Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-05-25
AROUND THE STATE.


The Casselton Reporter says the
recent rain killed all the grasshop-
pers.
Dickinson Elks have raised the
money with which to build a $50 ,OOC
home.
Burglars at Kaiser secured several
suits of clothes and some valuable
papers.
Mlnot has received the plans and
specifications for her new Carnegie
library.
Everybody in Elgin set out trees
last week. on his own property. and
IN the city park.
A Buchanan man presented every
church goer in the town a carnation
on Mothers Day.
Ray merchants figure that $40, ,OO0
per month is sent out Of that town
to catalogue-houses.
LaMoure has a siNteen-year- old
boy who has earned and saved near
ly thousand dollars.
Mr.. Steelmassczuk and Mr.. Scep-
kosky took out naturalization papers
at Dickinson last week.
John Mitchell, the great labor
leader, will be one of the speakers
at the Devils Lake Chautauqua.
A bank at Cooperstown will give
a hundred dollars in prizes for the
best corn grown in Griggs county.
1t is estimated that the corn acre
age in the vicinity of Lisbon this
year is five times that of last season.
Lieutenant Governor Burdick will
speak at the opening of the Great
Northern hotel at Devils Lake on
June list.
An employee of a shooting-gallery
at Fargo made the mistake of get
ting behind the target. The bullet
hit him in a leg.
The contract has been let for the
annex to the st. Charles hotel at
Dickinson. The cost will be in the
of 100000.
A Yucca man sucked on the gaso-
line tube of his auto, the other day,
to make it draw, and got his lungs
so full of gasoline that he may die.
Newspapers Of nearly every town
in North Dakota had accounts last
week of lightning striking house
or barn in this vicinity during the
recent storm.
Every owner of an automobile
must, before July lst next, procure
a license from the secretary of state.
1t will cost three dollars regardless
of size or price.
The Neville Journal calls atten-
tion to the state law which prohibits
minors from carrying firearms, ex-
when accompanied by par
snts or guardians.
Again the corn acreage of the
state is to be largely increased.
This year bids fair to be North Da.
sota's biggest corn-year in the
history of the state.
David Adams, living near Oakes,
ost his house during a recent storm
oy fire caused by lightning. The
seemed to be set on fire in
j, d<>,zo,, ,,lnor,e, Mt
Many farmers throughout the state
vent into their fields Immediately
after the recent rains and narrowed
hem, thereby making the water-f fall
10 more than double duty.
Up at Russell there lives base
oall fan who wants a grand-stand
quilt in sections and on wheels, so
hat it can be hauled to the various
owns in that vicinity when games
lre playled.
An Indian girl has entered suit at
Grand Forks against a man named
Abraham for breach of promise of
marriage. She wants her damaged
salved financially to the
extent of s., 600.
A milliner failed at Langdon. The
stock was turned over to the owner
If the building for rent due. He
loesn't know an ostrich plume from
l feather duster. and is having
lard time to realize anything out of
he stock.
John Gardner, a farmer living near
New Rockford, was instantly killed
n his field during a recent storm,
~ stroke of lightning. The three
1orses with which he was blowing
we're also killed. He leaves a wife
md three children.
A Larimore boy saw the battle of
Iuarez, in Mexico. In a letter to-
lis father he intimates that he quit
eeing it after two bullets whizzed
9ast his head. He WAS on the Amer
can side of the river, but had an
excellent view Of the engagement
The pioneers are being pushed
farther west. Some of those in the
western part of the state say that
North Dakota is becoming too
civilized and they will move on to
, region-if they can find it where
hey will have more room to breathe.
The interesting event of last week
1t Wolford was poker game in
which six aces made their simultan-
,ous appearance. one of the players
holding four. The Opposition
made things lively for awhile. and
rs result the'game got an airing in
court.
John H. Reddy, a well-known res