Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1912-01-25
HAZELTON HAPPENINGS.
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Frank koll left the first of the
week tor Fargo. where he will take
a course in pharmacy at the Agricul-
tura College.
Chas, Farrell is staying at the
Andrus hotel, this week. while re.
celvlng medical treatment for pai,
of badlyfrozen feet.
4 Al. Mikalson lost fire pediyreea
bnd-dog on Friday of last week, the
ANIMAL having gotten in the way of
the train and being ground beneath
the wheels.
Born. To MIR. and Mrs. ID. ID. Bid
well, Of Hazelton, at the Bisn aYck
hospital, Monday. Jan. 18th, a eiri.
From latest reports. both mu,her
and child are doing well.
Murmurs of baseball talk can at
times be distinctly heard. and local
fans are feeling about for new tim
ber, although the time when the
diamond will be the scene of excited.
yelling nobs is vet quite distance
IN the future.
Frank Goughnour took advantage
of lull in the cold snap Saturday
TO come INTO town for supplies.
About the only damage we can see
that the frost has done to Frank is
that he is minus his mustache. and
we have no authority as to whether
that was frozen off or not.
Since the closing of the local meat
market, some two weeks ago, the de-
mand for beef has become almost a
wall Any farmer who has some fat
stock to butcher will find no trouble
lndlspcsing oft by thequarter, ard
can realize a greater profit than by
selling to cattle-buyers. Many have
already disposed OF their fat cattle.
On January l:h, the date of the
bad blizzard, a large horse belong
ing to VIM. Hamilton strayed away
and, being caught in the storm.
could not return home He was
found week later lying in the re-
mains OF AN old haystack. where he
had sought shelter and had become
(, benumbed with the cold, but had
sustained life by eating what hav
was within reach. Mr.. Hamilton
was away from home, teaching
school. and neighbors went to the
rescue of the animal; but efforts to
get him on his feet were futile, and
he died Friday morning. The horse
was valued at nearly two hundred
dollars.
Quite serious stabbing affair was
pulled off at ahay-baling camp a few
miles north Of town. Monday night,
when an alteration arose between
VIM. Bond, colored, and Ingvar
Baarud, Norwegian, both employ
ees at the camp. Both parties were
4 intoxicated at the time, and during
the argument it is reported that
Bond whipped out a knife and
4 slashed at Baarud, inhicting three
ugly gashes. A physician was
called to dress the wounds. which
required in the neighborhood Of
twenty stitches to close them up. II
is thought that nothing serious will
result from the wounds. and that
4 Baarud will be able to resume his
work in short time.
| Although the news arrives rather
late, the old-time friends of VIM.
| SouthWick will be grieved to learn
A of his death on December Ii, 1911
at Spokane. Wash. Judge South
wick, as he was familiarly known
4 here, was one Of the real old-timers
4 of the county, having settled at Wi
mona in the pioneer days. perhaps
something over twenty-five years
ago. since which time, with the eX-
ceptlon of a few years spent i'm the
west, E.mmons county had been his
home. He was a justice of the
4 peace i'm Winona in the early days
y from which fact he received the title
of Judge, that stuck to him until
death called him hence. He was
also a veteran of the civil war and q
. member of the G.. A. f. During the
last few years of his life he has made
his home With his daughter, Mrs
Byron swartz, of Glencoe, and the
f latter part of October, last year, he
accompanied the family to Spokane
I where Mr.. and Mrs. SWartZ decided
to make their fut re home Reports
~ to the cause Of his Gcath are very
nleager.. but, as he had for severa
years been a sufferer from chronic
Il stomach-trouble, it is supposed that
this disease, combined with old age
was responsible for his demise.