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

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Editor Shepard has been having
trouble with his new stationary choo.
choo. which refuses point blank to
labor. Better examine its innards
Will. Perhaps there's a tariff in.
side of it. which is causing the
trouble.
John Procunier, who was in
charge of the Annie Petrie ranch
during the absence of Mr.. and Mrs
kyes in Michigan. returned to his
home in the northern part of the
county last Friday; the Kyes family
having arrived the day previous.
Oscar johnson. residing about
seven miles south of Braddock. re-
turned last week from Gull Lake,
Saskatchewan. Canada. He filed on
half-section and bought half-sec-
ton out there. and will go next fall
to make his home on the same. He
says he has a fine piece of land. as it
is perfectly level and without stone.
Stephen Silk was up from CLAN
avon a day or two this week. He
reports that the people of his neigh
borhood have recently had some
strenuous work fighting prairie
fires. He was suffering from a
foreign substance in one of his ewes.
received while on the fire line, and
had it removed by DIR. Wolverton
while here.
Well, Linton has obtained what it
has needed for some time. and that
is knight of the scissors. Mr.. VIM.
w. Ray has arrived and opened a
shop in Room % at the Linton
House, where he will remain a short
time and then establish his place of
business in the building on the east
side of lower Broadway which is
now occupied by Smiths restaurant.
1T you want anything from having a
suit pressed to ordering new out
TIT for the adornment of your more
or less handsome person, call ON
Mr.. Ray, who promises to give YOU
satisfaction.
The Catholic Church people of
Linton and vicinity will have an
opportunity of hearing two able
missionaries speak in English and
German on Saturday, Sunday and
Monday, the 18th. 18th and 18th of
April. The reverend gentlemen will
come from Canada. The services
will be held at the residence of
Jakob JanguIa, the Linton merchant,
in the northeastern part of town.
The hours for the beginning of SER
vices are as follows: Saturday. 8 p.
M; Sunday, 10 a. M. and > and s p.
M; Monday morning at 8 o'clock,
at which latter time church MEM
bers will have an opportunity to re-
ceive the holy sacrament.
E. A. Keebler and his son Edgar
left last Saturday for their new
home in California. Mr.. keebIer
was among the county's early set
tiers. having come to Dakota Terri
tory and to Emmons county in the
spring of 1886. He had up to the
time of his recent departure been
continuously engaged in farming.
Mr.. Keebler goes away very com
fortably fixed financially. and every
dollar he possesses was earned
honestly on his farm The Record
regrets his departure, as he is one
of the men whose work for a quarter
of a century has demonstrated the
possibilities of North Dakota as an
agricultural state. His son Willard
will soon leave for Texas.
Four tents were erected this week
near the Braddock building on north
Broadway, recently rented by the
N. p. surveyors for an office. A
band of about twenty surveyors oc-
cupy the tents. They have been rum
ming lines through the northern part
of town this week, one of the sur
veys cutting Frank Chesrown's
wood-pile in two, and when the
road shall have been built-en-
dangering his life every time he
goes after an armful of fuel. One
survey leaves the creek valley two
or three miles east of Linton and
goes through pass in the hills a
little north of east of town, crosses
north Broadway a little south of the
Weatherby residence, and runs down
the valley near the foot of the hills.
One of the survey bosses stated the
other day that they could build a
grade down the creek valley with.
a lawn-mower. =
We have heard several patrons of
Linton's primary school express sat-
isfaction over the fact that the d.
rectors have been so fortunate as to
secure Miss Celia Mcdonnell as the
successor of Miss Nora Greenwood,