Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-04-07

| misunderstanding through fence
with a shotgun resulted fatally to
Nels Madsen.
carson-An election contest for the
office of Grant county sheriff will be
heard April 5.
WiIIiston-The Bonanza farm Of
! 1000 acres has been sold to q Kansas
man for 100000.
Berg-Six acres of Grimm alfalfa
Melted N. w. Rice ut the rate of 500
an acre last year.
WiIton-Gradual breaking up Of the
Missouri, with little or no flooding, is
expected this year.
Alexandria five-year lease on the
village electric plant has been granted
to l. c. Phelps, city electrician.
WilIiston-The famous annual spring
stock sale is scheduled for April Z.
Fifty picked animals will be offered.
Garland A. Bricker has
handed in his resignation as head of
the State School of Science effective
June 80.
Granviile-Two registered Short
horn bulls have been added to the
Meadow Lands and Fair View stock
farms here.
Mckenzie-Steps are being taken to
classify Burleigh county farm lands
in accordance with the new state law.
Agricultural coilese-Four Polled-
Angus steers have been added to the
fine herd in the stock judging depart
ment.
Dickinson - Bank clearings have
steadily mounted since the organiza-
ton of the local clearing house last
winter.
Washburn-Two men leaped from q
| speeder just as a freight train struck
and threw it high in air, both escaping
| unscratched.
BowbeIls-Good fishing in the lakes
Of the northern part of the state is
expected this year by devotees of
Isaac Walton.
omemee- for $4,000 involving
| stock in the Neutrality-suspicious. Lum-
her company has been filed against
Thomas Taylor
Fargo-John Burke, former gov
ernor of North Dakota, is figuring in a
$1,000 damage suit involving bond
business in Chicago.
Valley city-The local normal school
after July ], will be the State Teachers
college, and will give four years of
regular college work.
Dwight-Electric light and power
are now available over power line
from WahpetOn, which serves several
farms between these points.
EllendaIe-Boys and girls between
16 and 10 are eligible to compete for
valuable prizes at the D.ckey county
stock judging contest May 81.
Hazen--The agent for the North Da-
kota Sweet Glover association has
been working the west Missouri slope
in the interest Of this product.
Burlington-IwO local men and a
third party from Minot are suing the
city of Minot for $4,000 for injuries
sustained when their car went over a
viaduct embankment.
Jamestown--The Stutsman County
Cow Testing association has been or
ganized for the purpose of lettering
the breed and the production records
of all county herds.
Fessenden-Hail warrants for Wells
county have been called, together
with those for Williams, Ward, Walsh,
Trail, Towner, and Stutsman coun-
ties. The total is $4S9.7S9O4.
Medora - Photographs and relics
from the badlands will be shown at all
of the fairs in the state this year for
the purpose Of keeping alive interest
in the proposed Roosevelt park.
WiIIiston-A. C. Kuenning is the
new superintendent Of the sub-statiOn
here, succeeding John Ruzicka, who
has been transferred to the main ex-
pertinent station ut Fargo.
Bismarck-Suit has been instituted
against State Auditor D. G. Poindex-
ter to force the payment of some
$4,000 said to be due on the expense
occurred by the house committee while
In session.
Mott-Twelve hundred dollars profit
from corn and hogs was last years
result on the John Soehren farm near
here. as compared with an average
profit of 5000 on wheat heretofore
Fiasher-MOrtOn county will have
the first production. cost circuit in the
state. The Flasher milk producers
circuit is already arranging to insti-
tute the work of keeping accurate cost
records.
Wiliiston-That the state complete
and lease to the National Sales Agency
the state mill and elevator at Grand
Forks In time for that institution to
handle the 1921 crop is recommended
by Usher L. Burdick, head of the
North Dakota farm bureau federation.
The suggested agency is an outgrowth
of the Committee Of II which Is work.
ing on farm marketing problems.
Marion-That credit conditions in
the Northwest are steadily improving
is the report of the Minneapolis fed
eral reserve bank, according to w. C.
Mcdowell, prominent North Dakota
banker. Prices are declining, with the
greatest drop in clothing, while the