Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-10-07
AROUND THE STATE.

North Dakota had. in 1908, $3.50
schools, with 7ll3 teachers.
Morton county apples are being
advertised by editors who attended
the Mandan fair.
Some people fear that the new
game laws came too late to save the
prairie-chickens.
Some of the state editors are urg-
ing Ex-senator Hansbrough to get
into the race again.
A mere steady growth is not all
that town needs. Even cemeteries
have that. Forum.
j. F. Ramage. Cavalier county
thrasher. claims to have thrashe d
1000 bushels of wheat in ten hours.
Durum-wheat yields in Williams
county were about ten bushels pc.
acre in excess of the other varie-
ties.
This is the time of year when it is
easy to make glad the heart of the
editor by paying up back subscrip-
tions.
At Wimbledon a thoughtless chap
stopped a rat-hole with box of
matches. The rodent attempted to
gnaw out and started a blaze.
Near Knox some rascal attempted,
one night recently, to ruin thrash
0ing-machine engine by letting the
water out and reviving the banked
fires.
Andrew Jurians, an insane young
man in the care of the sheriff at
Lisbon temporarily, succeeded in
hanging himself while the sheriff
was catching a half-hour nap.
The trustees of the Congregations
al church at Dickinson have offered
a reward of fifty dollars for the ar
rest and conviction of the parties
who destroyed trees i'm front of the
church property.
A bunch of inmates of the state
insane asylum at Jamestown object
ed to being made to work in the
harvest fields, and tied stones i'm the
wheat bundles. AS result, one
thrashing- machine was practically
ruined.
j. j. Hill was in generous mood
the other day when he was in Wah-
peton. Besides promising the city
a fine, new passenger depot, he is
said to have handed the treasurer of
|St. Francis hospital a check for
81 600.
Friday was observed at LaMoure
as a general cleanup day for the
town, by order of Mayor Hutchin-
son. The Women's Civic League
started the ball rolling, and the
county seat of IaMoure county is
now as neat as wax.
1t costs about as much to produce
a pound of beef as pound of butter
fat, says the Fargo Forum The
beef sells for seven cents per pound
and the butter fat for about four
times that price. This is one good
reason for North Dakota becoming
a dairying and creamery state.
The Bowman News is roasting a
hard hearted doctor who refused to
treat sick man who was tran
sient, and whom the physician
thought had no money. But. after
he became conscious, it was found
that he had a big roll. Because the
| doctor wouldn't attend to him, the
l.sick man had to be hauled many
miles to a doctor in another town.
A representative of a Minneapolis
dealer tried to sell half a carload of
apples at retail in Langdon, the other
day; but the merchants of the town
objected because he had not secured
a county license, although he had OBJ
tanned license from the city. He
was obliged to turn the apples over
to the merchants of the town and
give them a commission for the sale
of the fruit.
An unfortunate accident occurred
in connection with the burial of the
remains of August Shockman, Sr.,
at LaMoure. While the funeral
cortege was proceeding to the
| Catholic cemetery, north of the city,
a team attached to a buggy occupied
lby the aged widow of the deceased
and by one of her sons became
frightened. They plunged wildly
and overturned the buggy. Mrs.
Shockman was thrown violently to
the ground and one of her wrists
was broken.
The jol, of deputy sheriff out in
Ward county isn't altogether with
tout attractions. and is not exactly
/ the monotonous life that it appears
to be in some places. The other day
when Deputy Sheriff Finn read a
\ 4o.onn n w knlla., OF