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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
2
The letter praises Prof Selden for his popular appeal and editorial quality in this week’s paper. Readers note mail delays after the new time card, with trains at 7:55 pm causing late deliveries. Station Agent Chamberlain has reported the issue to the division superintendent, and action is expected to improve service soon.
The article argues labor voters largely backed good government rather than socialist groups. It praises working people for independence from radical factions, condemns Townley followers, and asserts laborers align with American values when wages reflect ability and rights are respected. It cites labor loyalty, immigrant misperceptions, and disdain for Debs and Kate O’Hare.
Miss Nella Halverson and Mr Oscar Sad of Wimbledon wed last Saturday at 4 pm in a ceremony conducted by Rev J A Moe at the Moe home on Helena Avenue. The couple, attended by Miss Anna Anderson and Peter Munkeby, left for Camas Washington to begin married life. city friends offer best wishes.
A man on a Chicago to Indianapolis morning train discovered his shoes missing and found another passenger’s shoes in his berth. The porter searched but found nothing until a portly traveler realized his own shoes were on the wrong feet. A quick switch occurred as the train arrived.
The article notes West African natives becoming full fledged chauffeurs within weeks of seeing their first motor vehicle. About 200 trucks run schedules feeding a steamship line between West African ports and Europe and America, hauling men, supplies, cocoa products, palm oil, hides, and rubber to the coast.
Researchers study tsutsugamushi a disease carried by akamushi insects in field mice. The illness, resembling typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, mainly affects June to October when insect carriers develop and peasants contact mice. Mortality can exceed fifty percent. Insect bites cannot be fully avoided and biting remedies fail. Eradication of field mice offers the only hope to stamp out the disease.
Repairing U-Boat damages notes that total world ship tonnage launched reached 7,144,549 with Britain contributing 1,620,000 tons. The United States led with 57 percent of global output, and Japan launched 613,800 tons, more than in the 22 years before 1913, signaling a major postwar expansion.
The article notes Lugano B. Anthony born a century ago and recalls her reform advocacy. It credits her with campaigns against slavery, for total abstinence and for equal suffrage, linking her efforts to later abolition and prohibition gains and votes for women.
A fragmentary dialogue centers on a quarrel over missing table knives and a plan to wear whiskers as a joke. The speaker laments loss of two good knives and implies other items are scarce. The diction is colloquial and rough edged, suggesting a rustic or stage moment.
Monday notes from Cooperstown list Daily M C Must spending the day in the city. S. Fletcher travels to McHenry for farm interests. Mr. and Mrs. W F Colberg visit from Wimbledon ND. Mrs. E L Fouks returning from New Redmond Wis. Open summer school at the Normal tomorrow. Rev. A M West from Harvey NC fills pulpit. Ted Martin and family visit J F L Bohn hoff home. Hugh McDonald plans trip to Portland for fruit lands and to visit daughter Marjory. Pingree baseball team in town awaiting game. rain delays. Scheduled Pingree Valley City game postponed and will be played this afternoon if weather permits.
Cashier H. M. Stroud trips to the city for business then plans to return if weather allows to hear Mr Taft and take his car home. C. C. Wagley sells north half of the Jarvis Wagley block to C. C. Chaffee with possession July 1. Father Stanton draws large Catholic church crowds with 8 pm services tonight and tomorrow. Harry Belknap reports early wheat headed out at Northwest Nursery Company. Druggist Will Seigfried visits from Sanborn with Y M C A encampment group. Langer gains noted after recent speech. Contractor Curren razes the old work building in front of the Bank of Valley City project, promising completion before the Fourth. Holstein cattle sale opens tomorrow in C A Anderson barn with fine herds from Grand Forks and New Salem. Mrs Margaret Cummings visits her son W. W. Smith in Montana with daughter Mrs Jean W. Albers. accompanies Master Ridgway Smith for vacation at the Albers ranch.
W L Witter presides over civil service tests last week including navy midshipman exams on Tue Wed Thu, rural carrier tests Friday and Saturday at Carey and for teachers at the Indian school. Senator Frank Ployhar and editor P R Trubshaw visited Sanborn. D D Aitken of Flint Michigan to speak at Holstein banquet tonight. sale in the city tomorrow described as among the most.
The sale features many fine pure bred Holstein cattle aimed at boosting the state's dairy industry. Commercial club members and their wives are urged to attend the banquet tonight. C H Mason of the Times Record visited Fargo, with son Orville returning home from Grand Forks. Heavy rains last week disrupted events and roads, impacting Chautauqua attendance. Tomorrow ex President William Howard Taft is due to speak, arriving tonight and staying at the Hotel Rudolf.
Senator Frank E. Ployhar returns from Bismarck where he faced railroad commission matters and then plans a tour to Darey and Rogers to rally political friends. He urges voter support, pledging continued service if reelected. Meanwhile, Chautauqua volunteers repair a muddy Victory Boulevard path, securing eleven teams for rock and gravel. In Marion area, hail storm devastates crops across twenty-five sections, with fifty more damaged, causing multi-thousand dollar losses.
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