Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1920-11-11
casselton-A new city well /. being


hauled to the new warehouse here.
misunderstanding with convict
labor and machines costs $25 an hour.
Nome-Nine buildings were destroy
ed in u midnight fire with loss Of
$4,000.
~Bismarck-SeveAl thousand dollars
Of state road aid money is being dis
tributed.
Langdon-A barn door fell upon the
five-year-old son Of Emil Squirting and
killed him.
MOtt-The first Of the states series
of 80 horse sales are being held in
this vicinity.
Werner-The first carload of coal
has been shipped from the new High
Carbon mines.
Valley C;ty-John Carlson, SO, was
killed by the kick Of horse he was
embarrassing.
4 Grand Forks "A department Of
rural leadership will be established in
Wesley college.
Min0t-John ]. Coyle succeeds f. Y.
Sarles Of Hillsboro as state district
deputy of the Elks.
Darlington - The $22, 900 debt
against the local hospital was raised
by popular subscription.
Grand Forks-The state university
will debate South Dakota university
and the university of Manitoba.
Hillsboro-The two-vear-old daugh-
ter of Alex jacobson was near death
when she fell into u tub of hot water
Fargo-NIina 9th, famous show COW
of the Springdale herds, was sold here
to ]. D. Grant of Glyndon, Mimi, for
$500.
Bismarck-The New Life Products
company has been incorporated for
$4,000 to manufacture drugs and
remedies.
New Rockford-The North Dakota
Methodist conference closed a session
here at which all reports were highly
encouraging.
.Fargo-The three army pathfinder
planes, Ell route back to Mineola from
their flight to Nome, Alaska, stopped
here over night.
Harvey-One hundred head of reg
istered Hereford cattle We're disposed
of at the largest auction ever held in
this part of the state.
! Manning-After resigning only a
few months ago, Paul Busenbark was
induced to return and again become
county agent of Dunn county.
Jamestown-Dr. A. w. Guest, for Ii
years practicing physician IN James
town. has been named to succeed DR..
w. NJ. Hotchkiss as head of the state
hospital.
Minot-:Arthur E. Dorcey shot him.
self to death as result of worry over
his crop failure. His wife sustained a
bullet wound in the hand trying to
wrest the gun from her husband.
! Dickinson-A game preserve cover.
ing several sections has been estab.
lished on the Green river north OF
here. Seventy-tiye pheasants and q
number of fish have been liberated.
misunderstanding, Cox, and Debs
are the only candidates in the national
field among whom North Dakotans
will have a choice at the. polls. Other
candidates failed to file their petitions
Wheelock-D. D. Santry, his wife
mother, and two daughters miracu.
lously escaped injury when the car he
was driving rolled down ten foot
embankment and turned completely
over. 4
Bismarck deep cash in his. head
was the only injury sustained by O. W.
Roberts, director Of the federal wealth.
er bureau here, when Il sack of cement
weighing 100 pounds fell 20 feet and
struck him. He opened garage door
when the suck. used us a door counter.
! weight. fell.
! Fargo-Robert B. Leady, former
chief of the prohibition forces operat.
ing in North Dakota, was deposed and
placed under bail to appear for trial
on the Charge Of conspiracy in the i'm
portation Of Canadian liquor. The
federal grand jury which returned the
indictment has been sitting In Fargo
for several days and has returned
some so indictments. S;s.,
Grand Forks-The October 1pyleld
estimate for North Dakota wheat Il
9.5 bushels per. acre, while oats are
placed at "a bushels, and barley at IS
according to the survey Of the United
States bureau Of crop estimates. The
total wheat production of the state IL
estimated at $500, 600 bushels a,
compared with IS, 61S, 900 last year and
with five year average of S5,012, 600
The harvest condition Of corn is esti.
mated to be 80 per cent of normal
that-of fax 60 per cent, and OF pota.
toes Is per cent. The wheat yield Of
9.5 bushels per acre compares well
with that OF SO last year, but poorly
with the ten year average Of 1O.s
bushels. while barley is trife under
the 1873 average and oats are nearly
normal, the average being DAP bush.
els per acre as. compared with this
years "a bushels. The flax output will