Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1911-06-08
AROUND THE STATE.

Tennis enthusiasts all over the
state are getting decidedly busy
these days.
Bismarck has been selected as a
place for one Of the government
postal banks.
Edgar Fisher, Of Minot. has been
appointed by Senator McCumber %
q West Point cadetship
\ blacksmith at Cooperstown was
fined $500 for acting as host to booze
parties, and doing il regularly
Wahpeton is offering prizes for
the best essays on the leading advan-
tages for citizenship possessed hv
that town.
\ Lutheran church building in the
neighborhood Of Tunbridge was
struck by lightning a few days ago
and burned
Il is estimated that the corn area
IN North Dakota is increased a
hundred per cent this year over any
| former year
The Dawson Leader wants all au-
tos equipped with wagon tongues
so they can be towed back To town
more easily.
a. +. Swanson, one of the biggest
realestate dealers of Darlington,
sold IN bnif -,,,t,., i. l.,l ,.,,s,,, ! Ia,
at S5s an acre
The increased corn acreage in
North Dakota this year is regarded
as an encouraging sign of the times
and forerunner for fat livestock.
Two automobile concerns that are
doing a lot of advertising say that
the sales in North Dakota this spring
have been larger than ever before
in the history of their business in the
state
The annual dispute as to which
town has the best bunch of ball
tossers is ON again in earnest, and
about steen championship teams
are reported from various quaters
of the state.
Considering the number of pack
ages OF seed corn that reports show
that the pupils of the rural schools
are calling for. there must be AN
unusual interest taken this year i'm
the corn contest
Judging from the cry coming up
from many country towns in North
Dakota, a syndicate that would.put
in string Of good hotels would
make a big hit with the populace,
| and incidentally make a lot of money.
| Fargo has been selected as tine
northwestern distributing point for
the Dupont DE Nemours Powder
Company. the largest company in
the world manufacturing high eN-
| plosives. Two large steel buildings
will be erected in the Gateway City.
The old wooden Jail at Grafton.
for many years valuable only as an
ice-house. has been demolished At
one time in its early history a pris-
oner pushed the roof partly off and
tried to escape; but the roof fell
back to its place and choked him to
death.
sykeston had an opportunity the
other day TO realize the necessity of
the telephone. as the town was
without any service whatever for a
week, while new exchange was
being installed The people UP there
will probably be more patient with
the central maiden hereafter.
At Casselton woman Of foreign
descent was arrested for peddling
without a license. She pretended
that she could not speak English and
did not understand the proceedings,
but, after She had been fined five
dollars, she suddenly acquired
a splendid command of the language
used 10y army teamsters.
Some people of Granville have
been lodging the dog license by
sending their CANNES out to the
country during the time that the
dog tax is being collected But the
town marshal has obtained a list Of
the floating population of dogdom,
and hereafter all must have a
tag, whether they spend the sum
mers abroad or not
I5rinsmade is to have its annual
gopher day" on June 10th, and the
usual prizes for gopher tails will be
given. At the rate the little bur
rowers are disappearing from the
many counties where premiums for
their destruction are given, it looks
as though it would not be a great
many more years before the gopher
will be as scarce as the buffalo
At Beach, in a gasoline fire. Hugh
Elder, aged twelve years. was
burned to death His father had
been away, and was preparing lunch
| for himself, late at night. in the
/. shack, after his return when the
stove exploded and the house took
fire Mrs. Elder and the children
got out, but little Hugh ran back.
as is supposed, for his clothes. and
the building collapsed
While trying to put her grand
daughter, fourteen months old. to
sleep, recently, the wife of L. E.
| Larson. at I-ansford suddenly fell to
| the floor, stricken with paralysis,
and the unfortunate woman fell
prostrate upon the head of the baby
and broke its neck, causing in
stantaneous death. Mrs. Larson was
| .,lnna IN The. hnilsa and was found in