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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1919
Page
5
Thursday's local brief highlights arrivals from Carey Portland and Shanghai, a memorial program at State Normal, a wedding plan and a car purchase news. A late spring rain slows seeding and a bond drive continues with expected May deadline. Community notes include club meetings and Home Economics Club plans for next year.
A district meeting of Masons will be held at Cooperstown on Friday May 28. A large number from this city plan to attend. Presiding Officer M C Spicer has named J E Jones P R Trubshaw and Edwin Bloom to arrange automobile transport. Brothers with cars should list their names with the committee promptly.
A so called friendly critic labels a Walt Mason verse published May 5 in the Times-Record as a sonnet. The critic, seeking fault, fears criticism and withholds their name while pressing the point that the piece is a sonnet rather than a verse.
Local notes recount critics seeking bylines, visiting merchants, and city visitors from Hillsboro to Oriska. Rail and telephone crews repair storm damage while new doctor A C Macdonald moves here. Socials, funerals, and civic events fill pages with personal updates, travels, and community plans.
The event honored Mrs. A. Sternberg, former member of both groups, as she visits the city. Attendees enjoyed music and socializing with old friends, and refreshments were served before her planned travels to Casselton, St. Paul, and Patterson, New Jersey. John Halverson returned from Wimbledon where he oversees a furniture store business.
A. F. Pierce Agency advertises a four room flat for rent. Various locals arrive or travel through the city including A. O. Tolstad from Dazey M. G. Straus from Casselton and Mrs. Isaac Marsh from Leal visiting or shopping. J. Brayfield Jamestown rector and G. Hutchinson family from Glendive also stop by. Sheriff Engebret Larson reports recovering a stolen Buick linked to St Paul. vehicle traced to Tower City and Chicago theft.
Clarence Lyon received a bayonet from his father Rev W C Lyon in Coblenz Germany. The weapon, described as wicked looking with a sawlike upper edge, evokes the brutal tools of war used by German forces. The writer notes the fearsome potential if such a blade were used against a person.
George McDonald, a local war veteran from the signal corps, recently came home after service in Myanes. He fought with the 26th Division at Chateau Thierry, St Mihiel, and the Argonne Forest, going over the top once. He was the sole survivor in a night group of five or six men, with one prisoner and others badly hurt. He says war experiences were brutal yet valuable, though he would not relive them.
Forest A Doucette came back to Valley City severely weakened after serving in the St Mihiel drive and enduring nine months on the front lines building light rail roads. He spent seven months in hospital and remains suffering from gas effects at A F Pierce home while friends hope for a rapid recovery. He formerly served as express messenger at the N P depot and the community laments his health while urging support for bonds to aid war efforts.
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