Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-06-29

celebration ever held IN Emmons
county.
Mike Smith made trim 10 lee
land Tuesday
Valentine kiefer. Of Hague, was
IN the city Tuesday. and made final
proof before Judge Carley
BE patriotic on the Fourth if at
no other time of the year. and dec
crate Your homes and places of
business.
Mrs. V j. stolzenberg and son
Ralph are here from Reva. west of
the river. and will visit friends for a
few days.
VIM. Johnson and f. o. Nickel of
Olnlo. We're witnesses in the final
proof of Raymond Crowley. in Lin
ton, Tuesday.
Train No. Son the Northern Ia.
ciflc was four hours late Monday
evening, being delayed BY wrecked
freight train on the track.
Mrs. Peter Schreiner came We'd
nesday from their Montana home
and will spend a couple of week,
with her husband in this city. Later
she will go to Minnesota for a ,isit.
The father of j. 4. Blewi,t. of
Woodman, Grant county. Wis. ar
rived in Linton to-day by Milwaukee
tram to visit his son Mr.. Blewit,
stopped on his way at Flaudreau. S
~, to visit his sons and daughters
in-law and their families.
In extreme cold weather people in
this latitude who are out of doors
for even short time should be care
ful that their ears and nose are not
exposed, as the dry atmosphere will
allow OF these members being frost
bitten almost before you know it.
Mrs. VIM Irwin, of Brandon, Wis.
who has been visiting at the home
OF her son. w. o.. lett for her home
ON tuesday She will stop in ST
Paul to visit her daughter, Mrs. Nj
r. Kaufman, until Saturday morn
ing, arriving home on Saturday
Ievening
Don Tracy. the Linton photog-
rapher, will visit strasburg on Fri
day and Saturday. July 18th and
10th, to make photo 'picters. Mr..
Tracy is f!rst-class workman in his
line a fact which can be testified
to by folks all over Emmons coun-
ty and his visit will give the peo-
| pie OF Strasburg and vicinity an op-
portunity to have pictures taken
without going long distance from
home.
A steady rain of twenty minutes
or so visited the Linton country last
evening, and, as most of it was tax
en- into the ground. it did much
good. Telephone reports received
through the courtesy of the opera
tor at Linton are To the effect that
rain fell few miles this side
of Wlnona, also at Hull and
west of there but not as far west as
the Westfield country There was a
light rain at Strasburg The rain
fall was not heavy anywhere in the
county
The Emmons County Telephone
Company held their annual meeting
at Brofy Tuesday afternoon. OF
the eighty seven members COM
posing the company .forty-four were
present The officers for the ensu-
ing year were chosen; A. N. Junge.
of this town. being elected presi-
dent of the board of directors. the
other directors being Roy Yeater,
A Il Benson, Fred Foell and Os-
valid Naumann. b. M Harden
brook was continued as secretary
treasurer.
Comrade Pulling was up from the
south country recently to meet an
old comrade of his. who served in
the same regiment with him in the
sixties. The visiting comrade lives
in Minnesota. not far from Fargo
The editor was absent last week
and the notes of the comrades visit
were mislaid; hence we cannot give.
his name. But we will bet a nickel
two nickels, in fact that the old
chaps enjoyed themselves hugely.
talking over their experiences of the
days when the turkeys gobbled
that the commissary found :
Quincy Gates, who resides about
| fifteen miles west of Hazelton, ar
rived in Linton the fore part of the
week from trip over most of the
state of South Dakota. He says the
reports of the poor crop prospects
down there have not been in the
least exaggerated In practically all
the parts he visited there has been
insufficient rainfall. Mr.. Gates met
with a strenuous experience during
his trip. Last Friday night a little
after dusk he was held up in Aber-
deem by three hoboes. who robbed
him of between S3l and S;''22 Two
of the robbers were caught. but the
one who took the money escaped.