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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
3
A collage of small-town items: visits from Hazelton Hague and Bismarck. store ads for biscuits and harpes repair. weddings and birthdays. school activities. medical and banking notices. travel plans and local politics commentary. Resident names: Daffinrud, G A, Wm Carmicheal, Dr Wolverton, Mrs Staats, Miss Lena Werre, and others.
Gayton School District No 2 Emmons County North Dakota invites sealed bids by 2 PM February 29 1908 for erecting a schoolhouse. Bids marked Bids for Schoolhouse addressed to Theo Vetter Clerk must be delivered. Plans available at the clerk’s residence. Board may reject any or all bids. January 21 1908. Take Yetter District Clerk.
Wheat values listed with grades and prices led by No 1 Northern at 94 cents No 2 Northern 91 cents No 3 Northern 86 cents No 4 Northern 76 cents Reherea 69 cents and A X 1 at 81 02 N Table Stock 20c Packing 16c Cream 2c.
Braddock ice crop is being harvested and skating thrives on the creek south of Braddock. Braddock youths plan a grand ball near Washington's birthday or Patrick's day. J. G. Jagd heads north to solicit nursery stock orders for winter. The Braddock mill question looms as Emmons county’s only flouring mill risks idleness. The local dog poisoner now targets cats, causing several deaths in back streets. K. H. Cotton is named by Governor Burke as a delegate to the Sioux City river conference January 22–23. Simon Moen travels to Bismarck for a week with the dentist. Gottlieb Ferche sub in at the store. There is talk of building a union church this summer. Sheriff Jones visits from Linton to settle with the Bank of Lehr in the Gus Frederickson case, where 86 head were seized.
In Hazelton the week brings religious, medical, and social updates. Rev Fr Bahner of Napoleon to conduct services January 26 at 104 m. Mrs C B Ertel hospitalized in Bismarck after serious injuries. Pythian installation and banquet attended by local families. Local undertaker A H Irvine visited from Linton. Crippled farm residents Clark Crawford and Will Buchanan shown improving, with crutches near removal and a broken collarbone healing. Mrs Skinner returns from appendectomy, slightly weak but recovering. wives, miners report coal vein improvements at Brindle mine. J S Roop family to travel west to Idaho Washington and California then south to unspecified destination.
A compilation from North Dakota papers highlights booster stories, political chatter, and advertising tricks. Items include Minot enrollment over 1000, a Wahpeton Globe-Gazette quip on a dumphool law, and the Grafton News recounting a farmer’s payout from printer's ink and a half page ad reaching 4,500 dollars in ad revenue.
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