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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1918
Page
2
Hazelton news notes visitors and local events from March 21. Geo Ivey visited from Braddock Bay with other entries detailing migrations, social visits, a high school play benefiting the Junior Red Cross, and a bride’s birthday gathering with gifts and lunch at the Peters home.
John Stoller left for Aberdeen yesterday and will also go to Leola. Julius Schamber returned from a business trip to Sioux City. Mrs. Fred Hepperle visited Aberdeen and returned. Mrs. P. R. Schenkenberger came back from Arras and Linton. Mrs. Edwin Werre of Hague visited G. G. Werre. F. J. Pietz of the First National Bank of Linton traveled to the Twin Cities. C. Vorlander of the German Bank toured Herreich and spoke on the Third Liberty Loan with two meetings in Hillsview and Greenway. Martha Schatz from Temvik arrived. she opened a millinery department in Eureka Bazaar. Schatz is sister to Dr. G. A. Schatz.
Carl Schlosser returns from Bismarck last Saturday. Ruth Hanson visits from Bismarck. F R Briggs return from Bismarck. G H Mayer-Oakes and son arrive home from Bismarck. Savage couple depart for Montana after a Steie visit.
J D Solomonson visited Wishek Wednesday. A D Prouty did business at the county seat Tuesday. J H Reamer of Linton spent the night in Pollock Tuesday. Mrs B C Thayer of Redfield arrived Wednesday for visits. Mr and Mrs A J Brown returned home Saturday after a long vacation in Missouri and Arkansas. Mrs M DeBoer and children Aledia and Alvin traveled to Huron to visit Will and Hilda at Huron College. George Backhaus, from Bismarck, faces a serious paralysis and unconscious condition. The Red Cross sewing room will be electrified by DeBoer plant power, with local assistance. Herman Miller of Hague takes charge of Thompson Yards as draft calls loom. Parrott attends brother Henry’s Chicago funeral for heart failure.
County Superintendent urges plans for school gardens and home plots as a patriotic duty. Progress noted with Winchester Linton program and plans for two new Emmonsburg schools. Certificates honor nine and three months attendance, with guidance on gardening resources.
The Training Camp Commission will establish a base ball league for soldiers with company and regimental teams within a month. No divisional leagues are planned due to distance, but inter camp games may occur where travel allows. Major league officials and amateur associations offer support to promote baseball in camps.
London reports British air raids against Germany with direct hits on Kaiserlautern barracks and railway station. The announcement says 13 tons of bombs dropped on billets, two airfields, three munition dumps, several hangars damaged, and 16 enemy aircraft shot down while six British planes are missing.
A crowd of about 10 000 angry residents in Covington Kentucky denounced what they saw as pro German propaganda tied to the poisoning of 500 artillery horses shipped from Camp Grant for an Atlantic port. A man named Richard Schmidt 25 was badly beaten before police detained him.
Dispatches from Vasa state the German army opened a general offensive in southern Finland. The town of Heinola has fallen to General Mannerheim. About 3000 red guards were taken prisoner.
The American Red Cross in France approved a plan to help homeless repatriated tubercular refugees. A village and family colony will be built outside Paris on land where Quakers have already constructed 150 cottages to house evacuees from behind the German lines.
West Virginia reports its largest peach harvest on record as boy scouts mobilize during labor shortages. Canton Ohio launches Rubber Day asking residents to stack old rubbers tires magazines and papers for collection to fund a community canning plant.
The article discusses how eyes and especially toe movements reveal guilt when facial muscles are restrained. It cites Darwin and Sir Henry Maine noting that in Indian natives a liar can be detected by watching their toes as their face stays calm and eyes unblinking.
A simple method from Popular Science Monthly shows using a pin or needle to cut paper when scissors are unavailable. Place the clipping on a second sheet and trace around it with the pin, then trace again with the point leading to guide a smooth cut.
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