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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
8
County commissioners meet at 9 am and 1 pm to approve numerous bills, coroner and sheriff expenditures, and transportation costs. They reconsider Coroner Nimmo’s report, approve warrants, discuss a Big Coulee bridge, and appoint drainage commissioners with bond requirements.
Advert reads for locations in Iowa Illinois Missouri on the Chicago Great Western Railway promoting agricultural prosperity and business success. It urges bringing old iron to Minneapolis Bazaar Devils Lake North Dakota, offering 4 to 5 dollars per ton and warning of hazards from old iron in yards.
The new Great Northern local train to Grand Forks is popular on the Dakota division. Businessmen rely on its consistent punctuality, preferring it to the flyer for daily travel except Sundays.
Talking machinery grows in popularity with prices listed 12 18 25 and 40 dollars and Herman Huengen as agent offering all sizes. Free listening event announced. Also rental notice for rear basement of First National Bank building by Wm H Brown Co. and clothing sale by P DeFiore & Son as they go out of business.
Waterfront property listing near Chautauqua grounds offers lower prices than nearby Greenwood sites. Address listed for inquiry is J. C. Baughman in Devils Lake.
The county convention produced a large, representative turnout with delegates named including J A Haig A O Whipple EB Lohnes and many others. The ratification meeting at the courthouse was well attended with Senator Hansbrough Col W Plummer and others speaking.
The tenth annual North Dakota Chautauqua opens June 28 and runs to July 20 at Devils Lake. Attractions include Fort Totten Indian band musical numbers lectures by Frank A Roberson and others entertainments by Sanford Dodge company and Karl Germaine, plus outdoor recreation and boating. For full details contact Edgar LaRus secretary.
A faded ad offers a one hundred dollar reward for a claimed cure of catarrh. The notice urges readers to send for Boostotimot and lists Abney & Co of Toledo as the contact. The fragmentary text shows a promotional claim and a public reward.
Ramsey County Court summons for Reinhold Steinke and others in the estate of James Wingo Desserrt, requesting appointment of an administrator and notification by publication. Hearing set June 192, at 10 o'clock in Devils Lake courtrooms with nonresident respondents listed.
Office at Grand Forks North Dakota May 23 follows that ettler has filed notice of his intention to use proof in support of the claim and it will be made before John Rutten district clerk witnesses to prove evidence upon abd se Rutten N Whilemain een AW vi Sanders, District Clerk.
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