Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-06-17
FACTS ABOUT THE
FL|CkERTAIL STATE

Williston.-A\ new site has been
purchased by the Williams County |
State bank and new building will be
erected very soon.
Reeder.-Nine pupils We're present
ed with diplomas at the graduating
, exercises of the high school held last
Friday evening
| Wahpeton.-Th school of science
closed last week, Rev. c. e. Vermilya
of Bismarck. delivered the principal
address at the commencement eXer-
cises.
Stanley.-The annual meeting of the
Sunday schools of Nountrail county
was held in this city on Tuesday and
Wednesday. An interesting program
had been arranged for each day.
LaNIoure.-The second annual sum-
mer camp for boys will be held June
IS to 25, at the horseshoe bend of the
James river, four miles north Of Grand
Rapids, under the supervision of the
Y. NJ. c. A.
Devils Lake.-Frank II. Hyland,
state senator of Ramsey county who
has been sick in st. Paul hospital for
two months with heart trouble. IS i'm
proving, according to reports received
here.
Cooperstown.-The 192O-1921 faculty
of the public schools was selected ut
recent meeting of the board. Super
intendent Il. E. Hans will remain at
the head of the system. The only
| position remaining to be filled is that
of the manual training department.
Carrington.-At the convention Of
the independent Republican forces
held in this city, Il county ticket was
endorsed for Foster county, with L. A.
Roach of Bordulac, as the candidate
for the state legislature, paired with
j.. NJ. Langley of Warwick.
Gwinner.-A post of the American
Legion is being organized here. At
the first meeting all the required sig
natures We're obtained but three, and
it is thought that there will be very
little difficulty in getting the other
.three signatures.
i Fargo.-Frank Robert and George
Smith, who sawed their way out of
the Clay county jail in Moorhead
NSAC lCNttptulCu VII d SoullllS lptO
! near Blanchard in Trail county They
were brought to this city and lodged
in the Cass county Jail.
Fl Yates.-At business meeting
Of the Tribune, committees of the
various districts of the Standing Rock
Indian reservation, officers were elect
ed and other matters of interest to
the tribe as a whole We're taken up
and discussed.
! Bottineau.-The two-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. II. NJ. Owen lost his life
when he fell into an old cellar and
drowned He went out of the house
unnoticed, stepped on the covering Of
the cellar and fell in when the cover
tipped.
Minot -Sheriff Schotied has re-
turned from Ryder. where he investi-
gated the case of z. Melnick, Rus
sian farmer, who was reported to have
mistreated his wife. NIelnicks two
little girls were burned to death when
the barn caught on fire early in May.
Understandable Western Electric
company of this city, has made an
application to the state railroad COM
missioners for increased rates for
steam. They are asking for an adj
vance of approximately so. per cent.
The company asserts in its petition
that during the first four months bust
ness they lost $1,S0O because the rates
were inadequate.
Williston.-Aliss Abigail Stebbins,
. county nurse, met with serious acct
dent when she was driving her car
between Grenora and Hanks. She was
going down steep hill when the car
left the road and rolled over twice
down steep embankment, pinning
her beneath it. Miss Stebbins was
rescued by people living nearby and
taken to Grenora for medical atten.
ton.
Williston-The United States de.
partment of agriculture has assigned
r. Van Evera, an expert irrigation
worker, to aid the farmers owning
land under the irrigation project to
handle the irrigation work properly
He will spend the entire summer in
this district, and is available to the
farmers in advising them as to the
proper ditching of their land and
other matters concerning the irriga
ton of their land. The pumping sta
ton has been overhauled during the
winter months, and is prepared fol
the opening of the irrigation season
Bismarck. The decision of the
United States Supreme court, uphold
ing the state tax on the corporate ex
cess Of a company Incorporated under
the laws of the state, but having it!
manufacturing plant in another state
is an important decision financial!
for the state Of North Dakota TIL,
Cream Of Wheat company agains
which the Supreme court decided, will
pay probably. s$75 900 tax. dating from
1909, About 80, per cent Of this ia,
will go to Grand Forks county, tn
plaintiff in the suit.
Devils Lake. ~ Paving operations
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