Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-06-02
State SUMMARY
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Downer-A Farmers club has been
organized here.
Amidon-S Some .blackleg has been
discovered in this vicinity.
Fessenden-An improved water sys-
TEN will be installed here.
Glenburn-Renville county will en-
ploy an agricultural agent.
Grand Forks-Religious education In
the city schools is urged here.
Langdon-A $4,000 barn will be
erected at the local substation.
Tappen-Much sweet clover will be
raised in this vicinity this year.
steeIe-The Presbyterian church.
more than 20 years old, was burned.
cieveiand-Hugh Osborne, editor Of
the Stutsman County Leader, is dead.
sykeston "A Farmers Livestock
Shipping association has been organ
lied.
WtIIiston-The Commercial club IL
backing an immigration booster pro-
gram.
oranvilIs-McHenry county will join
the list Of counties employing demon.
stration agents.
Glen Ullin-Oren McGrath has been
named chief game warden to succeed
VIM. f. Reko of Mandan.
eottIneau - Business and profess
sional men have formed club for the
promotion of mutual interests.
Faroo-The North Dakota Tidende,
Norwegian paper, has been relncorpor.
ated and will be published here.
Sheldon Twelve thousand dollars
worth of bonds will be foated for the
erection Of community building.
Mandan-Harry L. Kidd post Of the
Veterans Of Foreign Wars, has been
organized with 78 charter members.
Hannah-The State Bank of Hannah
and the Citizens State bank have been
consolidated with capital Of $4,000.
Marion-M. S, Nelson and Grace
Ridgeway won an $500 prize by being
wed at an American Legion ball in St.
Paul.
Wahpeton-The annual meeting of
the North Dakota Association of Coun-
ty Auditors will meet here June 8
and 4.
Marmarth-The body Of Fred Prinz,
railroader missing for two weeks, was
found in a pool of water near the Mil
waukee tracks.
hettinuer-The first woman county
auditor in the state, Miss Ida M. Bern
hard, has assumed charge of the
Adams county office.
Cannon 6aiI-With her only son and
helper laid up with a broken leg, Mrs.
Bertha Whitcomb expects to seed a
s125 acre farm alone.
Valley city-Colonel Frank White,
former governor and prominent ma
tional guard officer, has been named
United States treasurer.
Medora-Edwin Burr Brewster. Civil
war veteran, pioneer Dakotan, and old
time friend of the late Theodore
Roosevelt, is dead here.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. on the charge
of beating his wife with a flatiron, An
drew e. Olson, 43, hanged himself by
the light cord in his cell. =
zap-Bonds may be issued for build
Ing power line from nearby coal
mine for the purpose of furnishing
electric current to the village.
Spiritwood Lake-A new fish hatch.
cry here likely will be one Of the. first
undertakings Of the recently reorgan-
lied game and fish commission.
Langdon-An appetite on the part Of
some marauder for toilet water has led
to the breaking and entering Of local
store four times within recent weeks.
Bismarck-With. a divorce rate of IS
to every 100000 inhabitants or one to
every 1924 marriages, North Dakota
is very low in the list of national aver
ages.
Agricultural College 1t is estimated
that more than so per cent Of the
wheat planted in North Dakota this
year will be of the amber durum
variety.
!. MayviIie- Running in front - her
small brother just as he was shooting
at a bird, Mabel Field, g., received a
bullet wound in the chest from %
calibre rifle.
Dawson-Corn, sweet clover, rust re-
sistant grain. better hogs, and stimula-
ton Of interest in stock raising among
boys Of the county is the Kidder coun-
ty farm bureau program.
Agricultural colIege-At hearing
in the federal department Of agricul-
ture on wheat grading, April %, this
state, will be represented Ly w. G..
Palmer and j. A. McGovern.
Mllton-When his coat caught in the
gears of windmill Fred Mortonson
lost four fingers of his right hand, and
descended the 60-foot tower after slip
ping out of his tattered coat.
New England Wien a caboose was
derailed on the Milwaukee and rolled
of bridge, Ross Grange, conductor,
sustained injuries for which he has
been awarded $4,000 In district court.
Devils Lake-Four years in the peni-
Tertiary for manslaughter in the see
ond degree was meted out Ito Jimmie