The state-line herald. (North Lemmon, Adams County, N.D.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-21
oh LENNON Adams County North Dakota Friday May 1909
To s..
The Co. Center

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The Session Of the County Dads u
Bison this week helps some mors
to fet the machinery 81 the cosa-
ty's existence into runnin1 order.
With noses red and features
t1nned from sunburn, q tired
crowd got oack Thursday noon
from Bison, where on Tuesday
and Wednesday the county COM
missioners had met to arbite the
affairs of their charge. Among
those who had gone were Messrs.
Logan Berry, Frank Brown,
Commissioner G. E. Lennon.
Thos. D. Potwin, G. F. Aultmann
and States Attorney P. ].
Tscharner.
The piece de resistance" Of
this session seems to have been
the appointment Of three official
newspapers, from among the five
sufficiently mature to be consid-
cred legally qualified. The pub
fishers Of the Thunder Butte
Echo and Grand River Press
were on hand, along with our
own Tommie ''Pott'' and Fritz
Aultmann, each Of whom had
made the bitter sacrifice Of some
thing like twenty plunks expense
money and three days Of valuable
time to be on, hand in the melee.
The difficulty was argued high
and low. but there seemed 1t
last no way out of it. Only one
official paper job could be secur-
ed between the two. publications
at Lennon, altho' it had been
fondly hoped that they each
could be recognized. And, as !
last resort Commissioner Lem
mon insisting that the boys set
tie matters between themselves; ;
''Pott" tossed up a dollar-mind
you twas a big iron dollar
when well up in air, Fritz holler-
ed as loud as he could Heads, !"
and down came Tails" and
thus the Butte Signal became
and was declared the official pa
per of Perkins county. with the
News scoring a consolation prize
| in a bunch of job printing. The
other two papers appointed were
the Grand River Press and the
Thunder Butte Echo.
The Lennon Abstract Co. and
Berry & Donovan, acting jointly,
presented the abstract records
of the county, prepared by them
upon the order of the commits
sioners some months ago. These
were accepted, and fine set Of
records they are. all entries hav-
ing been checked from the old
Butte records, and then pains
takingly compared with those Of
| the two firms making them,
those of Berry & Donovan being
especially thorough in tn c +
scope.
An important step was taken,
when the county was divided in
to "A road districts and 81 school
districts, The results of this ac-
tion will soon beome apparent in
! a systematic development of the
roads as well as in school district
organizations and regular school
! service the county over. it was
a wise move or the part Of the
commissioners to create the large
inumber Of school districts they
| did. The organization, for in
stance. of Adams county origin
ally into only three districts Yves
unfortunate. Organized into dis
tricts as Perkins county now is
there will be no occasion for
change Of boundaries very soon.
and the vital development of the
schools need not be hafnpered hy
petty difficulties as the subdiyi-
sion Of such districts.
Berry u Donovan also deliver
ed the assessment rolls Of the
county so the officials now will
know whom to tax.
And last, but not least, let US
glory in the fact, that Sheriff
Fletcher now will have some
thing more than his big six
shooter and his fervid magma
ton, wherewith to impress the
evildoers with the sacred power
of his office, for the county dads
have given forth the word that
immedjitly, if not sooner, there
shall be built at Bison a Jail
building, and within it at least