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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1920
Page
4
A poem style lament notes a dollar’s waning power and questions North Dakota Bank audit, socialist assemblymen unseating, and calls for salary raises for state officials. It opposes a costly special legislative session and urges waiting for the regular session in ninety days to address pay.
Wesley C. McDowell, a banker from Marion North Dakota, questions patriotism and duty in a letter to the Government Savings Organization. He laments people treating the war as a one day task and criticizes selling Liberty Bonds and War Savings stamps to buy nonessentials or German marks, urging more sustained support.
A historic critique notes bonds from 10 to 35 years are now held by the wealthy seeking high returns. They bought at a discount and aim for seven or eight percent interest while many banks have little to no bonds left. The writer warns unloading may backfire as these bonds could anchor troubled institutions in future storms.
The Business and Professional Women’s Club has secured two rooms on the second floor of the Barnes County Abstract Company building on Fifth Avenue. The remodel is near completion to provide social quarters for members, marking the city’s first women’s club rooms and possibly the first in the state. A finance and membership drive will fund furnishing as business leaders pledge support.
Fargo, Sept 21. Informa tion from George M. Hogue secretary of the North Dakota Game and Fish Commission states state law prohibits starting hunting of game birds before sunrise. The federal law defines hunting day as from a half hour before sunrise to sunset while the state law grants the extra half hour. The state law will be enforced and sportsmen are urged to cooperate to protect game birds.
Prohibition prohibits any person from hunting pursuing catching shooting at or molesting game birds or animals named in the act within state borders from sunset to sunrise each day. The clause sets the daily no hunting window governing legal hunting hours and protects wildlife during night hours.
Threshing is nearly finished in the surrounding community and plowing will begin soon as Elm and Faien host a Saturday night film. A large crowd attended Last of Ages, and next Saturday Wm. S. Hart stars in The Captive God. Local sportsmen report grouse and ducks up, while politics have cooled and a new garage and store near completion.
Kidder county reports a North Dakota record wheat yield from H. Behinson farm six miles north of Steele. Kubanka durum averaged 37 bushels per acre on 13 acres sown on millet land with 10 bushels seed. No. 1 amber durum weighed 63 lb per bushel. Marquis wheat on 80 acres yielded ten bushels per acre. Behrnsen plans to plant Kubanka exclusively next year, claiming a profit edge of about $50 per acre.
Edward Johnson, 16, son of J W Johnson, was wounded while retrieving a duck across Jim Lake. A wire on a boat entangled with the gun trigger, firing a 12 gauge shotgun into his right arm. He was transported forty miles to Jamestown hospital and rest is reported as comfortable.
Grand Forks N D September 20 To compete with the lake training period inaugurated by the Aggies of Fargo two workouts daily are being given the varsity candidates for this falls football team in hope of bringing back the state college football championship Saturday of last week saw the university football stock soaring with the appearance of several athletes of North Dakota and Minnesota high school records Arthur Busdicker sensation of North Dakota's high school basketball tournament held last spring at the Agricultural college armory in Fargo appeared in uniform Saturday for a tryout for end on the varsity eleven Busdicker is large and decidedly fast He was the big man on the Valley City football and basket ball teams for several years and last fall was selected all state center With Busdicker from Valley City came DeClancey all star guard on the state selected five Walter Birkman of Hibbing
Slats Sinclair, who threw for Coach Davis this spring, and an returning all state guard in football and basketball, reported Saturday for practice. Minn, another basketball player in football uniform last week, Birkman is tall and fast and likely to contribute as an end for forward passes, bringing height and reach.
A renowned American woman orator and widow of Dr. R S Emrich, killed in the Turkish massacres, will address Valley City at 8 PM Saturday September 26 in City Hall. She and her three sons, born in Turkey, will discuss Near East sufferings from personal experience and are expected to draw wide local and organizational attendance.
A letter from Max Morgan, county agent of Morton county, praises the Barnes county exhibit at the Missouri Slope Fair in Mandan. He commends County Agent T. X. Calnan for his energy and leadership, noting the exhibit enhances the county’s image as a thriving, booster community and urging continued support for farm improvements.
Classified brief run lists Dr F L Wicks an oculist in Wicks Block offering glasses fitting and a contact point at phone 49. The ad also notes several for sale notices including a Rumley tractor a Holstein cows and a red polled bull calf with registration near Cuba, all dated with shop or listing references.
One new 10-20 Mogul tractor offered cheaply plus a Moline tractor with plows and truck. Also described as practically new and cheap. Valley City Fibre Co. 29-dwtt
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