Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-06-15
BRADDOCK BREYlTIES.

(rom News llr
t.mmons county corn promises to
be bumper crop.
j J. RYAN is doing rushing land
business this week.
M. Jepson, living three miles west
of town, reports that they had IA
small cloud burst in that vicinity
Saturday evening last.
While visiting at the home of a
neighbor, during the thunder storm
Friday evening last, Il Willis Of
Marie got too close tn the phone
and was tloorcd
There is Il sample of winter rye IN
the News office that was pulled on
the farm of VIM Baxter. south Of
Rraddock, ON June lth, that meas
ures forty-two inches in length
Come in and see il,
T. g. Levine, the pioneer farmer
living cast of Braddock. has added
the three virgin quarter sections
formerly owned by j j lubls to his
own broad acres, which il adjoins.
MIR Levin has broken and sown To
flax POO acres of the new land, and
expects To add 2tN, acres more during
the next ten days
Judge Winchester has finished
|sentencing the semi annual bunch Of
piggers at Bismarck which recalls
the fact that prohibition i'm North
Dakota has made more law breakers
and jail-birds than all other causes
combined And to-day North Dako-
ta, the nearest To "A purely agricul-
tural state of any i'm the union. has
as many drinkers and drunkards per
capltaas havethc open saloon states.
a band of thinkers not unlike
the travelling bands who attended
the country fairs and mcnded pots,
kettles and pans traded pigs, poul
try and the familiar beasts of burden
in ireland fifty years ago campcd
near the school house i'm this city
Tuesday and Wednesday. There
were four or five men and IA like
number Of women in the party
The women peddlcd old country
lace and dress goods. while the
men had twenty five trading horses
and bull pup They start for Bis
marck to-day. And good luck to-
Bismarck and the tinkcrs
During the electrical storm Friday
evening Mrs Henry "A Kcanlann.
living south Of l,raddock. was
knocked down by an electric shock
when she attempted to answer al
Telephone call being but slightly in
jured At the same time four poles
in the Drake a. Newcomer pasture,
about a milo from town, were struck
and splintcred. one being cut off
within four feet of the ground
That same bolt burned out the
lightning -arrestcrs at the Brad
dock central and came near burn
ing out the News man, who sat ut
his desk, nearly under the switch
board Repairs were made and com
nections re-established n soon as
possible.
Peter J Nelson, well-known
farmer living south OF Hraddock.
died at his late residence of soften
ing Of the BRAIN. Monday. june the
| 9Th. Deceased had been affected
with the disease, more or less, for
several years Early this spring his
condition became worse and he was
placed under the care of Bismarck
physicians. who, although declaring
jhis case hopeless treated him to the
end Mr. Nelson vas an unusually
strong, robust man, btlt under the
ravages Of the disease during he
past three months, h became a
mere shadow Of his former self
Peter j Nelson was born in Norway
| in the year lSlo Forty Year ago,
with his family he moved 70 Wis
consin and later 10 Iowa La lyll.
accompanied w his wife and sons
Peter and Noble, he moved to En-
mons county whore Peter, the older
son, died Of typhoid pneumonia IN
the autumn If 1905 Deceased was
| a hard worker and good. careful
manager. and While eccentric
al times, was IN all a KIND husband
and father He leaves an estate val
| ned at more than sS0.1go a wife
and FIVE children are left to mourn
/ his demis, Mrs Segar Anderson.
Mound City. S - Mrs Matt Rusten.
Veblen, S. ID Mr. f.d Erland,
| Iearsford, S. - Mrs Eric l.appe-
| gard, Mound City. S. D. Mrs W I
| Mott, Edna, Texas. and Noble Nelson.
at Hraddock. N d. The funeral
was held yesterday Rev Eric Tou,
Of Napoleon, officiating, the re-
mains being inferred in the Norwe-
gian Lutheran cemetery at Tell