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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1915
Page
2
A jumble of notes from Valley City including a subscription notice, a critique of the Times-Record by the Courier, and commentary on North Dakota opportunities. It touches on printing issues, the organ grinder tale, and a digression into European fish markets with export figures and commentary on U S and global trade.
The Grant County Tribune of Hyannis Neb writes on its twenty sixth year under editor C K Bassett. It recalls a rise from 240 subscribers to nearly 700, expansion from five to sixteen pages, new printing equipment, and upcoming four page additions for July and August as advertising grows.
The page includes an obituary for Mary Astila Tooley born July 14 1879 in Rochester Minnesota who lived in Barnes County North Dakota and cared for the sick. she died April 30 after typhoid pneumonia. Also noted are a political pamphlet style quip about suffrage and war, a Washington note on U.S. fishery production around 1908 and per capita consumption, and local social and church references with multiple names including Mary McIntyre John McIntyre Dr T A McIntyre Mrs J P Southwick. The piece mixes personal memorials with political and economic commentary from the era.
A fragmentary poem by Arthur Powell extols spring with lush grass and bright skies. The lines evoke birds, the sea, and musical sounds in nature as spring awakens and inspires exalted feelings.
A compact lyric meditation on experience and growth. The lines reflect on burning wisdom, catching at challenges, and the pull of perseverance. It ponders whether quitting at the peak prevents progress and asserts the road to advancement lies in choosing the right path.
Tom Smith and a crew left Monday for Sanborn to plant a city park with material from the Northwest Nursery Co. The project may take a week and Sanborn is praised for investing in a fine park. Miss Enda Walker of Kathryn has joined Valley City’s Middlewest Loan and Trust Co as a stenographer, starting Monday.
The Men’s Glee Club of the Normal returned Sunday morning from a singing tour. They were well liked in each town and every number drew encores. The group performed at Hannaford, McHenry, and Leal, facing bad weather at McHenry but drawing a fair crowd. Dean Goodsell says plans are being made for a longer trip near the end of the school year.
Williston North Carolina May 8 Traffic along the upper Missouri is growing year by year. This spring's business requires a new boat for Captain E Seneschal's fleet and more craft to operate on the Missouri and Yellowstone. Boats haul freight to inland points not served by rail and return with grain cargoes. The U S engineers Mandan is moving upriver to clear obstructions.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude to friends for aid and sympathy during illness and death of their daughter and sister Mrs Mary McIntyre and family.
Edgar L. Richter, Larimore Pioneer editor and North Dakota Press association president, wraps up Larimore baked potato day at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. He praises the fair as the greatest of its kind and notes strong advertising for North Dakota, especially Larimore and Grand Forks County, with many residents vacationing in San Francisco.
An 1873 Jamestown observer recalls Bismarck as a canvas tent town with rare frame houses. R R Marsh and Capt Grant Marsh are linked to early hotel life, Fort Lincoln at the time, and town growth after the arrival of the N P railway. The piece preserves Burleigh County memories of Custer era.
The memoir recalls Captain Bar West’s steamer journey with wounded Reno’s men after a battle, the Lone Cabin scout Charlie Reynolds, moccasins beaded in bright colors, and autographs tied to Gen Custer. It then reports a Cass County court notice in Fargo for final approval of a receiver's report and attorney fees, dated May 1915 with a May 31 hearing.
W K DeLa Hunt made a business visit to Litchville last Saturday. Max Henker enjoys a Maxwell touring car. Mrs C J Hanson and son Warren visited Eastedge relatives over Sunday. McDowell of the First National Bank left for a business trip to the East and Cities. A H Opdahl returned to Fargo after two weeks with his son Carl. A baby girl arrived for Mr and Mrs Henry Kronebusch on Friday. Charles L DeRue and Mrs Stayaert visited from Marshall Minn at the Liebbrecht home in Greenland township. Mrs Stayaert, Belgian war refugee, has three sons in the Belgian army. Ernest Gertz suffered a severe run away accident last week Wednesday. Anna E Lee, long at the county treasurer’s office, resigned and left for home west of Fingal.
A single livestock development car will depart May 17 from North Dakota in cooperation with the North Dakota Experiment Station and the Northern Pacific railway. W. H. Peters and other specialists will lead eight top speakers across 27 towns, with local county agents arranging livestock demonstrations and farm visits, including multiple farm tours each forenoon.
The program will address solving local problems in livestock care and feeding, profitable dairy and beef cattle rearing, hog farming, farm feeds, silos and silage, and dairy product standardization. Meetings will run with business leaders, farmers clubs and agents in communities volunteering to participate across Hannaford, Lovell, Binford, Pingree, Woodworth, Pettibone, Robinson, Tuttle, Wing, Regan, Carrington, Turtle Lake, Mercer, McClusky, Denhoff, Goodrich, Hurdaville, Chaisse y, Dowdon, Heaton, Sykeston, New Rockford, Esmond, Maddock, Oberon, Minnewaukon and Sheyenne.
Nettie Nelson rode to Valley City on Friday Ester Fromke of Valley City spent Monday with Mrs. Chas Davis Arvilla McCready of Valley City weekend with her parents Morria Ramsett of Fingal visited Pred Kennedy over Sunday Cora and Hilda Nelson returned from Sanborn where they taught Misses Kennedy and Harry Kennedy and family spent Sunday at Valley City Mrs E M Doney returned from St Paul where she had medical treatment There was no school Thursday and Friday due to teachers attending Central Exocational association meeting at Valley City John Anderson, wintering in California, spent a few days there and returned to Minneapolis The Normal School baseball squad left for Enderlin Monday for a postponed game indicating first real game of season with high school team
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