Emmons County record., 1910-08-18

prairie east Of town. Why. the
burned dunder und bitten really
tried Tor time To hlutf Us into lle-
heNing that Il carried lot Of real
wet rain With il
II. Q Batter returned Thursday
evening from a two-weeks trip to
the Twin Cities and 10 his oll houae
at Royalton. MINI He reports the
eastern capital SIS as beng d hide
scary over the crop outlook of the
! Dakotas. but eastern bankers feel
confident that business wilI assume
normal conditions in the collySc Nf /.
couple Of months MIR Batter was
accompanied home by his father. X.
II Batter. of Royalton MINI. who
VIII make a short visit here with his
sons, III. O., h X and II w Batter
John SNYDER. who for the past
three months has been in the employ
of Uncle Sam a. census cnunlerator
has finished his WORN and sent his
| reports IN to the government MIR
snyder MAS allotted an exceedingly
large territory ON the start and t
was impossible for HIM TO cover ii
within the specified time, and an
EXTENSION was granted When he
had about completed his TERRITORY II
was discovered that two townships
had not been allotted To any cnll
merator. owing to the rcdistrictipp
OF certain school districts. uf which
the census bureau WAS Ignorant
These two townships Mere then az
lottcd to MIR Snyder. and consider
ing the large territory and the many
foreigners who could not speak the
English language. he has made re-
markably good time
An evidence Of the increase IN the
number of cows being MIXED hS
farmers around Hazelton is shown
by the large increase of the amount
OF cream daily beng brought to the
local creamery. and hv the increased
volume OF that concern output
by going down to the depot any
morning before the train arrives
one may see from ten to twenty
tubs of creamery butter sitting OH
the platform ready to lie shipp,d d
The scant crop this year Will do
Imuch toward cnlightening the
farmer as to the value Of darving
as he will now he brought to the
realization that a sure way To keep
the wolf from the door in dull times
is to milk few cows. and thus ike
In comparative comfort And that
which works well i'm hard tunes al
ways works a little better i'm good
| times.
Amy one who had any doubts as to
| the existence of !; man-eating fish
in the Missouri river could have had
his doubts set al rest last Friday if
he could have been so fortunate as
| to View the carcass Of one af the fin
lny tribe caught by the now cham
pion fishermen aspirants Of lImmons
county The party consisted Of All.
Mikalson. Walter libbctts. Leroy
Irwin, Jos Healy and l.. s. Chap
man, and they are the captlrcrs of
a spoonbill weighing about twenty
pounds and measuring fifty-two
inches from tip TO tlp They also
dug deep down into the muddy
| depths of the Missouri and brought
forth a wall-eyed pike that was no
slouch. it weighing ten pounds and
measuring twenty nine inches long.
We can vouch tina, the gentlemen.
are truthful in their claims. because.
we saw the monsters of the deep
weighed and measured, as did quite
a numberof other Hazelt on citizens.
The story of A. T., Dutton's first
trip to Bismarck after getting has
new Ford car has just leaked out.
/ The gentleman started otlt for the
/ Capital City with his machine. and,
4 being new at the business, keep, a
4 closer watch ON the car than on the
general direction Of his travels The
result was that he soon became lost
i After trying several roads without
getting on the right one. he noticed.
some black. ugly clouds on thu dis
tant horizon, and. fearing lest the
new animal should get wet ,l,iIlled
up at a farmhouse to beg shelter
/ for himself and stcel On beng
| assured that he was welome ~ run
4 the machine into the barn. he hoge
/ to and started for the spacious door.
making il nicely without marring
/ the glistening sides Of the machine
/ But alas, after getting well inside
the barn MIR. l)utton forgot 70 stop
+. the car. and soon found that the
nose of the buzz wagon was shifting
the threatening atmosphere through
a splintered and yawning gap in the
side Of the barn opposite The door.
Nobody seems To remember inst
what hue the erstwhile gentle a
mosphere arrayea itself in during