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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1913
Page
2
A historic county fair lists classes for livestock and crops with prizes. Entries include Poland China and Jersey Red hogs, multiple breeds of hens and roosters, and various grain bundles. Hogs aged six months to over a year are shown alongside fields of hard wheat oats and millets.
Correspondance from Westfield notes thrashing season yields fair grain, a severe windstorm damaging silos and an ensilage cutter, plus new telephone lines by the southern Emmons company. It praises editor A. Hasper and fruit grower Henry Van Beek of Aberdeen for apple and cherry-plum successes, urging inquiries to 1002 Kleine Street, Aberdeen, S D.
TEMVIK NORTH DAKOTA The Record reports Temvik correspondence failed to show up this week, a likely first since the Temvik Department began.
Brooklyn Engle reports that Benjamin F. Butler secured a $15,000 verdict after exposing a street railway rule to register fares when passengers enter the car. The conductor testified harshly, but Butler highlighted the nickel loss if a fare dispute arose, swaying the jury to his client’s favor.
Whimsical wartime style exchanges sketch a shy courtship by telephone with Miss Gibbons on a stubborn day. A clever jape from Mr Nerveen promises success with luck and persistence, set against a breezy, humorous mood characteristic of the era.
Historical texts describe Mathew Buchinger, famed as the man fish, as lacking limbs with finlike projections on the shoulders and multiple back spines. He reportedly had lidless eyes, a puckered mouth, and no ears, a noted curiosity of his era.
A humorous exchange from the Boston Transcript about a sermon on women’s extravagance. Mrs Exe notes her husband slept through church and woke him after the sermon where the speaker criticized women. Mrs Wye replies she is glad John didn’t hear it.
The Louisville Courier Journal recalls a historical ticket led by Damon and Pythias around 1830 with rivals Castor and Pollux.
Correspondence describes farmers preparing for winter, local teaching assignments at Winterberg and Aberdeen normal school, a resignation, thrashing progress, Dale school with a Fargo-area teacher, family moves across the Missouri, a large silo being built, land rental to a German-Russian tenant, and youth labor on threshing crews. Also a kept gelding notice and veterinary advice urging neck method for fowls and cleanliness to prevent disease.
Sealed bids for a 16 foot steel bridge with abutments will be received at the Emmons County Auditor in Linton ND by 5 PM on October 7 1913. Bids must include a 6 percent certified check payable to the county treasurer and the county reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
A fragmentary gossip of a London scene recalls John Bright’s stance for peace. A boy asks about the Crimen monument inscription in London as Bright explains that crime is the word engraved there. The note appears in the Washington Star and the Record.
The service is to be personal on all respondents over ten years in North Dakota. Publication to occur in the Emmons County Record at Linton for three consecutive weeks, with the final issue at least twenty days before the hearing. Judge Charles B. Carley signs as judge.
In Emmons County North Dakota County Court Judge Charles B Curley hears petition by Scott Cameron administrator of Patrick Gahan late of Emmons County for license to sell six promissory notes totaling 1000 dollars secured by a mortgage on the W 4 of section 12 township 1 range 78 west. The hearing is set for Wednesday September 17 1013 at 10 am in Linton Court House. Respondents and all interested parties must appear to show cause why the petition should not be granted.
Notice states mortgage by Gregor Gregerson to Moses J. Wilson recorded July 11 1907 in Emmons North Dakota will be foreclosed. Sale set for September 1913 at 2 pm at the Linton Courthouse with the premises described as portions of Sections 9 and 10 in Township 78 West. Amount due around 2000 dollars plus costs. Attorneys Lyne and Lynn.
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