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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-12-02
CATS AS DOMESTIC PETS
many Famous Men Have Boon Fond
OF the Animals and Made Them
Their Companions.

from an esthetic point OF view the
Persian cat is a perfect being. Its
me, long. silky hair might, II woven.
serve to robe Queen NAB. The neck.
run, the feathered" ears and feet.
the falling whiskers and the squirrel.
like tail of milk-white Persian tabby
make it q thing Of ideal beauty. The
hand longs to stroke 1t down. Ae IL is
. creature OF ready sympathies, and
not suspicious, II is glad to BIO ca.
ressed. Perhaps It Is not 80 inteIli.
gent as the tiger.striped cat. but It Ia
quicker to lend itself to the ways Of
kind master or mistress.
French men are even greater anna.
teurs OF cats than French women. who
resemble them in SO many things. A
cat was suffered by Richelien to nurse
Its kittens in his cardinals hat.
Mazarin (but he was an Italian) used
70 stroke down cat that he kept IN
his arms when debating to his d,plo.
matte secretaries.
The only domestic ANNA! Victor
Hugo would allow in his house wns n
cat. because "domesticity did not cur.
tail its liberty" Ho had at Guernsey
a slate 1olored Maltese, with q black
muzzle and a black end to its tail.
which (the cat. and not the ta,l)
used to sit on his desk when ne was
writing.
Tho black cat is tho least apt to
scratch. 1t got bad name when old
women were burned for witchcraft,
and sometimes, because suspected
OF being evil spirits in feline guise,
shared their fGsy fate.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-12-02
Boat That vanlshss.

A mysterious thing about the
Thames. which no amount Of police
supervision viii destroy. is the ghost
boats which have been, and are. fire.
quently seen in various parts OF tho
river. 1t is a fact that river police
patrols have actually given chase 10
such ghost ships. to find there il moth
Ing substantial to be found on reach.
ing the place where the ships had
seemed to be.
Ono o. tho most curious stories OF
this kind Is that OF the mysterious
boa. which WAS seen making it's way
along tho water toward London bridge
ono day, about quarter Of century
ago. As she neared the bridge there
was tremendous explosion, a vivid
burst OF light, and then--nothing!
Not 80 much as splinter Of wood re.
manned OF the boat which had been.
and the story OF it fingers from
that day TO this as one Of the hun.
dreds OF tragic unknown things which
form the secrets Of the river or mys.
terry.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-12-02
THE LINTON Markets.
Glen Turner went to Aberdeen
Monday for a short visit.

Glen Turner went to Aberdeen
Monday for a short visit.
Joe Volk, Jr., was up from his
farm in the Winona country
Monday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. H. J..
Mayer, of Linton, a daughter, on
Nov. 10Th.
Mrs. G. A. Herolz went to
Minneapolis Tuesday for a visit
with friends.
Have you paid your ssubscrip-
ton account to this paper? If
not, why not?
Oswald Naurnann was down
from the Temvik country Mon
day on business.
Mrs. F. B. Streeter entertains
the members of the Priscilla
Club this afternoon.
Mrs. c. O. Smith entertained
the Episcopal Guild at her home
yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. H. E. Paul went to Bis
nlarck Tuesday morning for a
short visit at the Capital City.
Miss Erna Beck, Of Iceland
was guest at the Ketchum and
Brokofsky homes ovar Sunday.
Cam. Chamley spent Sunday in
Linton visiting friends and dis
posing Of grain at the local ele::
vatOrs.
Bernhard Braun, of the Stras-
burg neighborhood came to Lin
ton to have his eyes treated by
DR.. Wolverton.
Carl Vorlander went to James
town Sunday to get a new Blu
ick six" Theo. Bremen took
him to Sterling by auto and the
rest of the trip was made by
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-12-02
River Of Iranadx.

