Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-08-10
HAzELTON HAPPENINGS.
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where She will visi, her relatives.
Mrs. q. \. Lcnllalt and children
expect to leave some time neNt week
for an extended visit with her par
cnts near Fargo.
Contractor f. NJ. Jones went to
Temvik, Mondav evening. where he
will be engaged H. a week or more
making repairs to the Occident Gle
vator
Ed Easton of Glencoe comes To
the front with = line crop of winter
wheat that it would he well for our
farmers to see when figuring on
next year 5 seed
Bankers Irwin and Pietz, with
Messrs Reamer, Seaman and Pagcl
made up Linton delegation To the
meeting held her Tuesday. Messrs.
Hardcnbrook. lempe and Schatz
represented Temylk.
Phillip Hettere. living to the
southwest of Hazelton, has rented a
farm near Washhurn. N. b.. and will
leave f.mmons county as soon after
his crops are thlashed and marketed
as the settling up If his affairs will
allow.
| Bismarck papers report Mrs. Ed
Easton as in the hospital at that
city; but the Republican had under
stood that it was the SON Of Mr.. and
| Mrs. E.aston that was to he treated,
and that the parents were merely
there with him.
Leroy Irvine, who for the past
three weeks had been confined to "A
Bismarck hospital. recovering from
an operation for appendicitis, left
the institution Thursday of last
week and went home TO further re
gain his strength before taking up
his duties as agent of the local Oc-
cldent elevator.
That new motorcycle ordered by
Ben klabundc arrived Saturday
evening and was uncratcd and doing
stunts along the highways early
Sabbath morn. I'he machine is a
daisy. has high and low speed, is
q cranked up the same as an automo-
mobile, is gearcd to run as many
miles per hour as the rider can
stick to it add is an all-around stem
winder We have already heard of
a few bets being offered for a speed
contest with other motorcycles of
the county, and / is a foregone CON
clusion that there will be something
doing in that line in the not distant
| future.
That Emmons county can produce
a good crop of gram in a dry year,
has ceased to he "A myth and is now
conceded to be a reality. In talking
, with farmers who were in town Mon
G day to get repairs for their harvest
ing machinery, they all seem TO b,
pretty cheerful over the prospects,
after having gone through and sized
up their field. a number of then
claiming Their wheat will go at least
ten bushels to the acre. Judge
Southwick brought in a sample ol
oats Saturday raised by his son-in
law. Byron .SWartz. that will aver
age around fifty bushels to the acre
/, Roy Yeatcr brought i'm a sample o.
, wheat TUESDAY last, that is fine I,
!. look upon. II Is heavy straw and ha
exceedingly well-fillcd heads. Thes'
i facts are extremely gratifying to al
of us, and mean much to the mer
chants as well as the farmers d
: this vicinity
+ Hazelton friends of the famil.
! were panied this week to recciv
\ news of the death in Iowa of tn
!. senior Mrs. Parkhurst, mother of {
. l.. Parkhurst. formerly of this place
She had been IN comparatively goo
health up to within a short tim
S preceding her death, which uc
e CURED at the home of one Of he
y children in Iona, July 22d 'l'hos
0 who met her when she visited her
n will remember her as a very cheer
$ full lady. who had met ife's winter
t without forgetting its summers. an
who saw more # the sunny side Q
life than its clouds. 1t will he plea.
] ant news to these friends that sh
was allowed to depart this life a
/ she had endeavored to make it fo
/ others without pain, she havin
;. passed from sleep to that other an
: longer repose Friends Of Mr.. Park
:, hurst will leepiy sympathize wit
q him in this his double bereavcmcr
within short time.
y Nels F. Anderson, who for NV
:; months past has been travelin
O through the west ern states, returne
y more. enthusiastic over North lDak'
o ia than ever before. He informs I
that he was not at all in liking wit
J. the western states, and didn't sc
$ any place on hi travels that Woul
~ come up to the possibilities Of oL
own state. In oregon. Washington
j. Idaho and Montana. where land fl
A. fruit-ralsing purposes sells at five
,e six hundred dollars per acre,
= looked pretty punk to him. III
G. market for the fruit-raising is Vel
At poor, and MIR Anderson CITED II
II case Of one man who had tons {
lie water melons Which he could NJ
m disposc.of at any price. when final
a crew of Italian laborers can
!, through, and til. farmer paid the
= y ten cents apiece to carry away 3
= the melons they could carry. Anot
y er man was practically in the san
ls fix with cherries When irrigatic
- costs from thirty to thirty-tive dc
', ', lars an acre, Mr. Anderson says
10 fails to see how the people make
~ living, and North Dakota looks Il
'e real garden spot TO him. He repor