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Newspaper
Wahpeton Times
Location
Wahpeton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1915
Page
1
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The first upcoming dollar day weekend drew cautious crowds due to rain but merchants report strong support from locals. The message urged city merchants to link town growth with farm prosperity, stressing every farm is a factory and that field crops fuel urban wealth. The plan promotes country sales to sustain cities, with future events planned and new bargain features to attract shoppers.
Hankinson will be in town Sunday for a baseball game at Island Park. Lefty Faust will face Breckenridge Wahpeton in a contest that promises fast play and sharp hitting. Fans are urged to attend to support Hankinson as Gatdy Bell watches the action with his keen eye on the ball. Nearby ad notes a new jewelry store offering repairs.
Warenton and Richland County residents celebrate a local jet’s claim as the first motion picture of significance. The feature draws crowds, with officials touting its historic impact on cinema in the region.
Northwest Weekly reports in Wahpeton that prominent locals hosted film producers Charles Branham and Harold Brown who shot a photoplay titled Four Hands in a Wash Basin. Professor Paul and area students helped stage the production, promising regional booking and prestige for the county. The piece urges strong local attendance Thursday and Friday to ensure a packed audience and ongoing opportunities.
Wahpeton Public High School plans to graduate 24 students with a ceremony celebrating 26 bright young men and ladies. The event highlights notable achievements and marks the transition from high school to postsecondary paths.
Wahpeton public school graduates of 1919 are praised as the city’s brightest. The program at the Opera House features class orations, songs, and a film of North Dakota progress. Alumni banquet planned at Merchants Hotel Cafe.
General summary of Wahpeton merchants behind the Dollar Day movement notes Steven Cronin and Brown the Tailor were omitted by oversight. The piece states the omission was unintentional and asserts Cronin and Brown are active local business figures.
Citizens of Wahpeton lined the streets and gathered at the Armory to honor veterans on Memorial Day. A parade moved along Dakota Avenue to the river, with a 2:30 p.m. ceremony at the canal, featuring a Maypole dance, songs by the high school choir, and remarks by Dan R. Jones and speaker Mr. Meumber about the Civil War and the debt to veterans. The program included a song by the chorus and a reading on the costs of war and the need to keep memory of the fallen alive.
The closing tribute lauded the valor of the soldiers who fought from 1864 to 1865. The address was earnest and thoughtful, delivered with refined language and convincing logic. The exercises concluded with a benediction by Rev. H. Brown.
A graduation sermon warns the 1915 high school class to cultivate good in life. It cites Galatians 6 7 about sowing and reaping, urges personal action and individuality, and stresses caring for the body as a part of success while contrasting easy conformity with striving for virtue.
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