Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-07-08
AROUND THE STATE.

Ex-Governor Folk of Missouri will
lecture in Valley City the latter part
of August
The open season for thrashing-
engines to go through bridges will
soon be ON.
The weekly issue OF the Grand
Forks Herald has been published
thirty years.
The Bowman Pioneer reports
some tine samples of alfalfa over
IN Bowman county.
Al Lisbon there is a determination
to enforce the ordinance prohibiting
!lldlng ON sidewalks.
Bilnd-pig raids are becoming reg
ular events out at Minot. There are
few left. however.
Two young men from Williston
are making trip from that city to
New Orleans in a gasoione launch
l.. l. Stair. of Newberg. has re-
turned from Oregon. He thinks
that country has been over-boomea.
Some Mclean county men who
went to the Canadian northwest
have returned. dissatisfied with that
section.
Bank deposits in many of the
towns of the state are increasing.
notwithstanding that this is the ''otf
season.
Beware of the public drinking
cup is the advice sent out by the
state board of health officials in
their last bulletin.
Editor Wood, of the Steele Ozone,
is an admirer of Bismarck, and
thinks the Capital City will soon
have a population of 10000.
The Fargo police are trying to
keep bicycle riders off the sidewalks.
Several people have been fined, and
other arrests are to follow.
w. O. Rumble, near Beach, was
found unconscious i'm his garden
with his jaw broken and face bat
tered. He remembered starting tt
drive horse out of the garden an(
the rest was blank.
A few years ago, if one had tolo
an eastern man that the time would
come when ice would be made by
machinery in the Great American
Desert" how he would have smiled
And yet a Fargo hotel is doing that
very thing.
The town hall at Bathgate wa.
struck by lightning about o'clock
Tuesday morning of last week ant
burned to the ground. The bolt
struck the flag staff at the north enc
of the hall, and the building was /;
mass of flames before it was dis
covered by any one
While there is a large number o.
beverage samples at the agricultural
college which have been or are to b.
tested under the new beverage Law
which went into effect July LIST, tn,
matter of inspection will be carried
on thoroughly in all parts of the
state. Two inspectors have beer
sent out by Pure-F'ood Commissionel
/ Ladd, who will cover the territory
along the Northern Pacific RAILROAD
west of Fargo. While away the,
4 will gather samples of beverages O
all kinds, as well as pay attention
70 other things coming under tn,
! purc- food Jaws of the state.
| A Dickinson paper says: In thu
Equality of the stock sold, in tn,
number of buyers from distan
eastern and western points and from
the surrounding country, and in the
|prices secured by the consigners, M
sale conducted by the Dickinson
/ Horse Sales Company has been NOR,
4 successful since the first ore than tn
sale held Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday Of last week. Over ,OO
4 of the best horses to be found ol
the Missouri Slope were sold at price
4 satisfactory to both buyer and seller
OF these, twenty-five were sold sin
gle, some especially tine-bred ami
mails bringing as high as Sl77.5O
The others were soldin carload lots
The banner price was Sl3l for q
bunch of fourteen head, bought b.
A. L. Putnam, an eastern dealer.
New England City, over in tn
southwestern part of the state, ha
an exciting time with a horse-thie
Sunday of last week. in which tn
whole town took part pursuing hir
across the prairies until he was fina
~ captured. Postmaster Mckenzie
of New England City. received wor
from Hettinger that such man Wa
loose. giving his description. Nj
Mckenzie at once recognized I'll
description as that of young fe
low then in the hotel, who had com
ia from the country south a shol