Local notes from Tokio and vicinity over Easter week
Mrs Amon Erickson returned home Monday. D Mills was out from the lake over Sunday. Fred Lang digs wells as fine weather lasts. Smearlie and Don Calderwood went to Crazy Monday. Graven returned home last week and works spring. Chas Lothen at Breckenridge on a waking examination. Mesdames D R Chase and Otto Aken in Devils Lake. Miss Stella Jaga to spend Easter vacation Thursday. Don Calderwood home Thursday from Eastern visit. Farmers elevator released at this place puzzling locals with grain still to market. Prospect of another elevator and hope it will be built.
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Fred Lang
Don Calderwood
New York City
Metropolis
Madison Avenue
Street
Miss Nelson
Moe
Grand Harbor Community News Highlights
Grand Harbor scenes include Austin Leavitt's Fargo trip and township officers’ qualification. Alfred Miller and George Miller of Penn report local business near town. Thomson crew finish Belcourt barn as W G Moon buys horses. W Hoover ships stock to Canada. Frank Emigh unloads Turtle Mountain wood. Mrs. Solomon family moves into St Anthony house. Strand and Belcourt visit. Belcourt family returns from Waylow City. Cadwell Wiltse named new station agent. Farmers Telephone Co. plans summer line improvements. Emigh family grieved by a death Tuesday afternoon. Grand Harbor band meets weekly. Easter Monday dance planned. locals pledge strong support.
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Austin Leavitt
Fargo
Tesday
Alfred
George Miller
Penn
Belcourt
Low City
Cadwell Wiltse
Dad
Grand Harbor
Farmers Telephone Co
Frank Emigh
Burke Backed For Third Term By Devils Lake Journal
The Devils Lake Journal urges Governor Burke back for a third term. The paper, linked to Ramsey county Democrats and Joe Kelly, says Burke is the logical party nominee and signals Democratic support in the state. The editorial notes no opposition within the party to renomination. Special from Bismarck to the Minneapolis Journal.
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Devils Lake
Ramsey County
Joe Kelly
Financial Rocks
Democratic Party
Burke
Socrats
Bismarck
Minneapolis Journal
Alfalfa Trials Under Williston Irrigation Plan
Experiments in growing alfalfa will be conducted on Williston irrigation land this year with 1900 acres pledged by the Williston Water Users Association. The Williston Commercial Club will supply seed and North Dakota Agricultural College will introduce dairy cows to test alfalfa as feed.
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Willston
Williston Water Users’ Association
Williston Commercial Club
North Dakota Agricultural College
Purcell’s Secretary to Quit for County Judge Bid
James V. Brooke, private secretary to U S Senator Purcell of North Dakota, seeks the Democratic nomination for Towner County judge. Health issues force his resignation from the secretarial post and his return to North Dakota. Brooke had first been appointed by Senator Thompson and followed Purcell after Thompson’s resignation.
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James V. Brooke
United States
W. E. Purcell
North Dakota
Towner County
Brooke
F. L. Thompson
Purcell
Thompson
Easter Services at Presbyterian and Methodist Churches
Presbyterian Church Easter program includes 11:00 morning worship with the Easter Message, 3:30 Sunday school exercises, 6:30 Senior Endeavor Getting Ready to Live Forever, and 7:30 evening worship Spring Time of the Soul with special music. Methodist service lists 11:00 morning worship Great Event of All History, 12:00 Sunday school, 2:30 organized Bible classes, 3:30 childrens church, 6:30 Epworth League, 7:30 evangelistic service. Knights Templars will attend morning worship. seats free.
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Childrens Church
Epworth League
Knights Templars
Wanderer’s Farewell Echoes in Frontier Town
Fragmented diary style piece recalls a frontier incident with a violent fight and a mangled man. The Gurgeon speaks in clinical terms of injuries to teeth and membranes as townsfolk ask if Jim Joyce is hurt. A somber, elegiac tone laments life’s abrupt parting and memory’s sorrow.
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Coe Ifight
Jim Joyce
Jim Hurt
Rosa
Prohibition Era Oddities and Public Quips
A crowded scatter of anecdotes recalls a bootlegging tale aboard a train where strangers discreetly offer cold tea from a basket and warn swappers to wait until reaching the station. Other vignettes feature comedian Henry Dixey reacting to a champagne request, Swedish jokes about New York color and class, and a quip from Mr Choate about glasses and reading notes.
Big Year for North Dakota Immigration Promises Growth
The present year shows strong promise for immigration to North Dakota with hundreds waiting, many from St Paul. migrants head toward Canada via Fargo gateways daily, seeking mining work or land for homes. Ohio and Illinois send many new settlers as high farm prices push migration. North Dakota may see record settlement exceeding prior decades.
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North Dakota
St. Paul
Andy
Fargo
United States
Ohio
Trinois
Forum
Seed Potatoes for Sale and Trade-In Offers
Early good seed potatoes for sale by Baitson Tokio NOD. Offer includes a high grade touring car for sale cheap or trade for horses or real estate. Contact Ocean office for details. Also rubs and comets of pure noted in the listing.
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Baitson
Tokio
Tater-Ocean
Five Passenger Auto For Sale At Bargain Price
A good five passenger automobile in excellent condition two cylinder twenty two horse power ideal for various purposes will sell at a bargain of gold at once Address HL Care Inter Ocean Jack Carter resigns as night yard master at the Great Northern and is succeeded by Harry Repp
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Jack Carter
The
Great Northern
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Amon Erickson
D. Mills
Graven
Chas. Lothen
Breckenridge
Mesdames D. R. Chase
Otto Aken
Thomson
Town
W. G. Moon
S. S. Boale
W. Hoover
Canada
Turtle Mountain
John A. Strand
A. Belcourt
Williston
Purchell
Presbyterian Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Fletcher
Gobbler
Adams
Asia
Hla
Sioin
Henry EB. Dixey
Philadelphia
Rittenki
Imade
Jones
Adarene C. D. Mills
Harry Repp
AMC
Mitchell
F. W. Mann & Sons
Devils Lake, N. Dak
Kauffman Préshrunk
Chicago
M. Glickson
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