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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1919
Page
7
Friday’s Daily records arrivals including Mr and Mrs J S Baumann of Strasberg North Dakota and Dr Virginia Holmes of Chicago. It also highlights tuberculosis prevention drives with Red Cross Christmas Seals and notes on local business, rail officials, banking front, and debates over vacating Sixth Avenue for school playgrounds.
Prominent residents visit Valley City as Emil Djuberg greets friends. An Episcopal parish meeting is set for 7 30 this evening. Mr and Mrs E Wellington of North Dakota shop in the city. Mrs Tom Cannon and daughters plan a trip to Minneapolis for holidays with Mr Cannon’s folks. The third stage war relief event is scheduled for Norapaa on Wednesday December. H L Cheney travels to Fargo for business, spending the day in the gateway city. E N Mosher to Doctor D writes to change address to Hot Springs Arkansas for an extended stay. Mrs J DeJarnette of Missoula Montana is visiting, with many others in attendance. E AL arrived here yesterday and plans to return shortly.
A bustling town section reports a dancing craze with events nearly every other night. Riverside Hospital notes Valentine Oetel’s discharge after months of injury recovery, still crippled but ambulatory. Local entrepreneurs buy property to open a garage and repair shop. Catherine Maresh resigns to visit the coast. Paul Baarstad starts an electrical wiring shop on East Main. Hi Y club trip to Sanborn ends 22 to 6 as Sanborn dominates on weight.
Ernest Davis formerly leading tenor with the Boston Opera Company will give a recital in the Normal Auditorium. He also helped raise morale for soldiers by singing at cantonments and training stations in the middle west. The item also notes a clarification about Sixth Avenue traffic closure and urges voting to let the majority rule.
Monday's Daily Twenty reports sub zero temperatures easing ice danger. O N Sad of Wimbledon and Fred Fried of Spiritwood visit Valley City. Carl Butts of Minneapolis visits C A Zabels. W T Craswell attends Memorial services in Bismarck. A E Warner of Minneapolis visits C Norgrant and Fred Ericcrison. The Hoodlum shown at Grand draws praise from Manager Piller. Bank Examiner O A Engemoen of Steele visits, leaving for the Soo. Sheriff Engebret Larson pursues a bad checker case to Bismarck. Bishop J P Tyler of Fargo confirms a class at All Saints, Archdeacon Martyr preaches. “Mice in Wonderland” at Normal tonight with 25 cents admission and bazaar. Christmas trees arrive December 10 at North Dakota Supply Co Reidman & Ellis and Fifth Avenue Hotel. James Stull returns from Bismarck studying business and legislation.
Mrs M J Crose leaves on No 8 for California as locals report a bustling horse sale at Dr Anderson's barn with over forty horses sold at about seventy dollars each. Other items note Fargo trip, recent appendectomy recovery, a M E church Brotherhood supper change, and Major A L Stone billed by the Y M C A for talks to men and boys.
Thursday's item notes Mrs J W Switzer at Riverside Hospital with pleurisy and Mrs E M Shannon operated for appendicitis. It lists several residents visiting the city, shoppers, and local notices including Christmas card orders, Red Cross charity, and a Dec 6 Percheron horse sale advertised by John M Watson of New Salem.
Reverend J S Wilds delivered a shoulder sermon on the sixth commandment at the Methodist church last night. He often digs into topics with blunt force, leaving listeners buzzing about his vivid handling of the subject. John Logan visited the editor this morning and plans to send the Times-Record to Holtville, California, with a possible rail trip. he nearly had a collision carrying both that paper and the National Nonpartisan Leader in one pocket, saying the duo nearly set his clothes on fire.
L Hadley, staying with his sister Mrs Frank White for about a week, left Sunday afternoon for Chicago. He had planned a two week stay but left perhaps for business reasons or to consider the league of nations idea. He returned yesterday on No 4 train. Hadley is a very pleasant man.
The National Tuberculosis Association and its 1000 affiliated state and local groups wage a continuous war on the dreaded disease. These organizations are financed mainly by the sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals.
Mart Mason, Gasper Winkler, Walter Coop and Peter Fenstad depart on No 3 tomorrow morning bound for coast points. Winkler visits his daughter in Reedsville Oregon for a month or longer while the others plan to make California their home for the winter. The party chartered the drawing room car as the only available private car was unavailable due to a cow shortage.
Burl Carr explains his vote on the gag bill passed by the house Saturday. He says voting affirmatively would prevent him from returning home and “lie like a damned horse thief” as Townley has directed organizers to do. The bill creates a commission and fund to prosecute those who misrepresent public affairs. It does not address those who lie like horse thieves.
The library has started a file of newspaper clippings with about a thousand items. Valley City papers cover municipal news while state and national papers provide broader items. The archive will include major local events and war era reports to create a historical record.
Contractors say they are nearly ready to turn on the steam on the south side of the track after a final manhole is installed. The new heating plant will undergo a trial run once steam is connected.
S. A. McCollow makes a late arrival in Valley City accompanied by his family, joining local residents. The group is seen settling in and expected to participate in upcoming community events.
The T. J. McCollow Company will run a gasoline and oil outlet. Tanks are already in place and, according to Mr. McCollow, operations will likely begin in the spring. The station is to be built on the street car line.
The association and its 1000 affiliated groups aim to detect all tuberculosis cases to reveal incipient disease among parents, enable timely treatment, and save children. The effort is financed mainly by Red Cross Christmas Seals, and public cooperation is requested.
Lieut James Brady formerly of Company G returns home after serving overseas in World War I He was promoted soon after leaving and spent most of the postwar period in Germany and later in civilian duty Friends welcome him back as one of the last from his company to return amid community celebration and good cheer.
Maynard Crane was summoned to Washington on December ord due to the death of his brother-in-law J M Burrell. Burrell is remembered as an early Sanborn and Operstown banker, co-owner of Cooperstown townsite, and promoter of the 8 C T M R R to Cooperstown with C A Roberts of Fargo.
A reminiscence recalls Murray Burrell who moved from Pennsylvania in the 1880s to Alabama and then Washington D C where he was a coal wholesaler. Born in 1883 era and active in Griggs and Barnes county gun club meetings he helped youth programs amid early hardships. He leaves a wife and three children in Washington D C.
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