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Newspaper
Oakes Weekly Republican
Location
Oakes, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1894
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR shows a train schedule noting daily operation except Sunday. Mentions times 4:15 PM and 6:03 PM, station details, and an agent Howann. Implies continuation to a destination labeled Wis with placeholder names and garbled text.
The Western Printing Company of Dukes maintains a stock of legal and probate forms including chattel mortgages notes leases deeds bills of hire releases mortgage assignments and notices. The itemized list covers powers of attorney sales reports oaths subpoenas and thresher liens among others.
Canajobarie N Y resident D W Fuller praises Dr King's New Discovery for coughs and health, saying his family always uses it and it delivers results. Catskill N Y druggist G W Dykeman calls it the best cough remedy his customers have trusted for eight years. Trial bottles free at S L Harris's store. Regular size 60 cents and 1.00.
A lengthy letter from James Wells asks congressman Morton to send a variety of seeds and experiments for a Dakota farm. He details seeds, crops, and odd requests such as carp and elephants, while noting barley and flax prospects and drought impacts. The piece frames farm ambitions, climate, and market hopes.
Several town caucuses are slated for Saturday May 26 at 8 p.m. in Mor 1 schoolhouse Norway township and Sherman, Bure Creek and Riverdale township locations to elect delegates for the Ellendale county convention on May 29 1894. Notices warn removal of manure piles and offer sympathy for a fire loss. An estray report lists two horses missing from Oakee North Dakota with owner to be notified.
Oakes is buzzing with new buildings and drafts for town growth. Residents travel to Ellendale Forman and Biswarek for business while ties to Ludden Tampa and Hankinson show a busy social and legal scene. Local improvements include a new house, a granary conversion, and a reform of jail facades. The community debates a Fourth of July tournament and a potential artesian well spectacle at Edgeley drawing vast visitor interest.
A noisy collage of local notices and ads touts McGoone jew cream and lemon aid, housing rentals, job notices, patent medicines, and various goods from Howland and Goodrich to J.C. Avery Co. Many lines promote health tonics and tonics, with names like Heads Sarsaparilla, Ayer's Pills, and Haller's Sarsaparilla.
Messy items describe timber hauling for a new bridge near Barre Creek and east of Glover, millet seeding progress, and late grain work. A public debt rise of about 9 million in April reflects political change. References to politics, pests, and harvest expectations accompany scattered farm notes and local weather hints.
August Wendland Clement is replistering. Mr and Mrs J Nelson of Oakes hosted the Reeves family Sunday. Mrs Anatin visited Ellendaly. Mrs Oug Lindall is sick. GW Towers of Ellendtate met Senator Stevens and family. Mrs Kelley of Yorktown was on business. Little Sela Reeves recovered from illness. Charlie Stevens owns a hundred tires. Mish Morgin and neholara plan entertainment next Friday at the school house. Mr Curtis and son Chester visited Yorktown Thursday. Miss Addie Reeves visited Hudson. August Woidkind planted trees on his lot. Mike Gleason’s train set aside until next file. Servis Scotton bought two hounts. May 17 celebrated despite bad weather. Tourism excursion tickets to summer resorts on sale via The Northwestern Ry.
Notice outlines two fast daily trains between Paul Minneapolis and Chicago with connections east and south. Advises contacting James C. Pond, General Passenger Agent, Milwaukee Wisconsin for schedules, routes, rates, and maps.
Nunes and The Hassell Art Publishing Co of 628 Arch Street Philadelphia offer to mail free art sets titled Cupid Guides the Boat and sixteen Polly pictures to ten admirers who send names, addresses and six two cent stamps. Regular price listed as 1.00, but free for those sending details. Editor notes copies of the pictures have been recovered and deemed valuable art.
The article cites Vora population figures with 1.48 billion globally and breaks down by continent, noting Europe as densely populated along with U S state densities like Massachusetts. It argues vast unoccupied land remains as Henry George warned and praises the Burlington Route for opening western lands to homesteads and farms, inviting inquiries to W J C Kenyon.
Two Sinaritans named Knox and Wol ins establish a central business and literary college offering practical business education. The account compares this venture to building on rock, noting resilience against adversity and inviting readers to request a catalog.
The week brings marriages in Belvidere, political denials by Senator Hill, and executions for Coxey Browne and Jones. Remains of Edmund Yates to be cremated, a Fort Dodge packing plant fire, and Julia Marlowe to wed Robert Tador. Shipping, canal milestones, resignations, and transit bills appear alongside weather and crime notes. Includes Queen Victoria opening a Manchester canal, Governor Flower backing rapid transit, and various local misfortunes and civic updates.
Legal notices describe Grove Primer to stand at several stables each Thursday during breeding season in North Dakota, with claims against the stallion owners to be filed by a specified date. Additional notices list other stallions for service in Oakes, Yorktown, and Cle anant areas, with sale arrangements and grooms listed.
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