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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1919
Page
8
Classified notices and social updates show farm for sale listings, livestock ads, and residents visiting or arriving in Valley City. Included are buyers and sellers, customers in town, and remarks from local officials and visitors. Some names: D F Bush, Dr F L Wicks, Granger, Lincoln school, Geo C Sener, Myrtle Robinson, A D Lane, Roosevelt Memorial drive organizer George W Keniston.
Miss Anne Ferguson visits Barnes county Red Cross as field representative from Northern Division S R C. C A Bonhus eyes Minneapolis housing. C C Wheeler from Fargo attends to business and Equity Packing plant interests. A J Bosshard family from Owatonna arrives. Uloth friends host. Normal school opens fall term. expected record attendance if housing found. J E Buttree promotes Salvation Army drive at Grand theater. Bert Stack returns from Canada to visit Valley City parents.
The Salvation Army drive begins this week with local committees aiming to raise about 12 000 for Barnes County. Former soldiers praise Army aid in France and the meals provided by its ministrations. Donors urged to be liberal and use any savings for this cause.
Rev W C Lyon resumed his duties as pastor of the Congregational church and outlined the year ahead and church needs in the morning sermon. In the evening he spoke on Why I Am an American asserting that returning soldiers from France become better citizens. The debate over the league of nations splits opinion with most Americans opposing it, despite the President labeling critics as pro German.
Lee Cowell and John Hermes returned home yesterday from Flint Michigan with two Buick cars. Cowell praised Barnes county roads and disputed claims that eastern roads are better. He described Gary Indiana during a strike and reported no disturbances. In Chicago a police delay was resolved after Hermes signaled and paid a bribe. They were eager to return home and forget about speed limits.
Monday evening at the Ada Clark apartments over Dakota Drug Store, friends arrived bearing edible treats and a china gift for Mrs Clark in memory of the evening. The gathering was described as very merry by attendees. A Salvation Army drive opens tomorrow in Barnes county, urged to support the war effort and aid a long standing institution.
Mr Norbert of the Brunswick Barke Co arrived in the city Monday to complete the professional finish on The Club bowling alleys. He expects the Club alleys ready for the pin busters within a month. L W Hubbard, manager of The Club, says there will be no finer alleys after completion. The rooms will be newly painted and decorated with a new lighting system and other conveniences new to the city for bowling enthusiasts.
Ward went duck hunting and brought home fine birds. A duck dinner for fourteen was hosted at Mr. and Mrs. N A Johnson. The boys supplied the game and the ladies the trimmings as fourteen guests shared one of the finest feeds. Everyone enjoyed the meal and joked about still being able to eat another bite for a week.
A viewer recalls the film The Un pardonable Sin shown at the Grand last night. The piece is praised as a harsh American critique of German atrocities in wartime Belgium and elsewhere. It argues for ending foreign entanglements, repatriating soldiers, and focusing on domestic affairs.
Three Scranton youths who lost an arm in World War I and were initially returned to mining are selected by the National Catholic War Council for rehabilitation. At a base hospital they recovered, then Entered the Rehabilitation School at Catholic University, where skilled experts discovered their talent for electrical engineering. They now pursue electrical work with prospects far brighter than mining.
The National Catholic War Council releases a short primer "The Fundamentals of Citizenship" to educate nine million foreign born and illiterate residents. It includes the Declaration and Constitution, explains education health legislation taxation and naturalization, and urges voting. It warns against Bolshevik propaganda and stresses responsibility and informed participation in democracy.
Seattle Washington Post Intelligencer notes the Catholic War Council asks for labor in the name of social justice, describing the annual report as desirable and realizable. The item highlights church group urging action toward broader social reforms.
A Catholic view on wartime service and the National Catholic War Council outlines social reconstruction and Americanization. It urges intelligent adaptation of immigrants, continued Catholic leadership, and robust action on education housing labor and welfare to strengthen the nation. Catholic bishops meet in Washington to chart plans for American problems and future progress.
Major D. H. Ritchie will deliver a short speech at the Grand Theater during the Salvation Army drive. Those who know him expect a notable address on the subject, followed by the film The Unpardonable Sin. The drive opens in Barnes County tomorrow and requires community aid to ensure success.
A concise guide from A F Yeager of the N T Agr College advising on winter storage. Turnips beets and carrots keep best at slightly above freezing, squash and pumpkins in a warm dry place, cabbages in a cool attic, potatoes in a cool place not too dry, and root crops stored in ground beneath frost with straw insulation to prevent soil contact.
C B Waldron of North Dakota Agricultural College advises one to two foot seedlings as best for starting a grove. Plant trees four feet apart in rows eight or nine feet apart to allow cultivation. Close spacing aims to shade ground early, smother weeds in four to five years.
Delegates from Gilbert C. Grafton post of the Fargo American Legion will go to the state convention in Bismarck to urge the repeal of cigarette, Sunday baseball and theater closing laws and related Blue Law measures. Judge Leigh J. Monson named a 15 member committee to draft resolutions, with Atty. J. P. Conmy as chairman. The group debated Sunday closing rules, and J. P. Williams of Fargo defended the Sabbath baseball statute while noting western cities’ Sunday play with admission avoided.
A committee will draft resolutions to be read at the next post meeting on Tuesday October 7. Members will vote on adoption and delegates to the state convention will be named. The post seeks a repeal stance to inform the governor for a possible special session next month. Williams called the cigar law a farce while Conmy discussed New York State’s stance on Blue Laws and Sunday baseball.
In Jamestown Alert, officials urge Washington to lead by example by practicing thrift, saving, and economizing to reduce taxation and living costs. The piece says war costs rose to about 30 billion with bonds and taxes funding it, and calls for peacetime economy and new officials if policy does not change.
A lone bandit who robbed the Farmers State Bank of Lengley Minnesota at 1 p.m. Thursday was caught shortly after and is held in Polk county jail. About $2 in cash was taken. Lengby lies fifty miles east of Crookston.
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