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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1913
Page
2
Local notes from Danbury and surrounding townships report memorial plans, church activities, and community happenings. Mentions of James B. Gayton, Luthern and Methodist gatherings, travel of Rev Gary, and residents like Mr. Shields, H. Beal, and D. G. Beers populate the week’s rural correspondence.
A Boston Record tale recounts a young lawyer in superior civil court asking a witness about an oral contract with a plaintiff. The judge and audience laughed as the misstep became a memorable initiation, the attorney requesting time to produce the contract from the witness.
Mr and Mrs Mahaney of Winchester visited town en route from Burleigh county. Connor's granary and stable near completion. Landlord Walker rents the old county building, converting it into a granary for wheat oats and flax seed. The Record building in Linton includes the moved county building from Williamsport area. Charlie Allen and Matt Lockton gifted four prairie chickens to the Record family. Nail contracts include a mail route change. Glencoe will supply mail three times weekly starting July.
The newly anical Church in Lin freated on June 8 with Bishop S. C. Brey presiding. Reading from Pennsyl dy numbers of pastors from surrounding fields will attend the dedication and revival events. Milbank, S. D. conference was blessed, and English services will be held. Rev. Ermel led construction and arrangement for lodging and quarters.
The piano, an ancient instrument once called the spinet or harpsichord, comes as upright or grand. Grand models occupy space and cost, while upright tops display bric-a-brac. Once played mainly by women, men in tin pan shops sing with a cigarette and use the loud pedal, and self playing attachments now exist.
A Frenchman proclaims man created culinary art and contrasts human meals with animal eating. The piece notes four famous sauces Spanish, Veloute, Bechamel, and German, tracing their origins from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries via Careme the Raphael of the kitchen.
A Plain Dealer exchange recalls Brinks was seriously hurt this afternoon not in his automobile but by a tree about ten feet ahead of the car. The joke notes if he stayed in the car he would not have been hurt.
The Times of India notes East Indian theaters run until dawn not due to play length but because tramcars resume service only then. Spectators travel from distant villages and object to gharry hire, so they expect entertainment until trams begin running.
A fragmentary exchange from Lustige Blatter features a pastor remarking on a lightning strike to Hohenbauer’s house as a punishment for supposed wickedness. The peasant oddly counters that he would welcome it again for the 4,000 marks insurance payout.
Uncle Roy explains to Eddie that a snob is someone who inherits money, travels abroad, buys a veneer of culture, returns home to pose as a connoisseur, and looks down on poor relatives calling them parvenus. The exchange unfolds after hearsay about a brother.
An excitable woman complains her husband is a brute and she scolds him. She recalls his yawning as a shocking insult. Mrs Gadsby vows revenge after a misread visit to Mrs Gabble and a mistaken call on Mrs Guffy.
Paul Smith, famed Adirondack guide, recalls a visit by an English hunter and a comic encounter with legendary side hill creepers. The hunter survives after escaping uphill from a hooked tall bear, a tale highlighting humor and wary wilds.
The Cornhill Magazine essay outlines historical cruel punishments for women including burning alive for killing a husband under Norman rule, and for treason, coining, and other offenses in earlier periods. It notes abolition by act of parliament in 1790, continued public and private whipping into the early 19th century, and argues cruelty stemmed from base instincts reflected in spectacles like auto da fe and tortures.
A revival of green tea in England recalls Wellington at Strathfieldsaye. His head butler served small teapots at breakfast and asked guests black or green. Lord Denman, nervous at conversation with the famed host, finally asked for mixed tea, prompting the duke to order two pots for him.
A collage of wry quips and cartoons from old papers. The barber explains a “tonsoria artist” in comic cuts while Cynicus and Cyn icus trade gags about engagements and luck. A sarcastic concert joke ends with a compliments to a front row umbrella avoider.
Mr Daniel of Medina is here on business for a few days. Albrecht and DeWitt transacted business in Linton Friday. Franz Tempel left Monday for Hague to be gone a few days. Batzer brothers of Hazardton spent hours here on business. G W Birbeck returned Friday from Lacy and works in the blacksmith shop. No ball games Sunday due to rain. Mr and Mrs Bickle of Herried SD visit their daughter and husband Fred Wohl. Martin Ohlhauser shipped cattle and hogs to Weber & Ohlhauser in St Paul. Wesley Nelson of Evergreen Farm nears finish on spring work and foresees a bumper crop. Temvik ladies meet June 5 at 2 for organizing.
Tim Vick requests mothers' club members to attend an 80 gathering. The note invites participation and hints at a social or community meeting.
A penniless man recalls posing in a rich man’s cast off clothes for a loan task. At eight he visits the generous employer who sorts suits to donate to the Salvation Army while rewarding the worker with two dollars for his evening.
In Japan a favored instrument is the kokin a two string bow played violin style but held vertically on the lap. The samisen and kokiu accompany the koto forming what locals call the musical trio. The samisen is most commonly played by the people.
The land described includes the east half of the northeast quarter and the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Bestion twenty, in Township 135 North, Range 74 West, Fifth Principal Meridian, Emmons County, North Dakota. Cony Lynn & Lynn, Attorneys for Piavitt, Linton, Emmons County, ND.
Notice is hereby given that Hassle M. Parkhurst and Clarence L. Parkhurst mortgaged property to The German Bank of Eureka. The mortgage, dated February hth and recorded March 13, 1911, in Emmons County, will be foreclosed with a sale at 2:00 PM on June Mth, 1913, at the courthouse door in Linton. The property lies in Township 135 North Range 78 West. The amount due is 3363.26, excluding foreclosure costs. Grusman Bank of Kuraka is mortgagee. Lynn & Lynn, attorneys.
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