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


/ Has subsided for biz.
Leaving Us 70 reasemb!e
+ Oar disseminated Wiz:
And. whereas, the railroads have
/ Delivered Taft. the debonair.
Here and there around the country
( Right side upperrrost. with care,
And the congress. in its wisdom.
Has arranged SOFT Of truce
b which business and reform have
Sort o: turned each other loose;
And. whereas, 10 org is running
VERY hard this year for place.
And we're neither Disconnected
Nor distracted by the race,
And the present state Of being.
Notwithstanding We rehearse
Some complaints TO keep in practice
Might quite easily be worse;
Therefore. Thursday. or November
Twenty-hfth. is set apart
As day Of thanks and fullneS
OF the stomach and the heart.
When the sac,iicisI turkey
Shall resume its festaI sway.
And we may rejoice it isn't
What it might be. any way.
November gets its name from
noyem, the Latin word for nine
II vas ancientIy the ninth month
but that brought it around at the
season when the Roman explorers
were getting in from Britain and
other parts and raising such a hula
baloo with their claims and counter.
claims that il was finally made the
elventh month, d: which time the at
mosphere had somewhat cleared
and there really was something 70,
which to be thankful. Incredibly
in those days was much worse than
it ls now. When Caesar returned
to Rome and claimed to have divid.
ed Gaul into three parts he precipi.
tated dispute in the violence Of
which both his Eskimos were assas.
sinated and the empire rose and fell
four or FIVE times.
The countersign for November is
supplied by Charles r. Crane, whc
was for minute minister to China.
Mum is the word. Mr.. Cannon will
be coon for the month, with the fol
lowing cast: Dogs. Mr.. Clapp, Mr..
Cummins, Mr.. Nelson, Mr.. Borah;
lantern. Mr.. Bristow; axes, MIR.
Beveridge. Mr.. Dolliver; Gamesack.
Mr.. La Toilette.
From the first to the twenty-sec-
ond the sun will remain in the con-
stellation Of scorpio; but on the
twenty-second it will pass into that
OF Saggittarius, the Archer. This
will give the wolf the ball again on
our ten-yard line. with only three
meals to play If we can hold them
there for downs. the consumer will
eat on the ninth, seventeenth and
twenty-seventh, as he has been do
ing; but. if they score on US, he will
eat only once this month on the
twenty-fifth.
All of US, no doubt, remember,
something Of the month November.
when the pumpkin pie is blooming
and the husking-b bee is on; when the
mus are turning lumber, and the
hog hes iown to slumber in the mel
ancholy knowledge that he is to die
at dawn.
IT IS then the apple butter has a
tendency to splutter and to radiate
perfume quite distance from the
pot. 1t is then the orchards beckon
and its pretty hard to reckon
whether father had his senses when
ne moved to town or not.
Then the pheasant, that great
drummer, wakes the morning and
Tor summer in the sad heart of the
forest is a sweet and plaintiye wall.
ana the geese go over, flying down
the arching heavens. crying loud
alarums, as if winter fairly had
them by the tail.
You would think to hear then
hollow that blizzard wee to FOLLOW
and that Boreas had stunp then
where they couldn't stand the main.
but we know them pretty fairly b,
this time. and il is rarelv 49,.