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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1906
Page
4
Long list of residents visiting and traveling between Linton, Hague, Hull, Westfield, Strasburg, and nearby towns. Various arrivals, departures, illnesses, a baby birth, a quarantine, a church meeting, a masquerade at the Opera house, business moves, a new hotel planned, and local construction updates.
Holden R. Smith died suddenly at home three miles south of Rochester after a brief illness. He was 70, born in New York, served in the First Wisconsin Cavalry with three years of Civil War service, and held memberships in Odd Fellows AOUW and G A R. Survived by widow Mary and sons Herbert Hubert Jay Earl and daughter Lulu. Funeral plans await word from relatives.
The funeral was held Thursday at 2 p.m. conducted by Rev. F. Doran of Winona Minnesota under the Grand Army of the Republic. Interment took place at Oakwood cemetery Rochester. The body was embalmed for distance relatives, and a large procession formed from the country home to the city. A.O.U. W and Odd Fellows lodges joined the procession.
Irvine C announces Republican bid for Clerk of the District Court of Bameans County. He asks voters for support and pledges impartial service if elected. The message is unsigned and includes stray product ad text in the margins.
A wave of contagious illnesses hits Linton with smallpox and measles in multiple families. John Lovell's twins have smallpox while Mrs Seeley Frank Streeter and others show measles. Scarlet fever and other measles cases are reported among local children. The health board ends quarantines as exposure is widespread and schools resume after Monday morning sessions.
The Indianapolis Daily Star profiles Elmer A. Burlingame of Laporte Ind who has built a device to transmit text directly from one keyboard to another at a distance without wires or Morse signals. A human starts the message while receivers on typewriters or linotypes reproduce the text with correct capitalization punctuation and spacing. The system promises greater speed and the potential to apply to other keyboards and even to pictures in future work.
C H Phelps agent in Bismarck offers a full line of Edison phonograph records with a request to send for the catalogue. Ge Dishbond lanterns are sold at Hages Hardware from 1 75 to 3 25 each.
The next regular teachers examination will be held in the schoolhouse at Linton North Dakota on Friday and Saturday March 16 and 17 1906. Work will commence at 9 a.m. sharp. Necessity supplies furnished. Linton North Dakota February 20 1906 Charles Coventry County Superintendent. If you want to borrow money on your farm the Linton State Bank will lend it to you.
Mrs. Andrew Hanson of Emmons county died last Sunday February 25 from consumption. Rev McFarkine led funeral services and burial was in Litton cemetery. Elizabeth Satter born in Norway June 29 1894 married to Andrew Hanson July 10 1880 they emigrated to America in 1893 settling in Miner county South Dakota later moving to Emmons county in 1905. Mrs Hanson mother of five with four surviving. Lutheran church member. She was 41 years 7 months 26 days old.
Fragment shows bread mix price at Hage's Hardware and a farmland quarter for sale near Linton with directions and reference to J. J. Young in Newton Iowa. Also mentions Brophy at Godkin and Lignitecon with a price of 8.20 in Hocking Valley.
Attend the dance at Brophy Hall on March 2. Good music by the Musselstroim brothers. Picnic supper. Wickets to dance 75 cents. cordial invitation to all. Wanted ten men per state to travel post signs advertise and leave samples of our goods. Salary per month plus expenses. Rowan Supply Co Dept W 35 Randolph Street Chicago Illinois.
A public spirited group in Linton celebrated the first fixed market day with strong turnout and about eight hundred dollars in sales. Horses brought fair prices and organizers plan a second sale for Saturday March 10 with invites to stock men and locals to bring machinery or furniture for sale.
Friday evening March 2d features music by the Hasselstrom Brothers. Viennc supper offered. Everybody invited. Tickets to dance are 75 cents.
Last week John Story an old timer of Kidder county was in Linton paying taxes on land he owns in this county. He is among North Dakotans who kept faith in the state's future and are now firmly established, in a financial sense.
Barney Burpaci of 00 Ninth Street Bismarck invites precise information about individuals cutting timber on his property southwest of Peter Shier's reach in Emmons county. Reward of 25 dollars offered for conclusive tips.
A small English trader leading oxen wagons and stores travels to northern Rhodesia in South Africa. He discovers a mutiny plot led by a Zulu follower among a dozen paid workers. He confronts them with a sjambok, binds the ringleader, and continues the expedition with no further trouble.
Public sale of land set for 10 o clock a m March 2, 1900 at the office. Tract W of NE 1/4 Section 2 Towship blank contains claims must file by sale time. Officials M H Jewell Register John Satperlund Keo signatories.
Announcements in state papers promote the stopher bounty for the coming season. Many boys earn good sums during the spring by killing the little pests.
By virtue of a chattel mortgage dated February 1905 and filed in the county records, a sale is set for one Saturday, March 10, at 2 PM at the courthouse door in Linton. The mortgaged property includes multiple horses and a complete harness set. Amount due on the mortgage is $124.18, with Wy e Mort as attorney for the mortgagee.
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