Valley City News Quietly Buzzes With Local Visits
In Valley City on Friday and Saturday many residents were noted visiting from nearby towns. Mrs. Frank L. Thompson left for St Paul to visit her mother. Miss Carrie Green arrives from Sanborn to spend the weekend with her parents. Emma Rothenberg and Mrs. S. J. Sanders visit from Marion and Enderlin respectively. The J. B. Wharton auctioneer from Oriska tours the area. N. C. Macdonald, rural school inspector, returns from the north. The Women’s Club hosts a six o’clock dinner October 12 at Mrs. J. B. Jones’s Sheyenne Flats home. Suffrage activities include a well attended City Hall meeting with Candis Nelson as speaker and a plan to buy 1000 pennants. Mrs. t. H. O’Neill of Fessenden visits Valley City. Miss Mina Stralee buys the Grand Theatre in Bismarck and will open Monday. Ruth Stralee and crew manage the local theatre in her absence. C. L. Peterson departs for Stillwater after telegrams reveal his father’s illness and death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank L. Thompson
St. Paul
J. E. Jacobson
Darey
Valley City
Carrie Green
Sanborn
Fifth Avenue
F. ©. Moore
Glendive
Montana
Emma Rothenberg
Marion
J. Sanders and Sons
Frank
Robert
Enderlin
Sander
A. F. Pierce
Normal Ave
J. B. Wharton
Orisha
Plaza
N.C. Macdonald
C. B.vermailya
Vermilya
Women's Club
J. B. Jones
Sheyenne
Lillian Barnes
Milner
Rogers
Mary Hood
Mina Stralee
Joreon Theatre
Grand Theatre
Bismarck
Misa Stralee
Ruth Stralee
Harold Pierce
Moose Jaw
Canada
Inn Valley City
Pierced
O. Knudson
West First
Valley City Grads Spread Across U N D and Beyond
Valley City High School sends nine graduates to the University of North Dakota. Seven win spots in the Glee clubs with Amanda Zabel and Mildred Noltimier in the Girls Glee Club and Livya Witter, Cuyler Anderson, Will Bublitz, Bryan Clark, and Allen Granger in the Boys Glee Club. Senior Messenger notes about 20 graduates enrolled at the Normal this year, Hermione Winterer and Erling Platou starting college at Minnesota, Jack McDonald at Michigan A. C., Elmer Cowdrey as Emerado principal, Roy Nokken as Mountain principal, Hale Berlin at First National Bank. Some teaching changes and relocations are listed for Miss Schmelsmire and Miss Nichols, with others enrolled in the high school junior and senior classes from Fingal and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley City
University of North Dakota
Amanda Zabel
Mildred Noltimier
Livya ‘Witter
Cuyler Anderson
Will Bublitz
Bryan Clark
Allen Granger
Senior Messenger
Varloin
Emerado
Roy Nokken
Mountain
Hale Berlin
First National Bank
Wimbledon
Mises Schmelsmire
Greencastle
Indiana
Miss Nichols
Northfeld
Minnella Whallan
Rudolph Steidl
Chester Nayes
Fingal
Ralph Pray
Earl Moultrie
New Farmer's Elevator Opens and Towns Grow in Hills
News from the state recounts the opening of the new Farmer's Elevator at Re Ban, fires near Hanshoro and Tolley, a house burned at Souris, and construction tied to a new schoolhouse, Presbyterian church, and Hilltop in Havana hills. Also noted are accidents near Velva and Drake, a freight train incident near Minot, and various local crimes, visits, and enrollments shaping community life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Re+ Ban
Prairis
Hanshoro
Sam Kelly
Souris
Charbonneau
Ryder
Havana
Tt Fa
Hilltop
Velva
Drake
Tolley
Miller
Everett Lawler
Hanboro
Logan Ellis
Barton
Minot
Ellis
Great Northern
Charles D. Gormly
Watertown
South Dakota
Valley City
Lisbon
T. G. Patterson
Gromly
John D. Gray
Elizabeth Street
Notice of General Election in Barnes County North Dakota 1914
Notice sets election date November 3 1914 across Barnes County with numerous precincts polling at various schools and halls. Lists officers to be elected including U S Senate governor attorney general railroad commissioners and county positions. Polls open eight a m to five p m at designated precinct locations with official notice dated October 1914.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnes
North Dakota
United States Senate
Supre
Insular
Agricular
Thes
Register of Deeds
Commissiover
Barney
State of North Dakota
Eard
School House
Pillsbury
Goose Lake
Welland
O. Oppegard & Co's
Darey Village
New
Hemp
Valley City
City Hall
American National Bank
Henry & Henry's
Court House
Woodman Hall
Sanborn
Town Hall
Litettville
Oppegard & Co's
Offee
Wimbledon — School House
Haines County
N. D
Whale Dance of Eskimos in Arctic Feast
A lengthy historic account describes an Eskimo whale dance marking the end of summer ice melt. It details the 21 day ceremony with dance rituals, hunting pantomimes, marriage selections, and feasting on baleen whale skin and blubber. It notes the women’s graceful motions and the men’s hunter scenes and ends with a remark on the novel flavor of raw blubber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bering
Arctic
Siberia
Kia Wal- Tus Hide Lodge
Drainage Drive Aims To Reclaim Egyptian Lands
The Times-Record notes Egypt’s drainage and irrigation push including draining Lake Marcotis near Alexandria. About a million acres of cultivable land may be reclaimed with future projects of similar scale. The Anglo-Egyptian government, echoing ancient rulers, uses steam and machinery to achieve the same goal of land reclamation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Marcotis
Alexandria
A Happy Coincidence Between Lovers in Two Nations
In a second empire tale two country gentlemen M Recordier and M Gallipeaux arrange marriages for their children. Louis Recordier meets Marie Gallipeaux by fate at a Milan opera and in time falls in love, defying his father’s planned match. After a ball reunion confirms the romance, the fathers agree to marry the couple soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
M. Recordier
M. Gallipeaux
Gallipeaux
Louis
Bia
Geneva
Marie
Louis Recordier
M. Necardher
Loula Recordiers
Milan
Indy
Lamia
Lautin
Lauim
Hecordier
M. Galupeaux
Seoul
Mile
M. Recardier
Tia
M. Gailipeaux
Ena
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Coats
Right Price Mercantile Co
News of the
Methodiat Church
Archie Hunt
Rolla
Leroy Worthen
Mandan Hospital
GC. J. Bene
Langdon
Charles Osborne
Fargo
Frank Biggers, Sr
Frank Cater
Webster
Chris Graber
Starkweather
Graber
State Railway Commission
Mayville
Ruth O'Malley
St. John’s Academy
Jamestown
June Cobb
le Sueur
Minn
Uxbridge Town Hall
Coleman
Getchell
Stewart
Bowery
Pius Stroh
Little Kindred
North Valley Gily
W. J. Sanaburn
Hemen
Township Hall
Town
Woodman of America
Lucca
Thordenswold
Kathryn Opera
Hastings
Louise B. Cummings
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