Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1913-05-08

5pHbE UP thN NIX ifbi lew iHllSo
this side of Bob Buchana,'s the
other day.
(From the Record, Sept. 9. 1857
The people of Emmons county
may be assured Of one thing that
very few of those who visit this re-
Rion during the present fall, talk
with the farmers, and learn the re-
suits of two years of farming here,
will return to their eastern homes
to remain permanently. "A repub-
ican office-holder who becames a
democrat for the purpose of keeping
in office will be likely to fail in the
attainment of his hopes. The char
acter of a turnc0at and renegade
doesn't commend itself to the ap-
pointing powers in any party.
president Cleveland was then SER
wing his first term, Blaine having
! been defeated by him at the election
in 18s4.). (The Record had two
columns of letters from settlers, all
of such letters being optimistic and
full of the hopeful spirit that ami
mated the pioneers. These letters
appeared in several successive issues
of the paper, there being too many
for one issue. The letters were OBJ
tanned by the publisher at the re-
stance of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railway immigration de-
partment. and were afterward re-
printed in a pamphlet published by
the company named. Those who
wrote letters that appeared in ths
paper and in the pamphlet were: J..
N. Roop, W. L. Yeater. j. II. Worst,
J. L. Boutillier, Henry Hodgkinson.
H. D. Connor,i II "A. Armstrong, D.
H. Yeater, A. K. Bates, S. E. Brin-
die, L. A. Couch, John KurtZ, Don
aid Stevenson, Z. c. Packer, VIM.
Wade. i. (In letter just received by
the editor of the Record from Mr..
Carpenter, of the c.. M. & st. P.
Railway, that gentleman says:
MANY thanks for the copies of your
paper of different dates containing
just such letters from settlers as we
wanted for our pamphlet" IS. e.
Wood has presented us with q sam
Pile of mile. raised on his claim q
couple of miles north of town. 1t is
four feet ten inches high, and was
sown on the raw prairie, among the
wild grass, and plowed under Gas
the writer remembers it, Tom Kelly
did the same thing with oats, one
year, and had a very good yield.) (.
F. D. Walker, the sage wild Sage
Of Cherry Grove, says that his crops
this year are excellent wheat 30 and
flax 10 bushels to the acre. From an
acre of oats which he has had
thrashed he got sixty-four bushels
Master Donnie Stevenson, the
untamed cowboy of Longelakecreek
was in town yesterday on visit tc
his pard, the Honest Granger of the
Hill. (The latter refers to Tom
Kelly, who was fellow Slope pic.
neer with young Donnie's father,
"OId Don" in the middle los ;.
Several claim-huuters have beer
looking over the lay of the land in
the Williamsport country this week
-. (This is the first time the senior
editor has prepared the Pioneer
Days" columns-the idea of the re.
publication having been originated
and the work done by the junior
chap-and it surely causes ones
thoughts to bark back to the old
days, even after the work of rewrit-
ing the items has ended. There
weren t many conveniences and COM
forts in those days; but everybody
seemed to be as happy and contented
as people here generally are at the
present time.)