Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1914-12-24

clinging desperately to the sides Of
the basket. Saturday night. De-
cember 26th, ut the Electric Thea
ter. Two eels.-Adv.
Marriage licenses issued by Judge
Carley since last report are as fol-
lows: Reinhold K. Batter, of Ha.
z Ron. and Miss Edna MacLachIan,
of braddock; A. F. Lesmei.ter and
Mary PETE. both of Strasburg;
Lawrence Sandwich. Of Temvik, and
Miss Hilda Vauderberg, nf Linton.
Manager Turner has at last Sc
cured moving-picture feature that
it is safe to say has never been
shown in town of like size, "The
Million-Dollar Mystery" in serial
moving-pictures. Forty-six reels to
the story, two reels each Saturday
night. First show Saturday. Dec.
26th. Usual prices: 10 and 20
cents. Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McCrory left
Saturday noon for Long Beach. Cal. i,
where they will spend the rest of
the winter. returning to their Lin
ton home in The spring. The Nc
Crory's are another family of pio-
neers VINO stood by Dakota and who
can take a trip" each winter for
the sake of enjoyment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kelsch, who
have been in Montana for some time
on account of the state of Mrs.
Kelsch'a health. arrived home Sat
urday night. Clemens keIsch,
their son, who is a senior in the law
school at the state university. Joined
them at Mckenzie and will visit at
home until after the holidays.
MAN and His Mate" and "Our
Sally were the bills at the local
opera house Thursday and Friday
nights of last week. The shows
were we'll up to standard of the at
fractions that make" these smaller
towns. After the show Friday
night a dance was given which
proved to he fair success financial
ly and which appeared to be fully
enjoyed by those attending.
A crew of men are busy in put
ting up new yard buildings for the
Welles- Thompson company in Lin
ton. The new plant is to be compo-
sition of tire.pro0f and non-pro0f
buildings that will absolutely pro
tect either as menace to other pro-
pertv or in danger from fires from
such source. The buildings are
modelled after an entirely new plan.
the yards at Hague being the same
and the first of the new order.
During the past week the collec-
ton agency which has been handling
some of the old subscription &C.
counts on our books returned pay
ment for some thirty or forty per-
sons who had RENTED to them.
We are pleased to find the payments
being made so freely and we are
further pleased by the fact that but
six or seven cancelled their subscrip-
ton when making payment.
Mrs. l.. A. Bird. giving her home
as Sioux Falls, s. D., was in Linton
one day last week selling numbers
on shawls to raise funds. She stat.
ed that she had Pix small children to
support and was without funds.
Linton has had considerable num-
Der Of visitors who were asking
charity this year. but Mrs. Bird was
the first one of the female gender.
She did quite we'll. financially, how
ever.
VIM. Cleveringa was up from West
field on business Friday. While
here he asked as to the status of he
pending contest over the Office of
states attorney. 1t seems that he
applied at Strasburg polling place
on election day to vote. and was
refused, also the right to swear
in his vote. Mr.. Cleveringa
had been appointed to serve as
republican Judge al Strasburg, but
was ruled out by the election board
and Alexander Walther was picked
to fill the position, instead.
In the good old days when the
former editor of this moral lever
was wont to gambol on snowy white
at 80 below that gentleman invested
some fifty or sixty dollars in a fur
overcoat. Outside Of doing duty
at a couple of Legislative sessions,
the coat has seen but. little wear.
Now. it's owner has gone to war
mer place--this is not a g Sntle way
of reporting his demise. But he has
gone to sunny Florida to make his
home and the overcoat is one of the
things he doesn't need. 1t is for