Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-03-31

ii impossible to so. However as
said before. We are glad the veneer
able citizen escaped the machina.
tions Of the wicked out toward the
setting sun and has returned sound
IN wind and limb. and we sincerely
hope that he may remain in that
condition another eighty years.
/ A large settlement of Catholic
Hollanders direct from the old coun-
try is being located in northern
Minnesota. Recently the first band.
labout one hundred in number. ar
rived at New York, and several
thousand are to eventually settle
there. The newcomers are good
farmers and dairymen. are in fairly
easy circumstances. and are worth
to the state of Minnesota ten times
as much in desirable citizenship as
equal their number from south
ern Europe. The lowest amount
possessed by head of family was
$500. and some had several thousands
of dollars. But these people, being
practical farmers and hard workers,
would be desirable immigrants even
If they had no property when they
arrived. Three of their parish
priests came with them from Hol-
land, and will make their home in
the new settlement. The newcomers
will follow dairying and diversified
farming.
| The Emmons county teachers who
attended the big educational con-
vention at Mandan last week were as
follows: County Supt. VI. II. Han
son, Principal E.Akling. the Misses
Rachael II. Greene. Claire v. Thomp-
son, Clara w. Westeen, Sophie
Burke, Helen Everson, all of Lin
tom Miss M. Pearl Baker. Hazel
ton; Mrs. Kate Savage, Braddock;
Guy L. Walster. Dale. The teachers
report an interesting and instruct.
i've session. The Bismarck Tribune
prints halftone cut of Supt. Han
son in its beauty-show ON the page
given to a write-up of the conven-
ton. The picture is as large as
life and twice as NATURAL and THE
boys say a copy of the Tribune
went 10 Aberdeen by the first mail.
lleine is making good as superin-
tendent, and he never misses an OPP
lportunlty of attending any gather
ling of educators that may help him
to make progress in his chosen call
ling.
Maurits Van Soest, his son Corne-
illus and Mrs. p. M. Van socst drove
up from the Hull neighborhood
Tuesday They all came to do bust
ness with the dental fairy. They
report considerable rain in their
neighhorhood Monday night, about
a quarter of an inch falling. Mr..
Van Soesi. had seventy acres of
| wheat sown by the 2lst of this
month. He says the soil is in fine
condition. Mr.. Van Soest recently
received letter from Karl Raider,
his brother in-law, who went to
Lynden, Wash, to live about the
first Of this month. 1t seems the
man he bought from in Washington
still lives in another dwelling ON the
farm. The lattcr's daughter, just
after the arrival there of the Raider
family, was taken down with small
poS, and so the newcomers first ex-
perlence in their new home was
quarantine for several weeks of Mr..
and Mrs. Raider and wholesale
bunch of little ladders.
Farmers and the business men Of
country towns who are wholly and
directly dependent upon the pros
pcrity of the farmers feared that
the latter had received serious set
back when bicycles. then trolley
lines all through the older sections
of the country. and finally automo-
biles. one after the other proved to
be commercial successes. II was be-
lieved that the days Of the horses
were numbered, and that the total
of these animals raised would have
to be greatly lessened if any sort Of
fair price for them was to be main
tanned Instead Of a notification of
these pessimistic representations
(get the dictionary mot only has
there been considerable increase
in the number of horses in the Unit
ed States, but the price for them
has vaulted to the zenith of the
commercial sky The other day
Michael Ternes bought from Martin.
stickel of Eureka three horses for
which he paid $3.50. and Anton
Baumgartner purchased from the
same seller a span of horses for
which he paid s795. The animals
We're received at strasburg this
week This awful tariff is bringing
American farmer to poverty, Let
US return to the prosperity of the
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