Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-04-14

In the last week there have bee
several painful accidents to fingers i
! ! inton. The Rev a. A. Bosche
was last Friday cranking a gasolin
engine and had one of his finger
badly broken by the machine kick
ing back.
Another broken finger this wee
Is added TO the list by an acciden
that happened TO Master Milton Cul
bertson to-day He was helping hi
friend Clemens kelsch lift a full
barrel at the market In putting \
down one of Millions finger wa.
caught under the edge Of the barre
and broken.
The Record being day late thi
week enables us to predict al
the same as Foster that the raj,
OF to-day Thursday Will turn int,
a hight furry Of SNOW that the mer
4 curry tomorrow FRIDAY, will b,
below the freezing point, and tina
early budded small fruits vii
likely be a scarce article in these
parts this year
lhe authorities Of the baseball
4 club have secured good grounds a
4 halfnli out of town on the Broad
way road, about opposite the Brock
place, and they will be put in first
class condition. There was much
trouble at the old grounds. the
same being caused by the ball going
into a water-hole nearly every time
a long foul was Knocked into the
lack field. Negotiations looking
70 the leasing of the new grounds
for d term of years are being made.
Dispatches from Washington, u.
C., say that tomorrow tt'ridav)
morning. at 43O O'Clock HALEY s
| comet can be seen for the first time
With the naked eye that is, during
| its present trip earthward. The i'm
| formation is furnished by the as
tronomers of the Georgetown Uni
| verSity During April and the early
part of May the comet will be visible
| in the east before sunrise. a few de-
gres north of east by May 18th il
Will be too nearly in line with the
sun to he seen in the morning, but
from then on will appear in the west
in the evening as soon as it is dark
enough. On May Goth it will set two
hours after the sun, with the inter
| val between the setting of the
two bodies growing longer each
night
| Well. now, here's one former
North l)akotan who has struck just
| what he wanted out west. AS this
is such AN unusual happening, we
print below letter To the editor
from Thos. McVary. who is now at
| Finley, Wash He saws Lovely
| weather here. Alfalfa is sixteen
| inches high The thermometer has
registered as low as the freezing
point but once since Feb. 18th. Lots
of fruit this year. Strawberries
will he ripe by April 25th. No Old
North Dakota for me, and think
many others would see it to their
advantage to come here if, during
their visits, they only staid long
enough to see and understand the
different way Of making good and
easy home here The high price Of
land from 5000 to $500 per acre. is
what sets the mind of some visitors
against this country the first thing.
They cannot understand that FIVE
acres make a home of plenty and
ten acres make you rich. or more
than You feel like taking care of. as
it makes one a slave to the work.
Four cuttings Of alfalfa per season,
averaging eight tons per acre, worth
Sll, to SIG per ton have a nice
home of ll.l32 acres, that cost me
Ss27o an acre. with some four-year-
old alfalfa and no other improve
ments, Just a few rods from the
great Columbia river, with railroads
on all sides of me. with trains in
sight all the time and four steam
boats that ply the river, carrying
300 tons of freight each. There
were only SIX weeks Of winter
weather, and it did not get below
zero.
Don forget that the renowned.
incompatible and unapproachable
Schmidt's Minstrels will make Elg
noise in this town ON the evening of
April 22d. along about early can
die light, T" as the old-time announce
ments said before kerosene became
a commodity. This show is the
only burnt-cork aggregation or
aggravation in the universe that
carries with it a trained elephant
that is directly descended from the
megatherium, or giasticutis, Of the
pliocene period, and is the only one
that was ever captured alive. The