Barnes County Play Day celebrates 11th annual events
The Barnes County Play Day returns with an expanded plan at Chautauqua Park featuring parade, physical tests for all ages, a picnic lunch, a salvage parade promoting the Junior Red Cross, a patriotic moving picture, and prizes for salvage and outfits. Community activities include a school choir, local remarks, and progress notes from the county press.
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Barnes County
Chautauqua Park
Chautauqua
Nursery
Sheyenne River
Red Cross
Armory
Valley City
British French Counter Attack Near Ypres
British and French forces counter attacked southwest of Ypres as ground retaken after German gains. Heavy gas shelling marked the fighting with French troops reclaiming positions at Dickebusch Lake and along the Amiens region and Aisne Heights amid stubborn defense by machine gunners.
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France
Ypres
Dickebusch Lake
Amiens
Aisne Heights
Bohemia Tensions Grow as Siege Declared in Austrian Lands
Rome reports worsening Bohemia and Slavonic Austria-Hungary conditions with several provinces under siege. The piece also covers local notes: a church conference trip, fishing plans, a new hotel opening, Cross relief efforts in Valley City, and a large donation to the Red Cross totaling 641.25 dollars.
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Rome
Bohemia
Austria
Hungary
James Manoles
Old Windsor Hotel
Northern Hotel
Liberty Cafe
The
Times-Record
Nels Johnson
Nelle Smith
Frank Lannon
A. C. Thorkelson
Red Cross
Valley City
First Avenue
Second Avenue
Community Plowing and Visits Highlight Weekend
A busy week in the neighborhood with rain improving fields for corn millet and flax. Visitors include John F Henrikson Julius Henrikson Jens Henrikson Oscar E Aas and others at various homes. Services at Sheyenne Valley church Sunday afternoon and Decoration Day services at 10:30 am at the German Lutheran church with Mr Bohnhoff speaking at Tower City.
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Theields
John F. Henrikson
Julius Henrikson
Haaken Billet
Sheyenne Valley
Jens Henrikson
Oscar E. Aas
Carl
James G. Thoreson
Arthur
Alfred Aas
C. W. Olson
A. K. Thoreson
Sam Torzerson
Audubon
Minn
T. X. Calnan
Valley City
Bohnhoff
Tower City
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Miss Cranz
Prof. McMullen
K. of P
Hall
Model School
Lydia Nelson
Ses McFarland
Lerstad
Josephine Wright
E. P. Getchell
Fargo
E. A. Pray
Florida
L. G. Moultrie
W. W. Smith
Shrine
Big Pine Lake
Hugh McDonald
C. K. Hills
Otto Neumann
Minneapolis
Vaughn Cowell
Riverside Hospital
Lee Cowell
Vaughn
Dreyer
Adler
Novell
Georgette
Welworth
Wirthmore
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