Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-03-17

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North Dakota community when The
men and women. the boys and girls,
along in June emerge from their
winter Information. Many Of them
are without noses and ears. which
have been frozen of during the cold
spell. As the last Of the snow dis
appears the town and country au-
thorities set men al work gathering
ears and noses. They are thawed by
artificial heat. identified. mourned.
and then with appropriate services
inferred. There is general public
funeral, and the entire populace
turns out to do honor to the memory
Of the departed ears and noses Of
themselves and their neighbors. As
the sun mounts higher new mem
bers sprout, and in a short time noses
and ears in different stages Of
growth may be seen on the features
Of the population. BY the time a
couple Of moons have come and gone
and winter reappears the smellers
and hearers Of the inhabitants are
again normal. Scientists claim tina,
through heredity there will in time
be developed a race of noseless and
earless people in the New North
west.
In the coolest parts of the winter
the municipal authorities are put to
considerable trouble and the tax.
payers to much expense in keeping
the elevated streets free Of obstruc.
tions. As the words issue from the
mouths of the citizens they quickly
CONCEAL and fall to the gound. They
interfere with the runners of the
sleds. and hence it is necessary for
the towns, in order to retain their
country trade, to provide fund
for keeping the streets free Of
fragments of frozen conversation.
In the country the pathmasters
road supervisors, as We call them
here attend to this work. |. is
astonishing how quickly big pile
of these frozen sentences and para.
graphs will accumulate. The early
part of the present winter the La
dies of the Maccabees, the ROYAL
Neighbors and a couple of sewing
societies met in Linton the same
evening. Next day the mayor and
ten men were at work FIVE hours
shoveling solicited dialogue from
the sidewalks used by the members
on their way home.
Sometimes frozen extremities do
not thaw out during an entire sea.
son. The writer has friend who
was warmly greeted by politician
when the latter was in the throes Of
q campaign, and who was then noted
for the warmth Of his grasp. The
friend met him in July, a month
after the primary election, and the
friend declares that the poor fell
lows hand was just like a chunk Of
ice.
An honest confession is good for
the SOUL" And we sincerely hone
that these few facts will enable
eastern writer's to compose thei,
articles regarding the Northwest on
q more intelligent basis than here
tofore.
OF course it is true, as sometime
claimed by eastern editors. that tn
press Of the Dakotas dare not tel
the truth as to climate. because q
the fear Of a boycott by the bushes
men. We are certain that, as
punishment for letting the cat o,