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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1911
Page
8
A heavily garbled OCR fragment mentions alt Ce and a cryptic phrase about ownership and being whole. The readable bits point to a misparsed note rather than a coherent event, offering no clear person, place, or action to report.
An Elks meeting is planned for tomorrow night followed by a social hour. Rebekahs held a social Monday evening. Miss Mae Huesgen visited Starkweather at the Taylor home last week. The Lake Athletic association set November 30 for its Thanksgiving ball. Mrs. Mundt recovers well from an operation at Mercy hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Welsh and their baby from Chilliwick, B C, will winter in California with relatives. Richard Fanning and sister arrived from Upham and live at the Sevilla for the winter. their home is in Alberta. N C Abbott of the University of North Dakota was in Devils Lake en route from Rolla to Grand Forks. Angie Warring returned from Grand Forks to resume work at Dr Smith's. J B Stewart of Webster plans to return to Sweetgrass Montana. W T U meetings move to November 20 and then the first and third Tuesdays monthly. Mrs Peter Martin of Starkweather visited Devils Lake and renewed her Inter Ocean subscription. Gift idea: stationery from the Inter Ocean. Paul Flint joins the World as about town man in Devils Lake. he and his family reside at the Sevilla. Hotels report a full house most nights this week. October has been strong for local hotels. Edwin A Pierce’s funeral, held Monday, was led from his Devils Lake home. he long served as chief of police. D D Sullivan, Fargo optical specialist, will visit Fort Totten Friday and Devils Lake Saturday November 24–25. appointments at Huesgen’s. Kirchof & Cooper moved to a new shop next to Ramsey drug, now The People’s Meat Market, a top local butcher shop.
Clark W. Kelley attended the trustees meeting of the agricultural college in Fargo this week. P. D. Norton secretary of state visited with Devils Lake friends Friday. Ed Wilson of the North Dakota Improvement Co. was a business visitor in Devils Lake this week. Mrs. A L Severin and her young son have stayed with relatives in Grand Forks for the past two weeks. Mrs. H G Middaugh will spend the winter in New York. The North Dakota state band of Pekin with thirty players will pass through Devils Lake Monday en route to Cando for a concert that night. Margrave, opposite post office, offers fine furniture repair at reasonable prices.
A fragmentary note reports Ma Fino and Reese involved in a small dispute or settlement. Details are limited and the text suggests a local matter with minimal context or official action.
An item lists John W. Maner offering farm loans with flexible repayment. It also advertises McDowell School of Dress Cutting and Dress Making in Grand Forks. A big sale of 400 head of heavy western horses is planned in Fargo on November 17 and 18. A farm for rent comprising two sections in Webster, North Dakota, with plow land, meadow, wells, granaries, and fencing is offered by J. B. Stewart & Sons.
Markets in Devils Lake feature live poultry and dairy items including butter chickens. Local vendors highlight seasonal produce with real-time market displays and fresh eggs.
Farmers from four states gather February 6 to 9 at Grand Forks for the North Dakota Corn and Clover convention and Mid-Winter fair. Topics include corn clover and alfalfa seed soil culture dairying and stock raising with lectures by Ames Iowa experts and Crookston and North Dakota Agricultural College speakers. Ample amusements accompany four days of sessions and demonstrations.
Winter church activities abound across denominations in Devils Lake with missions and lectures filling the calendar through Christmas. Catholic Mission at St Josephs continues. Presbyterian services feature John R Latchaw D D and upcoming sermons by Rev Albert Torbet of Harbor Springs Michigan. Inter Ocean out for the biz.
The piece explains that Chinese rice paper contains no rice and is made from a Formosa tree pith. It notes the first paper was not cotton, credits Chinese artists for drawings, and traces rag paper to Arabia over a thousand years ago. It mentions Crusaders introducing the industry to Europe where early paper making began in the late 13th century.
Mrs. Frederick Schoff president of the National Congress of Mothers advocates a national endowment for a school and university extension plan to educate Americans in parenthood. Headquarters would be in Washington with branches in each state. Schoff has led numerous movements for child uplift and drafted laws for dependent and delinquent children in every state.
A reflective chatter questions if poetry ever centers on the moon, with a playful insistence that most writings drift away like dust. The speaker, Luna Warker Say, dismisses grand claims and notes poetry rarely reaches its final quarter.
Fragmentary verse mocks urban moral sags with lines about drunken returns and the search for an honest man. The speaker lampoons contemporary society as a muddled, hypocritical scene, calling out failed virtue and public indecency.
Francisco Pradillo a fifteen year old shepherd from Seville was chased by an angry bull. He climbed an electric standard to escape and touched a live wire, dying as the bull butted him. The accident occurred in Seville.
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