Emmons County record., 1918-01-10
ROUTE One

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Cor. of the Record, Jan. 9Th. =
E. A. Schuck was business vis-
itor to Strasburg Saturday.
John .Lockart makes regular semi
weekly trips to Linton for supplies
for the Marie store.
Misses Caroline and Olga Horner
drove up to Marie Sunday to visit
their sister, Mrs. Roehrich.
Joe Schlasser sported a heavy,
bran-new skin-lined overcoat last
Sunday.
Frank Roehrich, chorister of st.
Michael's church. has organized
chorus class to practice for choir sing
ing.
Congressman Young is favorine his
farmer constituents with invitations
to draw on him for agricultural liter
ature and garden seed galore.
The many friends of Ferdinand
Gau, the well-known contractor and
builder of school houses, wish he and
his bride much jov and long and
happy welded life.
The new certificate issued by the
Co. Supt.' Office for three months
perfect attendance at school will be
things of beauty and joys forever"
to the delighted recipients thereof.
The most pleasurable event of the
otherwise uneventful week that ush-
cred in the new year, was the appear
ance of the faithful mail carrier as
his rig loomed up through the frozen
fog.
Several farmers on the route who
are so fortunate as to possess ice
houses, are filling them. The ice on
Beaver Creek, and it's tributaries, is
about 18 inches thick and clear as
crystal.
The scribble acknowledges an over
might visit Saturday night from j.
M. Heistand, principal of Marie
school No. 1. "Should auld ac-
quaintance be forgot, and never
brought to mind"
Quite respectable pumber of the
church congregation are taking to
the good old, apostolic means of get
ting to church to avoid exposing the
horses to long wait in the cold,
namely: hiking. "The merciful man
is merciful to his beast"
An animated discussion of the mat
ter of building school house in the
N. E. part of Marie district, occurr-
ed at the regular debating club that
.convenes at the store every Sunday
after prayers. If volume and pitch
of voice would accomplish anything,
there would certainly be something
doing.
The teacher of one of the schools
on the route claims that he is short
quite slice of q months salary,
through some misunderstanding. or
peculiar financeering. He Is evil
IDENTIFY in dilemma, studying wheth-
er Tis BETTER" as Hamlet exclaims,
ito bear the sings and arrows of out
rageous fortune, or to take up arms
against sea of troubles, and by op-
posing end them."
Mr.. John Croasdaile, the scholarly
teacher of Winona district school, has,
we are advised, broken up bach's hall
Housekeeping and become boarder
again. The writer, who is himself
a hopeless old bachelor and ashamed
of it, would suggest to John that he
be warned in time and try to form an
alliance with some fair expert in do
mestic economy and inaugurate
housekeeping in the right way, before
it is everlastingly too late.
The old time subscribers to and ad-
mirers of the Western Educator will
miss it's inspiring monthly visits now
that it is no more. It seems like q
serious reflection on the profession,
if Prof. Crocker felt obliged to sus-
pend it's publication through lack of
support. The writer always looked
upon it as one of the Indispensable
of the teachers aids. There is at
least more than q crumb Of comfort
in the fact that the Rotary is still
published and we hope will continue
to be for many years to come to in.
,terest and delight the children. The
new feature: Suggestions for the
Study Of Reading" will add much te
its interest to teachers, and at least
partially compensate for the loss o1
the magazine.
A member of the staff Of the city
tonsorial .parlors and a certain rail
road man had somewhat strenuous
experience while escorting an inter
esting young educator to! the city
Friday evening Of last week. Whel
ascending the rather step incline o.
Fischer's Hill it seems that the ca,
baked at the forbidding looking
.snow drifts, insisting upon assum
ing the role of q toboggan severa
trips and. to add to their troubles
."glims were d. ned" Finally, how
ever, a friendly farmer loaned then
his stable lantern, and by that home
ly but handy old light the obstinat
car was persuaded to perform it