Just as no other river has quite
the same wonder as belongs to the
Thames. 80 no other river is wrapped
In mystery, SO surrounded with stories
OF tragedy and crime, London An.
swers says.
Many OF the old waterslds houses,
which rise sheer with the river, con.
tain rooms In which the floor Is built
directly over the water-aoors upon
which one could stand In apparently
perfect safety while someone In an
adjacent room worked q lever which
caused the floor to open and their
victim to drop into the river.
A gambling club is said to have met
In such room once q year to play
for tremendous stakes. Tho party
played on until one OF their monitors
was ruined. Then tho rest OF the
men went away In silence, while the
ruined man went down into the dark
waters.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-12-02
IN TOWN AND OUT

rail. Carl brought the new car
home Monday.
Mrs. L. d. Seeman was among
the many Lintonites to visit at
the Capital City during the past
week.
Some Of the musically inclined
of town are planning to organize
a chorus of some thirty voices in
the near future.
| Mrs. Ben Mathews of the 1.-Two
ma country, came to Linton Mon
day, to have her eyes examined
and glasses fitted by DR.. VOL
verton.
Ike Blore has been appointed
permanent driver for the rural
route running east from Linton.
Chas. Lipps was temporary
driver.
|. t. CLANCY finished up his
thrashing on his farm northeast
of town last week and reports a
very satisfactory yield. He was
in town Monday.
The Ladies Guild of the Epis-
copal Church will hold a sale of
fancy articles on Saturday, Dec
ember 18th, in the law Offices of
Lynn & Lynn.--Adv.
Mrs. John Shenkenberger and
infant child are back from Bis
marck where the little one had
been receiving medical treat
ment. 1t is somewhat improved.
VIM. Macnider was up from
his Emmonsburg home Monday.
Mr.. Macnider doesn't get to
town very often, but his many
friends are glad to see him when
he does.
This week the Record sample
copies of the booster-week edi-
ton which were not sold are be-
ing mailed out to various adj
dresses, both in and out of the
county.
Attorney Clemens Kelsch left
Monday for Mandan where he is
employed in the law Office of R.
N. Stevens. Clemens was here
to spend Thanksgiving with
home folks.
Miss Nettie Gibbs left Tuesday
noon for her home in Illinois.
She has been visiting her rel
atives, A. C. and C. F. Wagner,
for some time in Linton and filed
on a homestead while here.
Mrs. VIM. Muench entertained
the following at dinner at her
home on Monday evening of this
week: Mr.. and Mrs. Herolz, Mr..
and Mrs. Van Horn, Miss Jessie
Anderson and Mrs. Anderson
S. E. Beddow, a former resi-.
dent of the Omio country, left
Tuesday for his home at White
tail, Mont, after visit here of a
couple of weeks. He is well
pleased with his new location.
w. E. Petrie returned from one
Of the Bismarck hospitals Tues
day night. He is not improved
to any great extent and only a
long rest from business cares is
said to be his hope Of recovery.
Mrs. w. E. Petrie spent
Thanksgiving with her husband
lin Bismarck where he was re-
ceiving medical treatment at one
of the hospitals. Mrs. Petrie re-
turned to Linton Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. C. Hermann
and little daughter arrived Sat
urday from Mondak, Mont, and
will soon make their home on
the Brooks farm out at Honstain
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-12-02

Lake, Mrs, Hermann is a former
Liflt5nits and was Miss Emma
Brooks before her marriage.
Theo. Meinhover, of the Tenn.
vik neighborhood, spent Monday
in Linton on business. He has
been operating a thrashing rig all
fall, but has finished up this
week.
Mrs. Scott Cameron spent
Monday in Bismarck. She &C.
companied Mrs. ]. D. Fuller that
far on her return home to Tuttle
this state, after a short visit in
Linton.
Mrs. ]. d. Fuller, a former Lin
tonite now living at futile, in
Kidder county, spent several
days last week with old Linton
friends. She was the guest Of
lMr. and Mrs. Scott Cameron
while here.
"The Tenth Commandment" at
the opera house Thursday night
did not do any land-office bust.
ness. The plot of the play was
fairly good and a couple of the
| actors did well. The others were
but mediocre.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Junge had
as their guests over Thankseiy'
ling Miss Ada Atlla, sister of Mrs
Junge, from Ortonville, and Mr.
Richardson, of Minneapolis.
Miss Atha is teaching school in
| one of the towns near her home.
The Record understands that
Thos. Jones has secured control
of the opera house by taking
over the VIM. Carmichael inter
ests. The opera house is owned
by a stock company and the
stock is scattered far and wide.
A marriage license was issued
to John Schiermeister and Ida
Reimer, of the Horsehead Valley,
The young people are the chill
dren of Fred Schiermeis.er and
Gustav Reimer, respectively, two
Of the early settlers of Emmons
county.
The young people having club
rooms under ,..c postolllce invit.
ed themselves to a fine Thanks
giving dinner last Thursday
night which was served in the
Club rooms. Eight members and
some invited guests were mem
bers Of the party.
]. Buttery, manager of the Far
mers' Elevator at Linton, in
forms the writer that approx
mately half the crop tributary to
this town has been marketed.
He estimates that some 100000
bushels of all kinds of grains
have been shipped from here up
to Thanksgiving.
The funeral of the infant son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Mum was
held at Herreid last Sunday. The
little one died at the Mum home
| in Idaho and the remains were
shipped to Herreid for burial.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Benedict and
Miss Christine PudWill went to
Herreid to attend the funeral.
We realize that the present
year has been a late one for crop
returns for the farmers. How
ever grain is nearly all thrashed
and the time for the annual
cleaning up of accounts is at
hand. To those who owe the
Record for one full year or more
we ask an early settlement
Newspapers, like. many other
conveniences, are expensive at.
fairs to put out. Prompt pay
ment Of subscription accounts
are necessary to properly main.
tain the business. Later, we will
5Iuse our old method of sending all
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-12-02

