Pioneer Journal of the County notice
The Record is entered at the Linton Post Office as second class matter.
23 May 1902
Page 1
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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1902
Page
1
The Record is entered at the Linton Post Office as second class matter.
A historic clipping notes Goliad Texas nearly wiped out with 100 dead and 150 wounded. It also cites Martinique Mount Pelée deaths around 31,000 including 3,000 drowned at sea. The text includes a 1902 Republican county committee invitation listing many names and a meeting date in Linton North Dakota.
Commandant Liebenberg of the Colony of South Africa lectured in Linton court room. He argued Boers have everything to gain and criticize British reports of casualties while claiming regular outside communication relies on Britain. About sixty attended. $38.26 raised for Boer women and children in camps. Fort Yates and Westfield lectures earned $18.06 and $186 respectively.
A stylish young woman visits a fashioning school and takes note of a new dress and cake directions. Returning home she drafts a peculiar cake recipe that blends flour, eggs, currants, lemon peel, and extravagant trim wording with ornate accessories, reflecting playful confusion.
A Bates newspaper column argues for stricter liquor laws and licensing reform. It critiques current officials and advocates active measures to curb violations and regulate saloons amid local political pressures and social hostility.
A Dale correspondence column reports on weekly community life including a tonic ad note for Chamberlain's medicine, farm work tempo, and local anecdotes. It mentions thrasher activity, a doctor remedy for colic and diarrhea, school term dates, sermon attendance, a new term at Brairie Hill, land breaking to plant pasture, Indians visiting Pollock for baseball, and postmaster Andrus planning a Pennsylvania visit. It closes with a claim of sciatic rheumatism relief and a local merchant selling the medicine.
One old hay gelding branded on shoulder and an indistinct branded pony elding are missing near Dean Bros farm hillside. Reporters may contact D. Br. Streeter in Linton, North Dakota. Leases offered by Hackney Boynton Land Company for hay and grazing for the season. land at $8 per quarter section and up, direct to the St Paul home office, Germania Life Building, May 16-30.
A mixed excerpt shows an estray notice for a black mare with a white forehead and a branding description. It also lists pigs for sale, cattle including 100 head of Percheron and Hereford cattle, horses and a mule, plus notices by a photographer offering services and an opening offer for wagon and farm tools.
First publication dates and names of settlers filing for commutation final proof in Emmons and surrounding counties. Listings include Gottlieb Bender Philippina Bosch Peter W. Groen and Lorie Doornbos with witnesses and locations in Linton, Bismarck, Hull, Winona, and Westfield, North Dakota, in 1902.
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