winter months. Dur
ing the season q, 900 pounds of but
ter were made from $4,000 pounds
of butter fat, for which the patrons
received $500. The farmers are
becoming interested in the creamery
and will buy more stock and raise
more calves next year.
1t is a peculiar fact. says the Can
do Herald, that about sixty-six per
cent of the teachers in the public
schools in this country to-day are
women. The reason for this is that
before the average boy completes
an advanced education he is is forced
to enter some occupation to gain a
livelihood. and never returns to
school. Another reason is that the
wages paid in a good many states
are so greatly inferior to what is
paid to a man with the same capa-
bilities in other vocations that he
cannot afford to follow the teachers
profession.
The Forman News says: W.P.Pur-
cell. the Wahpeton lawyer and state
senator for one of the Richland
county districts. has formally SHE'D
his castor into the ring as a demo-
cratic candidate for United States
senator in the coming primaries.
| Mr.. Purcell's candidacy will no
doubt add to the interest of the
struggle, for he is a give-and-take
| fighter, brilliant speaker, with
much of that quality termed magnet
ism, and he will be pretty sure to
poll the entire democratic vote. He
is a candidate for the long term.
There is nothing startling in
President Taft's message. says the
Devils Lake Inter Ocean; but it is
conceded on all sides that it is an
able document, free from buncombe,
of judicial poise and suggestive Of
tranquility that will lead to peace
and contentment throughout the
country. 1t is plain that he will use
the machinery of the department Of
justice in ferreting out crimes
against the laws of the nation,
rather than trusting it to congress.
sional investigation and political
buffeting. The affairs of the gov
ernment are being admirably ad-
ministered, and no great amount OF
noise is being made about it.
The Tribune says of Elder Dan
ford. of the Bismarck conference
district: "Mr. Danford was county
superintendent of LaMoure and Sar
gent counties in territorial days
He was president of the territorial
normal school at Milnor for five
wears, and his last school work was
at Minot. He has been a builder il
school work, as he now is in church
work. He will some time turn oyel