17 Feb 1893
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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1893
Page
1
The text criticizes state funds used in Bismarck on the U S senate election. It argues forty thousand dollars of taxpayers’ money went to partisan bickering and accuses sixteen Kilmarcos of delaying a choice, claiming each kilmaroo cost twenty five hundred dollars and that wolves could have been killed for less than the wasteful total.
The passage argues that in several states Republican blue laws backfired. North Dakota and Iowa saw fusionist gains and Democratic advances while Wisconsin and Illinois swung toward Democrats with compulsory schooling instead of teetotalism. Kansas elected a lifelong Democrat to the Senate amid prohibition, and South Dakota neared fusion failures.
A Grand Forks News item notes government land claims and the promise of fortune for the first filers. Vivid rural imagery frames the scene with plains grain, livestock, and a farmer by a lignite fire as a voice urges readers to move west for opportunity.
Charles Kupitz notes in the Sheldon Enterprise that Ransom county holds 700 more farms than any other county, marking a shift toward owner operated small farms. He argues that a larger number of smaller farms boosts local prosperity and foresees a future where every section is farmed by its owner and every farmer is a proprietor.
Agents wanted to sell our choice and hardy nursery stock with new fruit and ornamental varieties. Compensation offered by commission or salary. Write for terms and secure choice of territory. Mar Bnos., Nurserymen, Rochester, N Y.
Short horn bull three years old from Minnesota for cash or trade for horses cattle or sleep. Also two mowers offered by F Prreuer in Glenge.
A collage of brief society and community notes including visits by Auditor Armstrong and Sheriff Mahaney, hotel recommendations, farmer outreach by Lyons & Woodmans, trade pitches by George Jennings, and dozens of short items on births marriages deaths local gossip and weather reports from North Dakota in 1898.
Farmers are urged to buy new Dowagine Drills Disk Yerrows Steel Lever Harrows Walking and Riding Plows from Lyons and Woopmanns of Le, North Dakota. A carload will arrive by March 2 with goods guaranteed and priced below western Fargo dealers. Respond before March 1.
Correspondence from Kheconp notes improving weather ahead of St Valentine’s Day. Miss Mary Dunbar travels to Mandan for schooling with Mr and Mrs F U Parks while updates mention Mrs Redoute’s return and health of the Parks baby. Miss Katie Haley’s wedding journey to Livona is described with gifts and festivity, followed by Lent approaching and a note on parties. A spring lambing report warns of early losses from damp range conditions, but notes protective measures and wolves causing occasional casualties, urging continued sheep farming viability on the Missouri Slope.
Mrs Portner wife of H C Portner Logan county auditor died at Ijamboron hospital at eight last evening after short North Dakota residency and medical treatment. She leaves a husband and a week old child. Interment in Bismarck with Rev Sheckler officiating. Comforting verse quoted and obituary notes her kindness and wide circle of friends. Home grown seeds advertisement notes fourteene papers for 50 cents and strawberry plants offered by F H Ke Pecumr Glencoe ND.
The winter of 1901 02 disrupted grazing as deep snow prevented sheep from reaching grass. Farmers, busy with a heavy 1902 grain harvest, failed to replenish hay supplies, forcing many sheep men to supplement with straw. The article notes renewed confidence among sheep men despite hard conditions.
Charles Kupitz offers boot and shoe repair with neat workmanship and reasonable prices in Williamsport North Dakota. Harness repairs are also provided with guaranteed satisfaction.
Circulation around the likely two appointees to the penitentiary board centers on William Yeater of Emmons County. Yeater, a prominent Democrat, is viewed as a strong candidate, with local observers noting his long party service and potential state recognition. The Record urges the new populou-democratic administration to appoint him.
The North Dakota farmer increasingly diversifies beyond wheat with rising interest in flax and corn. Reports say many will plant more flax and corn next spring, noting corn’s strong past season and flax’s good price. Immigration expectations grow as settlers coordinate through word from relatives and neighbors.
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