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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1915
Page
2
A retro storefront promotion touts Welch's grape juice as the season's favorite summer drink. It lists in store bargains across groceries including sugar coffee prunes rice dried apples peaches onions soaps syrups oats and more with prices and a sales pitch inviting customers to try the deals and notes egg prices.
Fargo hosts a major auto racing program on July 31 starting at 1 p.m. with top drivers Louis Disbrow Johnny Raimey Lou Heineman and Joe Cleary bringing powerful cars including the 300 horsepower Jay Eye See and the Simplex Zip. The field also features Belgian Belgian-built machines and stars Eddie Hearne and Tom Alley as contenders in a bid to set new records on the circular dirt track.
The state supreme court notes shipments by Moser starting October 1914: 20 cases in Oct, 59 in Nov, 63 in Dec, plus three keys. 87 in Jan 1915, 15 in Feb, 38 in Mar, 29 in Apr, totaling 263 cases in seven months. Roehrich shows consistent shipments from 1913 into 1915, with a peak 168 cases in June 1914. totals exceed 555 cases in 1913. The article questions the lack of stronger action and mocks small seizures as inadequate against a broader beer trade.
The Inter-State Fair at Fargo runs July 27 to 31 with free vaudeville acts, bands, carnivals, fireworks, horse and auto racing. Fireworks displays by Pain Fireworks Co nightly, $4,500 purse for horse races midweek, and Wortham Carnival Company providing midway attractions with three bands and constant music throughout the event.
Ex Sheriff Wade toured the county seat on Tuesday as county officials including the court, commissioners, and Williamsport school board held sessions. The town buzzed with visitors and jurors from across the region, naturalization cases were noted, and court adjourned with Judge Winchester and Stenographer Tuttle departing for Bismarck.
Sunday school attendance was strong at the Hartford church with Rev Ponath bringing two daughters. Local exchanges note cold weather and a near drowning incident involving Verna Meppen in an irrigating ditch. Dan Morford traded his Horsehead Creek farm for the Hazelton livery barn and restaurant, planning rentals. Advance ads offer purebred Holstein bull calves from Splonskowski Bros in Braddock North Dakota Route 1.
July 7 notes show Jay Brown visiting C. A. Harwood, Jake Schatz working at L. H. Harwood’s, and Mrs. Stedman on the la grippe sick list. E A Wilson arrived by bus for a visit with his son while Mrs. Logue visited Dale. Harwood trips to South Dakota, and several Temvik residents joined a picnic, baseball trip to Hazelton, and other visits to relatives in South Dakota and Minnesota.
The document records the Hague School District No 9 Emmons County North Dakota receipts for 1914 1915 including cash on hand July 1 state tuition fund county tuition fund and district tax levy amounts totaling 487 64. It notes beginning cash balance and receipts from the various funding sources for the school year.
Four more cases of beer seized by authorities at Strasburg hit two Black residents who lost two cases apiece cutting their Saturday profit. Owners named Pius, Moser, and Rohrich allegedly held the confiscated liquor from a load brought from Herreid the night before. No arrests reported as investigation continues and state officer F. L. Watkins seeks prosecution.
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