Drylanders District community notes and events
News from Drylanders District reports sod breaking and a growing farming community with good soil water wood and coal. Local life includes dances at Clarence Turner’s and a Chittick orchestra from Dupont, ore and coal activity, a proposed saw mill, and hunter adventures. Education updates cover Bowen school meetings and a knot tying rope splicing class for older students.
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Lewistown
Denis Monger
Clarence Turner
Chittick Orchestra
Dupont
Doehral
Becket
Magnus Johnson
Dakotas
Joseph McIntyre
Wm. Woods
Sam Bersuch
Amos Snyder
Turners
Everett’s
Walker’s
Apple’s
Jackman’s
Whitmarch
Chippewa News Stock Weather and Camp Lewis Letters
The town notes fine weather for stock but poor ice making. Chas Tadewald attended the farmers short course last week. Rudolf Tadewald of Camp Lewis artillery writes a letter to the Pine Butte literary society to be read January 12. Art Rustuen of Camp Lewis machine gun corps reports his gun has 390 parts and he has mastered them all.
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Chas. Tadewald
Rudolf Tadewald
Heavy Artillery Corps
Camp Lewis
Pine Butte
School Notes Highlights and Enrollments for December
The list shows top monthly averages in each grade, names of students with perfect attendance in primary grades, new enrollments in grammar and primary rooms bringing grammar to 37 and primary to 51, total school enrollment at 94, Ralph Weider’s return after illness, an auxiliary Red Cross unit organized at school, and a school band formed with practices twice weekly. Professor Davis visited.
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Emma Koenitz
Harry Shierson
Francis Ferguson
Lois Saylor
Ruth Cameron
Thelma Anderson
Lerne Maddox
Mildred Rhone
Gile Mead
John Ferguson
Ann Clark
Bruce Allen
Lucille Pritchett
Otis Rhone
Dois Fisher
Margaret Weber
Richard Weber
Irene Wallace
Melvin Rommel
Wallace Ramsey
Raymond Rhinhart
Lyle Moore
Ralph Saylor
Jennie Meed
Larue Maddox
Joe Maddox
Neil Doughty
Doris Fisher
Cecil Glover
Nessie Glover
Ingwold Ejerson
Arnold Campbell
Fern Loebs
Mildred Loebs
Mildred Rommel
Gudron Kjerson
Ralph Weider
Red Cross
Davis
Seein Things In The Heavens Over Grass Range
Local readers report odd nightly apparitions in the sky above Grass Range. Citizens describe a moving object lingering in the blue dome, unlike meteors, with multiple temperate witnesses confirming the sighting. The piece notes the event is hypothetical and urges calm while avoiding sensationalism.
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Venus
Blue Dome
McDonald Creek
Helping Win the War Letter From Grass Range Soldier Carl Noble
A Grass Range soldier, Carl F. Noble, thanks Red Cross workers and friends for their holiday support. He states that the war will be won because those who cannot serve still fight with heart and soul. The letter praises homefront loyalty and urges continued aid to soldiers.
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Carl F. Noble
Red Cross
Farmers organize cooperative for next year’s crops
About fifty Highland Beach farmers met at the schoolhouse last Sunday to organize a cooperative to handle next year’s crops. Shortage of help, high wages, and the need to increase spring wheat acreage are discussed, with talks of vetting community threshing outfits and exchanging labor to save costs for war needs.
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Cul Lngton
Highland Beach
Writing Ink Permanence Evident in Chemical Tests
A Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry writer notes air and light bleach inks. Hydrogen peroxide exposure simulates long term fading, with handwriting becoming invisible at varying rates. Violet typewriter ink resists but succumbs to sulphurous acid. Carbon ink remains the most trustworthy for enduring writing.
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Journal of
the Society of Chemical Industry
Coleman in Town Defends Oil Stock Guarantees
John A. Coleman, manager of Ford Creek Oil, arrived from Lewistown with associates. They express strong confidence in striking oil and are making notable guarantees on the stock, though guaranteeing an actual oil discovery is unlikely.
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John A. Coleman
Ford Creek Oil Company
Lewistown
Broad Street New York Once Wide Canal The Curb Brokers
Old Broad street in lower Manhattan began as a wide canal used by gondolas and canal boats. Dutch settlers called it Heere Graft, and in 1657 Peter Stuyvesant had the canal sides planked. Within decades waters were replaced by a street, making Broad street the widest thoroughfare in the area.
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Broad Street
New York
Lower Manhattan
Wall Street
Beaver Street
Peter Stuyvesant
Princes in England and abroad described
The eldest son holds the title of prince in England while other royal children enjoy privileges. In England they are royal highnesses by birth and could demand to be served on one knee when the king is away. In other countries princes are often merely nobles ranking after dukes.
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England
London Standard
Heiress Marries Hidden Groom to Save Mother
Helen Griswold persuades her family lawyer Richard Tarleton to arrange a marriage to a man chosen to help her ailing mother. A bedside wedding at 6 pm secures a dawn-like recovery as the mother’s health improves within a week.
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Helen Griswold
Richard Tarleton
Miss Griswold
Mr. Tarleton
Helen
Mrs. Griswold
War Talks by Uncle Dan on American education and unity
Uncle Dan discusses German schooling versus American education, praising German thoroughness but criticizing its heartless aims. He argues for a few reforms to sustain democracy: compulsory universal military training, naturalization with duties, and mandatory voting, backed by Rotary support for the Chamberlain bill.
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Uncle Dan
Oak Hill
Billie
Jimmie
Carl Newman
Carl
Europe
Germany
Dan
Lincoln
Uncle Cat
Rotary Clubs
Chamberlain
Universal Military Training League
An Extinguished Love Amid Brain Science
A wartime tale contrasts quackery with science as Dr. removes a brain protuberance in Alphonse Brisson to ease his pain. Post operation, his love for Clochette Chatteroux fades, prompting the hospital revelation that feelings resided in brain matter. Clochette rejects materialism, planning a quiet life planting potatoes.
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Clochette Chatteroux
Goodby
Alphonse Brisson
Alphonse
Clochette
Clochettie
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