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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
3
A Hague Record correspondence notes new trades and buildings including a Case separator purchase, Vetter & Bosch selling their meat market, and Lammers plans for an ice house. It highlights busier train trips, school openings with Frieda Siefeid as teacher, a new bank cashier, and a community voting for new schoolhouses. The piece paints Hague as growing with busy elevators, schooling, and local commerce.
Westfield reports a welcome rain the first since July Ath. Grain yields vary with rye at 21.5 bushels per acre and wheat from 5 to 19, oats 15 to 30, barley 10 to 25. Corn is listed as fair to good. John Fish's daughter shows slow recovery progress. Henry Lammers departed Saturday.
Mr. Wm Hammond was a business visitor at Linton on Tuesday. Mr. Chas Lipps deposited the mail along the route Tuesday. Albert Dobson is building a new barn. Mrs. C W Ahern and children left Monday via Milwaukee for Hettinger South Dakota on her way home to Atlee Alberta. The recent ruins have laid the dust and made considerable mud. Mr. John Triggs have moved to Linton occupying the residence formerly owned by Chas Lane.
Mr John B Biegler returned from a Twin Cities business trip. Hague boys were in town Sunday night after a car breakdown. Ed Miller and Regina Biegler stay active around town. J J Volk passed through Monday toward Hague. Luitgardis Biegler ill with a cold. Rainy days slow farmers threshing. C L Shaw and Theo We left town last week. School started Monday and children flock to class. A town dance is planned for Wednesday with expectations of a good time.
On Saturday the separator of Henry Bockhaus burned, and three rye stacks owned by George Bockhaus were set ablaze while threshing. Several neighbors including J Williams and Gerrit Brummel completed threshing but awaited results. Weather is ideal. Frank McConville's family visited Prairie Hill. Rev. Swaney preached at Dale church. Elmer Fritz moved his house with Herman Becker aiding threshing nearby. Miss Leona Scott and mother travelled to Bismarck.
In Temvik talk the forecast favors rain after a dry spell with plans for winter rye, plowing and silage work. The week brought hunters and fishermen outdoors while rainy roads slowed traffic and still allowed grain shipments. Levi Balch hauled two loads of brick for a new house as A E Klabunde of Hazelton visited town. a child quipped about being waxenated. Dr Schatz visited, greeting friends.
An English Bible Class will be organized at the Baptist Church on Sunday September 23 at 3 o'clock p m. All who are interested are cordially invited to enroll.
Onlookers sparred with the idea that a deaf-mute fighter cannot land a telling blow. A bystander retorted that he talks with his hands, while another ducked in time during the brief fisticuffs.
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