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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1914
Page
2
Devils Lake publication details carried as a brief intro line listing publication city Ramsey County state and postal matters. It notes weekly Friday release and Second Class Matter status with editor name H B Reynolds.
The Mothers club plans a Better Baby show at Devils Lake’s Mid-Winter fair with a boys and girls gymnasium likely to open after year start. President J. M. Kelly of the commercial club assists, Rev. Stinson urges a suitable youth space, and Christmas carols by city school sixth graders highlight yesterday’s meeting.
Mrs Clark W Kelley has been invited to address a state conference of agricultural nature in Columbia Missouri January 11 to 17. The event gathers rural life women farmers and home makers clubs in joint session with a social luncheon. The Kellys will also attend Kansas state convention at Manhattan and the Tri State Grain Growers convention at Fargo en route home, arriving in Devils Lake for the Mid Winter fair.
A fragment from E Winthrop Sargent features a scene aboard a moving train in Chicago. The narrator encounters a brisk, comic exchange with Griseam and a porter as the compartment door opens and the lush railway scenery streams by.
A narrative captures Griscom, a skilled card artist, rescuing the narrator from sharpers on a Western train and fondly recalling earlier schemes with Don Mastman and Towles. A perilous incident near a bridge unfolds, revealing courage and tragedy as Snippy sacrifices himself to save others.
A historical note contrasts the old view that nature exists for human pleasure with the modern scientific understanding. It explains that plant growth and blooms serve nutrition and reproduction, attracting pollinators to transfer pollen from stamen to pistil, aiding fertilization.
A. Elm PF urges mothers and parents to engage with and improve city schools. He cites crowded classrooms, poor ventilation, and lack of fitting facilities as harms to student progress and calls for active parent involvement, better buildings, and an agricultural high school extension. The piece advocates registering, voting for the Board of Education, and fostering cooperation with the Supt. and Commercial Club.
Local and through trains listed with times 2:10 p.m. for No. 3 and 9, 6:50 p.m. for No. 201, with notes that trains terminate at Devil Lake and service to Brandon and local routes.
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