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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1917
Page
3
Hague residents kept busy with trips to Bismarck Zeeland and Strasburg. Many attended dances, school plans continued, and local work includes threshing grain silo repairs and harvest chores amid wartime travel.
The column reports births including a boy to Gerrit Biesheuvel’s son and to Ed Renskers with times and health noted. It records K Pool buying 80 acres from Gerrit Biesheuvel and Gilbert Van Beek purchasing a new Ford. It mentions a family visit from Morris Illinois and a crowd bidding farewell to local men bound for training camps. The piece closes recalling the Rowerdrink family’s sadness at parting and praising George Rowerdink.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Fred Freeman on Wednesday night. Mr Thos Ryckman has been tak-
Our new station agent Mr. W. H. Swan is liked by everybody and hoped to make this his permanent home. He treats people kindly and accommodatingly, and his service is highly appreciated.
Mrs. E. E. Pitcher schedules an auction sale on Friday September 28, 1917. I. T. Chaney plans a sale on October 3, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Green announce the birth of a son on September 8, 1917. mother and baby are doing nicely.
Temvik reports threshing active as J B Davis of Aberdeen checks farm land. Miss Brodhead visits McCulleys with nephew. Attorneys Coventry and Jones travel to Hazelton. Weather turns cool with fur coat. John Snyder ex county auditor in town. Temvik Implement Co moves machinery to Hazelton. Baumgartner busy with gasoline and repairs. Mrs Will McCulley returns from Reader. Miss Guthmeier clerk at Albrechts visits home. Miss Mabel McCulley leaves for Ellendale Normal School.
The piece notes poor chicken hunting around Temvik with hunters reluctant to speak. John Forrester of Bismarck visited Temvik Monday night to inspect school land in Emmons county. Peter Reich departed for Linton to report to the local army board and join Emmons county men heading to Fort Dodge.
Passengers aboard an American liner in an Atlantic port report silver plated periscopes on German submarines reflect the ocean so well they appear invisible. An Irish coast torpedo passed 50 feet away. gunners fired blindly as no submarine was seen. Wireless warnings from Cape Race reached the liner, but no submarine shelling off Nantucket was confirmed.
In Stockholm on September 18, a massive protest demanded the government take immediate steps to prove Sweden remains strictly neutral. Thousands packed the main hall while socialist minister Hjalmar Branting spoke to an overflow crowd outside the city. Additional protests occurred across the capital against the government’s support of Germany.
Hartford notices report Charley Buck and Mrs Ed Brooks owning a piano. Gayton school No 2 opens October 8 with Laura Buck as teacher. Dora Smith ill with diphtheria. Threshing is the Valley’s main activity. Longwells visited Bertha Noyes. Rena Buck visited his parents. Percival and Art Chamley bought a farm nearby. Frea Richardson bought a Casper Brewer farm. Mausehund family visited O Donnals. Johnny Schermeister and wife welcomed a son last week.
Strasburg Happenings notes rapid work on the new John Smaltz home and townsfolk fruit gathering at the river last Tuesday. Threshing is nearly done and farmers report good returns. Indications point to many farmers installing electric light plants this fall. P C Van Soest joins Emmons County Motor Co and is already overseeing local interests. Evangelist Jacob Schaap preaches Sunday at 7:45 p m in the Reformed church. it is his final visit before leaving for eastern locations. All are invited.
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