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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1913
Page
3
A vintage recipe describes light potato doughnuts using baking powder and mashed potato. It covers mixing, frying, and cooking tips to keep them moist for days, plus coinages of exact ingredients and method. Clint Ford visits Enderlin and stops to see friends as part of the local notes.
Judge John Knauf of Jamestown spent hours in Valley City on Sunday en route to Fessenden for probate court matters. He says Stutsman county residents favor the Hanna administration and that state support will continue. Knauf notes Presbyterian college in Jamestown has grown from about fifty to over two hundred in three years. Miss Florence Lavery returned home from Bordulac after a three week visit.
Prairie chickens are unusually plentiful in Barnes County and North Dakota this year. Favorable weather and grain left standing have boosted old birds and large broods. Duck populations rise as sloughs fill with water, but hunters face wardens and legal training rules prohibit gun use before season opens.
State railroad commissioners report a flood of elevator licenses as the deadline approaches. About 200 licenses daily were issued or filed with the commission, with a required bond of 15000. Roughly 75 percent of applications have been rejected despite security company backing. about 3000 elevators exist in the state.
About sixty five farmers met at Schafer on Monday and formed the Farmers Protective association to guard against trespassing stock, improve farming, and seek if needed to challenge the constitutionality of a new held law. Officers elected include M F Higgins president P G Arnstad secretary and treasurer Henry Johnson P M Olson Jim Anderson Hans Erickson Oscar Forland Jens Walla J P Christianson and Seyert Tiieton vice president.
North Dakota reports 754 births and 235 deaths for June, with tuberculosis and other illnesses recorded. Cass County led births with 47 and 20 deaths. Barnes County had 30 births and 6 deaths. Valley City and Jamestown tied for second in births at 12, with Valley City listing 2 deaths to Jamestown's 8.
Dunn North Dakota news reports Adam Zeimer shot his wife last Tuesday amid domestic troubles. He surrendered to police and was jailed in Dickinson. The injured woman was transported to Taylor where doctors hope for recovery after bullet removal. In Cavalier area a separate lightning strike caused $15,000 in farm damage.
Charles Davis night watchman for the Soo shot one robber during a railway holdup on a north valley city pacific line. Davis fled into the weeds as accomplices closed in, phoned for help, and three suspects were captured at Rogers while the wounded man was hospitalized at Platou. The suspect identified himself as R C Young of Tulsa Oklahoma.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Cough Balsam for coughs and colds urging readers to try the soothing remedy. It claims no harmful ingredients and notes years of satisfactory use with bottle sizes of 26c, 50c, and 1.00.
Word arrives that Wm. Smith has been appointed by the president as postmaster at Valley City. Senate confirmation and removal of the current postmaster await action, with political maneuvering and local opposition noted as possible trouble for the Democrats.
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