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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1917
Page
2
A mixed National tone piece from Valley City columns notes youths enlisting, praising patriotism and family pride as The Kid joins the Colors. It reflects wartime sentiment through verses about duty from the home front and the father and grandfather’s reactions.
An editorial urges immediate obligatory government service for men ages 19 to 45 to fill roles in farming shops mines and military service. It argues conscription or work assignments would solve recruiting gaps and prevent loafing, with farming and war as alternate destinations. The piece notes Northwest workers’ skills could aid trench digging but warns against overloading labor with only manual tasks.
A fragmentary poem in which drums call Freemen to arms with moral questions about war. The drums urge sacrifice and unity as voices debate profit, courage, and duty. The nation ultimately answers in faith, the heart of the people rising for battle.
North Dakota youths are urged to raise poultry to earn money and ease food shortages. Begin by buying eggs for hatching or baby chicks, with April or May favored for better hatch rates. June offers cheaper hatching eggs, and May or June provide ideal weather for raising chicks, reducing work compared to winter.
Wimbledon boys form a garden club under committee leaders T X Calnan Mrs H M Chase Frank Pierce and W Rabe with sixacre hog pasture land leased for individual plots potatoes beans and corn to be grown under supervision. Girls club planned. planting aims to boost wartime food production and support the front.
Hastings Times reports a fire department meeting deciding to buy two 850 pound chemical engines from W S Nott Fire Engine Co at 650 dollars each with guaranteed insurance savings. A subscriptions drive seeks about 1000 dollars in three annual payments to finance the plan as a Commercial Club meeting aims to finalize the contract tonight.
A damaged collection includes poems like Old Ironside by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fall in. Also features lines from POTATO CULTURE and A PRAYER, with scattered phrases about battle, liberty, and agriculture. Detroit Free Press excerpt mentions O Gringaard visiting Fallen City.
A published reader argues against advertising able-bodied patriots as heroes and questions public praise of young men seeking high wages or easy lives. The letter warns against hereditary ideas and suggests no public favoritism for army-eligible individuals who avoid farming and traditional labor.
The Young People's society of the Lutheran Free church held a well attended Friday evening meeting with an instructive program. After business, attendees listed included Miss Gindya Schroeder Mrs. A C Smith Supt Nielson Miss Agnes Skorpen Mrs Smith, followed by light refreshments by Mrs. Gunderson. In Steele on April 25 farmers report using automobiles to pull plows due to labor and tractor shortages, noting fair success amid equipment shortages.
Valley City resident C A Sollin testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved his back pain and irregular kidney secretions after trying many remedies. He notes no further kidney trouble for years and urges others to use the same product from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. Chase Blomberg renews Daily Times Record subscription, a reader for 40 years.
Tower City April 27 public sendoff for 12 recruits bound for Fargo to join the colors. Major Frazer and Col. Gearay spoke, D B Shaw voiced welcome, each recruit received a $20 piece. Albert Beltman spoke for recipients. About 400 attended as band played and national songs were sung. Sixteen youths escorted to stages, 15 from Tower City and one from Sheldon. 11 Sheldon youths passed, one to St Paul seeking enlistment, three rejected.
Albert Friedrich, a prominent farmer six miles northeast of Enderlin, died suddenly at his field while operating a manure spreader. He collapsed, was taken to his home, and died before removal from the machine, with no further details available. The report appears in the Marion Sentinel.
Multiple public notices from Barnes County include a Fargo Loan Agency mortgage sale in 1917, a quiet title action over Southwest Quarter of Section 22 in Township 143 Range 57, and a Royal Elevator Company mortgage foreclosure on lands in sections 26 23 27 of Township 143 North Range 61. Proceedings specify sale dates, amounts due, and court actions.
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