Varying North Dakota Election Preparations and Potato Exchange
State officials plan separate ballots and counties prepare for November 2 with doubled voter activity for women. Fargo and Bismarck Mandan expand precincts and boards while rural areas stay largely unchanged. North Dakota farmers partner with Minnesota Potato Exchange to market crops, forming county exchanges to ship through the Minnesota central system. Senator Harding advocates government advertising for the country press, while Cox opposes blanket state sponsorship.
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North Dakota
Fargo
Bismarck
Mandan
Prohibition Party
Farm-Labor Party
Minnesota
State Department of Agriculture
Minnesota Potato Exchange
Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation
State Exchange
Minnesota Central Exchange
Dakota
Minnesota Central Marketing Agency
St. Paul
J. M. Hay
Farm Bureau
Potato Exchange
Local Notes Reflect Weather Delays and Community Events
Editor departs for a lakeside rest but prolongs trip as fishing calls. Hendrum visitors call on Olsen family. school duties resume with Arthur Olsen back to work. Mrs. J W Johnson hosts ten guests for a chicken dinner and card prizes go to Mrs R Geselius. Rain delays threshing. trips to Jamestown and Eckelson noted. Community teachers meeting announced at M E church. Valley City training class invited. Bowery dances end season. schools reopen countywide with teacher shortages. Dazey names Adolphson principal. straw hats fading as new fashion emerges. Dance to aid baseball earnings reportedly helps finances. hospital holds a vagrant’s body, ill and unnamed, at C A Olsen parlors. Carl Stenbeck, a transient, dies.
D A R Meeting Held At Mrs Glaspell Home
A local D A R gathering met at a cooperative luncheon at Mrs Kate Glaspell s residence on 2nd Avenue South with about twenty members present Mrs George Young wife of Congressman Young and state regent attended The afternoon session fostered a pleasant social reunion with no special business conducted Jamestown Alert
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Kate Glaspell
2Nd Avenue
George Young
Valley City
Congressman Young
Jamestown Alert
Record enrollment forecast at University of North Dakota
Prospective student interest is high as credentials mount for September admission. Officials expect enrollment to rise from 1172 in 1919 20 to about 1400, while total enrollment for 1918 20 including summer, correspondence, reached 1444.
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University of North Dakota
Green Sox wallop Minneopa in 11 to 1 rout
Last Sunday A. L. Green's team defeated Minneopa 11 to 1 as three Minneopa pitchers saw action. Babe Ruth Wilcox belted two home runs into the sand pit, driving in four bases each time, closing in on Babe Ruth's all time record as a large crowd looked on.
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A. L. Green
Minneopa
Green Sox
Babe Ruth
Wilcox
Babe” Ruth
Aime
Valley City Park Concert Closes Summer Series
The city park hosted the final outdoor concert as ideal weather aided a modest turnout. Local band displayed a fine program, while crowds from nearby towns planned to attend future events. Separately, Dorothy Ann Foulkes escaped drowning after falling into a cistern, saved by neighbors and a water pipe grip that helped her cling until rescue.
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Dorothy Ann
E. L. Foulkes
Cox Advocates Cooperative Buying in Grand Forks Speech
Gov. Cox urged farmer cooperation in buying and selling during his first North Dakota address delivered early this morning in Grand Forks. The speech emphasized shared purchasing to improve market leverage and price stability for local farmers.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Gov. Cox
North Dakota
Governor Warns of Food Shortage as Farm Cities Trend Grows
The governor warned that without action within ten years the nation will need to import foods. He urged anti-trust laws guiding farm and cooperative groups in purchasing and selling, criticizing big packing and cold storage profiteering. A 2,500-strong morning crowd greeted him as his tour moved west to North Dakota, with speeches planned at Devils Lake and Minot.
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U. S
Cox
Minneapolis
North Dakota
Devils Lake
Minot
Court House
Harding
League of Nations
Hague Tribunal
Cox Declares He Will Not Interfere With Dry Law
Gov James M Cox stated he does not intend to interfere with the 18th amendment in a hotly received remarks at Devils Lake and Larimore North Dakota. He said he has always voted dry and will not change that stance, amid large crowds and applause from locals including several Indians in attendance.
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Devils Lake
N. D
James M. Cox
Governor Cox
Larimore
Session is a Stormy One in Slush Fund Hearing
Chicago September 7 The hearing was marked by constant bickering between the witness and committee as Edmund H Moore of Youngstown Ohio Cox’s representative began to tell the senate slush fund inquiry his claim of a great duel organization the republican party allegedly built to raise a large campaign fund Moore produced many names including seven men he said were unpaid white shirt fundraisers under Col Bryce Thompson and suggested witnesses from Ohio Illinois Massachusetts Kansas and Utah.
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Chicago
Edmond H. Moore
Youngstown
Ohio
Cox
Senate Slush Fund
Republican Party
Moore
Iinois
Massachusetts
Kansas
Utah
Bryce Thompson
Anthracite miners vote to extend strike in Wilkesbarre
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on September 7 coal miners aligned with the insurgent wing of the United Mine Workers voted to continue their strike. They sent notices to President Wilson coal operators and union officers stating they will not return without higher wages and improved working conditions.
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Wilkesbarre
United Mine Workers
Wilson
Wanted competent girl for general housework
Wanted competent girl for general housework. Good wages. Mrs. Jed A. Anderson. Phone Star120, 'T-lw-ldp FOR SALE One new 10-20 Mogul tractor, cheap, one Moline tractor with plows and truck, practically new. Cheap. The Valley City wines oe ll
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Fifth Avenue North
S. Granger
Rumley Tractor
Valley City Welding & Mfg. Co
Jed A. Anderson
Valley City Wines Oell
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Wever
American Press
Country Press
Soname
Senate Committee
Yale L'Moore
Jamestown
L. A. Hagen
Nome
The
Episcopal Guild
Thos. Gale
A. S. Sigurdson
Laverna Busdicker
Underwood, N. D
Swanson
Dunseth
General Aid
Methodist Church
N. B. Livingston
Minot, N. D
C. C. Curtiss
Rudolf Geselius
Rudolf
Twin Cities
C. H. Hills
Charlotte Ruth
City
A. C. Macdonald
C. K. Otto
Pipestone
Minn
Westerman Bros
Carnival
Pearl Hoften
Rutland
Clarice Webster
Washington, D. C
Grace Hand
Joseph N. Mott
Tappen
Mrs. Mott
Mrs. M. Hand
Chas. G. Lund
Mapleton
C. J. Miller
Alta
Edor A
Bertha Brunelle
E._C. Hilborn
Northwest Nursery Co
Nebraska
T. A. Olsen
Hendrum, Minn
C. A. Olsen
Arthur Olsen
Fingal
H. Mason and Son
Orville
R. Smaller
Eckelson
Armstrong
North Dakota Sunday School Association
M. E. Church
Golightly
Jamestown College
Sampson
Dazey
Adolphson
Baseball Association
C. A. Olsen Undertaking
Sanborn
Carl Stenbeck
Spears
F. L. Wicks
Wicks
N. C
Right Price Mercantile Co
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