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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1920
Page
8
Vera Schneider a nineteen year old telephone operator was found choked to death on a porch in Pontiac. An alleged confession to Prosecutor Gillespie by Allin Best of Flint says she asked to be killed saying she was tired of life. Best claimed to knot a noose and place it around her head.
Helena speaker E G Reith urges personal preparation for manhood and womanhood, stressing action over worry. He uses a puzzle map tale to illustrate forming character before plans, saying the world advances only through what we construct in ourselves and in society. Mr Keith adds, “First make the man, Then make the map.”
Major General Leonard Wood takes an early lead in New Jersey preferential primaries as 1808 of 2005 districts report. Wood trails Johnson by 740 votes with 4390 to 47650 in unofficial tallies. Officials warn recount possible as results shift. Lodge Frelinghuysen endorse the front runner. Governor Stokes backing Wood sits third with Runyon close behind. Twenty four district delegates likely split with a Wood majority.
Governor Frazier and Mrs Frazier attended the two day Woman Voters League convention in Fargo. Mrs Grace Clendening of Fargo was elected director at large and regional directors were named for several regions with others to be selected later.
New York reports incomplete returns from April 28 primaries leave results unsettled. Wood leads in New Jersey GOP with narrow margin and may secure most of 28 New Jersey delegates. Edwards leads Democrats with full delegation. Harding vs Wood tight in Ohio. Massachusetts GOP split with Wood expected to take six of 35. Poindexter favored in Washington GOP. Idaho GOP to pick Borah slate. Democratic Cox leading Democrats overall.
President C F Allen of the State Normal School attended the annual Sib ley Education Association meeting for southeast counties, delivering a talk on Professional Growth of Teachers in Service. Dr C B Allen addressed the Elementary section, with Nellie Witcher and G W Hanna taking leadership roles. The Sibley Association has joined the North Dakota Education Association, reorganizing into four quarterly sections.
In Columbus on April 23 the Harding and Wood campaigns claimed 42 of 48 Republican delegates based on unofficial returns from 2,857 precincts. Wood aimed for at least eight delegates, with Johnson third and Hoover fourth. Democratic delegates went to Cox, with minor write-ins for Hoover and Bryan. Separately, Hastings Bank burglary cut telephone lines and delayed police inquiry.
The state wage board recommended a fixed 17.50 weekly minimum for women and minors in mercantile occupations and outlined apprenticeship pay levels from 12 to 15 dollars over four three month periods. It left to employers discretion the discount practices some stores offer and limited hours for women and minors in towns under 600 population to eight and a half hours per day and 48 per week.
Washington April 27 spring wheat growers are urged by the department of agriculture to consider conditions before reducing acreage this year. Estimated winter wheat production is 488,617,000 bushels versus 731,636,000 last year. Hessian fly, grasshoppers, labor shortages, and low winter wheat quality threaten spring planting. world demand remains, with NO heavy drops in consumption expected.
New York April 28 The transport Mercury arrived with twenty five American soldiers who died abroad. The ship also carried sixty one sick and wounded and seven hundred thirty four casualty troops along with forty seven officers and nurses. Docking was expected this afternoon.
St. Paul, April 28. A speeding taxi cab crashed into a telephone pole, killing Jack Flynn and seriously injuring three men and two women. Bottles of alleged moonshine whisky were found in the wreckage, and some occupants were thrown about fifty feet.
Fred Clark returns home from Pasadena California. Larkin Club met with Mrs. Andy McLees. Mrs. Mary Campbell and Thompson family visited Valley City. George Gordon stayed with his brother John in Jamestown. Frank Stillings shopped Wesley City. Homer Clark family visited Cass Clark. Families of John Jones Frank Stillings Peter Kramp Max Haase and Seward McQueen enjoyed Gordon home visit. Lizzie celebrates birthday.
Last Friday the Royal Neighbors held a regular meeting where the losers entertained new members and the winners with a repal supper for 10 members. Neighbors Moore Bau maz Bergman Smith Carroll and others spoke or performed. The evening ended with two hours of dancing and a hopeful outlook for more events this winter.
Daily Geo notes a stream of visitors and residents from Leal Verne Wimbledon and beyond. Names include H Law H M Green P L Widdifield J A Kramer T E McMillan Rev P Fritch Mrs J R Marquisee Mr and Mrs Stanley Mrs T W Twistleton C E Burgess Sam Randahl and many others. Highlights cover railroad movements Mrs Wylie Nielson and Myrna Sharlow’s opera appearance and city improvements like red hydrants and new house builds as autumn work begins.
Ed Romfo frames up a bungalow on Helena avenue in Boston for his own use. Massachusetts April 28 shows in primary returns that Wood leads with six delegates, while Senator Lodge tops the field with seventy five votes for delegate at large. The Big Four unpledged members win by substantial majorities and will back Governor Coolidge on the first ballot.
The State Sunday School convention will meet in Valley City for three days starting June 16. An expected five hundred delegates will attend. Committee chairs were named for entertainment, registration, publicity, music, meeting places, exhibits, recreation, finance, reception, ushers, and commissary with many members listed.
The state printing commission yesterday awarded the Cooperative Herald Publishing company of Fargo the contract to print the state publicity pamphlet. The pamphlet must reach voters twenty days before the election and will run 60 to 80 pages. Candidates may buy space at 100 dollars per page. Only one other bid was received from Globe Gazette of Wahpeton. In social news, a bridge party at Miss Grace Ellis residence raised prizes of hand painted china for top and consolation, with six tables of play and a spring flower decorated supper.
The Griggs County Telephone Company of Cooperstown was ordered by the state railroad commission to reduce rates for Cooperstown and Binford and to provide a reliable limited 24 hour service. Ed Wyttenbach won a contract for Wilberg drain work at Nome, four and a half miles long, to drain wet land. The project will begin after Helena Avenue excavation ends.
Secretary I J Moe of the Valley City Chautauqua Association announced this morning that he holds contracts with William Jennings Bryan and Ex-President Taft for appearances at the Chautauqua season. Bryan will speak on June 19 and Taft on July 1, as part of a 1920 Northwest program the management calls the greatest ever offered.
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