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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1922
Page
7
Correspondence includes community updates from Temvik and nearby towns with names such as Pollock Lin ton and Benedict. Items cover new elevator operator Adam Mitzel, births and visitors, threshing activity, dances and picnics, and local notices about land for sale and subscriptions. The bulletin lists residents, visits to Bismarck, and upcoming school start.
Local notices report visits and threshing in the river country with families from Phelman Hague and Strasburg. elevator scale installation at Strasburg. Dakota Telephone line near Hague. several residents move or travel to Bismarck Chicago and Belview Minnesota. school staff changes and a birth announced Irene Anne Volk.
Mrs Clarence Slater died at her home near Fort Yates last Friday and was interred there. Pollock residents report their first radio reception this week as John Van Nice and J J Brokofsky installed a high quality set and heard reports from Eureka Davenport Denver St Louis and Chicago with a St Louis concert heard clearly.
Northeastern Minnesota suffers major fires with ten dead as Cotton and Central Lakes towns burn. Two towns destroyed, 2000 men fight the blazes near Duluth. refugees housed at the Duluth armory. Substantial damage reported across Lake and St Louis counties with fires spreading toward Hibbing and Virginia area.
A wireless message from the steamer Hamonic says Tofte on the North shore of Lake Superior is burning. The fire's severity and details are unknown as inhabitants abandon settlements. Refugees stream toward Duluth over trunk highways, leaving many homes at risk and residents in doubt.
Philadelphia expects coal mine workers to return after a conference between the miners union and operators. The scale committee seeks a 20 percent wage rise while operators favor wage cuts. Observers foresee likely adoption of the 1921 wage scale for another term as both sides indicate willingness to depart from previous stances. Union leader Mr. Lewis declines to speak before the meeting, expressing hope for an adjustment and noting improving conditions in the bituminous fields.
New York leaders of the railroad brotherhoods meet with a committee of railroad officials at the Broadway headquarters of the Association of Railway Executives to plot a settlement to the nation wide shopmen strike. The running trades press for no compromise on seniority rights, the main sticking point in peace efforts. Hormel suit seeks large damages against Ernst and Ernst following the Cy Thomson defalcation and embezzlements totaling 1,187,000.
J. E. Meyers former Mayor of Minneapolis has been named county treasurer to succeed Henry C. Hawke convicted of larceny and now confined in prison at Stillwater. Meyers is not certain he will accept the appointment and says he will not be a candidate at the fall elections.
Mrs Maria H Williams of Rochester Minnesota left thirty thousand dollars for the hospital noted by W H Jordan executive secretary of Asbury Hospital in Minneapolis in the will filed for probate
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