Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-07-14
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Minot-A Kiwanis club is being or
ganized here.
HamiIton-Work is under way on the
$4,000 town hall.
Tower city-The Commercial clus
has been recognized.
McviIle-This community will have
chautauqua June 20 to "a.
Sheldon-Three barns and ma
chine shed were wrecked by small
twister.
AamiIton-Co Contract for an 11-mile
stretch of federal road has been let
here for $4,000.
Stanton-The Cruien elevator and
5000 bushels of grain We're burned
with a loss of $500.
Grand Forks-Wednestlay, July 20,
has been set aside as American Legion
day at the state fair here.
Valley city-Trees have been pfaH1..
ed In the city park in memory of this
communitys world war heroes.
wiliiston-rhe forage problem is
being met in this part of the state by
materially increased corn acreage.
Grand Forks-The city will hold a
special election on the purchase of the
auditorium for $4,000 for q municipal
hall.
Grand Forks-The North Dakota Bar
association meets here July z and 8
and will hear speakers of national
repute.
eowman-James Vance, rancher,
was thrown from his horse while car
ryfng % rifle and was shot through
the nose.
New Rockford county will
pay $4,000 as its share of three fed
eral highway projects now under way
in the county.
Bismarck Plans are being drawn
up for the new community swimming
pool, funds for which were raised in a
city-wide canvass.
Scranton-The johnson Fuel COM
pany is making improvements which
will make possible the handling of L.
GOO tons of Ignite Il day.
Lisbon-A special election will be
held to decide the issuance of $4,000
worth of bonds for separate heating
plant for this school district.
Far0o-An ungraded school where
subnormal children will be given prac-
tically individual instruction will be
opened by the local school board.
Ray-A county meeting has been
called for organizing an immigration
society to cooperate with the state de-
partment in boosting Williams county
land.
Faroo--Over $1,000 is offered in
swine prizes alone at the interstate
fair here, besides thousands Of dollars
in the many other departments of
farm industry.
Fortuna-JOhn MuZZy returned home
from the field and found his wife and
two-year-old daughter dead on the
kitchen floor. The mother had pre-
pared strychnine in milk.
Faroo-I.ane Maloney, federal pro.
hibition officer for North Dakota, was
married in an army camp on Armistice
day, 1918, and on Memorial day, 1921,
he became the father of a son.
Bismarck-A thrilling history of the
Northwest is told by Colonel Clement
A. Lounsberry, founder of the Bis
marck Tribune in $780, in his book
Just published, "The History Of North
Dakota"
misunderstanding Of the area
devastated by the recent fire has been
begun. The Safstrom & Elk store, the
Thompson lumber yards, and the
Prairie Press newspaper office will
have new homes.
Jamestown-William Wyant and
Henry Kearns, two N. P. railroad de.
tectives, held here for the fatal shoot.
ing of three transients, have been
bound over to the district court on q
first degree murder charge.
Mott-Wheat acreage remains about
the same in Hettinger county, with an
increase in the Kubanka, Monad, and
D35 varieties. This years corn acre.
age will show an increase Of IS pei
cent, and millet an increase of % pei
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