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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
2
A North Dakota political roundup reviews Fargo and Lisbon press rhetoric, Townley and nonpartisan league moves, and local editorials on farming wages and growth. It cites candidates O Connor and M. Young, Judge Cooley, and Ladd, with critique of Townley tactics and calls to back certain local figures.
A farmer’s friend denounces Townley as a hot orator driving the socialist agenda. Farmers are warned that he will dictate wages and seek farm possession, urging wakefulness before state socialism takes hold.
Friday's Daily Deputy United States Marshal J. HT. Trotter from Fargo visited Valley City last night. Y Melvin Lee rode train No. 11 to Bismarck for brief business. Mr and Mrs G J Christianson of Seventh Avenue welcomed an eight pound baby girl born at five this morning. Mother and baby are reported well. Banker George J Jacobson of Walum arrived last night and departed for Bismarck to discuss state matters.
Saturday’s Daily Lol reports J H Praine of Grafton in town with the Fighting First North Dakota Regiment. S Heidel, Montana state engineer, and nephew W Heidel of Valley City, are in the area. O Keogh of Fargo seeks recruits at the Kindred Hotel. Clarence Lyon and Leslie Towne travel to Jamestown for tennis with five teams. Editor R J Hughes of Wahpeton Globe Gazette visits. Rudolf Geselius returns with four waiters for his cafe. A baby daughter born to Mr and Mrs Vaughn Cowell near Cooperstown on May 19. Cho Cho performed for crowds at Leal and Eckelson. William Olson’s omission from Fargo’s Democratic ticket noted. Railroad Commissioner Sam Randahl travels from Minneapolis to Litchville. seeks post-term rest. Barnes County Fair catalogs near release. promises include race horses, carnival, exhibits. Funeral of Ed Biggs at Sanborn with Masonic rites. Rev Allen Birchenough and Lieut F B Streeter speak at Oriska on anti-Townley ticket. set for Dazey and later Coopertown.
Voters in a bustling North Dakota town hear F B Streeter on the anti Townley ticket. He speaks at Eckels and later at the primer schoolhouse, answering questions from a lively crowd. Farmers, now receiving tax receipts, show openness to hearing the truth about state affairs.
W L Myers of the Northern Pacific with wife and son departed on No 4 yesterday afternoon for Minneapolis to visit friends and relatives for a few days. Mrs A C Olsen left Friday night over the Soo Line for Alta Canada to visit her daughter. Andrew Briner old timer from Brimier township came to retrieve his stored automobile and returned to his farm. Fargo Athletic baseball team set to play four games here tomorrow at three. Mrs Hazard and son Charlie visited Casselton and Spicer home. Thread famine hits town with only two spools of white Nos 50 and 60 sold at a time and a critical shortage of safety pins anticipated.
A brief note suggests census enumerators in Valley City retake the census tomorrow if conditions stay sunny and the world continues to turn. The item hints at administrative action without detailing officials or deadlines.
Yesterday's forecast predicted fair weather but the morning delivered heavy rain. Farmers welcome the moisture for crops while school children regret the washed out play day programs.
Mrs Geselius and her sisters Miss Camilla Lovestuen and Miss Carrie Lovestuen hosted fourteen guests at the Rudolf Hotel Tuesday afternoon for sewing and social visiting, followed by a four course luncheon at the Rudolf Cafe. Laurine Jacobson hosted about twelve friends for her eighth birthday with games and a light lunch, a birthday cake with eight candles, candy sacks, and good wishes for more celebrations.
Plans for the Barnes county YMCA convention banquet note a 6 30 pm start next Thursday May 27 with men women and boys invited. Limited seating requires early notice to secretary Geo B Caley by May 25. Banquet in the Congregational church dining room follows the convention session.
Miss Belle McMichael daughter of N H McMichael Pillsbury has escaped Turkish unrest in Mardin and is in Aleppo awaiting safer conditions for Near East Relief work. She sailed for the Leviathan in February 1919 and served as a teacher with Near East Relief there before the Turkish Tartars and Kurds drove workers to Aleppo.
Mr. H. R. Briggs offers five dollars reward for information leading to conviction of the youths cutting bark from trees around his Fourth Avenue residence. He says the acts are hard on the trees and expresses frustration at the vandalism.
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