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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1919
Page
6
Linton community news covers births, visits, real estate moves, and shop changes. Accounts include Peter Schell’s new daughter, Herron and Kistler travels, Feinstein store management shifts, bank additions, school building plans, and wartime tax updates amid ongoing local commerce and agriculture chatter.
John Klein arrives back from overseas deployment after serving in England Scotland and France. He was wounded twice but in good health now. Nearly a thousand people welcomed him at the train in Strasburg where he played baseball for the Strasburg team. His wife died last fall leaving a baby. He is son of M. A. Klein, former county commissioner and Strasburg merchant.
O W B laments wasted opportunity in New York parks naming Union Square as a neglectful, concrete patch lacking grass shade and trees. He cites granite basins, waterless fountains, bombproof cairns, subway intrusion, and fading trees, arguing the park fails to be a park as the nursemaid’s junction joke echoes.
The nation’s home garden program last summer produced an estimated 850 million dollars in produce, with housewives canning at least 460 million jars. The effort added wealth, energized labor and land, and benefited many families who gained fresh vegetables and gardening knowledge. The piece urges planning bigger gardens next year for those who did not participate.
Watering by sprinkling encourages shallow feeding roots that dry out quickly in midsummer heat, killing or weakening plants. A thorough irrigation system is preferred over hose or hand watering, which should be limited mainly to transplanting.
The Caller urges that a town is not great for mountains lakes or skies but for the men and women who stamp it with character and shape its destiny. It argues a soul matters more than the body for both towns and people.
The German Baptist conference for Worth and South Dakota will hold meetings in Linton from June 21 to 29. Rev Laghs asks residents to assist in hosting visitors and to contact Rev Luths if they can house guests during the dates.
Soldier Joe Miller of Hague returns home after discharge at Camp Dodge arriving via McKenzie. He married Jennie Meier of Linton and worked at Thompson Yards before the war. Travel was slowed by bad roads. a hand car aided the final leg. He is now reunited with wife and newborn at Hague.
The Methodist Church invites all to join Sunday School at 10 30 a m Epworth League at 745 p m Evening Worship at 830 with the sermon Our Answer to the Challenge of Christ There is good music Prayer Meeting Wednesday at 830 Young People Prayer Friday at 830 Stranger friendly pastor S M Swaney extends the invitation to make the church a home for newcomers
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