You had better call at Smiths
Studio and look over those leath.
er novelties. They make splen
did Christmas gifts.--Adv.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-12-02

unpaid accounts to a collection
agency. 1t is our desire, though
to give all ample time and notice
before doing so--not because they
might otherwise become offend.
ed, but because it costs us TWEEN
ty-hve per cent for collection
charges under those conditions
A number of Linton friends of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Herolz were
entertained by them at Sunday
dinner last Sunday at the Lintor
House. Goose and duck were
the features of a most excellent
repast which all enjoyed.
A big "hochseit" dance was
held in the opera house Friday
night to celebrate the marriage
of Fred Flegel and Elizabeth
Fuehr. There was a big crowd
present, the general public being
welcome. Tickets at fifty cents
each paid the expenses, ETC., and
there was a big time generally.
H. N. Turner, of the Turner
Hotel, served a fancy Thanks
giving dinner for seventeen who
were the guests of E. A. Grain.
1t consisted of five courses and
was served in style. Those who
were guests of Mr.. Grain were as
follows: Messrs. and Mesdames
G. A. Herolz, H. E. Paul, w. O..
Irwin, Harry Petrie, Charles S.
Lane, R. J. Grain, H. N. Turner,
w. c. Wolverton.
John Tough is arranging to 60
to a warmer climate for the win
ter. By that statement we do
not mean to convey the impress
sion that he is contemplating sui
eide. However, he is investigat-
ing living conditions both west
and south. He has written a
letter to D. r. Streeter, at Lynn
Haven, Fla, and may decide to
60 to that town to reside until
spring.
Peter Nelson brought VIM.
Nelson, Harry Madsen and Greg
DRY Maerum to Linton Monday
from which point they took the
train south. VIM. Nelson goes
to Webster, S. d., and the other
gentlemen are bound for Oak
Harbor, Ohio, to spend the win
ter. They will visit at Center
vile, S. D., while on their way to
the eastern state.
The local lodge of Freemasons
held their annual election at their
regular meeting last week. The
officials elected for the ensuing
year are as follows: w. NJ, Scott
Cameron; S. w., Earl Atha; ]. w.,
F. B. Streeter; Sec, w. C. VOL
verton; Treas, A. N. Junge.
These, with the appointive off
Gals, will be installed at the next
regular meeting,
The local high-school basket
ball team and three staunch fans
went to Ashley Thanksgiving
day for game with the Ashley
boys. They made no great i'm
preston in the Mcintosh county
town. The score was 81 to 9, the
short.end of the score going to
the visitors. The members of
the team were George Hender-
son, Mahlin Mohn. Oscar Mohn,
Walter Mohn and Earle Haggard.
Julius Timmcke, Ed. Rocks and
Donald Paul accompanied them.
A change in lumber company
circles which has been arranged
for some time took effect yester-
day when the Carpenter Lumber
Company took over the yards of
the old Goodridge-Call concern.
The Record understands that the
local management will remain
unchanged. However, Grant
Call, who has been auditor for
this district, with headquarters
at Bismarck, will be transferred
to Great Falls, Mont, where he
will be employed by the new
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1915-12-02
Cruel peeeptlon.

What caused the rift In the Inter"
"She's arst-class cook"
What did that have to do With 1T.
Shed been making him think all
along that she couldn't bosi wasa-..s
, 1915-05-20

ant to desert his cat, leaving it dependent upon
hunting for a living.
Optimists who still believe that cat nature may
be educated or restrained, suggest that bells and
bright ribbon be placed on pussy SO that a warn
ing will precede her fatal spring. Others advo-
cate that the poles or trees on which bird houses
are placed should be sheathed in tin or wrapped
in barb wire to prevent the cat from climbing
up and destroying the half-grown n%estlings before
they can fly to safety. A thorny rose bush is
advised by another humane person; but the ever
present cynic thinks it much better to plant the
cat at the roots of the rose bush. where he is
sure in time to evolve into harmless fertilizer,
, 1915-05-20
The Bird Or the Cat?

