Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1912-04-04
AROUND THE STATE.

There is a good-sized building
boom on over the state.
In Morton county as high s.as 4S4 !.
cents have been paid for butter-fat.
TheStreeter Herald is enthusiastic
over the farmers institute held
A there.
4 Fargo Forum: There are three
lawyers and Andy Miller out for the
attorney generalship.
North Dakota is strictly all right,
and has many advantages for pro
spective homeseekers.
Grand Forks county is in for bet.
ter farming, and has appropriated
$4,000 70, the proposition.
Judge Murray threatens to make
it warm for "mashers who acovst
ladies on the streets of Minot.
Since North Dakota has gone so
heavily into corn-raising. hogs are
becoming more popular and profit
able.
Jack Charmley's candidacy for
railroad commissioner will no doubt
be boosted in good shape by the
newspaper boys.
Some of the people who SO strongly
argued against the third term for
Roosevelt were strong supporters Of
Burke for the :hird term.
The assessors will probably have
some rich experiences when they at
tempt to find out the political atiili-
alton of some Of the women voters.
Forum: After all the recent ex
citement in North Dakota it appears
that Taft is certain of the Republi-
can nomination for the presidency.
Bismarck boosters are lining up
for the industrial exposition next
fall. Commissioner of Agriculture
Gilbreath is to have all kinds of CO.
operation.
Politics or no politics, Com
missioner of Agriculture Gilbreath
plans to hold another industrial cX-
po right in the middle of the fall
campaign.
Forum 1t is said that Secretary
of State Norton comes back to the
Capital City once in a whilc-so the
clerks will not require an introduc-
tion to him.
The directors of the Minot Com
mercial Club have pledged $1,000
for three years to be used for the
establishment of experimental farms
in that vicinity.
Bismarck papers are pleased that
Fort Lincoln is to be retained
There is at least as much use in the
small army post as there is in many
of the navy yards into which big
ship cannot enter
Because of friction between teach
er and public in a Mclean county
district, the teacher has been obliged
to rent a building and board herself
keep bach, so to speak.
About half of the population of
Marmarth was denied the right of
franchise at the March primaries,
as through some error only about SIX
ty ballots were furnished to that
precinct.
The Dickinson Fire and Pressed
Brick company recently shipped
l25, 600 friedrich and % tons of fire
clay to Canadian firm, the material
being shipped about 1000 miles.
which gives some idea of how North
Dakota products are desired around
the country.
One thing the presidential election
did for the state: it gave North Da-
kota more advertising in the east
than it has had for some time.
There were lot of people back east
that heard more about the state than
they ever did before.
Stickley. in the Grand Forks
Times, thus describes the average
woman shopper: She mounted a
1 street-car and took seat, opened
her hand bag, took out her pocket
book, package some letters, and
handkerchief. Note the rotation
each time. She then returned the
pocket book. the letters and the
package, wiped her face and returned
the handkerchief. Then the conduc