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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1917
Page
5
Community notices from Bowbells outline a cinema weekend with The Innocence of Lizette and Bowbella events, plus an Arctic wildlife showing. Theater, church, and market ads mix with farm updates, stray notices, and local business promotions amid a busy June schedule.
Donald Eaton ten months old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Eaton, died May 23 after a four week illness. Funeral held at the Eaton home, Rev. Vesey officiating, burial in Hillside cemetery, Plaxton. Community members offered condolences, with many visitors and local notices of events and gatherings attending thereafter.
The Bowbells Choral Club presents The Nazarene at Royal Theatre Monday evening with twenty local performers directed by Father Otto Welser. The concert, also to be shown at Portal, highlights incidents from Jesus ministry with lyric drama and choral pieces, praised for beauty and thoughtful balance.
An amusing anecdote about the Secretary of Commerce contrasts reform zeal with practical impact. Can manufacturers diverted steel from harvesting gear to cans, risking shortages and delaying crop support, while dairy and feed interests warn against hastily wrecking the food system.
An old shipboard cautionary tale warns against feeding missteps. A captain substitutes dangerous chemicals for a supposed remedy, causing a death. The piece cautions against overdosing or underfeeding livestock with cottonseed or oilseed meal and emphasizes proper rationing.
The National Crop Improvement service notes that uniform mill made mixed feeds outperform home blends. It cites laboratory analysis, reduced variation, and government and state station support as reducing fraud and inefficiency. Real tests show eight tons of dairy feed can replace 13 1 3 tons of farm grain, saving about $20 per ton and returning three times as much fertilizer to the farm.
There is no sense in hauling two loads of cheap feed when one load of high grade feed will do the work and costs but three fourths as much as the two loads.
P J Devaney and G L Bickford traveled from Montana to Minot, sharing supper at the Jobo Bogus home on the way. Debaters John Bryan and C P Christwoken lead a Clayton school house No 1 debate on June 2 about consolidated schools benefiting scholars and the community.
Minnesota column chronicles social visits and daily happenings. Locals join at funerals dances, school programs, and Sunday gatherings while noting farm work and small repairs around the area.
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