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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
7
A contracting agent for the Barnes Wild Animal Circus arrives to arrange licenses grounds utilities and transport for the show. The agent coordinates groceries advertising railroad sidings and loadings while managing many local contacts with a cheerful greeting.
The traveling Barnes circus needs over two hundred workers including Mr. Cassiday to staff the advance columns and daily operations. The show spends at least 4500 dollars daily in the town, with the aim of fair compensation for locals who help make circus day a success. Cassidy notes the circus is well known, thoroughly inspected, with new features, top equipment, and brilliant parade costumes.
A large audience enjoyed the operetta Plorinda presented by the glee club Monday night. The production featured fine staging and costumes with music directed by Miss Amidon and dances by Miss Cranz. Josephine Wright accompanied.
The Home Economics Society hosts an evening Memorial program featuring prayers, quotations for the dead, and readings on Memorial Day. Marguerite Olson shares Civil War figures, Gettysburg Address, and American Creed. A lost brown winter coat on Red Trail near Wall is reported. contact Covell Embertaon & Olson.
Government thrift drive in schools forms thrift organizations in the Training School with named clubs in each grade. Students pledge to save, invest in War and Thrift stamps, and earn weekly efficiency banners for room participation.
The War Department designates several men for admission to the West Point Military Academy for the term starting June 13, 1919. Named from South Dakota are William Walrath Lloyd of Yankton Morris Kelly Woedisch of Aberdeen and Seo Daniel Blank of Valley City and Hugh Chauncey Johnson of Washburn. Thirty-nine non commissioned officers from the Army are also selected to attend.
Senior girls schedule cooking demonstrations including Meat Substitutes Sugar Seasonal Vegetables Rural School Luncheon Cold Packed Vegetables Open Kettle Fruit. Sessions run June 3 to June 11 with attendance open to all. Miss Alice Carpenter recently visited the department and Louise Goehl reports teaching at Cooperstown enjoying the work.
A fine display of classroom art and yearlong work by Catholic school children attracts many visitors. The exhibit runs through Monday, inviting friends to view teachers’ and pupils’ efforts. Commencement exercises on Tuesday, June 3.
Paris report from a United Press correspondent denied access and freedom in Bolshevik Russia. He describes strict permits, restricted movement, and surveillance while noting fires, evacuations, and armed workers in Petrograd. Kolchak forces are claimed to be retreating.
A heated Glen Allin league meeting pits A C Townley against Senator F W Mees over caucus loyalty and proposed tax measures. Townley loses temper, makes bold accusations, and faces a shouting crowd as Mees challenges his remarks and calls for orderly conduct.
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