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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1920
Page
4
A Fargo Times-Record editorial attacks Townley era tactics and nonpartisan league control while urging voters to back candidates like Ployhar Grangaard Stillings and Minnie Nielsen. It denounces alleged ballot manipulation and highlights dockage law woes and bank issues affecting farmers.
John F. McGrann, candidate for lieutenant governor on the anti Townley ticket, will speak in Valley City next Friday October 22 and at Wimbledon at 4 p m. He heads the McGrann Reynolds Fruit Company in Fargo and is active in public affairs. He opposes socialism and the nonpartisan League, notes his U C T leadership, and argues a vote for him means honesty efficiency and home rule in state government.
Barnes County North Dakota warns that any obstruction of public highways or adjacent ditches is illegal and subject to fines from five to twenty five dollars plus costs. Obstructers may face county jail if fines are unpaid. Officials order removal of obstructions from affected highways and ditches immediately.
Elm and Foien managers stall a Ford motor to operate a movie plant as a Western Comedy is billed for Friday Oct 22. The Times-Record boasted of donating advertising during the war and now asks for its fee for county papers. Threshing ends in the neighborhood with plowing under way and a crew of four at work.
A local note urges printing official notices in the Times-Record due to its county circulation. It mentions an instruction to mark with an X after Nov 2 and stresses the paper’s broad reach for public notices.
The Valley City Community School of Religious Education held its first meeting Tuesday evening at the Ritchie School. Switzer was elected director and introduced the faculty. enrollment filled all classes with growing interest including a new teen class and Bible study drawing twenty five students. Additional space will be sought as attendance rises.
Miss Margaret McCarthy, acting superintendent of the King School, spoke in chapel about the western United States. She described the Rockies region as sandy and irrigated, with desert plains and small settlements, and noted the Puget Sound area’s mountains and waterfalls. She called the region the Gift of the Gods, a phrase tied to American effort and climate differences with the Columbia Plateau.
A fragmented passage describes yearly rainfall of ten to twenty inches and misty mountain travel beside giant forests with trees up to ten feet in diameter and heights of 150 to 250 feet. It recalls outbound travel between Seattle and Vancouver, coastal islands, and includes Kipling verses about coastal life and a voyage with a crew and a longing to go “where the Red Gods call.”
Choice half section about 25 miles north of Valle City and five miles from a town. Fenced with four strands of heavy wire and good posts twenty feet apart. Land mostly grass with creek running through. 175 acres cropped. Includes granary and a barn for 16 horses and a spring. $455 per acre. A R Wiji R No 1 Box 97 Dazey ND.
Barnes County commissioners propose erecting a Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building in Valley City at a cost of 200000 dollars and establishing a building fund raised by a 60000 dollar annual tax levy for 1921 through 1924 to honor county servicemen and war dead. Attest: county board order.
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