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

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The state was twenty-one years
old the 22d dav of the present
month.
Some strenuous pleas for cash are
being made to delinquents by over
trustful publishers.
Burleigh county farmers are or
ganizing mutual fire and lightning
insurance company.
Mary kring. an Indian womanliv-
in on the Fort Totten reserva ton.
was recently granted a divorce.
The insurgent Inkster Enterprise
speaks right out in meetin' against
what il terms Boss Marshall.
If the patrons of the schools will
visit the institutions more frequent
ly, there will be less criticism.
Forum.
Plans are already being laid for
the entertainment of the editors at
the midsummer meeting to be held
in Williston.
The newspaper publishers OF the
state are more than ever determined
that they will not run state political
announcements free.
The kenmare journal calls atten-
tion to the fact that so many of the
state institutions are located in the
eastern part Of the state.
The Munich Herald protests
against the insurgent elimination
committee playing a game of freeze
out on Speaker Burdick.
A Perth man is sure there is
money in goats. - He dropped his
pocket-book, and minute later a
goat ate it money and all
The railway mail clerks are so fire.
quently killed, and their salaries are
so small. that it is becoming diff
cult to KEEP the jobs filled.
Comrade w. M. House. of Wynd-
mere, is getting some nice notices
from the newspaper boys over his
candidacy for secretary of state.
Many of those people who We're
lured away from North Dakota by
fruit-land boomers and other pro-
moters are returning to this state.
w. II. White, of Cogswell, sold a
car load of Shetland ponies at auc-
tion the other day. The diminutives
brought an average of Sl5l head
The Northern Pacific Railway
Company will have a big sale of
town lots on March lst in the new
towns along the extension southwest
of Mandan.
Some of the editors quickly drop
ped the Marshall political announce
ments when they found he was do
| ing the tight-wad stunt and didn't t
intend to pay.
Jamestown wants another bridge
across the Jim river, a linen mill, a
shirt factory, a packing house, a
planning mill. and other things too
,,,p,aro,,c fo ,ranfior ~
Some candidates for state office
are sending out their announcements
without cash or check Enclosures,
and with the hope that they will
prove of value as news.
A number of Jamestown people
claim to have seen HALEY comet
through comparatively small tele-
scopes. Perhaps they saw it through
the bottom of 'tumbler.
H. w. Campbell, the father Of the
dry farming proposition, will give
addresses at Bismarck, Dickinson
and Steele, if the arrangements un-
der way can be carried through.
/. The Neche Chronotype makes the
statement that approximately two
millions of dollars were lost to Penn
bina county last year by lack Of
drainage facilities resulting in
damaged crops.
The International Harvester Com
panv will erect {. four story and
basement building of concrete and
brick at Bismarck this season, and
the architect says it will be ready
for use by Sept. lst.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Edmore
are organizing an elevator company
of their own. They want chance
themselves at the big profits they
see other fellows making handling
their grain Forum.
j. H. Mathews. Of I.arimore,
writes that the winter in Florida
has been very cold. the snap starting
early and continuing long tune
The orange crop is frozen, and IN
some sections is a total loss
At a recent meeting Of the Ward
coonty old settlers association a
oon,,y,itees was apr0inted 70 assist ir
securing additional legislation for
the encouragement Of the planting