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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1903
Page
6
A local store in Keith changed ownership to a party in Balfour. Judge Cowan is presiding at Rugby this week with many important cases heard. Excursionists arrive for Chautauqua and local attractions, while Harshman’s drugstore touts top ice cream sodas and Greenwood lots tempt buyers.
Editor Mercer traveled to Brocket while John R. Rattle visited Lakota. Mrs. Dan Davison and children visited Mrs. James Abel. Nellie Thatcher returned from Lakota. Ordway the Lakota dray man visited family. Peter Larson and son Randal went to Park River. Bert Kearney visited his brother J C. Assyrians arrived from the old country. Arch Abel and family visited Ray. Banker Larson and August Schrump toured Edmore. Edmore and Michigan City ball teams to play July 4. Ponzar and bride guests of sister Mrs. Math Vobayda. John Honey of the First National Bank was in town. Howard Bennett and Jessie came from Edmore. Charles White returns from the Northwest Territory with a claim on the west shore of Long Lake. Mrs. Mike Shanahan is ill. wishes for speedy recovery. Schrump met a traveling salesman from Chicago. Episcopal services held in Kop's hall. Rev. Smutt praised as able speaker.
List of uncalled letters at the Devils Lake post office for the week ending July 4 1903 includes Anderson M T Nelson Anna E Dickerson Taylor Nygard C Dyson Marie Nelson Harry Ferrell Sveinung O Neil Walter Grady Ei Pickering G W Hussby William Ringdal Carrie Jasang Torstein Reilly Hugh Kennedy Tom Severance Benj 2 Lyone I K Stanley Fred 2 Lemandt Emley Stuart Mra Harold Mellen C A Williamson Wilbur McIntyre May Weest v EL McKechnie Sr Mrs Sam Summer. hotels note Colorado Rockies recreation and Union Pacific low fares for travel Denver service.
Charles Holden and Ella Morrow were married at the bride’s mother Mrs J W Morrow’s home on a Wednesday evening. The ceremony was performed by Rev Z James in the presence of close friends and relatives. The couple, popular in Devils Lake society, will reside on east Fourth street and host friends soon.
Mahara Minstrels led by George Titchner will perform in the opera house next Tuesday through Thursday July 7 to 9 featuring thirty colored artists in a mix of minstrelsy opera and vaudeville. The troupe travels in a palace car with scenery, costumes, a brass band and orchestra and will present a street parade daily.
818 acre stock and grain farm six miles southwest of Crary nine miles from Devils Lake on the lake shore. 405 acres cultivated, well fenced, six room house with cellar two wells and a spring. Strong farming property listed by C A Dodge & Co Devils Lake ND or S J Dean Crary ND.
The $8.00 fare to Chicago is now in effect via Chicago Great Western railway with no intermediate stop higher. For details contact any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago Ill. Auditorium entertainment nightly showcases moving pictures including coronation of King Edward with strong audience interest and Mr Kline cited as a prominent favorite.
The 1903 North Dakota law requires parents to notify proper officers within twenty four hours of births deaths or presence of infectious disease. Public institutions must report similarly. Failure to give notice within the period risks a fine up to twenty dollars. Emil B Eich, County Auditor, Devils Lake, June 27, 1903.
Notice of chattel mortgage sale by George L. Herbe of Ramsey County North Dakota as mortgagor. The document states the mortgage against personal property and announces a sale to satisfy the debt with details readable in the public notice. The sale action and party names appear in this legal notice fragment.
The First National Bank of Devils Lake ND holds a chattel mortgage dated November 11 1901. Due 350 note plus 395.48 principal interest and 125 feed lien. By order of mortgagee H E Baird agent Townsend Denver attorney, 10 cattle 2 years old red heifers and 3 yearlings plus calves to be sold cash at Lewis Leduc livery Crary Ramsey ND at 2 pm July 11 1908.
Mixed notices include a Hall's Catarrh cure advertisement attesting to its efficacy and a United States Agriculture Department proposal for a two story Weather Bureau building in Devils Lake North Dakota with bid instructions and dates. Also listed is a land claim notice for Jacob Wall in Devils Lake with witnesses named.
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