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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1922
Page
5
A Bottineau week listings page includes fair attendance reports, notices of sales and services, medical ads for Tanlac and a Royal Typewriter for sale, school annual distribution details, and a parade of local visitors and residents visiting relatives or attending events. Names include J. A. Henderson, A H Reamer, T H Mylea, Lloyd, Sigurdson, Sigurdson’s Pharmacy, Merle MacBain, Adolph Wall, and others.
Northeastern North Dakota farmers plan to market potatoes cooperatively this fall. Local associations have formed in Walsh and Pembina counties with meetings in Grand Forks, Minto, Park River, Edinburg, Hoople, Nash, and towns including Adams Lankin and Cashel. New locals emerge in Thompson Reynolds and Northwood with potential warehouse, and other areas like Crystal Valhalla Cavalier Drayton-Northwood are considering groups.
Minot hosts a July 21 22 pageant marking Northwestern North Dakota's 40th anniversary since white settlement in 1882. The event features 400 participants with cooperation from UND Playmakers Minot Normal and city schools, plus Melvin J. Johnson. A street parade at 2 PM and a 8 PM pageant run both days with 50 cent admissions for adults and 25 cents for children.
A humorous verse shows a father resisting nutritious meals and preferring fried potatoes and sausage. The poem mocks parental stubbornness toward healthy eating, noting other family efforts to feed him fruits and greens while he demands grease and rich fare. It ends with a playful biblical flourish about celestial meat.
County agents report traditional coal tar dips fail to kill ticks and lice on sheep. North Dakota Agricultural College endorses a nicotine dip using four to ten pounds of nicotine per 100 gallons water with sulphur. Sheep should be dipped twice, second time 24 to 26 days after the first. Farmers may contact local agents or the college for a circular with construction diagrams.
North Dakota farmers face shifting from one crop to multiple crops and need five year loans with partial payments, says North Dakota Agricultural College President John Lee Coulter at Cooperstown livestock meeting. He argues one year financing suits single crops, while five year planning fits diversified farming and cites Wisconsin and Minnesota progress as context.
The Nonpartisan Club invites people to a celebration at Ole Johnson Farm beside the river near New. Ice cream cake and lemonade will be served. The notice requests attendees to bring tunes and join in the event.
The passage outlines a plan where existing commercial banks receive local attention while funds are rediscountable through farm land banks. Interest rates would be fixed, and local banks could apply a one percent operating margin. North Dakota is cited as a primary beneficiary if the act is enacted.
More than two hundred farmers in Pembina Walsh and Grand Forks counties plant potato seed plots this year aided by county agents. Seed selection stem-end cutting and treating with corrosive sublimate have boosted yields 10 to 40 percent over the general field run. Disease differences appear early in August before harvest. In Walsh 95 farmers use seed plots Pembina 80 and Grand Forks 35.
Wool buyers have resumed operations in North Dakota after a two year lull. In Red River Valley counties spring clip sold to local and outside buyers at 22 to 31 cents per pound, versus 10 to 25 cents via the North Dakota wool pool. The Fargo pool offers a 15 cent per pound advance on arrival, with shipments from Pembina county to the state pool.
William Craig and wife transfer Lot 8 Branders to Bottineau. Nils Stiviand transfers to Sivert N Vestre Lot 35,000 and 23 163 T 1 G. Stover and wife convey Lots 8 and 9 of Eastside Addition to Bottineau for 1200. P B Peterson and wife convey to John 18 vad a 6000. Newburg to Hi tin W D Garisteas 8 in the Village.
Depot Agent Gifford says the passenger train will wait until 9 PM on June 29 and July 1 to serve visitors for the fair. Landa beat Newburg 7 to 6 with Glasoe pitching well and Alwin Boreson excelling. Tuesday, Great Northern of Minot lost to Landa 3 to 1 as Bob Larson hit a seventh inning homer.
A Sunday School picnic was held at the Charles Merritt grove last Wednesday featuring ball games and a program. The Swedish Ladies Aid plans a dinner and sale at the schoolhouse on July 6. P Peterson and family visited K Fekan and J Talcott homes Sunday.
Fifteen cars and a band traveled Tuesday morning for the Fourth of July events with stops in tributary towns and into Canada. The fourteen months old daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Lessman died Saturday from flu effects. Gilbert Condit and Elsie Johnson were married June 14 and are touring Iowa before settling back in Westhope. A strong cyclone Thursday caused damage and injuries including Mrs Neymyer. Mohall and Pierson games went to visitors with scores 2 6 and 4 14. Vere Trimble lost all rye grain in the storm. Mrs Ross Trimble returned from an Iowa visit. Rev Lewis Evans attended Synod at Jamestown. Rev Olson preached Sunday.
Mr and Mrs John Listoe and son Marvin of Crosby returned home after two weeks with Ole Crogen. Olaf Hegg family and Olaf Rosberg visited Jonas Towneson’s. Ole Crogen and Anton Hanson hosted Mohall relatives. Mrs John Holum and Ivan left for Wolf Point Montana after a three week stay. Anton Hanson and Clara Crogen returned to Rosholt SD, Miss Clara Crogen joined them to South Dakota. Sigurdson visitors at John P Krogen home. Ben Wall hosted Kenneth Moum Irene Seter Dagny Moen and others.
Local residents mention trips and returns from Devila Lake on Monday. Miss Tom Moum left Sunday for Chicago to train as a nurse. John Schei and family visited the Jack Schei home Sunday. Ostlund of Carbury, recently released from St. Andrieux Hospital Bottineau, is home. Rudolph and Gilbert Tyee son and Minnie and Alma Kenning called at Bottreau. J L Gorder spent Saturday near Maxbass adjusting tornado losses.
Wesley Reed of Mohali spent time with his cousin Harold Felt. The Ladies Aid met at Mrs. Albert Felt’s home and an ice cream social is planned for Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Reed visited Reed’s in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Felt, last Sunday. William’s mother and brother from Westhope visited last Sunday. A group enjoyed the McHaney home Saturday evening. Local voters attended the Baker Sherman speaking at the grove near Towner last Tuesday. Fifteen youths, chaperoned by Mrs. Wilcox and Mrs. Chaffee, toured Bot tineau and the Mountains last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Martin welcomed a son born last Saturday. Mrs. Wilcox and daughter Alice left Saturday to spend the summer elsewhere. A tornado and hail storm Friday caused damage to buildings, stock, crops and property. Buildings destroyed include the old Scott farm, E. J. Bryant farm, gas well farm, all owned by W. B. Parker of Westhope, plus A. T. Thompson, Chas. Brander, St Paul church, George Morrison, H. D. Wyman, Bert Henry, Mike Egan, Lars Neimier and Seifert Bualheim.
Grand Forks exhibitors race to file entries as five weeks remain before the Grand Forks Fair. Cattle herds include Franklin Brothers Emerado with Polled Angus, Hartley Stock Farm Page with Aberdeen Angus, and W H Phippe Atwater with Hereford cattle. Secretaries report record early inquiries and growing enrollments across departments.
The article explains that the third finger, used for engagement and wedding rings, is the weaker of the ten. It notes pianists require twice as much drill on the third finger because the extensor tendon of that finger links to the second finger by a cross-slip, affecting strength and independence.
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