Emmons County record., 1914-09-17

gwen away. n. =. raul won IlFst,
d crate Of peaches; Winnie Bates.
second. five tickets; R. Quasi. third.
dishea.. and Grace Dawson, forth
dishes.t 'f's'', .'tst
English and German auction bills
printed promptly at this Office. The
sales are commencing. Get your
sale under way before they have
been so frequent that the public
loses interest.
Mahlcn Mohn. one of the right
hand men in the local barber shop,
was in Hazelton last week helping
out Barber Bradburg. who was on
the sick list with pneumonia.
ICY" spent four or FIVE days in the
town up the line.
A call for the bank statements
was issued for last Saturday and the
reports of the local and neighboring
banks will appear in the Record
next week. There will be seven Of
them now, one at Hague, one at
Temvik, two at Strasburg and three
at Linton.
Cement sidewalk is being laid this
week in front of the property just
north of Turner's hotel. which COM
pletes the walk in that block. Lin
ton shows up much better now than
it did before the recent activity in
sidewalk building and street i'm
provement.
A letter from NJ. M. Black. of
Charter Oak, Iowa, who owns half
section of land near Hague, writes
the Record that Iowa has been ex-
periencinRS steady rains for about
two weeks, accompanied by hard
winds. which are injuring grain
crops in shock to great extent.
Aug. Obermeier and family have
rented the place at one time occu-
pied by Tom O'Brien as feed store
and will reside there temporarily.
1t is to the north of the Turner no.
tel. Mrs. G. A. Broman. of Cali
fornia. formerly owned it and but
recently sold to Edward Breddock.
The price of wheat has taken a
sudden unexplained slump and
about 81 cents is the price instead
of $1.08 which was the high mark
here this year. A considerable
amount of grain was stored when
the price had gone down around
the dollar mark. Now it is worth
about a tenth still less.
Linton and Emmons county peo-
pie will be pleased to hear that Gus
Daffinrud, formerly Of this place, is
again North Dakota resident. Af-
ter some time at Morristown and
later at Stacy, MINI = has moved
to the town of Hazen west Of the
river where he is installing mod.
ern up-to-date hardware store.
| Don l.. Tracy spent Sunday at the
home of his parents in the Dale
| country. Don's father, H. P, has
some of the finest corn ever grown
in the country. He states that 6
number of farmers of the Dale
neighborhood have expressed deer
disappointment because the annua
county fair has been passed up this
year.
| Attorney Scott Cameron returned
last week from Montana where hi
accompanied his family on thei,
way to the home of Mrs. Cameron.
parents. While in Montana Mr.
C. met John Owens, formerly O.
A Linton, who is operating a paper IL
Montana in the heart of the final
proof country which is making hin
big money.
4 The Record is informed that ,
i daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs
George Acheson. of the Dale, coun
4 try, on Tuesday night of last week
George was formerly chief tonsoria
artist in tine Britts barber shop, an,
backstop on the local baseball team
and the many friends of himself an,
wife will be pleased to hear Of tn
new arrival.
! Last week the Record man sen
out the annual grist of statement
of account. Already the return
.ilIhave been most liberal. However
j some of those from whom we ar
| most desirous Of hearing financial
1 have failed to "come across. w
tlare eliminating some of the ba
j ones and viii turn off more later
!, Come in and pay your bill. Then yo
i won't have a chance to get mad 9
the printer because he took you
: name off his list.
$ Hon. W. 3. Purcell. one tin