Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1912-05-02
AROUND THE STATE.

Richland county has nine aspirants
for the office of sheriff.
Winter rye over the state. accord
ing to the state press, is looking we'll
this spring.
The Optic thinks there will be at
least 500 North Dakota editors at
the meeting in Minot.
Gas tractors are working in all
parts OF the state. and they are be-
coming more popular each season.
Reports from assessors over the
state say that they are not expert
enclng any trouble with the new
registration law.
Most of the state weeklies are
telling of those million-dolIar rains
that recently fell in their particular
section Of the country.
The Pioneer publishes the list of
personal Taxpayers in Bowman. and
the amount paid by each. Ii Is good
dope for any county TO publish.
The forty carloads of j. |. Case
thrashlng machinery that went to
Canada recently made quite sight
for the people along the main line
of the 500.
The Sarles Advocate is able to
state with pardonable pride that it
has the solid support of the bust
ness of that town in its advertising
columns Not all towns are that
way.
The Adams County Record again
calls the attention Of the daily news
papers to the fact that the town of
Hettinger is the county seat of Ad-
ans county. and not of Hettinger
county.
Veterinarian Davis, who was par
doned from the pen because of
trouble at Glen Ullin and later
anchored in Oliver county, has
skipped and left his bondsmen with
the bag to hold.
Forum: The arguments i'm favor
of leavig job work to the local print
er are just the same as the mer-
chants make against sending away
to mail-order houses; but some of
the merchants forget it.
Steele Ozone: John III. Kirk, for
seven years county Judge of Botti-
neau, is a candidate for congress-
man from this district. and appears
to be man of character and prin-
ciples. His phlz certainly has
square and substantial look.
Ryder journal: The Fargo Forum
continues to wave as of yore, under
the able tutelage Of Colonel Brewer.
1t is the fashion in some quarters to
sneer at the Forum as hide-bound to
its friends, i'm contradistinction to
the accepted standard that ingrati-
tude is the cardinal sin. A paper
has to be hide-bound to succeed. No
one has any time for or faith in a
wishy-washy will-o' -the-wisp, here
to-day and there tomorrow. Stanch
adherence to set lines wins stanch
friends, the only friends worth
while.
Exchange: The other day an edi-
tor was solicited to join lodge and
was handed a petition printed by a
suppy-house. He got dun from a
merchant mailed in government
envelope and written on gargling-
oil statement; he made purchase
in store and got a duplicate bill
printed in Chicago, ard wrote his
check on a blank printed in st. Jo-
seph. Ye Gods. how can an editor
be expected to join lodges and pay
his bills on such treatment as that.
and all the time tell the people to
trade at home? Ever think of it,
Edgeley Mail: AS time grows on
it begins to look as though some of
the more radical papers were tigur-
ing on drawing the lines pretty tight
between the Stalwarts and Progress
sives in the coming campaign. We
think this is a mistake. There are
just as good men, with just as good
principles, in the Stalwart branch of
the party as there are in the Pro
gressive wing and that has been prov
en- by the events of the past two
years. Let us pay more attention
to the men who are running, and
less to the little political clique
which is backing them. In the com
ing campaign the Mail is not going
to back any man just because he is
an lnsurgent or because he is Stal-