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Newspaper

The Weekly Times Record

Location

Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America

Date

Aug 28, 1913

Page

12

Farco Congregational College Makes Mr Karr Flattering Offer

Alex Karr secretary and manager of Valley City Chautauqua Assembly declines an offer to become Fargo college field agent. Fargo proposed 3000 yearly salary with endowment duties, but Karr stays loyal, aiming to build a major North Dakota institution. Notices include coal bid call and Craswell signature.

Farco Congregational College MR. Karr Valley City Alex Karr Chautauqua Assembly Fargo College Karr Fargo School Chautauqua Assembly Valley City Institution North Dakota

Adwin Mayland Returns From Transacting Work at Northfield and Minneapolis

Adwin Mayland who has been trans acting business for the Better Farming Association at Northfield and Minneapolis for the past three weeks, returned home Saturday night. Mrs. Mayland, who accompanied him will remain in Minneapolis a week longer. J. B. Jones is transacting business in the western out of the state this week.

Adwin Mayland Better Farming Association Northfield Minneapolis Mrs. Mayland J. B. Jones

Women Rioters Arrested in Minot Riot

Minot North Dakota August 20 Fourteen more arrests were made in a street clash involving police Socialists and I W W agitators on Main street. Several agitators were driven from town. Two women sympathizers were among the detainees and fought police furiously one wielding an iron tool. The incident marked another lively Minot riot with several participants severely beaten.

Minot N. D Main Street Carl Berg Joe Riper George Howard Oscar Anderson Riper

Notable Polar Explorers and Leaders Named

A list of prominent polar explorers and supporters includes Roald Amundsen, E B Baldwin, J E Bernier, W H Brewer, A Nordenskjold, O Nordenskjold, Julius Payer, Otto Sverdrup, and other figures such as Gen. Greely, Rear-Admiral Schley, and Prof. Wright. The roster mentions expedition commands, secretaries, and authors associated with Arctic and Antarctic exploration.

1. C. Bement J. E. Bernier Henry Biederbeck W. H. Brewer T. F. Dedrick A.W. Grealys U.S. A Franklin Bay J. Knowles Hare Theodore Lerner Jules Leclercq Georges Lecointe International Bureau of Polar Research Maurice McConnell John Menander O. Nordenskjold Albert Operai B. &. Osborn Julius Payer W. 8S. Schley Greely

New Rockford Growth In 1913 Progress Brings Boom

New Rockford North Dakota reports rapid growth with 80 new residences in progress, a $25,000 Methodist church, a $25,000 Catholic school, a finished electric light plant, a 40,000 bushel grain elevator, stockyards, cement sidewalks, sewer work, a planned white way, and enhanced fire protection. The piece notes ongoing progress into 1914.

New Rockford N. D Ely-Salyards Grain Company Great Northern

Threshing Gains Ground Across Barnes County

Barnes County farmers report near completion of grain cutting with threshing well underway. Oats and flax remain in parts, but most fields are off to a strong finish. Daily farm help remains plentiful at about 2.50 dollars, easing hiring concerns. In Hobart township threshing has begun with yields around twenty bushels per acre of high quality, number one grade grain.

Barnes County Hobart

Classified Ad Highlights From The Times Record

A collage of classifieds from the Times Record listing WANTED positions and sales offers. Items include a steady gentlemanly salesman sought for Ward's Ward’s Medical Co Winona Minnesota, sale offers for hatching eggs and White Wyandotte eggs, exchange of near new automobile for residence, sale of work horses and Yorkshire boar, several purebred Berkshire boar pigs, a house with property for sale in Maple Avenue, a Scandia Hotel job calling for a girl, cook car positions for two ladies and a man and wife, and a modern brick block for sale or trade in Willmar Minnesota with land value trade options.

Willmar Minn Edwin Ruble Driscoll N. D

The Siege of the Seven Suitors on the Rambler Line

The narrator describes a train ride toward the station where Lord Arrowood complains of being ousted by inn-bounders. Cecilia Hollister sits nearby as dialogue references a ghost, a father, Aunt Octavia, and Hezekiah. The conversa tion spans a morning journey with hints of family secrets, romance, and pending dinner arrangements, ending with a promise to resume the tale.

Lord Arrowood Cecilia Hezekiah Aoat Providence Octavia Feee Octavian Hollister Prescott Arms Hartley Wiggins Mr. Ames Mr. Wiggins Cecilia Hollister

Fargo city fines poker players in police court

State news reports Fargo's city authorities fining a group of poker players after police court actions this week. In Stutsman county, no Russians are raising corn though imported seed from their homeland promises a strong yield. Thomas Murphy, a transient, wounded another transient with a knife in Hankinson, causing serious injuries. In the west, two young boys died from drinking milk after consuming choke cherry products.

Fargo Stutsman County

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C. H. Hoveland Seal Board of Education City of W. T. Craswell Crosby Oriska Capt Roald Amundsen South Pole E. B. Baldwin Baldwin- Ziegler Ralph Shainwald Middleton Smith Robert Stein Otto Sverdrup F. F. Taylor Dillon Wallace J. 8. Warmbath G. Frederick Wright North America George WrigHt, Jr North Pole DR. Cook Bummer Times-Record Ward D. Colville Marion White E. D. Lum Land Co Phone Rogers James McFadgen Matteson Tatttiw Skennard Bros St Wtf Stillman N. Dak Maple Ave Elm Street J. M. Defoe Scandia Hotel Cook E. C. Southwick Darey, N. D News of the Thomas Murphy Hankinson
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