Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-20

Yucca-Frank A. Larson is new local
postmaster.
Ricfardton-The Lazarus & Filister
store burned out.
Grafton-Peter Nelson, So, commit
ted suicide by drinking poison.
Bislnarck-Over million dollars in
1919 hail warrants is being called in.
Mandar-J. O. Kunkel heads the
Missouri Slope Poultry association.
Agricultural College-A moving pic
ture machine has been installed.
NapoleOn-The Chambers of the
third district court have been moved
from Ellendale to this point.
HannafOrd-F. w. Nolan, special
Great Northern agent. is on trial for
the murder of Joseph Bagley, I. w. w.
Fargo-The North Dakota Medical
association meets here IN annual ses-
sion May 1918.
Kindred-A1rs. f. H. Land was badly
burned when her clothes caught fire
ut the kitchen stove.
Grand Forks-D. p. II. Strong, for
mer editor of the Herald, is dead at
the Minnesota sold:ele home.
killdeer-Charles Pugh was beaten
for the seat on the county board that
he had held for years Wien Cole Smith
opposed him in Il recall election.
Fargo-NOrth Dakota hotel men en-.
dorsed the 4S hour law for women,
recommending that it be made to ex-
tend over seven days week.
Mandan Peter Cressinger. 50, and
his wife. Mary J. Cressinger, 79. for
mer local residents, died within an
hour at Tacoma, Wash.
MaX-The Missouri Slope Good
Roads association has appointed a
legislative committee to work ut the
present session.
Fargo-Judge Edward Engerud, for
mer supreme court justice, dropped
dead on Broadway. He was SO years
old.
Washburn = Gopher determination
costing 66.5 cents per quarter section
saved Mclean county last year
$4,000.
Crystal Springs - The Diamond
Black Skunk farm is under state in
vestigatiOn for alleged violation of the
blue sky law.
Ninot-The state championship has.
Setball tournament will be played here
March 1919. District tournaments will
>oe played in districts in the state
March and 5.
MOtt-Mr. and Mrs. George Meuchel
are serving sentences of three years
and one year. respectively, in the state
penitentiary for firing their store to
collect insurance.
Fargo livestock shippers of the
state are organizing ut the Grain
Growers convention in this city. Rep.
resentatives Of nearly 200 local ship.
ping associations are present.
Turtle Lake-Affidavits have been
filed In the motion of attorneys repre-.
senting Henry Layer to grant him a
trial on the charge of numbering eight
persons near here April %.
Agricultural College-Thirty bows
and girls who attended the achieve.
ment week institute here as represen.
tatives Of local clubs, reported total
wealth in Liberty Bonds, stock, and
SO on, of $25.OOO.
WfltOn-One hundred eight thou.
sand dollars was paid for 72O acres
Of land near here by the Washburn
Ignite Coal company. 1t is estimated
that up to so million tons of coal un.
derlie the land.
Parshall-Thirty nine doctors at.
tended Sever Hofr during the nine
months he was confined in bfinot
hospital with fractured leg sus.
tanned when he was thrown from O
pillow.
Dickinson-Judge w. G. Crawford,
retiring from the district court bench,
will be associated with Fulton Bur.
nett and his sister,, Frances Burnett.
the only active woman lawyer In the
state, III law firm. a Is
Fargo-Suit for $4,000 has been
filed by Mrs. Inga Anderson against
the local school board, for damages
on account Of the death of her 49,
year.old son, who was struck in the
head and killed by playground swing.
Bowbells-TNHo Of the defeated can.
1idates in the Burke county election
contest, Drinkwater and Grub, were
accorded election in decision by
Judge Cooley after six of the eight
cases had been dismissed.
Wahpeton-Max Morgan, who made
remarkable record as county agent
in Morton county. has accepted a SINH
lar position in Richland county at a
substantial salary increase. He is sue.
ceeded IN Morton county by G. II. Use
Of Brainerd, Minnesota.
Bismarck youngest man in the
upper house of the state legislature ia
Lieutenant Howard Wood. 80, while
the oldest is Senator ]. f. Stevens Of
Lawton, Ramsey county, 81. Senator
Ployhar is the oldest in point Of serv-
Ice in the legislature. having been ir
the lower l.,use eight years and in the
senate four yc .