Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-08-19

new band.
Minot.-A fall tractor show is being
arranged here.
Brisbane.-A new rural route will
lead from this city.
Harvey.-A Boy Scout organization
will be formed here.
Mandan.-Many pit silos throughout
Morton county are nearing compile
ton.
Minot.-October .13-14-15 are the
dates for the annual corn and potato
show.
Williston.-Oats on the Stenehjem
farm near here, will 60 IS bushels to
the acre.
Rolla.-Four generations of the fam
lily of Joliffe, numbering 60, held re-
union here.
Cannon Ball.-A recent government
tai order disseminating the local post
office has been rescinded.
Finley.-This is becoming a "city
of modern homes" Ten new resi-
dences are under construction.
Flaxton.-Ninety potatoes In one
hill is record this community flaunts
in the face of the entire Northwest.
Rugby.-Lula Hines, IL years old,
died from burns sustained when she
tried to lift pan from the stove with
her apron.
Napoleon.-Two were burned and
the home was destroyed at the Blanch-
cite homestead when gasoline stove
exploded.
Grafton.-Lewis Wilk suicided after
worrying over the delay in his harvest
operations occasioned by breakdown
IN his binder. a
Mayville.-A new municipal lighting
and power plant will be constructed.
Current may be supplied some neigh
boring towns.
CarringtOn.-The matter Of erecting
a memorial hall at county expense will
be placed on the fall election ballot
in Foster county.
DunSeith.-The inmates Of the SAM
tarium here have started fund to
provide motion picture entertainment
at the institution.
Bismarck.-An election contest on
the vote for Jack Williams for rail-
road commissioner may be launched
in Sheridan county.
CandO.-A local cooperative COM
pany has purchased the st. Anthony
and Dakota elevator here and will
launch a $4,000 corporation.
Devils Lake.-Fifty pairs Of Chi
nese pheasants have been released on
the military reservation here by the
game and fish commissioner.
Park Rlver.-Eight horses belonging
to ]. ]. Dougherty ate sack of oats
that had been poisoned for killing
gophers, and six of them died.
Alexander. The Brotherhood of
Farmers and Stockmen of America has
been formed here to draw the agricul,
tural and livestock interests closer to-
gether.
Ffnlay.-A noxtous weed commits
sioner has been named in each of the
FIVE commissioner districts in Steele
county to work for the determination
Of weeds.
Portal.-The editor Of the Interna.
tional says he Is going bpeakfastless
for couple of months in order to pay
back $40 he borrowed to taEe an air
plane ride.
Mandan.-A ,oft Of lightning struck
chimney Of the Lewis & Clark hotel,
passed down through four foors and
blew open the boilers, scattering fire
over the basement.
Beltield.-F. n. Gilman, local ranch
or, will serve two years for giving a
bank false security. He obtained a
loan on 155 head of cattle whom he
really owned hut three.
Cando.--W. F., Can6aM saved his
lie when he grabbed the radiator of a
car which was about to strike him,
and chung until the car was stopped.
He suffered tlnee broken ribs.
Britton-Two carloads Of cattle were
driven from the pastuse Of Adolph
Coupe and marketed. He traced them
through a commission firm IN Sioux
City to an Iowa farm and recovered
chem.
Hsmarck. Resdorn, So
Rotary @ the Roosevelt Memorial -.
societ1on, Is inseaffaattns resords here
and at Manda1 with view 10 writing
book On Theodore Roosaasalks ME
b the hadlsnds. s:.:.. -,
Beach. ~ nan, nasued Vsk, opuk
for an n. P. telegraph NE essw, cut
his throat With butcher knife, He
and his wife had only recently come
here to take up dis work. She be
lieves Ill health had made him. de-
| spondent
Killdeer.- Having ridden everything
else in his day, Dan Beck, pioneer
rancher, climbed aboard an atrplane
and made the As miles to Dickinson
in 80 minutes. He enjoyed 1t, but ad.
mits he wasn't ont on the horns doing
any bull-dOgging.
New England sisters. who
| graduated together from the Taylor.
N. d., high school, and later from the
state normal at Dickinson, have been
| employed in body to teach in the
public schools here. They will have
l the fourth. fifth and sixth prndes