Emmons County record., 1909-06-03

was chosen for the full three-years'
term and John Owens for the term
OF one year to fill vacancy.
Daughters were born last Monday
to Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Boschee and
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Coventry Of Lin.
ton. All we'll. The early report Of
twins at the Coventry domicile was
later proved to have been q gross ex-
aggeration.
Any one wanting breaking or
blowing done is invited to write or
call on me. have 25-horsepower
engine and q John Deere gang
breaker. and can do good work for
you. Will contract for fall work.
G. L. Parkhurst. Hazelton, N. D.
John w. Martinson. who is own
er of land few miles from Linton,
land for which he paid 81 an acre a
few years ago. and for which he can
now get $40 an acre. was in linton
last week. He is greatly pleased
with Emmons county. He had not
seen the land at the time he made
the purchase. Mr.. Martinson's home
is in Minneapolis.
Again has the county of Emmons
been visited by copious rains.
Those engaged in plowing say that
the ground is thoroughly saturated
with moisture. This season acts a
great deal like 1891, the year of the
enormous crops. and the year in
which large part of the crop was
lost because of there not being
enough thrashing-machines to finish
the work before the early heavy
snow came. which snow remained
until spring.
In a letter from F. j. Haas, now
at Rock Lake. N. d.. still with a
firm selling knot-holes. farm-ma-
chinery. grain. coal and so forth,
Happy Frank" has this to say re-
garding the details of deal which
he proceeds to make with the Rec
ord scribe, such deal being the pass
ing from tuum to meum Of one
scad and the half of another. in ex-
change for years Sunday reading
duly and regularly furnished by
said scribe to the said agent for
the dissemination of knot-holes
in the vicinage of Rock Lake
aforesaid. He saith: when !
finished checking up my cash on
hand ! discovered that | had one-
fifty too much. A person who sup
ports smoke-wagon and a type
setting machine all both at the
same time" is entitled not only
to the profound and heartfelt SYM
pathy of friends and neighbors. but
to the "overage" discovered as
aforesaid in said checking-up. l
therefore inclose a piece of paper
which an over-trustful banker here
abouts will duly honor for the
amount named when presented to
him. If your credit is still good for
gasoline and cylinder oil, you may
credit this to your trouble account
of wrapping and mailing my copy
of the Record, and use tiff the
late grand jury has not made SO do
ing impossible in such manner as
may first suggest itself to you these
warm" and thirsty summer days"
Comrades Hamilton and Hall
came over from the Strasburg coun-
try Saturday to attend the memorial
service Sunday. Mr.. H. and wife are
visiting their daughter. Mrs. Samuel
Boles, of Strasburg. and also the
Hamiltons. who were their old neigh
bors before the Hamiltons moved
to North Dakota. The visitors re-
side in River Falls. Wisconsin.
Comrade Hall was a member Of
Company "B." Sixth Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry, in the civil.
war. His regiment was part Of
the noted Iron Brigade, which did
such hard and bloody work beyond
the Potomac. Comrade Hamilton is
in his eighty-first year, bnt he is
about as spry as youths" Of fifty
five or sixty. He was busy picking
''nigger-heads" on his claim Satur-
day forenoon, but knocked off to
come to Linton so as to be here
early for Sundays exercises. As
the Record has before stated. Com
rade Hamilton was the first person
Of all those who now live in Emmons
county to set foot in what is now
the county. In the summer of 1864
seven companies of his regiment.
the Twentieth Wisconsin Infantry,
he being with them, took a steam
boat at St. Louis and started up the
Missouri. In those days steamboats,
leaving St. Louis to go up the Mis-
souri, river had to make prepara-
tions for bushwhackers or guerillas
while passing through certain parts