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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
5
A poster outlines a word contest with six rules. It bans repeated letters beyond their frequency and prohibits foreign names. It closes on Saturday September 18 with entries due by then. In a tie, dishes sell at auction and funds are shared. Booster Marguerite Gudmestad won first. Booster Mayme McKay’s Club won second. Who will win the watch on Monday August 30.
Mrs. T. B. Carlson of Sanborn visits Mrs. J. E. Carlson for a few days. Joe Iverson of City Bakery travels to Rogers to oversee sales. Dr. C. E. Spicer returns to work after hospital stay. Miss Elsie Steffen of Fargo leaves for Carrington after telephony duties. F. O. Garst returns from Cordell after six weeks selling Miller player piano. Mrs. Gertrude Cook and Mrs. Frank Cook host St Catherine Altar society gathering. Frank Heimes, Herb Weston, and W. H. Pray travel to Fargo. Heimes later heads to Detroit to join his wife. Alice Ramseth and her sister Mrs. Iverson vacation in Ellsworth, Wis. Dr. Zimmerman hosts visiting parents from Blackduck, Minn. Mrs. Oliver Over of Elgin, IN visits Kathryn locals. lengthy hospitality noted. S. L. Martin of W. A. Green real estate has wife visiting, they live at Kindred. Mrs. C. L. Norgaard improves rapidly at Platou hospital. Mrs. C. E. Burgess travels to Fargo for a few days. Joseph R. Weber of National Mileage Co. visits on business. A ten-pound baby boy born to Prof. and Mrs. Eugene Woodhams. they celebrate. John Tracy returns from coast trip and views Barnes county crops. Rev. C. Davick of Fargo hosts at Naeseth home. T. Calhoun of C. Chaffee vacationing in Benson, Minn. Miss Francis Starke helps at Right Price Mercantile Co. in bookkeeper Johan Beck’s absence. Ed Sigurdson of Dakota Drug Co. heads to Spokane with Mrs. Sigurdson to visit coast cities.
An issue of Farm and Fireside notes that wheat and cotton are not unmixed kings while the egg crop last year totaled about 700 million dollars. It emphasizes that most poultry is produced by women and children on family farms rather than specialized farms, and declares the hand that rocks the cradle feeds the world.
Grand Forks August 23. H C Hansen and his wife aged 45 drowned in Brush lake twenty miles east of Antelope. Hansen owned a summer resort. wife had rowed to center where his gasoline launch broke down. Hansen tipped the rowboat, both drowned in seventy feet of water a mile from shore. Bodies unrecovered. children notified a passing rig. Formerly Racine residents, they came here over a year ago and filed homestead land. They leave several young children. A Sunday picnic planned by nearby towns at Brush lake was canceled.
Jamestown August 24 Sheriff Morgan of Foster county announced two young men charged with bootlegging were convicted in district court after selling liquor from a Ford automobile. Sixty five quarts of Hunter's whiskey were seized along with the car. They, from Foster county, claimed Kansas City origins as John Enright and Fred Williams. The auto was stolen, with a North Dakota tag. efforts continue to locate the owner through the Ford factory and sheriff’s office seeks the car’s possessor.
Ellendale North Dakota August 24 five men Will Redspeth George Stone Albert Barnum John Billiland and Charlie Reede are jailed after a shooting fracas at Oakes Reede tried to hold up the others they shot at him wounding him in the left heel and leg The dispute began in Aberdeen over polo betting and developed into the Oakes scene They were bound over for the fall term of court
The International Institute of Agriculture reports bigger expected yields across rye oats barley and wheat in Spain Ireland Italy European Russia Switzerland the United States England Scotland Tunis Japan and Canada. Rye up 18.7 percent oats 24.1 percent barley 19 percent and wheat 17.9 percent over 1914 totals.
A city man visits a country cousin and boasts metropolitan fun at the country club and dances while the cousin describes simple pleasures like buggy rides baseball attic poker and long evenings. A farmer adds rustic routines from sundown to breakfast, highlighting rural humor.
Minot reported its first frost of the season with an official temperature of 28 degrees in the early morning. The 24 hour high reached 66 degrees while frost touched boards and dry objects but caused no serious damage as vegetation remained largely unaffected.
Market report lists Minneapolis and Duluth cash close for wheat oats rye and flax with prices for Hard Wheat No 1 Northern No 2 Northern and Durum along with Sept Dec and Oct futures. The data includes arr and arr in Aug figures and high and low Sept Wheat.
A west bound Northern Pacific freight carried six new threshing rigs destined for North Dakota. The units included steam and gasoline powered machines from various makes. The same train also carried power and mining equipment and bridge iron for American Bridge Company, requiring three flat cars. Jamestown reports frost on August 24 with temperatures dropping to 36 at the state hospital station, light frost along the river, and clear cool harvesting weather prevailing afterwards.
Frost at Devils Lake registered 32.5 degrees last night causing damage to tender vegetation in low areas. A 51 degree drop in 30 hours came with no warning. Late flax may be harmed. For sale a five passenger automobile in good condition with best price in city. Also Studebaker pump and iron pump offered. phone 66L.
Barnes County Auditor Charles W. Nelson reminds hunters that the office closes at 4 p.m. on Saturday September 4 and reopens at 9 a.m. Tuesday September 7 due to Labor Day. No permits can be issued elsewhere. applicants from outside should submit before Saturday closing. Pete Hansen traveled to Minneapolis Tuesday on business.
Gray's lively contest reshapes standings with Margaret Gudmestad taking first place last week and Signe Johnson dropping from the lead. The Saturday baby show crowned Charette Sanders, awarding her a ring and a set of dishes for her mother amid a hotly contested event. Mr and Mrs H E West traveled to Litchville Sunday to repair a blown tire, during which West injured his right thumb, leaving a very sore hand.
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