Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-08-12
AROUND THE STATE.

Mandans new hospital will cost
$4,000.
Dairying is becoming popular in
Pembina county.
T Falrmount has nine-foot corn al
ready and ii 5 still growing.
I Some people i'll the state fear that
there will be a twine shortage.
Give US harvest help is the cry
IN nearly all parts of the state.
1 Five men near Lansford were bad
ly shocked by bolt of lightning.
Il Some farmers are of the opinion
4 that the grain is ripening too fast
h Ii is now claimed that the water
rs not SO salty but that bass will live
/ in Devils Lake.
| Many editors of the state have
been looking over the lakes and
streams and report ducks numerous.
An old fashioned wagon-circus
has been making some of the towns
IN the northwestern part of the
state.
There will he more millions of
bushels of grain harvested in North
Dakota this Year than ever before.
Forum.
The Morton county managers of
the fair have secured title to the
site of their grounds from the Bos-
ton owners.
The grand total of the states
wheat crop will be greatly boosted
by the yields from the Missouri
Slope Forum.
The Bismarck Tribune wants a
fair on the Slope that will make
those at Fargo and Grand Forks
look like - cents.
Bottineau is getting disgusted
with its sloppy butcher-shops and
dirty cow-barns, and is gong to have
milk and meat inspection.
The Havana creamery suspended,
aud the patrons received only thirty
per cent of the money due them for
the last months cream.
The editor of the Dickey Reporter
contributed to a cripple, and later
saw the beneficiary betting his
wealth on "razzle-dazzle" game al
Marion.
Legal action is to be instituted
against some of the township off
cials of Walsh county for their fail
ure to have noxious weeds de
stroyed.
4 Not only are the crop prospects il
4 the western part of the state ideal
\ but the hay crop was large, and the
!, cattle are i'm magnificent condition
Forum.
. A bunch of horses from the Birt
!. ranch sold for $40 600 at the Dickin
!. son horse-sale. recently, several diff
ferent purchasers getting share O
Y the animals.
There was an increase during tn,
7 last fiscal year of more that min,
I millions of dollars i'm the busines
q of the banks of North Dakota; ant
y this in a state that was formerly re
b garded as unfit for habitation. :
n Grand Forks Herald.
b The syndicate weeklies of the stat
i are all right when you get the frs
u one; but, after handling three o
y four lust alike, the exchange man be
N gins to sigh for something new.
Fargo Forum.
Several hunderd Greeks employee
on the Great Northern and the So
as surfacing crews i'm Bottineau an
s Ward counties have quit their job
\ within week and have hired ou
!. to farmers to work in the grain
!. fields.
I. Anenterprising Abercrombie mel
s camille firm will deliver goods to it
Z farmer patrons during the rush Q
. the harvest and thrashing season
!. without extra charge On the day
z of delivery tclephoned orders will b
b delivered almost as promptly as j
y town.
b A party of young people were ei
b loving boat-ride ON the lake a
y IIankinson when the boat capsiZe
u and William Spreckles, twenty year
II old, and John Barker aged eighteel
y, were drowned. One of the part
y was rocking the boat Just for fun
I. when the accident happened.
!. An aged man stepped from III
(. & train at New Salem, the other da,
I. + and moment later fell to ii
ground with a severe stroke of app
pIexy. He was taken to a hotel an
= a doctor summoned. 1t was SON
time before his identity could |
learned. and then it was found tn;
he was on hi way to Montana