Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-07-07


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Carrie, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
; 9 Busby. Of the Hartford coun.
Try had the misfortune to sustain
a bad fracture of the arm one dav
laSi Week The tip Of the elbow
was broken off Or. Wolverton
dressed the arm and the girl is doing
We'll at present.
Jesse Morford is over from Tim
Der Lake, the new South Dakota
railway town west of the Missouri
tic IS IN the pool-room business
there. He says Andy Wolfer is do
ing more Of the general merchandise
business there than the three other
stores in the same llnv.
The contract for CARRYING the Bis
marck- Hartford mail was lei to Pa.
ter Baker. son of Wesley Baker. of
llYona. and the line was turned
over TO him July lst. a petition for
the re-estabishment of the E,mmons-
burg postoiiice, with Mrs. King as
postmaster. has been forwarded to
Washington. Should the petition he
granted which is likely .he Bis
marek line Will be extended 10 En-.
monsgburg, as ii was formerly.
Peter Oster. who formerly resided
IN F-mnons county, but who went TO
Colorado four or five years ago, has
returned. He was in Linton yester
day. HE says he is glad to get back
TO Emmons county. although it is a
dry Year here, as in many other
states But, Mr.. Oster saws. a moor
crop year will occur any where now
and then. He has purchased a half
section about five miles north of
l'rofy and will again make his home
here.
Adam l.lewellyn. the oldest SON of
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Gontka, resid-
ing about twenty miles northwest Of
Linton, died Sunday. July 3D., of
cholera morbus The boy was aged
8 years, 9 months and :, DAYS. He
was sick only one day The funeral
took place at 10 a. m. Tuesday, at
Dayton School-house No. 5, the serv-
ices being conducted by the Rev.
Mlegand. the Lutheran minister of
Linton. The deceased is survived by
one brother and two sisters.
Ask Your neighbor whether She
recently lost a hand sache contain
ing between eight and nine dollars.
There is nothing in the sachel by
which its owner may be identified
ii contains page of a letter but
not a part with the date or sigma
ture in which the writer says that
Mr.. and Mrs. Brock, formerly of
Llnton.are residing near this town. .
The Brooks live in Gridley, Califor-
MIA. The sum the sachel contains is
too much for amy one tolose in these
dry times Sachel and money at
Record office.
+ +. .Stouder and wife of Fort
Wayne, Ind. stopped off here last
week on their way to tour the Vel |
lowstone park They are relatives
of Mrs. Mclean and her son Clar-
enca, and Mr.. Stouder is a brother
of Jacob and Leon Stouder, who lived
IN the Winchester country in the
early days The two last named are
NOW residents of Fort Wayne. Leon,
who MAS d cowboy kidlet when he
was IN these parts, is now a sober
sided and digniiied member of the
fat mems club, and hauls down the
scale-beam to the $50 figures. Mr.. |
stouder says his part of Indiana is
as dry as here
Tuesday evening a strange phe-
nomcnon occurred in Linton and the |
vicinity For some time
a mass of dark looking objects had
been passing over the town. All Of
a sudden. presumably from such OBJ 1
jects, there began to fall LIQUID I
substance much resembling that T
which Is taken from wells and els !
terms. There was much lodging
into doorways and other protected
places. as it was thought that the
failing liquid might be poisonous.
Fhere was a very heavy downpour Of
the stuff the total fall being at
least d gallon to the acre. The phe-
lasted for fully two min
ates Some very elderly people in
Linton claim that they can remen1-
Der the time when falls of the
strange substance We're quite fire.
lGent A jug of the liquid was oh