School Opens With Expanded Curriculum and New Staff
The city public schools restart on September 13 under Prof. Nelson who will lead the system. Hugo Clum heads the agricultural department and Miss Alice Kolers will teach high school English. G. M. Hanson arrives to teach manual training while a new Junior High covers grades six and seven. A commercial course grows, Miss Cora Welsch will teach commercial subjects, and typewriting/stenography will follow. The musical program is suspended for the year. The Farmers' Co operative Produce office gains E L Vonberg of Minneapolis. An unusually large attendance is anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prof
Nelson
Hugo Clum
Schulz
Clum
Sleepy Eye
Minn
Alice Kolers
East Grand Forks
G. M. Hanson
Manitowoc
Wis
Cora Welsch
Lowell
Mass
Inez
Eva Siegel
Rose Holstein
Gas Flow Spurs Baker Oil Boom in Montana
A massive gas flow was struck a mile north of Baker, Montana, after months of drilling. The plume fills the area with activity as geologists map a 50 by 60 mile oil belt and leases flood in from buyers and large oil firms. Kennedy and Warren secured leases on about 10 000 acres as companies plan more wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Mont
Fara
Messrs
Kennedy and
Warren
State Board Levy Report Shows 1915 Increases
The state board of equalization raises real estate lands 14 percent and improvements 20 percent. City and village lots gain 20 percent, with improvements on those lots also at 20 percent. Personal property taxes remain unreported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Equalization
Mrs Whitaker Hosts Birthday Party for Margaret
Mrs. F. W. Whitaker gave a party Saturday for her daughter Margaret's fourth birthday. More than twenty children attended and enjoyed an afternoon of refreshments including sandwiches ice cream and cake. Margaret received several presents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Whitaker
Draveter
Margaret
Parcels Post Indemnity Increased Announcement
The postmaster general announced via the local office that parcel insurance maximum doubles from fifty to one hundred dollars. Insurance rates shift, with twenty five cents charged to insure a one hundred dollar value package. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs Martin Hess on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Hess
The Escape at Opera House
The seven reel photo drama The Escape based on Paul Armstrong's play screens at the Beach opera house on Tuesday Sept 7. It follows a slum raised girl who escapes poverty and a wealthy marriage to become worthy of love while her unfit sister remains trapped in misery. Cast includes Blanche Sweet Mae Marsh Robert Harron and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Armstrong
Beach Opera House
Armstrong
D. W. Griffith
Blanche Sweet
Mae Marsh
Robert Harron
Donald Crisp
Owen Moore
F. A. Turner
Ralph Lewis
Eastern Campaign Review Estimates Huge Russian Losses
Berlin reports an Overseas News Agency review placing Russian losses since May 2 at at least 300 000 killed or wounded and 1 100 000 captured. Russians were driven from Galicia Poland Courland and Lithuania as German and Austrian forces pressed the Austro German offensive in under four months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
General Army Headquarters
Poland
Russia
Georlice
Turkey
Galicia
Courtland
Lithuania
Farmers' Supply Store Secures Exclusive Case Agency
The Farmers' Supply Co. opened in a new building this week and gained exclusive agency for the Case line of farming implements and autos. Case is a leading U.S. implement maker, and this agency should bring substantial business to Farmers' Supply Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Supply Co
Case Line
Case Company
United States
Farmers Supply Co
Miss Pear Miller to Assume Teaching Post in Sidney Mont
Miss Pear Miller of Minneapolis is expected tomorrow to visit the Weitzig residence before starting duties as a public school teacher in Sidney Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pear Miller
Minneapolis
Weitzig
Sidney
Mont
Bridge Appropriations Come In From Medora Effort
G N Keniston returned from vacation and helped raise funds for a new bridge at Medora. Beach faces a 1500 levy and a 600 first day total, with Sept 10 as a deadline. Donations may be sent to committee members Attletweed Egan and Plomasen to avoid diverting traffic to Marmarth on the Yellow Trail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G.N. Keniston
Medora
Beach
Messrs
O. C. Attletweed
Martin Egan
Thor Plomasen
Little Missouri
Marmarth
Main Street
Golden Valley Bank
Binder Accident Severs Scalp on Farm Wreck
Rex Lahamann became trapped under a binder on the Sherping farm run by Steve Little when the machine collapsed. The bull wheel struck his forehead tearing away the scalp. The injury was dressed immediately and he is expected to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyndmere
Sherping Farm
Steve Little
Rex Lahamann
Miss Nellie Madsen Visits Manston Music Interest
Miss Nellie Madsen of Manston Wisconsin visits Peter Erickson this week and weighs starting a music class in the city in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Madsen
Manston
Wis
Peter Erickson
Miss Madsen
Craze Boy Drowns Self in Red River at Hospital Front
Grand Forks Sept 3 Gordon Bonstad an 18 year old patient at St Michaels hospital drowned in the Red river after escaping from a nurse and leaping from the river bank despite hospital precautions. He was held in bed with a restraining sheet prior to the fatal plunge and was found drowned after swimming several minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Forks
Gordon Bonstad
Red River
St. Michael's Hospital
J. C. Bonstad
North Seventh Street
Bonstad
J. T. Sherfey
Glendive Baseball Player Killed In Hunting Car Crash
George Hanson known as Big Tray a rising attorney and star ball player for the Glen dive Montana team died in a car crash while hunting west of Glendive He was a Minnesota graduate former St Louis American player and had practiced law in Glendive for three years His body was sent to Bode Iowa where his parents reside Mourning swept the city with support from Beach and Wibaux players who sent a wreath to his former home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Henson
Big Tray
Glendive
Mont
Hanson
University of Minnesota
St. Louis
Glen‘dive
Bode
Wibaux
Iowa
British Viewpoint on Submarine Settlement In London Papers
London newspapers agree Britain cannot accept a settlement that classifies a passenger liner differently from a merchant ship and crew. They favor reinstituting protections for non combatants and cite Wilson’s February note defining the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
Bernstorff
Lansing
Wilson
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E. L. Vonberg
Farmers’ Co-operative Produce Co
Von*berg
Hormel and Swift Packing
State Board
Opera House
J. E. Clancy
R. E. Keane
Cascade
Billings
Lewiston, Mont
Binder
Larsen Jewelry
Medora Bridge
Goodridge-Call Lumber Co. Guat
A. Johnson
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