Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-08-05
AROUND THE STATE.


Some hunters are already secur-
ing their licenses. in anticipation of
the sport this fall.
The smaller towns in the state en-
deavored to recruit carpenters in
Fargo during the strike.
The Kuhn Messenger boasts of
the great amount of tree-planting
IN that section of the state.
Medical authorities insist that
people eat too much salt, and that
North Dakotans are the worst ever.
a $500 purse for the successful
ball-t am is one of the attractions
at the coming Bottineau county
fair.
David Elebranum, of Cavalier,
picked 300 quarts of strawberries
from plot of ground 5Oxl0O feet i'm
size.
The demand for more help for the
coming harvest is becoming insist
ent at numerous points over the
state.
The Dickinson Post is advocating
woman's suffrage, and securing
some widely different views ON the
subject.
There have been a large number
of deputy gamewardens appointed
to protect the young birds from the
illegal hunters.
Mosquitoes are making lot of
trouple for the workmen on the ex-
ension of the Northern Pacific
south of Mandan.
Canadian thistles are making their
appearance in Towner county. Some
of the farmers are going after them
with sodium arsenate.
Since the recent heavy electrical
storms over the state. the lightning
rod men seem to be reaping a lively
harvest in their line of business.
Ten days age Pembina county
woman made ice-cream by the use
of snow-bank on which crop OF
French-weed had thrived and ri
pened.
a hail-storm swept over strip of
territory southwest of Fort Ran
som, dstroying the growing crops OF
an area ten miles in length by five
lmiles wide.
| A hail-storm i'm the vicinity OF
Harrington caused extensive damage
to crops. One insurance agency al
Harrington reports losses to the eX-
tent of 100000.
The wool shipments from Dickin.
son this season aggregate 100000
pounds, the prices ranging from 2:
to "a /. cents. The cut was pur
chased by Boston dealers.
John Gibson has returned ia
Hampden. He left there a few
years ago for Oregon. but. later
learned his mistake. He and his
family made the trip back in ;
wagon.
Prof. Weeks, of the agricultural
college, called attention in a speech
! at LaMoure to the weaknesses of th'
present school system because OF
the lack of advantages in the rura
schools.
Bishop Shanley's successor will b.
named at Rome some time in TIN
near future, and in the mean tim
Archdeacon Egan has been nance
by Archbishop Ireland as admins
| traitor of the diocese.
| A number of horses have been st0
4 len in Ward conuty during the pas
/ fortnight. Sheriff Sorrenson. o
that county, thinks that we'll
/ organized band of horse-thieves i
lat work in that section.
1 There are demands by smalle
towns, where the salary of the
postmaster is dependent on tn,
amount of business, that all mai
should be sent through the postoflic
instead of being put on the trai
A direct.
I. The creamery at Kathryn too
milk from lil9 patrons in June
bought 42,570 pounds, and mad
Is. $50 pounds of butter. and sol
the product for s3,Gl6.73. Th
July business was approximately 2
per cent larger.
There is a bad situation along th
500 north of Bismarck. Some j
the towns have daily rural routes
but get mail by train only ever
other day. This results in the mai
carriers going out half the tim
without mail. The railway commits
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