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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
4
The eighth grade finals are set for Thursday and Friday with plans for commencement. Debaters challenge nearby schools while baseball and girls basketball teams organize for a successful season. Teachers meet, fire drills occur, and a drawing topic is Trees as students study spring themes.
The regular eighth grade trmal examination will be held at the school house in Linton on March 19 and 20. Special examiners will conduct local exams that same dates at Hazelton Braddock and Westfield allowing pupils to write at the most convenient point. Teachers are urged to encourage advanced pupils ready to complete eighth grade work to write on any or all subjects. Jessie B. Sandidge County Superintendent.
Notice in the County Court of North Dakota to establish heirs in the estate of Peter Gitem. Before Judge Charlies B Curley, the hearing seeks a decree to appoint heirs and estate executors. GRO W Lyon is listed as attorney for the petitioner.
The essay muses on sleep as a central mystery of existence. It contrasts the awake and sleeping states, describing how a sleeping body becomes a vessel for a conscious force that governs toil and dreamlike thought, prompting awe at the unseen mind.
A group of three girls share a Japanese dinner set on green silk cushions. A young baron warns the guests and serves many courses including tea, sake, raw fish, and chestnuts with preserved cherries and crawfish. The text notes the variety yet suggests American palates may find it unusual.
The report notes a meal featuring boiled bamboo shoots with soy, salted mushrooms, and cold boiled salmon and perch, plus ginger pickles and seaweed soup. An assortment of soy boiled nuts, salt relishes, and large-grain rice followed, ending with tea. The young girls, easing stiffness after the meal, deemed it very good and surprisingly refined for Western palates.
A humorous exchange from the Kansas City Independent describes a wedding dubbed a shower wedding with a shower bouquet rice and congrats while the foreign nobleman’s creditors arrived with a shower of bills leading to an embarrassed finish.
A man recalls a failed suicide attempt after months of despair. He describes firing at his heart, only to have the pistol shell off a mirror shatter the looking glass, a tale recounted amid a string of humorous or pithy quotes from various sources.
In Dakota will be held at the court-house in Linton on Tuesday April 7 1908 at 10 a m the Board of University and School Lands offers six hundred acres for lease for the 1908 season with lands appraised at ten dollars per acre or more to bid for a season of 1908 and lands appraised under ten dollars per acre for five years at a rate tied to the 1908 season. Annual rent for hay and grazing lands fixed and cultivated land at a percent of appraisal. Rent must be paid at bid time plus a legal fee of five dollars per lease or one dollar and fifty cents for a single lease. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Dakota this day.
In Emmons County North Dakota the county court set March 28 1906 at 10 in the forenoon to hear the petition of John J Laberty of Linton for a license to sell intoxicating beverages as a druggist. Interested parties may appear and contest under the law. Dated February 25 1908 at Linton Juno J Fuaneery clerk.
A notice states lunch is served at all times at the Linton Bakery. The item confirms continuous meal service and identifies the bakery as the serving location.
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