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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
4
Monday update from Daily Miss Florence Oberg to Fargo and region reports travel of Rev Krull and Rev Bohnhoff, arrivals of relatives in France, Minneapolis, Racine, and New Haven, plus local business moves. Capt Henry’s France leave noted. bootlegging arrest in Minot. Oscar Dahl moving to new tailor shop quarters in opera house block.
Mr and Mrs Swanson of 505 received word that their son Stephen died of influenza at Camp Er. Telegram arrived yesterday bringing the blow. Stephen was a member of the local unit. Remains will likely be shipped home for burial once details are known and funeral arrangements are pending.
Mr and Mrs C C Chaffee and son Homer visited relatives near Carrington and Mr Chaffee's sister in Barlow. He reports severe influenza in Rockford and Jamestown with four and five deaths in New York and Jamestown respectively. The Chaffees returned home Monday night.
Monday night meeting launched county wide setup for relief work. Mr Stern’s cause wins broad support from non Jewish friends. Volunteers include Trubshaw, Frank Ployhar, J. J. E. T. Melvin Lee, S. tree. Mr Buttree to appoint district chairmen to raise Barnes County’s 315000 quota with ease.
The funeral for the late Ralph Bergen son of Mr and Mrs H J Bergen was held yesterday afternoon from the house with simple rites conducted by Rev W C Lyon. Interment followed at Woodbine cemetery. Only the family attended due to influenza. Neighbors and friends extend sympathy as Bergen, though not in France, sacrificed his life for his country and is remembered as a patriot.
A group of ladies describes two inches of spittle on the Kindred Hotel sidewalk after loafers sit on the stair railing to spit and gossip. They urge strict enforcement of city spitting ordinances, noting similar corners in need of action and blaming the editor for not voicing the issue.
Obstruction of public highways or ditches and placing stones or refuse is a misdemeanor under state law. Property owners must cut noxious weeds along highways adjoining their lands. Taxpayers funded road improvements, and enforcement of highway obstruction and weed laws will be strict. Deneclan af
Premier Lloyd George praised Allied women at the Interallied Women's Congress in Paris, honoring their wartime work in hospitals, munition factories, and administration. He argued women endure the war’s strains and will shape postwar reconstruction, asserting women’s rising public influence and voting stakes as essential to lasting peace and progress.
A confident statement to representatives gathered in Paris urges continued effort. It frames their work as creating a new earth for themselves and their children, praising progress and urging ongoing regeneration.
The Times-Record reports fifteen deaths in Jamestown and at least two thousand cases across the state, with waves in Fargo Moorhead Grand Forks and others. Health officers urge strict school closures and parent cooperation to stamp out the disease, even as schooling and salaries are impacted. Families are told to keep children home, run errands themselves, and support the school and health boards in enforcing drastic measures.
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