Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-09-30

Minot-An acre of parks for every
100 people is this city's achievement.
Bowbells-A company of 40 farmers
las bought the First State bank.
Fargo-The number Of state pro-
libition officers has been increased.
Grand Forks-A "better home" in
>titute will be held here in January.
Carrington-Two mail sacks adj
dressed to Sanish and Courtenay were
@ifled.
New England-Nliss Maud l.. Batty
will run for treasurer of Hettinger
county.
Sanish-The 500 road viii rebuild
the stockyards washed away last
spring.
Melville-Oats on the Charles Myers
farm went 1O9 bushels to the acre on
| IS acres.
CooperstOwn-Their golden wedding
was recently celebrated by Mr.. and
Mrs. Il. c. Cooper.
Observation-Disclosures cable is
being laid by the Red River Valley
Telephone company.
Dickinson-iaying off $4,000 Of
water works bonds leaves this city
practically free of debt.
Mayville-A soil survey of Trail
county made by the federal govern
ment has been published
Langdon-AIaX King purchased from
J. H. Byfield 200 acres for $4,000, at
the rate Of $500 per acre.
Nome-The proposition of bonding
Barnes county for soldier memorial
will be on the fall ballot.
Alexander-When his horse leaped
from 25-foot bank Wallace Ross sus-
tanned dislOcuted shoulder.
Am!don-Farmers are seeking to
have hunters spare the prairie chick
ems as defense against grasshoppers.
McClusky-This place and Goodrich
are being considered as the location
for Mennonite theological seminary.
Linton-One hundred thousand dol
lars We're expended this year in new
and improved residences and business
blocks. ,
Auburn-Edward Lykeen, 81, died as
a result of being crushed between the
belt and the fywheel of threshing
outfit.
Fargo-The heavy rainfalls of late
have damaged grain and delayed the
harvest throughout the eastern part of
the state.
Bowbells-Mrs. Clarence Carey has
been appointed Burke county superin-
tendent of schools. succeeding c. b,
Hecht, resigned.
Williston-A farmer found two dead
deer with locked horns in the Missouri
bottom]ands. There was evidence of
a terrific struggle.
Wahpeton-The Indian school en-.
rollment has reached 200 and the in.
stitution is classed as one of the best
in the United States.
Donnybrook- new silos were
built in this vicinity the past season
and their filling is source of amuse.
ment to hundreds of persons.
FOrman-An Aberdeen-Angus bull
valued at $4,000 was killed by light,
ming on the farm of Livy Johnson
The animal was insured for $1,000.
Carson-Robert H. Nicely, attorney
has been commissioned captain in
the United States regular army and
will report to Fort Keogh, Montana.
Rhame-Jennie Oakland, eight, was
shot and killed when the trigger of q
shotgun her brother was carrying
caught in his clothes and the weapon
was discharged.
| Grand Forks-Enrollment at the
state university will approximate 1900
Among several new additions to the
faculty is Clarence Perkins, A.. NJ,
Phi. D., who heads the newly created
department Of European history.
Grafton-Farmed without rest
from 1873 to 1919 and then cultivated
intensively for the purpose of killing
sow thistle, 3O-aere tract of land
here produced this year a fax yield Of
932 bushels or 81 bushels to the acre
Steele ~ Thirty-seven bushels >ol
wheat to the acre on u acres is the
yield on which Kidder county bases
its claim to the state championship
| H. Behrnson harvested the crop, 1t be
Ing Kubanka wheat sown on millet
land.
Bismarck-One telephone is in use
in North Dakota for every ten per
sons. There are 1883 telephone com
panies with 1865 subscribers. More
than q million and half miles OF wire
are strung on 27,7OO miles of pole line
to accommodate these phone users.
Balfour-This city is joining Other
progressive places in. northwestern
North Dakota in building boom. A
$57, 600 school house will be built
Grenora gets $4,000 school, Wild
rose a $4,000 one, Plaza $4,000
addition to the school and Columbus
a $4,000 addition to the school.
Rolla-The theft of an auto Il
thought to have been the motive FOL
the murder of two men, about 80 years
old, in a field near here. Later
Sylvester Snyder, alias William Bass
Of Sioux City, Iowa, has confessed te
the murder of Earl and Archie Fletcher
having been arrested at Minnewaukau
l oftor u6n v.0S fn,1nd In, hio Ford