Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-10-14
AROUND THE STATE.

Inns Is one year when the hold
your-wheat' advice appears to have
been needed.
Mandan is cutting big figure
this year in the development of
North Dakota.
A number of thrashing machines
have been burned at various points
IN the state during the past month.
Some people assert that Jimmie
Foley, of Bismarck. is the only liv-
ing North Dakotan who ever de-
clined federal appointment.
Some of the North Dakota demo-
Gratis are disgusted with the nation
al organization, which at present
is so badly disrupted. Forum.
Fred Baker winged garden eagle
near Cooperstown and captured
the bird, which measured seven feet
from tip to tip of its wings.
Several Bismarck ladies made
macaroni bread on Durum Day, and
say that it was just as good as an
article made from Fife or Blu G
Stem.
ExWarden Boucher, of the state
penitentiary, and family, have taken
their departure for California, where
they will make their permanent
home.
Rev. Solem's orchard, a few miles
from Hillsboro, yielded between 700
and 1000 bushels of apples this sea
son, and the fruit is of very fine
quality.
State veterinarians have recently
condemned number of horses in
Pembina and Cavalier counties on
account of glanders. Many other
animals have been quarantined.
Harvey claims to be the largest pri-
mary Wheat-market in he world, and
backs up the claim with showing of
two million bushels marketed last
year. The town has thirteen grain
elevators.
Sixteen cases of North Dakota
flax straw have been shipped from
Cassellton to the Cogry spinning
mills at Doagh, County Antrim, Ire
land, to be made into table.cloths,
as test of our state product.
A thrashing machine pitcher
pitched a sack of clothes into the
cylinder of separator, by mistake,
near Mohall, damaging the machine
so seriously that it was put out of
commission for the remainder of
the season.
A score of Williston young ladies
are advertising for twenty good
looking young men to escort them
to society gatherings on occasion.
The only qualifications are that the
boys shall be steady, up-to-date, and
good entertainers.
Hans Moe. of Church's Ferry, had
built up great reputation for max
ing decoy ducks, but lately he has
become so proficient in the art that
the Nimrods take them for the real
thing and fill them full of lead, and
then they go to the bottom of the
lake.
w. II. Hill, farmer in the Lako-
ia neighborhood, holds the state
record SO far for hauling the big
gest train of grain to market.
With a gasoline engine as a motor
power he drew to Lakota elevator
eight wagons containing about a
thousand bushels Of wheat.
Down at IaMoure, the other
night, tie cashier of one of the
banks mistook the night policeman
for a robber. The cop sized up the
cashier the same way. When the
two stopped running in opposite
directions, caught their breath and
returned to the scene, each with
cannon in his hand, the mistake was
discovered. Their chagrin was soon
hidden behind wreath of smoke
arising as the result Of visit to
nearby cigar store.
The trees in the grove and in res
idence yards, says the Steele Ozone,
are now getting on their autumn
colors, and present a beautiful pic
ture. The cottonwood holds its color
longer than any other except the
green ash, and many of these are
still in their summer hues. Frost is
not responsible for the change in
tints, as is often said. Many trees
change color as does the grass, from
the ripening of their leaves. There
has been no heavy frost here as yet,
it requiring hard freeze to kill cot
foliage. The writer re-
calls that in nothern Mexico he
noticed the alamo, or cottonwood,
bearing its green and glossy leaves
into January, in spite of late frosts.
In country where the summer sea