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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
2
Lawton hosts a busy Fourth celebration with calls from Louis Vacek and Frank Dickerson, visits by T A Luros and Mr. Lamb, and local residents building granaries and cottages. Committees organize sports music singing and general arrangements. A first class band, speakers, bowery dance, races, tug of war, fireworks, posters and programs are planned for a grand, family friendly event in Lawton.
Brocket residents discuss rain, June elections, and a landslide community update. Henry Gibbons wins director seat by unanimous vote while town celebrates weddings, new homes, and a grand plan for a farmers store with $10,000 pledged toward a $50,000 incorporation. Local ballgames draw crowds as Lakota defeats Brocket 15 to 5. Rev. Chambers preaches in Nelson's hall and plans Sunday services.
Edmore beats Crary 18 to 3 in a Friday baseball clash, with Edmore’s strong play boosting local interest in the national pastime. The area reports rapid growth at Edmore Northfield and Starkweather, new homes, rising business lines, a busy freight line, and plans for a Great Northern extension. Concerns include mail service, a pending Edmore line station, and a planned Edmore Crary opera house while locals welcome the Northwestern telephone line and a thriving creamery delivering many pounds of milk and cream daily.
Telephone lines arrived and wires heated as Park River Code Brothers pursue a Farmers' store scheme. Town hears of a grand business merger in agitation. J. G. Jacobson H. A. Moe and B. E. Pixley visit Chautauqua to arrange month ahead. County officials inspect a condemned bridge and plan a steel replacement this fall. G. W. Comer and wife return from Seattle with infant burial arrangements for their child.
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