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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1911
Page
2
Peter Regan from Webster shopped in town while Lakota attorney C N Prnch spent legal days here. Dozens of residents and visitors from Doyon Inkster Grand Forks and Michigan City greeted friends, conducted business, or planned travel as editors, merchants, and clergy moved through the week.
Brockett visitors and residents recalled with brief notices. Dr J W Campbell, eye ear nose and throat specialist at Devils Lake, is listed. Social events include Eastern Star dancing, Relief Corps ball, and Twentieth Century club meeting. Mr Lonnevik, former Morris township teacher, attended city business. Mrs Vest ill at Minneapolis hospital after Fort Totten visit. Mrs Rollins in Boston writes of Europe plans with Genoa and Rome trips, Italy in March and September return.
Thaddeus S. Dayton recounts the American Turtle, the first U S submarine built by David Bushnell of Saybrook Connecticut. Colonel Ezra Lee piloted it in 1776 to attack the British frigate Asia under General Washington. The craft surfaced amid alarms, then returned to Saybrook after a second failed mission and a sunken, later raised fate.
A city forms part of a planned mid winter baseball league with Canadian cities eyed, though plans remain only on paper. The page also features a string of humorous vignettes from Lippincott and Chicago Tribune, including a divorce lawyer’s mock design, a goat phrase explained, and a juror’s plainspoken verdict.
Farmers seek improved farm rentals and sales in Devils Lake North Dakota. Char s O Connolly invites interested parties to contact or visit the First National Bank building office for options and negotiations.
The notice lists an auction at Troppman’s and mentions the Junior Audubon club meeting with Mrs. William Falger Saturday at 8 o clock p m. It notes Mrs. L D Manover of Starkweather as a guest of Mrs. Margaret Davis this week.
Big auction sale scheduled for Saturday at 1 PM conducted by Troppman & Company. Felix Routier, formerly of Devils Lake, reports meeting Holbrook family in Portland Oregon and James Collinson, also of Devils Lake, has accepted a Portland with United Railways Co. Thor Moeller, known in Devils Lake, convicted of second degree murder, plans an appeal to the supreme court if the new trial request is denied by Judge Leighton in Minot.
Last Friday afternoon at Miss Esther Baarson's home the King's Heralds hosted a program featuring children from diverse countries with roles for Robin from Korea and others by different escorts. Officers were elected Leta Hazard president Elizabeth Dodge secretary Mario Kirk treasurer and Esther Baarson corresponding secretary. The Shakespeare Club met Monday with a roll call on suffrage quotations and petitions supporting Senate Bill No 73.
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