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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1917
Page
4
Miss Laura Bertrand is ill with pneumonia. Local residents travel to Bismarck and Minneapolis for visits. The Catholic church dedication is postponed to November 18 due to furniture delays. Red Cross volunteers plan an entertainment at Grange Hall with a supper to aid charitable work.
Alfred Junge left Monday for Dodge North Dakota Atty H A Armstrong from Hazelton visited Friday Esther Junge visited Kintyre last Friday Herman Junge and Allen Glines from Hazelton Monday F M Long transacted business at Logan county metropolis last Saturday W W Mandigo reported sick at home in Bismarck J D McCusker in Bismarck consulting an optician Mrs Hadden and Miss Parizek to Linton for teachers institute A C Staak returned from Selfridge crop care Mr and Mrs R K Batzer from Hazelton hosted by E F Savage Wm Beseler went to Winona to inspect flax crop and returned Sunday Mr and Mrs B C Myhr went to Bismarck T P Lee in charge of yard during Myhr absence Senator H W Allen went to Bismarck for Sunday with wife and daughter Samuel Solomonson from Winona area visiting Beseler home Mrs Fifield and daughter Miss Bertha from Abbey Saskatchewan Canada visiting Dana ND planning to spend winter in North Dakota.
Mrs Dale and daughter Charlotte visited Ashley on Tuesday. Ruth Tracy spends the week with friends in Minneapolis. The county exemption board reports all nineteen men in the second quota passed final physicals at Camp Funston. Rev Olson left for Temvik ND to keep an appointment but road conditions forced him to return. Joe Van der Vorste of Westfield ordered sale bills for his farm auction on Nov 6 and pursues his auto business at Strasburg. Oscar Adama’s postcard says his regiment left Camp Funston for Deming NM last Saturday.
Local notes report Ray Morford selling last Saturday and planning to move to Iowa. Visits include Mr. Longwell and family with Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis on the 21st, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Noyes and children at Longwell home. Mrs. Linderman travels to Bismarck to stay with daughter Allie Marquardt who underwent appendicitis surgery. Carl Bebee went to Bismarck Oct 20 to fetch his wife visiting relatives Marion and Morford. Veterinarian Kinney from Bismarck treated and culled six prized horses belonging to Johnny Schiermeister. Miss Seip, niece of Mike Smith, arrived from Aberdeen to help with Mrs. Smith, who is paralyzed. W. A. Longwell reports two spring calves died. Ralph and Rena Jarvis return to school after a week absent due to a gun accident. Ralph injured eye and face, Dr Hott attended.
Residents report two weeks of real winter weather with the first snow on October 17 and intermittent snow thereafter. Fierce winds hinder farmers from hauling hay or straw, and longtime locals say the cold is the harshest they recall in twenty years.
Neighbors note late house completion by Henry Miller and a trip by Philip Miller. Rosary services at the church, a new Sunday School at Maccatholic church, and notes on wheat payments after early snow. Teachers’ institute events, a 12 mile ride to Roehrich’s store, and Carrier Blore’s snowbound route 1 trip described with patience.
A reader extols Peruna for catarrhal complaints and coughs, saying it is essential for a small family during cold season. The writer notes hard times but cannot afford to be without Peruna and recommends it to neighbors for its beneficial effects.
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