Emmons County record., 1910-07-14

ct books are showing as blighted am
appearance as crops throughout the
northwest
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerrit Van Beck, of
the WestfieId country, have been en-
tertanlng relatives from Sioux
county, Iowa. They are MIR. and
Mrs. Van der Berg and Mrs. Rosa
boom. They left for their home
Tuesday of last week. Mr.. Henry
Van der Berg, also of Sioux county.
arrived last Saturday to visit the
Van Beck family.
The Rev. Maddox, of New Haven
Conn, arrived here last SATURDAY.
He was sent out by the Congrega-
tIonal Home Missionary Society. He
delivered am address in the opera
house last Sunday evening. His sub
ject was Mans Highest Author
ity. Mr. Maddox is a graduate of
Yale Theological Seminary, and is
now taking the Phi. ID. degree.
Two lIerried autos passed through
Linton last Sunday. One was occu-
pied by Mr. and Mrs. VIM. ZiegeIe
and family, who We're on their way
to Harvey to visit relatives and
friends. and the other by Mr.. and
Mrs. Karl Weber and family and l..
III. Danberger, who were en- route
to Bismarck. The Webers were ON
a tour visiting friends, and Mr.. d.
went to visit his wife, who is sick in
a Bismarck hospital.
The east and west sides of the town
played a good baseball game at the
Linton park last Sunday afternoon.
The east siders won by score of s
to Z. The feature of the game was
the playing of the first baseman Of
the Orlentals. who, unlike Jeffries.
found it was no trouble to
come back z did Mr.. Weather
by umpire" you ask. Not much.
He has retired for good. Johnny
Owens, the Welsh expert, was the
umpire
Owing to the large amount of
work caused by the meeting of the
county board of commissioners and
the equalization board, there was
not time for the auditors office
to complete the election tables for
publication this week, and, even
could they have been completed, the
regular board minutes take up so
much space in the newspapers that it
would have been impossible to find
room for them this week. The cleo
tion tables by precincts and the pro-
.ceedings of the board of equalization
will be published next week.
Henry Gravink was up from the
Westfeld country Monday. Mr..
and Mrs. Heusinkfelt, of Fillmore
county, Mimi, relatives of Mr. and
Mrs. Gravink, are visiting the Gra-
wink family This Westtield pioneer
is not at all discouraged by the poor
crop conditions this season. He
knows that every farming region
meets with a bad season occasionally.
and he has lived in North Dakota
long enough about a quarter of a
century to know that. taking an
average of years, this country is not
excelled by any of its age as a place
where the farmers are doing we'll.
The hand-sachel advertised the pre-
ceeding two weeks in the Record
found and notice given by Joe Eber
le, the Linton billiard-room man
belonged to Mrs. Thomas Hiom. of
the Braddock neighborhood. Mr..
Hiom called and got the property
Tuesday. This week there are two
more lost pocket books in sight. Joe
Weber sends word from Hague that
in Linton Tuesday he found a purse
containing a sum Of money which
awaits an owner on proof Of proper
ty. Also. Tuesday, Mr.. and Mrs. Q.
| f. Burge found and left at the Rec
ord office purse containing a sum
of money. 1t is possible that the
money in the purse left with the
Record represents the surplus Of
some boy or girls circus money,
as the sum is not large. However,
the owner of the 'srnall-sum purse
4 can get it at the Record office free