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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1917
Page
3
Local Wimbledon and area items cover personal trips and visits. Citizens travel to Fargo Jamestown Fergus Falls and Minot while births marriages and military summons are noted alongside crop prospects and club activities at Spiritwood lake and church events.
Valley City Iron and Metal Co. announces purchase of junk rubber tires copper and iron in small lots and carloads. They seek 1000 tons of iron and invite price inquiries. Prompt phone responses requested to 330. Mrs. M. B Chesebro and daughter Miss Eloise Chesebro visiting from Shell Rock Indiana arrive Thursday to visit city relatives. Chesebro sister of J. E Jones and Mrs. A. C. Torkelson.
Lieut J R Fraine and Mrs Joan Fraine of Grafton were married at nine in the morning in Grafton with relatives present. The bride is Miss Gladys Newell of Minneapolis. The couple left for Fargo and will soon depart for Bismarck where Fraine is stationed with Company A.
The July 27 issue lists Tom Quinlan at the Fargo fair, visits by Mrs. R. R. McGregor and Mrs. Christ W. Larson, Aus. Sorby visiting Jag. Petereen, a wedding shower for Miss Helen Stixrud, and several travels and errands around Fargo, Detroit, Sunburst, Valley City, Sisseton, and Canada. It notes a baptism at Hastings, car purchases, a tile delivery, a new dust house at Farmers elevator, and ongoing work on a concrete water reservoir.
A bill in Congress aims to authorize the Purple Cross as an auxiliary of the quartermaster general to provide embalming experts for American Expeditionary Forces in France. The goal is to allow repatriation of fallen soldiers’ bodies for interment in the United States after the war, with government sanction and local branches opening to supporters.
A North Dakota plea from the American Railway Association asks to free railroads from nonessential construction. The letter to Chairman Randahl argues wartime strains require railways conserve stock and capital. Secretary Calderhead notes imperative construction still needed for efficiency at stockyards platforms and farm product handling.
Des Moines reports Camp Dodge will be ready September 1 to house 40,000 or more soldiers from Minnesota the Dakotas Nebraska and Iowa. Contractors say barracks water lighting trenches streets and transport facilities are under rapid construction with 2000 civilian workers, rising to about 4000.
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