Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1914-12-03

sing board As the official count
stood. Lynn won by thirteen votes.
! With the above correction he would
have hut three the best of the argu.
ment. number sufficiently close to
warrant recount. Such recount
would also make Official the change
in the above account. Mr.. Coven-
Try has until the eighteenth Of this
month to determine whether or not
to ask for the recount. In any
event, il! makes it pretty close
shave for the winner. 1t was easy
orun down the discrepancy from
the fact that the total vote of Lynn
and Coventry showed larger total
than the number of votes cast in the
precinct.
Thursday Of last week was the
most perfect Thanksgiving day that
the Dakotas have seen in many a
year. In fact. people living here
agree that they cannot remember
when Thanksgiving day was so
perfect. Linton presented rather
deserted appearance during the day
while the townspeople enjoyed their
turkey and cranberry sauce. In the
evening. however. the dance at the
opera house brought them oui and a
most enjoyable dance it was. Tenn
vik was we'll represented there, too.
On Thursday. November 26th
Thanksgiving Day.. the wedding of
Miss Eva Schafer and Mr.. Gottli,b
Bechtle. Jr.. was solemnized in the
German Evangelical church in Lin
ton. the place of worship being
crowded with friends and relatives
of the well-known young couple.
Mr.. Bechtle is son of Gottlieb
Bechtle. Of the Linton Leader store,
and is himself one of the proprie-
tors. The bride is the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Schafer. of Lin
ton. and ls well known to all. After
the wedding the young couple de-
parted for South Dakota pointe.
They will be at home in their house
In Northeast Linton.
Several weeks ago the Record an.
nounced that after the fifteenth Of
November all subscribers OF more
than year in arrears woaId hear
from collection agency to whom
the accounts had been given. That
agency is now u, work and the edi.
tor is receiving some of the sweet.
est. most enlearIng missives which
offended dignity can devise, This
does not apply to all such accounts.
but to small portion of them.
Numbers of those who have received
letters from the agency have paid
up and admitted that they were at
fault. Anyway, the Record list is
fast becoming q paid-up account.
By the first of the year we expect TO
be in position to comply absolute
ly with the postal regulations pro-
hibiting the sending of newspapers
to persons who are not paid up with
in one year of date. Things get
sort O. warm around here at
times and we do not propose to give
some ill-natured gentleman q chance
to put postal inspector on our trail
and possibly be refused the use Of
the mails. Hence, it is case ofget
the bad accounts paid up. Some
i two hundred names were turned
over for collection. Many Of them
) the writer believed should be per.
fectly good. Others could only b.
collected through miracle. Witt
q thousand accounts on the books il
ia impossible to view each one in {
personal manner. If they are with
in the limit. we'll and good. If not
they must be collected. Incidental
/ lily. it might be Of interest to know
that the two hundred accounts men
I TONER totalled 81, 029. 80. or an aver
|: age of SIS each.
{ In this weeks issue Of the Recsr'