Emmons County record., 1911-05-18

| The state Grand Army cncamp-
ment Will meet in Grand Forks on
June l4th and 18th.
| The State Bankers Association
will hold its ninth annual convention
IN Fargo on June 9th.
The North Dakota Press Associa-
tlon will meet in Devils Lake on
the I'D and 224th of June.
The state association of the Benev-
oent and Protective Order of Elks
will meet in Grand Forks ON the 2lst
and 2222d of June.
When youngsters all over the state
are making records Of ninety six to
NINETY nine per cent in the spelling
contests. it looks as though they
could give a hard tusslc to some of
the old-timc crack spoilers. of whom
there are still few alive.
| Mrs VI. Bergman, aged forty five
years, living near Kuhn. partook of
some juice from a canof apples that
had been opened for some time. and
died from ptomaine poisoning. She
was rushed to Kuhn, where medical
attendance was given to her. but
without avail.
Some of the state papers are get
ting caught on other papers ancient
history columns. Many an item is
Icilpped from the ten or twenty
years ago column and given as cur
rent news. the clipper neglccting to
look at the heading. In a hasty run
over an exchange it is an easy mat
ter to stub ones toe i'm this manner.
T.. w. Arnold, Ransom county
farmer. has small portable gaso-
line engine. and by attaching il to
his pump. with hundred feet Of
hose, he can water his entire garden
and lawn. having all the power re-
Iquired. The engine is mounted on
trucks. When wash-day comes he
transfers 1T to the laundry room,
where it operates the washing ma
chine. In fact, it will do almost
anything but sweep the floors. milk
the cow and hatch the chickens. 1t
is a most useful and economical ma
chine.
Here is an arithmetical puzzle
which Is going the rounds of the
state press. and on which the reader
is at liberty to exercise his wits.
Perhaps some of our readers can
reason it out. The answer to it is
easily obtained; but correctly solv-
ing it is another question. II is as
follows: A certain banker hires a
young man and agrees to give him
a salary of 5000 per year to start
with, and am increase Of 800 per
year every year thereafter The
young man says he would rather
start with $500 per annum and have
a raise of S25 every six months. i'm
stead of 800 every twelve months
A claims the young man wins out
on the second proposition. and b
claims he loses. Now, who wins?
A narrow escape from very
peculiar and what might have been
a serious accident occurred recent
ly at Leonard. Ransom county. The
boys were practicing base ball when,
just as one of the lads batted the
ball, Fred Barr came around the
corner in his auto with his wife and
baby. The ball struck the wind
shield, breaking the glass. a piece
of the shield striking tine child in
the face. making a slight wound.
Some Of the pieces also struck Mrs.
Barr, but fortunately without in
jury to her. Ii was a lucky escape,
and the editor of the Leonard paper
says it is warming to the boys not
to play ball on the street just as
though the accident wouldn't have
been as likely to happen had the
Barrs been attending regular
match game of base ball at the
park
William Hope, who had been
working ON farm near Forbes. re-
Gently made a strenuous attempt to
| Iquit this mundane sphere without
saying goodbye, but he bunglcd
the job. Hope got up early and left
the house, and had not returned
when breakfast was served; SO
another employee on the farm hunt
ed him up and found him on a cot
in the granary He asked Hope if
he was coming to breakfast or
whether he was sick, but Hope told
him to go away and leave him alone,
which the man did. Later in the
day Henry McConville went to him
and asccrtained that Hope had taken
Paris green and had also cut his
throat with knife McConyille
phoned DIR. Ames and went after
some Of the neighbors. Dr Ames
dressed the wound in the throat,
and, after that was done, Hope was
able to talk little He stated that
4 he had taken the poison in the morn
| ing. but it had made him sick. and
he finally vomitcd it up. Some
hours later he had again attempted
his life by cutting his throat. He
gave no reason for his act, and it is
thought it was caused by melancholy.
LIT is probable that the would-be
| suicide will recover.