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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1912
Page
5
Local and personal notices detail a big clearance sale of millinery at Prete's Millinery Store. Various residents including Haugland, Snook, the Miller couple, and others visit or plan events, with birthdays, marriages, and loans noted among the community updates.
Mr and Mrs W H Foster return to Devils Lake from Newberg Ore after summer residence. A breakfast at 203 West Seventh Street hosted by Mr and Mrs F W Mann with many local families in attendance. Dining party hosted by Mr and Mrs R Goer featuring a Santa centerpiece and painted place cards. Local society entries detail hospital update for Laura Amundson and visits from Miss Boyle Beadle and Emily Beadle. News notes cover John Boisjolie's arrest for attempted abduction and AR Walker planning spring relocation to Minneapolis with farming reflections.
C. W. Kerr Company promotes land sales in Montana and Bitter Root Valley offering to buy farms and sell land worth millions. They describe fertile valleys with water, mild winters, and good hunting and fishing, inviting readers to write for prices and details from their Minneapolis office.
Optimism fills the Valley City Normal basketball quarters as coach Burckhalter develops this season's quintet from a large interclass pool. Alumni association forms to connect grads, two cash prizes offered for top grades. A Midsummer Night Dream staged by the dramatic club nets 265 for theatre. Faculty members join Phi Delta Kappa to boost educator unity.
Word from the Normal school reports Edith M. Conn class of 05 to depart for Natal Adams mission station to study Zulu and head a girls boarding school. A fall term ceremony awarded diplomas to Margaret Baker Edna Bullamore Anna Larson Minneola Minn Mattie Lauritzen Nettle Hrabe Olga Haleren and Laura Wold Casselton.
North Dakota farmers were among the first ten to receive awards in the wheat growing contest at the Minneapolis land show. Recipients resided in distant parts of the state, showing good farming results nationwide. Grain yield reports to the North Dakota Development League Press Bureau at Grand Forks corroborate that every section of North Dakota has fertile soil for crops.
Minot North Dakota December 27 J A Fulton a former Minot police officer pleaded guilty in county court to assault and battery charged by E Dreucker. Fulton admitted striking Dreucker after a quarrel over an accusation he had given the man’s son beer. Fulton denied the charge but became enraged when Dreucker stood by his statement. He was taken into custody and will be sentenced later this term.
A clipping notes John W. Maher can arrange loans to clean up crop contracts or state land contracts at the lowest rates. The item reads as a brief business notice urging farmers to seek Maher for financing solutions.
The Northern State Bank of Grand Forks engaged Union Commercial College of Grand Forks North Dakota to supply two students. Joe Simmer and Ella Wick were sent and are making good. The school sends many students to bank positions. Write for their free catalog and learn more.
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