Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-07-06
limbs and that he could talk as well

dS ever.
The Methodist preacher at New
Rockford organized ball nine and
went over and cleaned up the Con-
gregational team from Phillips acad-
emy.
John Noonan. who owns farm
near Kermit. has applied for pat
ent on diskharroW attachment. or
sub-soil packer, to be attached to a
disk-harrow.
Not single application for state
hail-insurance in Foster county has
been made to Auditor Burnham.
The assessors were authorized to ac-
cept applications, but no one Of the
sin assessors received an application,
Some mean person or persons in
Lisbon it is to be hoped that there
was not more than one stole flow
ers from the school yard, on the
Identification Of which great deal
of care has been spent, and an eff
fort is being made to trace the of
Tense and impose punishment. That
sort of thing is what progressive
people in every community have to
contend with.
Judge S. l.. Nuchols sentenced
one John Koch. who was charged
with incest at the complaint of his
eighteen-year-old daughter. Koch
was sentenced to one year in the
state penitentiary at Bismarck. The
girl in question is said to have had
two children by her father, and the
crime is one of the most loathsome
which has come to the notice Of the
authorities for months.
John Skinner took to Bowbells,
recently, purewhite gopher, with
pink eyes. and it was placed in the
Hunter hardware store on exhibi-
ton White gophers are a pretty
scarce article. and the Bowbells cdi-
tor has been unable TO find any one
who has seen or heard of one prior to
the one brought in by Mr.. Skinner.
The freak eats and drinks and ap-
pears to be in perfect kealth. 1t is
about two-thirds grown.
| In this state we have Sunday
closing law. and the peace otfi-
GERS are busy seeing that all places
of amusement where the bands play
and where moving pictures can be
seen are tightly closed on Sunday
Back in Boston they are taking mon
ey from the public treasury to pro-
vide just such places of amusement
for the people on Sunday after
moons. The hequestion naturally arises,
Who is doing more real good for the
people i'm general, North Dakota OF
Boston? Palladium
Reports are coming in from vari-
Gus parts of the country relative to
the black potato-bug, and it is fear
ed much damage will be done be-
fore awakening to the fact they are
very destructive. Prof o. A. Bar
ton, of Valley City. states that the
black bug is great deal more de-
structive than the ordinary and usu.
al potato bug of this country. The
black bug is species of the Span
ish fly, and they travel in swarns
and have been known to destroy
large patches in short order. He
advised the use of Paris green early,
as the bugs will not interfere with
plants where it has been used.
| George Barnfather, nineteen
years of age. met almost instant
death at the race track last Thurs
| day, when horse he was riding
stumbled and threw the rider heav.
| lily to the ground and broke his
neck. Young Bainfather has been
practicing for some time for races
\ and took his horse to the track fol
trial speed. On rounding bend
the horse stumbled and lurched for
ward. The boy fell on his head
breaking his neck and the horse
plunged over on top of him anc
pierced him with the saddle. Aid
was Immediately summoned and ar
automobile started to the city with
the lad He was dead. however. be
4 fore medical treatment could be Sc
|cured.
1t is said that gasoline is sure
death to gophers The way to us'
4 it is to take smal pail of gasolin.
and supply of rags any kind viii
i do and when you see gopher en-
ter hole soak piece of rag in thu
\ gasoline and then stuff the rag into
the hole, after which cover the hole
with dirt. Allan Wood has triet
this remedy. and says that every
gopher in a hole 50 treated will di'
lin a few minutes They canno
live in the fumes given off by gaso
lime. AS many as six gophers have
been found dead IN one hole, hav
ing crowded up to the saturated ras
trying to get out, and been asphyxi
ated right. This is a cheap remedy
for the gopher pest and is worth
trying Rollette County Herald.
Installation of ignal corps al
Fort Lincoln, near bismarck. to in
clude an aviation corps. field teleg
raphers, telephone dperatives, ant
hag-signal men, who will be equipp
ed with an aeroplan with which t
experiment, isseen ii the announce
mentof Gen. Allen, chief signal off
Ger of the army at Washington. t
the effect that each military pos
in the United States il to be furnish
| ed an aeroplane fl experimental
purposes. Lieut.. Iierbst, of thu
Fourteenth Infantry. formerly OF
Ft. Lincoln, and now in command al
TT. Smelling, received an unofficia
dispatch from Washington. through
the department headuarters, givint