Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-08-26

Walther.
at the age of IS years. He was pio-
neer of Wyoming and North Dakota
since 1871.
Hankinson.-Of $2O3, 900 levied by
the county commissioners for the COM
ing year $4,000 will be for roads and
$500 for bridges.
AllnOnt.-An unknown man fired q
revolver through the engine cab of
n. P. train No. 4 and scattered glass
over Engineer Flanagan.
Devils Lake-Frank H. Prosser, 62,
former probate Judge and member of
the state house of representatives,
died suddenly of heart failure.
Mandan.-A permanent exhibit of
Morton county and West Slope prod
ucts will be made in the club rooms
of the Mandan Commercial club.
Grafton.-An inspection of several
potato fields in this vicinity by farm
,ers and business men disclosed that
potatoes thrive better when the seed
has been treated.
Fargo-AIiss Philomine Duvaelheus,
%, has arrived from Antwerp, Bel
GUM, and will become the bride of
Henry L. Nystul, eX-service man. They
met in French hospital.
Bismarck.-The state bonding fund
of $4,000 is being gradually with
drawn from the Bank Of North Da-
kota and deposited in local bank de-
pOsitOries where the money is most
needed.
Fargo.-"Hold grain on the farms
for higher prices" is the advice Of
j. A. McGovern, manager Of the North
Dakota Mill and Elevator association.
He says marketing it at once tends to
drive prices down.
Officers of the Meridian
Road association from Kansas City,
will visit Wahpeton. They will be
met in Sisseton. S. D., by committee
from the local Commercial club and
accompanied here.
Bismarck.-TwO telephone compan-
les and the North Dakota Laundry
mems association have brought suit to
restrain the wofkmen's compensation
bureau from putting into effect mini
mum wage rules for women.
7 Dickinson.-The contract for the
new dormintory at the normal school
was awarded to Charles Bake of
Dickinson ut $73,2SO. The Iandan
Plumbing company will do the plumb
ing for $11 900, and the electrical work
will be handled by D. A. Cutnaw Of
Dickinson for $500.
| Dickinson.-The mysterious u. G.
r., who was thought for time to
be the missing heir of a wealthy west
ern Dakota rancher, finally has been
identified in st. Paul as James c. Har-
4 ris, who disappeared IL years ago and
whose wife has since married again.
She is said to be arranging to care for
the helpless man, whose mind still is a
perfect blank. :
Bismarck. = North Dakota stands
high among the states Of the Union
IN the number of deposit accounts per
thousand population in national banks.
The comptroller of the currency re.
ports 1872 national banks in operation
J.. in the state, with an average of PIG
accounts for each thousand persons
]. Wyoming leads the nation in number
of accounts per thousand.
4 Wyndmere.-The schools Of this
township will be consolidated.
Mandan.-Upon petition of scores OF
farmers and business men the county
commissioners, who recently voted tC
discontinue the work of County Agent
Max Morgan, have reconstdered theil
action. Instead of abandoning the
work they have appropriated s3,5O(
to carry it IN during the coming year
this is M,500 more than has ever be
. fore been appropriated, and will b.
, sufficient not only to furnish a full
time clerk in the Office of Mr.. Morgan
but also will enable him greatly t,
enlarge the scope OF hts work.
Garson-The Grant County Leader
has new iinograph.
Ellendase.-A new produce house II
being organised here.
Towner. Grandma" Burns, "a
took an airpfane flight.
Iangdon.-Mrs. Mary Ellen Bird en-
tertained ON her Goth birthday.
Noonan.-The cornerstone for thu
Bethlehem Lutheran church has beer
placed.
Scranton.-The local tennis team
has been victorious in every match O.
the season.
Glen Ullin.-Two and half bush
els of potatoes out of 10 hills is {
local record.
Observation-Disclosures yields in this
vicinity are running as high as 2.
bushels per acre.
New England. Drilling will be re
sumed at once by tile New England
Petroleum company.
Grafton.-M. H. sprague is chair
man OF the Walsh county road i'm
proyement association.
Grafton new Deaconess los
pttal under construction here soon will
be completely enclosed.
WatfOrd.-The DroDOsition of eYten