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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1912
Page
4
A collage of town news includes Charles Edick building a stone barn and Lendard Bottomley planning a fifteen-bushel-an-hour feed mill. Reports of social events, local travel, school teaching shifts, and a Shakespeare Club meeting mix with warnings about county crime and a court case in Emmons.
Local notes mention Evriors not at a Bis marck exposition while Lin ton fair returns, M P Kaiser and companions naturalization papers in Linton, potato peelings boosting yields, thrashing crews short handed as winter nears, and farmers hoping for favorable weather to finish harvest.
The item notes illness relief for Mire and mentions Andrew Hanson John Brassett and Hans Hanson building new granaries for crops. School has run one month with low attendance but expected to rise. Mrs O Mickel and children travel to Aredale Iowa to visit relatives and Mr Mickel plans Canada departure. Farewell party at church marks their departure. they will be missed by friends and community. Oh My Oh.
Circular invites residents to bring rags to Geo. C. Brocks in Linton for rag-carpet weaving. The notice lists no dates or additional instructions.
Charles H Batchelder of Winona North Dakota filed in October 1, 1912 an entry to claim the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter and the southeast quarter of the town within Township 7 west of the meridian for a 160 acre tract. Clerk notices list witnesses Dilford Putnam and Lawrence Whiteey among others.
Phoenix Lumber Company mortgage on property in Hague Emmons County North Dakota will be foreclosed. The sale, at the Linton courthouse front door, occurs November day to satisfy $645.16 plus costs. Mortgagee by Coventry Linton North Dakota attorney notes filing in Emmons County records.
Department of the Interior notices Adam Wolf of Maine North Dakota who filed for final five year proof on two homestead entries for section 2 township 345 north range 74 west. Proof scheduled October 5 1912 before Charles B Carney in Linton North Dakota. Witnesses listed: Paul Senger Wendelin Burckhard John H Reamer John Kelsch. RE N STEVENS register N
To the voters of Emmons County I was nominated in June as the Republican candidate for Clerk of the District Court. I seek your support at the November 5 election, pledging to properly conduct the office and place taxpayers’ interests first of all. I will personally oversee that all business is handled efficiently.
Local notes from Temvik North Dakota cover visits by Mr and Mrs Grover Liversage and Mrs Handel leaving for Menno after three weeks here. Franz Tempe hosts Philip Schatz Ruth from Quincy Washington visiting with family. Walter Dodd injured when horse stumbled leaving him with multiple fractures. healing expected in days. Neighbors mark Mr and Mrs Will Manns twenty fifth wedding anniversary with cards dancing and a late night supper. Tim Vick reports.
The Emmons County Telephone Company invites bids to rebuild about fifteen miles of line at twenty three posts per mile. Bids must be addressed to the secretary at Temvik North Dakota and received before October 12, 1912. Alice Snyder is secretary and treasurer.
The text compares butterflies and moths noting that butterflies are day active fold wings when settled have clubbed antennae and angular chrysalis not in a cocoon. Moths are dusk or night active do not fold wings, have varied antennae rarely clubbed and have hooked wings in flight with a cocoon enclosing the chrysalis.
Teacher questions Freddy about bruises as the Scholar explains his father used a two foot rule with a hinge to bend it back to work both ways, causing joint damage and prompting a razor strop from the father in a tense home lesson.
A man who was fitted by a bookseller for a book later returned the note stating I never ordered this book If I did you did not send it If I got it I paid for it If I didn't I won't. The document from the Boston Transcript captures the dispute over an unsolicited delivery and a formal denial of purchase.
A premier Emmons county farm about 3 miles northwest of Temvik North Dakota offers 800 acres of rich soils. Available in two tracts. Inquiries should be directed to Tempe Bros Temvik ND.
The correspondence from Elmer D. Fogle of Linton North Dakota dated October 7 1912 asks voters to consider him for a county office. He stresses prompt courteous attention educational qualifications and business integrity and invites voters to consult local businessmen about his reputation. He signs sincerely Elmer D Fogle.
Political advertisement declaring Tom Og’s Brien's nomination for Register of Deeds. He pledges honest campaigning, readiness to devote full time, and to provide knowledge on land titles gained from prior experience, inviting voters to visit his courthouse office.
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