The Bird or the Cat?" has become a scratch
ing subject which is making the feathers fly IN
many a heretofore peaceful neighborhood. Bird
lovers who have attempted to establish sanctu
aries for their %feathered friends have been COM
PEELED to revise their visiting lists according to
where her royal %highness. Tabbykins. holds sway.
The bird man who has found to his sorrow that
any bird and cat combination means catastrophe,
even while he is taking the mangled body of the
little feathered tenant, that he has worked Tor
months to attract. from the clutches of the inno-
cent-looking, fluffy, four-footed murderer, will be
assailed by the catOwner, who Indignantly de-
clares that while other low-bred creatures may
catch birds. she knows her own blue-blooded
darling Fluffykins is too well bred and too well
fed to do such a deed!
NaturalIsts statistically rank the felis domes-
ticus as third in the Understanding agents, hold.
ing every roaming cat responsible for the lives of
at least fifty birds a year, A game warden who
reports 200 quail killed by a mother cat in less
than a year on the game preserve advocates the
wholesale determination of cats under the super.
vision of a game warden.
The value of the cat to catch mice or rats is
disputed by a bird enthusiast, who maintains that
this Nero of the animal world will hush forever
the joyous song of any little feathered chorister
simply for his own amusement when not in need
of food. When he dimes he goes after a cold bird
in preference to any other delicacy. and will
catch mice or rats only as a last resort to keep
from starving.
The most serious Arrangement against both the
domestic and stray cat is made by the boards
of health, who have found these animals to be
carriers of scarlet fever. diphtheria and other
diseases most fatal to their human associates.
A successful business man says that If a cat
kills a little chicken in the yard of the average
farmer, the cat is made away with. If the four.
footed hunter comes home with a quail, he is
petted; yet the quail is of greater economic value
to the farmer than is either the cat or the
chicken. He thinks, for humane reasons, the wild
or stray cat left on abandoned farms should be
put out of the way.
A cat-a-comb, where feline providers may be laid
permanently to rest, is considered a necessary
adjunct to every bird sanctuary by a bird con-
servationist, who has tried. without success, vari.
GUS methods to prevent cats from killing helpless
song and insectivorous birds SO valuable to man.
Another long sufferer from cat depredations con
siders a nearby deeper bath, in which to i'm
merse and leave the savage depredators. is the
only way in which a bird bath may be maintained.
Some friends of the birds think to license the
cat and hold the owner responsible for his pets
destructiveness will solve not only the vexing cat,
but also the kitten, question. They conclude that
il a person pays for a license he will not be so
, 1915-05-20
MICHIGAN'S PIED PIPER


Michigan has found its Pied Piper
in the person of Representative Har-
vey A. Penney Of Saginaw. serving his
first term in the legislature, who
comes forward with a bill designed to
drive all the rats from the precincts
of the Wolverine state.
Representative Penney, after hav-
ing made ar exhaustive study of the
rat, has failed to discover just what
The rats mission in the world is, but
he has found that the rat breeds in
filth and is dangerous to the, public
health, being a disease carrier just as
are the fly and the mosquito. Besides
this, MI. Penney points to the harm
the rat does to everybody and every
thing with which he ONE in contact
The rat robs the granary as we'll as
the grain in the field, and starts fires
well, everyone knows the innumer-
able sins of which the rat is guilty.
Government reports show that the rat
caused $30,000,0 900 in damage in he
United States last year. The news
-
, 1915-05-20

STRONG MAN or GREECE

Greece's advance toward a real
ization of her national aspirations re-
ceived a momentary check in the re-
tirement of the powerful Premier
Venizelos, whose program of entering
the val on the side of the allies wa
frowned upon by that other hero of
present-day Greece, King Constan.
tine. Few believe, however. that the
differences between the two men who
are to the new Greece what King Vic
tor Emmanuel II and Cavour were to
Italy, will be of very long standing.
The world recognizes in Venizelos
the strong man of Greece who in in
credibly few years has accomplished
so much in rehabilitating the prestige
of his country.
BY means of his new constitution,
adopted after the revolution at Athens
in 1910, venizelos was able to effect the
far-reaching reforms in putting down
political corruption, and creating terri
torially a new Greece. He brought
Crete, Macedonia, Epiros, and the
, 1915-05-20
CHICAGO'S COWBOY MAYOR

