Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-11-04
AROUND THE STATE.

At Taylor, Stark county, four
pound potato is on exhibition.
George Hill was elected mayor of
Ardoch at the meeting of the town
board.
Senator McCumber is extending
his campaign tour to the extreme
western part Of the state.
Senator Johnson left no will. The
estate is valued at about $50, 900,
and consists chiefly of farm lands.
The thirty notaries at Bismarck
divided the registration-fee total.
They averaged about $50 apiece for
three weeks work.
| 1t is now rumored that the North
ern Pacific extension north from
Mandan is to be extended to the
Knife river this fall.
Mrs, F. S. kneeland, wife of Rep
resentative Kneeland, of Jamestown,
died suddenly on Sunday evening at
her home in that city.
The Grand Forks Times insists
that Gov. Burke can't appoint other
than a democrat to the United
States senate-c consistently.
VIM. Hurley, for some time editor
of the Forman Independent. will
take charge of the Republican at
Hazelton for Editor Thurston.
| A Belfeld hunter was out three
days and returned with four ducks.
To add insult to injury, some one ac-
cused him of purchasing them.
Many business changes are report
ed in the state press. The average
f1ickertail will sell or trade almost
any of his possessions. Forum.
County superintendents through
out the state report that they are
getting higher class of teachers
than formerly for the rural schools.
w. j Sheard, farmer living
near Neche. raised apples this season
measuring thirteen inches in cir
conference and weighing three
quarters of a pound.
Editor Windship, of Grand Forks
has recently been in Idaho and the
Puget Sound country. He will
spend the greater part of the win
ter at San Diego, Cal.
1t is estimated that half of the
potato crop of the state was lost by
the October freeze, the raisers hav
ing postponed digging them until
after other work was done.
| The fact that North Dakota corr
is being shipped into Fargo in car
lload lots causes jubilation among
those people who have consistently
boosted that crop in this state.
4 The publicity department of the
agricultural college is sending ou'
some valuable matter to the pres.
of the state. 1t contains pointers
of great benefit to the farmers.
Dickinson has now two Touring
mills. with daily capacity of nearl!
a thousand barrels. This in coun
try which, a few years ago. wa
Headquarters of the stock industry
President Worst, of the agricult
ural college, attended the nationa
dry-farming congress at Billings
Mont, as the guest of President Ell
lliott. of the Northern Pacific rail
way.
Attorney General Miller is ex
pecting daily to hear of a decision
by the United States supreme cour
as to whether or not the court will
advance the North Dakota maxi
mum coal-rate case on the calendar
1t is claimed that there are les
fuel supplies in North Dakota tha
there were in many preceding year
at this season; and, on top of that
some of the weather sharks are pre-
dieting all kinds of cold weather.
Forum.
Big yields are reported from tn
Golden Valley country, tributary t,
Beach, in the extreme eastern edg
of the state. Twenty bushels o
flax to the arce are by no means ur
! common, and as high as thirty bush
els of wheat to the acre has bee
. thrashed.
1t cost the people who registere
for the land lottery two million dol
lars, principally for railroad fares
just to get their names on the regis
j try list; and, if all the ticket-holder
i go out and look the land over, fv
/ million dollars will have to be pal,
, by them to the railroads alone.
There is one thing about Presiden
i Taft, says the Edgeley Mail. that j
winning him many friends all owe