Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1912-12-26
(From the Record, December 30,

(trOm the Record, December ~,
1880:
In Town and Out.
Are you gong to turn new leaf!
Pavements for hades are now in
order.
Taxes become delinquent the first
Monday in February
Walker Robinson, of Gatyon town
ship, was in town Wednesday even
ing.
Jack Robinson, of Glencoe. killed
seventeen deer durirg arecent hunt
ing expedition to the kildeer noun
tains.
The days are growing longer
Your kerosene can, however, will be
enptied at the usual alarming rate
for some time yet.
DeputySheriff Waldroff is sporting
a fiery looking nose just now Jack
Frost pulled it during Mr.. w. s re-
cent trip from Omio.
w. l.. Yeater slaughtered jack
rabbit the other day with diamond
willow club The animals are pIen-
tiful and tame this winter.
The Misses Libble kurtz, Stella
Edick and Bertha Packer will assist
Miss Lizzie Taipe to receive on New
Years Day, at Mr. n d. Common 5
residence.
A party Of friends and neighbors
ate their Christmas dinner, Sunday,
at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herrick. and also passed pleasant
afternoon.
The green in the new postage
stamp is said TO be poisonous.
Therefore you are instructed to be
careful. Have the postmaster lick
your stamps.
Some petty thief entered the resi-
denceof Mr. and Mrs. Herrick, while
they were attending the Christmas
celebration at the school-house. and
stole several small articles.
A man arrested at Hoskins Nc
lntosh county, speaks dozen lang
uages. BY visiting the X ecord sane
tum about the time local "pome'
arrives, he may learn a thirteenth.
The weather has been clear and
the mercury lower this week. En-
mons county people, while heaving
in another stick of wood, have thunk
a pitying think Of the unfortunate
EsquimauX way up north in Bur-
leigh.
Young Robert McTavish started
for Bismarck on Monday of last
week. The blizzard came on and
Robert was compelled to pull up at
the old Will Gregory place with his
knees, hands and face considerably
frost-bitten.
From an Ashland (Ohio) paper we
learn that many Of the friends of the
Roop family who had not heard of
the wedding were, for a time. much
Mortified by the information given
them by practical joker to the
effect that Miss Ida had been car
ried off by Savage.
The following has been handed in
Tor publications: There will be a
New Year party at the schoo-house
on Monday evening, Jan. %, and a
good time may be. expected. AS
this will probably be the last party
OF the season. every body should turn
out and bring the children
Mrs. Bolton, a sisterof Mrs. Wal
droff arrived Saturday from Indiana.
and IS stopping with ner relatives.
She has her three children with her.
Zone of the children was Guy Bolton.
recently shot to death at Flasher
Tor which "Turkeytrack Bill'' was
tried at Mandan and acquitted,)
In building "smuAges" to drive
away mosquitoes, people should be
careful not to let sparks drop in the
dry grass. Of an item of this ma
ture was called TOR in December
twenty-five years ago, the climatic
conditions must have changed here
abouts great deal in that time.
by references to an Exeter letter
published in this issue it will be
seen that dark and damnable deed
has been done on Beaver creek. The
store building Of A. l.. Reynolds. in
which woman, little girl and a
crippled boy We're sleeping, was
burned to the ground by an in
cendiary. There is as yet no evil
dence which would convict. the guilty
party MIR. Reynolds lost every
thing. Even his buggy, which stood
some fifteen feet down from the