Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-09-02
AROUND THE STATE.

rounded up near Anamoose.
Burleigh county has 1889 boys
and | ,-i76 girls of school age.
The Rev. VIM. Currie. OF Park
River, has herd of sixty full-bood
Jerseys.
The kenmare creamery has been
in operation four months. and in
July turned out $500 pounds of but
| ter.
| The Devils Lake journal finds an
unusual number of cases of. cranp
in that vicinity after an inspection
of the reports of the druggists.
| This is the time of the year. says
the Fargo Forum. that hunting dogs
are kept in the safe, and money out
| in the back shed to make room for
EN-.
Peanuts promise to become a ia
vorable crop paround Enderlin. John
ny Bauerschmidt, youth of that
vicinity, has been successful
grower.
Some people in Bismarck are max.
ling remarks just because the assess
ment of the international Harvester
Company is only 1884 ON a stock
valued at quarter of a million dol
lars.
The farmers of this state are be-
looming aroused over the menace of
the rat plague. 1t is estimated that
the rodents cost the people of the
United States at least a hundred
millions of dollars each year. Fargo
Forum.
| A traction engine ran away down
a hill with two young men at James
town, and for awhile there was eN-
Icitement galore. The engine was a
candidate for the scrap-heap, and
the boys looked as though they had
attended Donnybrook fair.
The big steam-shovel which one of
the contractors on the Northern Pa
cific extension out of Mandan uses
is moving an average of $50 twelve
yard cars of dirt each day. The to-
tai amount these contractors have to
move from one cut is half million
yards.
A travelling man who skipped the
town of Bismarck three years ago,
owing bill at the Northwest hotel,
thought he had been forgotten and
showed up there short time since.
Whereupon he was gobbled by Land
lord Patterson and very promptly
settled the standing bill, with a
bunch of costs.
| Railroad officials say that probably
mot more than 100000 tons of coal
are now stored in North Dakota,
(which is less than twenty per cent of
the normal consumption. The
most of the dealers have their bins
stocked. and they cannot replenish
them until the farmers have hauled
away some of the supply.
|
One of the rural mail-carriers out
of Lidgerwood has invested in mo-
torcycle, and finds it a very convent
ent contrivance with which to deliv-
er the mail on his route. He form-
erly had to keep two teams, but
now, by using the motorcycle when
ever the conditions permit, he gets
along with one team. The teachers
of the state are paving more atten-
ton to the sanitation of school
houses.
Is there something in the atmos-
phere of Cass county this season, says
the Fargo Forum, which has result
ed i'm so many violations of the pro-
hibition law, as shown by the scores
of arrests that have been made? A
review of the records in the justice
courts of Cass county shows queer
condition, in that the offenses have
been confined almost entirely to one
class: violations Of the prohibition
law. Comparing the records with
other years, it is shown that never
before have so many of the cases
which were tried been of this class.
Gen. +. +. Townsend, who was for
some years commander of the troops
at Fort Lincoln, died recently in a
hospital at Washington, at the age
of seventy-eight years He was a
native of New York. and was grad
uated from the United States mill
tary academy in 1854. in the class
with Gems. Mcpherson, Hood and
Howard. After two years service
in the artillery on the Pacific coast
he resigned and practiced law in
Milwaukee four years. At the be
ginning of the civil war he re
entered the army as a first lieuten-
ant in the Fourteenth United States
Infantry He was brevetted lieuten-
ant colonel for galIantry at the bat
tie of Shiloh In 1886 he was pro-
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