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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1920
Page
2
Staff Correspondent recaps Thursday and weekend activities in Niobe and surrounding towns. Readers learn of shopping trips, social calls, school nurse visits, concerts, young people's gatherings, and a rain shower easing drought. Messages mention multiple families, travel to Kenmare and Bowbells, health updates, and crop prospects with hoppers and slim yields ahead.
Minnie and Walter Stenson were at Clarks Sunday while Gladys Sparks visited W. S. Clarks. The Clayton school is hosting a basket and ice cream social with supper at five, plans for an evening program in progress. Residents urged to attend and bring baskets.
Star correspondent reports a string of social calls and visits in Coal Valley. Melvin Undhjem, Orine Olson, Miss Fern Bonsness, and others moved between homes including the Bohsness and Olsons while family members, like Mrs. George Borshiem and Mrs. John Thompson, travel to visit relatives.
Attendance at a Columbus Sunday ball game included Polalondhs Attag mate Hluated and neighbors along with Sgymia Olson Melvin Barduson and Oscar Kap pelsloen. Otto Aos returned home from Fergus Falls area with stock and household goods to settle on a farm. An airplane was seen northwest Friday and returned east that evening. Grand View ladies aid visited John Olson then Engebret Larson to present a library table to Mrs Larson for her leadership. Refreshments were served by the ladies.
Miss Agnes Schwegen shopped in Portal with Florence Voss assisting. Northgate residents attend events, travel to Portal and Minnesota, and a recent storm brought rain and a steady spell of wet weather. Many locals enjoy dances, fairs, and swimming at Des Lacs Lake, while others welcome new depot agent Arthur Baker and his family back from Minneapolis.
Woburn and surrounding area share social notes from Tuesday to Friday events with visits by Mrs. Mensing and Mrs. Nelson, Bowbells show attendance, neighborly calls, and airplane sighting. The townsfolk mourn the death of Mrs. Berg from tuberculosis after a period of declining health.
The notice honors a long deceased mother, lists surviving relatives from Bowbells to Orrville, and notes burial at Flaxton cemetery. It includes social updates from Bowbells and Woburn clubs, upcoming fruit shipments from Washington, and discussions on women education, ballot use, and civil government. Members invite broader participation and announce meetings at Flaxton and surrounding farms.
Plots of farm elevator incorporation and public works loom across towns like Emerado Reynolds Valley City and Stutsman county with new coops expansion bids and power plant plans. Accidents and labor woes include Harley Irich's injuries from a fall and creamery modernization pushes. Community notes cover school room additions and a national boy scout congress attendance in Bottineau as weathered supply concerns ripple through the region.
Reports from Amamose to Minot detail cattle stock, political appointments, and local developments. Anamoose proposes 51 Hereford head. Glotzbuch represents North Dakota at a Cox event in Jamestown. bar association plans August meetings. a child’s aviation boast from Devils Lake. several postmasters commissioned. sightings of a possible buried corpse disputed. Northern Dakota railroad foreclosure cancelled. Killdeer to host a national park survey. Valley City to publish a new directory with population hopes. Williston hospital bids and a 100000 hospital project. Stirum Grain company formed. Burke Wool Growers perfected. Minot gardener with eight hill tubers. Churles Ferry potato warehouse. Makot and Drayton potato and warehouse activity. Towner reporting one gooner. game wardens vigilant. Kent Heights coal mine prep for 300 jobs. Grand Forks Fair livestock sale. Buford postmistress bonds. embezzlement trial in Minot.
Sealed bids for transporting Bowbells School children on Routes 1 2 3 for 1920 1921 are due by 8 PM August 23 1920 at the district office. Bids must state monthly salary and the board may reject any or all bids. Wat Sadleir clerk.
Notices warn of two mortgage foreclosures in Burke County North Dakota. George A McKenzie and Alice McKengle mortgaged land in 1914 to John A Ormiston with sale set for September 25 1920 to settle $1118.25 plus costs. The second by Wade H Anderson administrator to Charlotte Justine Heckel concerns NE quarter section 25 township 162 range 90 West with sale September 21 1920 to cover $4231.27 plus fees.
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