Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-06-10
TWENTY. FIVE YEARS AGO.


Heavy rains for the week were re-
ported.
A meeting was called in the paper
TO be held at Mr.. Armstrong; Office
for the purpose of forming base
ball club.
Hubert & Pitcher. the we'll
diggers. struck good flow Of water
on Tom Kelly's homestead at a depth
Of Lightweight feet.
Postmaster H. A. Armstrong pre-
sented the Record scribe with pair
of crane s-eggs. What's that you
say? No: they were not lemons.
Item: "A Dakota girl met a
bear. The bear grabbed her and
Rugged her. She Rugged back: and,
rs bruins ribs cracked. he ran away
bowling"
The plat of the new town of Wi
mona. opposite Fort Yates, was filed.
Afterward. for many years. it was
the liveliest spot in the county and
then some.
The first job printing ever done in
Emmons county was printed June
9th bills giving notice Of an elec-
ton for school officers in Williams
port district.
Jacob Keim. formerly a professor
in the college at Ashland. Ohio, ar
rived and filed on the S. w. quarter
of 2O-l35-76. close to the present
town Of Hazelton. He moved away
years ago.
County Assessor Tape Of Williams
port There was but one assessor for
the entire county in territorial days.
bounced on the editor almost before
the latter had his diamonds and
jewelry unpacked.
The editor had an article speaking
in very disparaging terms of the ter
ritorial mosquito. But said mos
quito and his sisters. his cousins and
his aunts got good and even before
cool weather came.
The first issue Of the paper, from
which these items were taken, was
dated June 10th. 1884. The pres
ent issue is also June 10th, but is
No. of the present volume. This
comes from the gain of day each
year and two days in leap year.
John Goughnour. of Buchanan
Valley. was the first subscriber to
the new paper paid for it before
the material arrived. He said peo-
pie were coming in so fast that he
couldn't tell who was his next neigh
Dor over the hill. and he wanted to
keep posted as to settlement and
what was going on in the country.
II. ID. Connor. young man from
New Hampshire, was looking over
the country. and liked the looks of
the land in the Billsport neighbor-
hood. He was a merchant for
many years in Williamsport. and
was also in the cattle business. He
is now on an irrigated fruit farm in
Colorado. An honest man and a
good neighbor.
Item: Our thanks are due to
Commissioner Yeater for helping
with his team the Record plant
across the creek about four miles
west of town. Otherwise the new
print-shop might have issued its first
edition from the center of the
stream. We are also indebted to
him for other kindnesses.
The Misses Jennie Smalley and
Bertha Packer 1.-THE latter now Mrs.
+. H. Cotton. of Braddock) were the
first young-ladv callers at the Rec.
ord Office the EDITORS wife. Mrs.
Josephine Streeter. who died in De-
cember. 1889. having appropriated
and caused to be fenced off a room"
about six by twelve in the rear end
of the office. for ..housekeeping'
purposes.
The first lawsuit in the county was
that of The State vs. j. H. Steven
son. charged by John Avery with
attempting to enforce contract for
breaking enforce it at the point of
a pistol. Stevenson afterward.
while a school director. helped to
hold up Cherry Grove school dis
trict for So. OOO- taking his half of |
the swag. amounting to 81. 500, and
leaving the country.
Sheriff Wade left at the Record
office for temporary exhibition an
old double-barrel pistol belonging
to his fatherin-law. Uncle Thomas |
Parks. the county's first register Of
deeds and county clerk There were
no auditors in territorial days.. Ii
was given to Mr.. Parks, when he |
was a deputy sheriff in northern III
inois. by one Of FIVE men who were |
hanged for murder. Uncle Thomas |
Parks. father Of Mrs. Wade and of |