Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-11-30

4. rllnans OF Munich q year ago sold
his farm for $4,000 and moved 10
California. He returned the other
day, paid the new owner 500. got
hls old farm back and is delighted
Darlington Record: Last week
Ira Fitz shipped two carloads Of
potatoes, each car holding 500
bushels. For the thousand bushels
ne received 80 cents per bushel
de had in ten acres Of potatoes and
from this amount of ground dug
l,5OO bushels. This makes very
paying crop, that is valuable in
more ways than one. The direct
revenue from the crop was big. and
besides, it leaves the groun in fine
shape for next year. Unlise wheat,
which is soil-thief. potatoes enrich
the ground, and in this ind ret wav
the crop is Very valuable one, Mr..
Fitz is successful potato raiser,
and each year plants quite 4 fed Of
"spuds.
Napoleon, Nov. %. Compelled
to abandon their home h. flames
which had almost cut off the only
exit from the building, fleeing un-
der a burning roof which crashed
only a few moments after they
reached the open air, the wife and
family of Michael Brown We're COM
PEELED to seek shelter ina small barn
with nothing but their night clothes
on. They remained there over am
hour while MIR. Brown, himself clad
in only his night apparel and with a
horse blanket wrapped about him,
rode to the home of a neighhor fer
assistance, securing a wagon and re-
turning for the family. With high
wind and the snow drifting badly at
the time, MIR. Brown and his family
suffered considerably. Their home
was entirely destroyed by the fire.
The origin is not DEFINITELY known.
There is one business man in North
Dakota who is going to be a mail
order prince some day if present
indications are criterion. He
knows how to play the mai-order
andsend by mail for your goods
game. The Almont Arena says:
August Zimmerman has about the
right idea, all right. He has joined
an association of merchants and is
giving his customers home-t trade
catalogue. with prices of every art
icle that is needed i'm life. This cat
alogue competes with all Of the
large supply houses, and it gave a
saving of $24.GO on one bill of goods
lower than the big catalogue houses.
You order in the same way as from
either Of these other houses. and you
have the merchant at hand il the
goods prove unsatisfactory. This is
a good thing and our people should
profit by it, and not send away for
anything that is needed F"
Devils Lake World Either the
state should change its system OF
else the present secretary Of state
and his office should be more pains
taking in the issuance of the session
laws. Heretofore this has been
done under the supervision of apri-
vatc individual and the work has
been excellent, but. fearing that
something was being slipped past
him, the secretary noW has the work
entrusted to his care. We had oc-
casion last week to refer to the hail
insurance law i'm answer to an
inquiry and finally found ii indeXed
under the head of Appropria-
tions." And that isn't all Typo
graphical errors. transmissions and
what not make the book, that is an
all important one, almost unintellig
.ible. We don't like To lump on a
man when he is down. but it seems
that, for incompetence, carelessness
and lack of attention to details.
North Dakota has drawn a prize in
its secretary of state.
Forum: The Chicago Record
Herald has cartoon in a recent IS
sue which illustrates in very fore
ible manner the growth Of the sent :
iment expressed in the words back
to the land" The cartoon repre-
sents father. mother and little son
at the land show. They arc city
people and, while each nibbles at an
enormous apple. all three are lost IN
amazement at the exhibition Of the
mammoth samples Of the fruit Of
the soil. The lad says Gee, Dad,
Buy a farm The father eXclaims
"My land," and his wife says
somewhat wistfully, 9. wish it was
Henry" There is whole volume
in that picture. 1t is humorously
of course. but back Of it
and beneath it there is world Of
trust. There is growing every
where longing for the possession