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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1916
Page
2
The consensus says small grain this season shows the risk of farming all wheat. Newspapers and agriculture colleges have urged diversification and rotation for years, yet many farmers still monocrop. Experts note some could sustain a light or total crop loss, but most remain vulnerable to perils of single-crop farming.
A cluttered column notes various odds and ends from the press scene. Mentions James A. Egg, Billings, and John G B Fried registering at the Hotel Radisson with Archishop Mumletein pushing English instruction in diocese primary grades affecting 125,000 children.
Fragmentary lines from the Times-Record hint at rival towns eyeing a new post office, as Valley City residents anticipate a Friday morning event. The piece notes lingering heat effects and quips about campaigns, streetcars, and reshaped views on wealth and poetry.
The sweet clover sown on the experiment station farm is growing rapidly with some plants six feet tall. It has been cut for hay before blossoming, and cutting six to eight inches from the ground yields a second crop. Yields show first crop results from 1914 to 1916, and silage potential is being tested. Pigs fed on sweet clover require more grain per pound of gain than those on alfalfa, indicating higher costs.
The law states readers are impliedly renewing if no notice is given. Publishers may continue sending after a request to discontinue until all dues are paid. Failure to inform the publisher or take papers from the post office can imply intent to defraud, with advance payers bound to notify end of term to avoid charges.
Report from the North Dakota experiment station shows wild oats buried over five inches lose germination in two years and will not regrow. Sowing fields to grass, clover, and alfalfa is recommended. Shallow oats survive cutting, but deep roots die before next plowing. fall sprouting oats perish over winter.
The St Catherine Altar society met Thursday afternoon at Mr Jana and Mrs Darby O Malley s home on Fourth avenue. A large attendance between 75 and 100 members participated in sewing crocheting and visiting. Refreshments were served and the next meeting place will be announced later.
Miss Geraldine Howell, summer school attendee at Valley City Normal, arrived in La Moure on the Wednesday afternoon train. She will stay with Miss Ethel Bennett for several days, then proceed to Lisbon. Miss Bennett will host a reception in her honor Friday afternoon.
Fragmentary verse by Frank L. Stainton reflects Joy arriving to dispel tribulation with song. It contrasts Trouble stalking like wolves with Joy’s banjo transforming despair into hopeful music, promising hallelujahs in difficult valleys.
Poem extols the hard working fellow driven by duty and pride in his labor. It contrasts the torment of idle worry with the grit of a man who faces life’s feverish pace and refuses to quit despite illness or hardship.
Hortense Magee laments her father’s pretended fare with coffee, tea, and baked goods mocked as weak and sandstone hard. A Washington Star quotation contrasts life views from preacher to gambler, highlighting varied attitudes toward work, duty, and life itself.
Bliss Carman Mia Chas Campbell and daughter Harriett and Dorothy Sorde sister of Mrs Campbell go to Brandon Minnesota for two or three weeks visiting Mrs Campbells sister at her home.
Mrs Geo Cassat, Hon Maynard Crane and many neighbors travel through the area. Reports note heavy storm and rainfall figures at Barnes County station. Local births, arrivals, and social visits mark a busy week with farm and elevator notes and a small fire incident at W Willson residence.
J. M. Williams of the American Barley Co. of Minneapolis visited the city on Friday. He departed for Detroit, Minnesota, on Friday afternoon and will return Monday to demonstrate Cream of Barley put up by the company.
North Dakota's 1914 manufacturing output reached 21,147,000 with a 2,000,000 rise since 1909 and over 11,000,000 more than a decade earlier. Raw materials totaled 14,484,000. 699 industries were counted in 1914, down from 752, wages rose to 3,276 earners, and payrolls reached 2,416,000.
A reader from Fair Haven New York recalls her seven year old son being cured of cholera morbua by Chamberlains Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. She notes continued family use for colic and bowel troubles and endorses it as exceptionally meritorious. Alma Lechett departs Detroit Minnesota for a brief vacation after visiting Dr Bray's office.
The executrix Emily Mary Bolton Payne of Kingsley Town appoints W J Sanaburh as agent at Tower City ND to receive claims against the estate of William Watkins Payne late of London England. Creditors must file claims with vouchers within four months after first publication dated Aug 5 1916. Last publication Aug 31.
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