Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-09-08
AROUND THE STATE.

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Steele has a lively old lady who
can read at 81 years Of age.
The Mandan gun club paid sloo
reward for the conviction Of two
illegal shooters.
Inc county treasurers of the state
are TO meet in Mandan Sept. 10th
lhe last day Of the Morton county
fair
Towns on the eastern edge of
Montana anticipate doing a big husi-
ness If the liquor dealing in Moor
head is closed down.
Slayton Robinson. farmer liy-
ing near Beech. suiciaed by shooting
himself. He was in financial trouble
and had become Respondent.
Beach rejoices over tie first flow
ing well drilled in the neighborhooc.
The well is only los feet deep. and
there is a good flow of water.
There We're enrolled 642 students
at the summer school at the Valley
City normal. and the term was very
interesting to pupils and teachers.
a Bowman man used his loaded
shot gun for acane, holding his hand
over the muzzle He now mourns
the loss of a couple of fingers.
North Dakotans returning from
the ire scenes in the west say that
the snow on the backened ground
looked like Il shroud for the dead.
The city dads of Neville have
purchased a tract of two acres and
a fraction of an acre, south of the
stock-yards, to be used as a dump
ing ground
\ man living near Bowman or
derea case of beer, with other
goods, and, as his writing was not
of the hest, he got case of beans
canned instead
d. M Hart, of Hettinger county,
near New England, SET fire to a
straw stack and burned his house
and other farm buildings, as we'll as
400 bushels of grain.
Editor Justice Bratton of Rugby
performed a wedding ceremony for
two colored people; but he denies
that he exercised his official privi-
lege and bussed the bride.
William Lettering, a laboring
man of the Glen Ullin neighborhood,
was taking shotgun from its place
on the wall when it was accidentally
discharged into his thigh. He is in
a critical condition.
The Iowa newspapers that have
printed stories about calamity" in
North Dakota, and how the people
areskipping out, would be surprised
if they knew of the large number of
Hawkeyes who are buying land in
this state.
AT kenmare a man went to sleep
in the weeds. He had $135 in his
jeans when he slumbered. The next
when he awoke the weeds
were still there, and he struck out
to hustle quarter with which to
buy his breakfast.
Fargo Forum: Lucky chicken
shooters shouldn't forget that the
g Kernels man has lost his appen-
dix, and there is no longer any dam
ger Of bird-shot rolling into the old
thing while he is eating prairie
and ducks.
John Unstad, who lives one and
a half miles northeast of Fairdale,
suffered the loss of fourteen good
work horses and seven double har
nesses, a few days ago. The horses
were burned alive while he and the
hired man were at dinner The ORR
gin Of the fire is a mystery.
Elevator Agent Nichols of Coburn
met with a painful accident recent
Is. He was repairing one of the
bins i'm the elevator when the ladder
on which he was standing began to
slide. and when he fell to the floor
his right foot remained fastened to
the ladder, tearing away some of the
c. b. Blanchard of Sheldon be-
lieves that misfortunes do not come
singlv. He first had an operation
for appendicitis, then had three ribs
broken, and after his recovery from
that he was engaged in building a
well-house when the scaffolding gave
way, resulting in an injury TO one
!eg that will keep him on crutches
awhile
Fargo Il already making arrange
ments for strenuous winter The
attractions vii include, among other
things. the Tri State f,rain-GroWers
the Dog SHOW. the
Chicken SHOW, the meeting Of the
State Live Stock ASSOCIATION, the
Snniat,, Of E'nilitv the State Horti-