1t seems quite fitting that William
Hale Thompson should rule over Chi
cago. the city where the largest stock
yards in the world are located, for he
has been a cowboy inc ranch owner
and has complete knowledge of the
cattle business.
His career az a cowboy started
in 1884, when he was fifteen years old.
He went to Cheyenne, Wyo., to spend
a vacation from school, and from that
time the lure of the plains called him
from Chicago every summer. He rode
the ranges of the Standard Cattle
company in Wyoming, Colorado and
Montana.
Later he purchased a ranch OF his
own in Holt county, Nebraska, and
managed 1t until the death of his ia.
Their, in 1901, forced his return to
Chicago.
Mr.. Thompson is an enthusiastic
yachtsman, and the problem OF max.
ing the lake front the property of the
people and the playground of the city
viii be one Of the important matters /
, 1915-05-20

they display a speed and endurance entirely out
of their ordinary wont. A little sandpiper, which
summers in northern Siberia near the Arctic, hal
to fly over the Himalaya mountains in order to
reach India, where It passes the winter. In doing
this it must rise to heights OF four miles and up
wards to clear the towering ranges. Wilson's
petrol is known to range from the South Ant
arctic ocean to the northern limits of British
America. AS ducks and geese are almost the
only birds whose migrations have been seen In
the daytime, many telescope observations and
instantaneous photographs have been taken OF
them during flight. These observations indicate
that the flight of ducks, particularly teal, must
frequently reach a speed of 100 miles an hour
and over. Even with the slower flying BIRDS II
is possible to cover long stretches in one night,
as the flight seems to be pursued without rest
all through the night" The probable choice
of night for flight is that the day may be de-
voted to feeding. Besides, the dangers OF the
birds of prey, other than owls, are thus avoided.
The ducks that reach this latitude in the spring
are frequently very thin and poor. evidently ow-
ing to the strenuousness of their voyage.
One of the remarkable characteristics of mi
grafton ia the regularity of its annual movement
among the different species, often the same day
each fall and spring marking the departure and
arrival. The flights seem invariably to be IN
focks. whether the species be gregarious or
otherwise. No sooner is the destination reached
than the nongregarious species separate either
singly or in pairs. One exception to this are
robins, which are nongregarious in the North,
hut invariably go in focks in the South. Just
whv some birds of the came species stop in one
latitude while others go farther on is not known.
though probably the question of food supply Is
the determining factor. The whole subject OF
migration is one of the interesting phenomena
in nature which has been a matter Of common
observation for some thousand years and yet of
whose essential nature we have only the scantest
Information.
, 1915-05-20

ion-concerning whose physical basis and nature
we are entirely in the dark. 1t seems to be a
sense common to most animals. 1t is extremely
well developed in horses and dogs. and likewise
in fishes, who year after year come back to the
same stream to spawn. 1t is possessed to a lesser
degree by man, being more pronounced in the
savage than in the civilized man, probably be-
cause in the latter disuse has dulled it's percep-
ton. .
The speed at which birds fly during migration
probably varies according to the natural capacity
of the species. Nevertheless, in such flights
, 1915-05-20
TIRPITZ THE ETERNAL

When historians come to analyze
the great European war and begin to
find out its real causes, say in about
fifty years from now. it would not sur
prise some of the closest students of
these remarkable times IL they were
to discover and put down as Of
the greatest causes Alfred Won Tirpitz,
admiral of the German navy, the crea-
tor of the German navy, and one of
the creators of the German foreign
and domestic policy.
"Tirpitz the Eternal is his name
in Germany. It is "Tirpitz the
Eternal because while the kaiser has
appointed and discharged chancellor
after chancellor, and army and navy
officer after army and navy officer,
Won Tirpitz has gone on forever.
For seventeen years he has been
at the head of the German navy and
for seventeen years he has been un-
fiaggingly at work making it the ex-
traordinarily efficient left arm of Ger
many that 1t is. His career began at
, 1915-05-20
MYSTERIOUS JAGs.

"Boffels says he makes it a rule never to take
a drink before six O'Clock in the evening
"Ahem!",
"Well?'
Il frequently see him full during the day and
I was just wondering If he had hit upon some
way to take his liquor hypodermically."