Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1914-01-01

Houtu VI 10. ne WanLe0 claim
and a location Tor cobbler-shop.
But. as Mr.. Goughnour told him--af.
ter ne had grumbIed at the country
and the several claims that Mr.. G.
had described to him that were we'll
iocated-.he wanted "a claim with a
peach orchard on it," By the time
we reached distance that we
thought ought to be in the Williams
port vicinity we were mud clear up
to the half-soles of our trowsers.
Reaching the top of hill about a
mile distant from a cluster of four
or five Imprinted frame buildings, l
said. THAT must be Williamsport."
Williamsport?" said he; "but
where the ellis the bloody town."
He was disguised and went back to
Bismarck next day.
As a result of the trip / ordered
the print-shop material from Chica-
go. and my wife and myself took up
residence on our presumption in Bu-
chanan's Valley to awrit the coming
of the outfit. We waited and wait
ed, and made several trips to Bis
marck for it. One day | was again
interviewing Agent Davidson at Bis
marck about my lost outfit when
man in the office who proved to be the
agent in charge of the warehouse ut
the river. said: "Why, there's print
shop at the landing. It's been there
about five weeks. | didn't know
where to send it,"
There were many discomforts.
discouragements and drawbacks at
first, and am certain should have
quit had it not been for my wife.
She.never lost faith for minute.
That this country would make con-
tinuous progress seemed to her to be
absolutely certain. She travelled
the county with her pony and buck
board getting up subscription list,
and through her efforts the Record
for years carried many columns of
Bismarck advertising - until the
time came that Emmons county had
plenty of .we!l-supplied stores of its
own. Old settlers now in the county
remember how she worked to make
the paper success. But she was
not to live tosee the Emmons county
of later day. She died in Decem-
Der. 1889, when Frank Streeter was
twenty months old, week after the
birth of our daughter, who lived to
bea year old.
| The day | left Bismarck for En-
mons county weighed 15G pounds,
and, unlike it would be to-day with
200 plus, walking was no great job.
was between thirty-fve and thirty
six years old. Twas in the young
man class. l will be sixty-six next
August. am an old man now.
am tired of the constant grind of
publishing newspaper. With my
civil-war pension, supplemented by a
moderate income from other sources,
| can, with reasonable economy and
barring long sickness. see my way
clear. Then. what's the use of
bothering with a newspaper during
the probably few years of life?
After my death the paper would
have gone to my son Frank. Why
not let him begin the work now?
He was born and brought up in En-
mons county. He is young and ac-
tive. He was practically raised in
a print-shop," and he certainly
ought to succeed. Instead of the
seventy-five subscribers the Record
began with thirty years ago, it now
has more than a thousand. And
other branches of the business have
correspondingly increased.
1 nm
| With this issue of the Record my
connection with it ceases. The en-
tire business and editorial work will
be in charge Of my son, who has
purchased my half of the business.
If at any which will surely
not be often--an article is written
by me for the paper, it will have
my name attached. In taking leave
OF the people for whom / have writ
ten during the past thirty years. 1
wish to assure them that in my
Judgment this state is just entering
its real period Of progress. The
time is not far off when this will
be one of the leading dairy
states of the Union. Already.
plants are building to convert
our Ignite coal into briquettes,
which are the equal of anthra-
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