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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1919
Page
5
Readable items include social arrivals and departures from Valley City with travelers from Jamestown and Carrington, theater news, school activities, and community project discussions. Notables: visits by Drs Peake and Katherine Peake, Senator Ployhar’s sewer work, Legion remarks, and junior class ticket sales for Saturday’s football game.
Community notes from Valley City include Governor Frazier designating October 9 as fire prevention day, visits by Dr. A F Orr and family, Mrs. Harriet Hoffer’s shopping trip, and local residents moving to town. Reports mention Hebert A. Hard surveying rivers and drainage, Bon Boyer celebrants, and several letters home from soldiers. Also noted are traffic incidents, church open forum plans, Salvation Army drive results, and a court reporter joining the Valley City court. Local figures such as Judge A G Guptill and Rev J S Wilds are profiled along with upcoming events and entertainments at the Grand theatre.
Tuesday notes a P. B. D. rummage sale is planned for the near future. Several local residents are mentioned visiting, traveling, or returning, including Mr and Mrs Arthur Milton welcoming a new baby at their home, and others from Fargo Wimbledon Dillon and Seal involved in various city matters.
Col Frank White speaks Sunday night on The Y M C A in the A E L F at 8 o clock in Valley City Congregational church. Open forum follows with four minute floor speeches and freedom of speech. Aimed especially at A E F members, first meeting in Barnes county, with ongoing weekly sessions.
A Sunday night B I L meeting hosted by Mrs. W. W. Smith and Mrs. D. S. Ritchie featured a fine dinner and executive session. Topics included woman suffrage the peace treaty and the labor question. The round table discussion in Washington was humorously referenced as a model, ending with harmony and a late departure.
A national convention of American teachers and college professors discusses demands for higher wages. An emaciated philosophy professor proposes organizing to seek pay equal to janitors and perhaps later equal to switchmen and railroad conductors, amid dramatic reactions from attendees.
A fragmentary local item notes a young girl, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jensen, was struck by an automobile on First Street but suffered no serious injuries. Driver O H Larson of Kathryn North Dakota was identified. a second car approached and the girl dodged, were struck, and another party picked her up before the aftermath was documented.
A fragment shows the statement I shall be a true American expressing dedication to rights of all countrymen. The line reflects civic identity and national belonging in a periodical’s voice.
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