Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1912-02-08
HAZELTON HAPPENINGS.

Mrs G., a l.enhart was taken verv
III last Friday while visiting at the
klabunde home, and is vet unable to
be removed to her own home.
+ I lrawturd was taken very i'll
Saturday afternoon with an attack
Of Appendicitis. which lasted all that
night He has been subject TO at
,acks Of the disease for several
wears. and i is probable that ul,l-
matelA All operation will be neces-
>agy
Ihe faneral of the infant daughter
of MIR and Mrs John Baker was held
from the family residence at III
g elack last trlday morning The
rites We're in charge of the oca!
lodge ol ROYAL Neighhors. who per
formed THE full ritualistic ceremony
of the order. lnterment was made
IN llazeIton cemetery.
Mot'it homesteaders the past week
have broken into business circles by
trading their farms for stocks of
merchandise. Certain traders make
a practice Of giving an attractive
looking list Of goods for real l-estate,
but the goods often prove out of
date and misiit stuff. We hope our
Moilit friends have not been stung
thusly
Among the candidates thus far an
.nounced there is one the Republican
believes viii he most heartily re-
8celyed by all l'rogrcssives as we'll as
by many Stalwarts and Democrats.
That candidate is Tom Hall. present
seere'ary Of the state railway com
lnlssion. and aa announced candidate
for secretary of state. Tom is an old
railroad boy, an eX-newspaper man,
A thoroughly competent and square
official. and such am around pleas
ant and likablc fellow that it's hard
to imagine the source of many votes
against him.
\ Cell returned Monday even
my from trip to Tampa. Florida.
where he went three weeks ago. in
company with MIR. and Mrs. Wesley
Baker. To look over business prop
osltion which he had a line on i'm
that country. He returns full of en-
thusiasm over the climate and gen
era conditions i'm the southern state,
and says there is much good land to
be had there also much poor and
that it is fine place to live While
there he and MIR. Baker went fishing.
that is, he SAYS they held a pole.
with hook and line attached, for
few hours, without getting bite.
as the fish saw them coming and
hied away to the deep waters far
out. He also had the pleasure of
picking fruit from the trees, which
was quite treat to him, since but
few days before he was picking
coal out of the snow i'm forty-below
weather To keep himself warm.
The Moose and Civilian nulla teams
played another of the series of
games at the rooms i'm the Bank of
HaZelton last Friday evening, when
the former were guests of the latter.
The antlered denizens of the forest
primeval again had rabbits foot
in their vest pockets. which gave
them recount over the plain-clothes
men by two games, the Moose tax
ing sixteen Of the thirty games play
ed The outcome of Friday s games
leaves the moose .mllkers ten games
in the lead Of the water -sWalloWers,
the former having total Of 50 and
the latter s. to their credit. Again
ON Tuesday evening the Moose enter
tanned their Civilian opponents, and
showed their hospitality by cleaning
them to the tune of nineteen to
eleven games, "hichgives the Moose
a lead over the civilians in the whole
6 IL, l, ,.,.,, ,x.,,,to,,
t.. w. Crandell returned last Fri
day evening from Herbert, Saskatch
evan. Canada. where he has been
the past Two months employed as
engineer ma .lour-mill. He doesn't
bring back the encouraging report
that we have been led to believe eX
.isted in the land of King George. by
the advertisements and gildedcircu-
lars on the new Canada country. He
says that farmers in that country are
in very hard straits. Their crop of
1911 is still in he shock and is of
poor grade, having been frost-bitten
before it nlataed and. as they had
Inc early prospects. most OF them
vent TO the full extent of their cred
it. Beng unable to thrash the crop
Or % any fall plowng, the outlook
for spring is discouraging. The
banks are not loanlng any money.
and thing generally are at a stand
slili Mr lrandell informs US that