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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1922
Page
8
Hazelton notes report a baby girl born to Mr and Mrs George Pettis Jr and other local events. A ball game draws Jack Crowell and visitors from Steele as residents discuss thrashing prices, illnesses, and a hail storm that damaged crops with several uninsured farmers affected.
At a Hazelton gathering last week the threshermen fixed thrashing prices for the year and wages for labor. Rates include 11 cents per bushel for wheat and rye thrashing from shock, 7 cents for feed from shock, 9 cents for wheat and rye from stack, and 5 cents for feed from stack. Daily wages are 3.50 with 2 extra for team and wagon, and wagons should carry feed boxes and tight rack bottoms.
A concise note states that dyeing and mining rank as the oldest industries in Britain, reflecting their long-standing role in the country’s economy and industrial history.
A sharp remark notes that a wealthy elder man remains a bachelor by choice and purpose. The comment implies deliberate single status despite affluence, reflecting social expectations of independence and personal priority.
In a class of 140 students used by the Veterans' Bureau, 20 are Veterans' Bureau trainees. Twelve honor men were chosen, nine of them from the trainees. The note highlights the wartime service record of these men.
The Cherry Grove School District No. 7 invites sealed bids for a school building on the southwest quarter of section 12 136 75. Plans are at the county superintendent of schools in Linton and at the undersigned office. Bids due by 2 PM Saturday September 2. Include 5 percent certified check and contract bond. Mail to Dr. DeWitt Baer, clerk, marked Bids for School House. Board may accept any bid.
Tourists move along Boxevelt trail every fifteen minutes in Velva. Fargo hosts 70,000 at the state fair, described as financially successful. Foster county auditors candidates tie with 920 votes each in the recent primary. Graduation crowds force tent use for 57 and girls in county eighth grade exercises. Dr. Frea W. Harper leaves Enderlin for War Veterans bureau in Minneap olis. ND Wheat Growers association to handle twenty million bushels with 9,000 members. Fargo adopts $10,000 fund for three full time and several part time workers. Minot plans $75,000 building to expand butter capacity to five million pounds yearly. Bismarck dairy tank specs praised by dairy commissioner. Immigration dept issues eight page folder on Roosevelt era and state stats. Werner Dunn Center and nearby towns to receive electric service from Hi-Grade lignite mine plant. service starts in August. Maddock reports cow carcass burial due to anthrax spreading disease to eight cattle. Valley City records summer school attendance over thirteen hundred, with state total highest ever. Washburn governor urges buying lignite to stockpile for winter. Mrs. Constance Falck rides Northern Pacific, returns to Bismarck after 39 years. Cannon Ball area to see steel bridge over Cannon Ball river as final link to capital highway. Grand Forks horseshoe tourney sets district record with James Miller 23 ringers. E C Olson second with 19. Fargo reports 5.5 million acres of ND grain crops threatened by ground squirrels. estimated crop savings $1,244,128.
Former waiter in Baltimore turned artist, John Avardo, will be sent to Rome by the Veterans' Bureau to complete his art course. While recovering from war injuries, he showed skill in clay modeling and won first prize in a bureau-supported school contest. The program highlights rehabilitation efforts as ex-troopers shift from unskilled labor to trades like auto mechanics and drafting. In another note, Holyoke Mass declares a destroyed French village in memory of twelve men fallen in the Saint Mihiel drive.
Louisville veteran E B Stevenson aged 93, longtime congressman nicknamed Lincoln's double, will be buried in Circleville Ohio after dying at his Corinth home.
In a vintage ad from Bismarck North Dakota Hoskins-Meyer promotes Kodak prints saying they do not fade. The copy claims superior processing and urges customers to inspect the Kodak album for proof of lasting color and quality.
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