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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
4
An unsigned wartime recruitment notice seeks able bodied men in the midwest wheat belt for harvest labor. It promises good wages, long hours from sunrise to star time, and emphasizes no killings but hard work and firearms.
A farmer retires to town then returns to his old farm to build a model garden. The piece argues many retirees move away from farming at 45 or 50, buy a small town lot, milk cows, and complain of taxes, instead urging retirement on the farm where they and their children have deep roots.
The Fargo Courier-News reports a bold recruitment motif urging men for a grand war effort with mock seriousness. It claims plenty of uniforms and tires are ready, with maps and plans drawn and the campaign prepared for enlistment. Pitchfork scythes as weapons are mentioned in a satirical tone.
An eclectic meditation on fate by Ary and power and the human urge to shape tomorrow. The piece contrasts destiny with daily life, urging balance between seriousness and hope, and questions why we strive to foresee what cannot be controlled.
The Supreme Court upheld public schools right to expel high school fraternities or fratmen. The piece condemns high school fraternities as crude imitations of college life causing trouble in schools and urges authorities to remove such groups. It contrasts them with college fraternities and criticizes parent involvement.
Bottineau residents recall croquet being popular while noting births in the community. Mrs Henry welcomes a son born to Mr and Mrs Russell. Mrs Thomas White hosts a Manitoba visitor Dan McLean from Manitoba visits Bottineau. W R Thompson Franklin School Mankato enjoys vacation in Bottineau. Judge Bennett attends the Teacher's Institute at Tolliver, editor jokes about chasing a sea serpent seen in Mouse River.
Dr J S McKachran of Tor mito visited Dr A R MacKay. Mrs John Welsh died after months of paralysis. Flora and Kate Burr planned a visit to the Portland fair. Dr C A Leonard to Portland for Lewis Clark exposition. James E Haskett visited Mountain Home Idaho then Portland for the exposi tion. N F Snyder son of W R Snyder to locate in Williamate county after graduating law. Anton Olson and Miss Stella Syverson married by Rev.
After midnight in Bottineau County, Dr A R MacKay George White and K O Raftshol, returning to Bottineau in a county bank auto driven by the regular chauffeur, missed the road and plunged into Boundary Creek where a recently removed bridge was located. All occupants escaped unharmed.
Henry Ford advocates thrift and work for youths during school breaks to learn money value. The piece highlights boys and girls earning income through errands, garden care, selling papers, and home tasks, urging saving accounts to form habits. It notes Los Angeles youths opening 700 savings accounts and nearly 1 million dollars in the school system, plus Y M C A and American Hawkers cooperation promoting thrift.
The First National Bank of Bottineau is led by President W H McIntosh with W R McIntosh as vice president and F W Cathro as cashier. Jno T Neville P J Scully and Everett D Bower serve as assistant cashiers. He pressed his suit though the reply was a firm declination. The Louis Post Dispatch notes the exchange as a humorous banking aside.
A collage of North Dakota items notes Flag Day events in Munster, a 24 piece band, summer schools opening, 12 Mohall housewives buying electric washing machines, wolves captured in Wells county, a Mandan hotel raid, road grading to the Canadian boundary, cattle losses at Kenmare, and plans for upcoming chautauquas and gatherings across Fargo, Minot, Devils Lake and Valley City with various local incidents and cultural happenings.
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