Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-01-13

III il stood a il does now ere san1e
great force Of nature DESTROYED it.
the famous big trees Of California
would Be pigmie in comparison.
A pa,ien, At the Edseley hospital
who "a. suffering from an stack
Of typhoid fever jumped through
lone Of the windows on the lower
Aoor Of the building and took a
walk around town for exercise 4
search vas made. and the patient
Was found On Main stree; looking
for . place to put up 70. the night
| He was taken back to the hospital.
little the worse for his experience.
| The Forum announces that the
ireoula. commercial rate viii be
charged for political announcements.
SAYS the McHenry Tribune the
same TO be paid in advance. II the
Forum will stick to this and cut out
all Of the dead-heads, some Of the
would-be politicians would notice
the efee, this ruling would have.
This is . good example for other
newspapers to follow.
John c. Wetphal. who lives near
| Neche, had . narrow escape from
freezing to death one night not long
aeo. He vas caught out in a snow
storm. los. his way, and broke
through the ice in the Pembina river.
getting into water up to his neck.
He finally 60, out and made his way
to neighboring farmhouse, where
he vas found to be in a badlyfrozen
condition. His legs were frozen to
the hips and one arm IS far up as
the elbow. He will recover. how
ever.
Dancing at school-house shindigs
| up At Garrison must be complicat-
ed affair. judging by description
IS follows published in the Independ-
ent Of that village: Like fleeting
stars they elided along to the rap
turous strains from the symphony,
uninterrupted by harsh. discordant
carnations. Nothing but purity Of
sound was soothing
like the sweet voice Of 4 feathered
songster Of fair Italia or the war
bling Of the Iget on the walls of Je-
rusalem.
Bismarck Palladium: A Hunga-
rian Cupid match came to an unex-
pected end in the city last Thurs
day. A couple from north Of Sibley
Butte came to the city for the pur-
pose Of securing the necessary legal
documents with which to terminate
the Vaccinations Of the aboye-men-
toned god. While in search of the
proper officers the groom-to-be ran
afoul Of some oh-be-joyful and for
got his mission. The bride-to-be,
who had intrusted about forty dol
lars to the man. became alarmed.
and later in the day besieged the
officers Of the law and asked them
to secure for her the money that
she had given into the possession of
her lover. and asserting that. if she
could again lay her hands on the
simoleons. the groom might paddle
his own canoe.
The Fargo Forum now has guar
anteed circulation Of nearly thirteen
thousand papers per day. At FIVE
readers the copy-the usual esti-
mate more than 60, 600 people read
the paper. The editor of the Record
has lived several years and has read
q great many different kinds Of
newspapers; but. If there is paper
Of equal value az a news paper
published in another city the size Of
Fargo. anywhere in this broad Ma
ton with q big N. we have never
had the pleasure of seeing it. Appa-
rently. nothing happens anywhere
in the state that an account of it is
not sent in by . Forum correspond
ent. How the proprietors of the pa
er can afford to publish column aft
er column and page after page of
matter in a town with less than
twenty thousand population is
something remarkable. There is
not paper IN either of the Dakotas
unless it be the Grand Forks Her
aid that can be compared with the
Forum. And, while the Herald is
strong editorially. it is not nearly as
newsy as the Forum. The Aberdeen
and Sioux Falls dailies are as village
sheets when placed in comparison
with it. That it is appreciated. too,
by the press boys is shown by the
fact that as three or four Of
them have told the writer the Fo-
rum is the first paper from which
they shuck the wrapper after the
mail arrives. What Plumley and
his confreres don't know about get.
ting up a frst-class city daily is
hardly worth the trouble of ascer-
tanning.