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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1909
Page
2
Residents recount Easter visits with family and neighbors in Pleasant Hill. News covers returns to work, homecomings, local travel to Epping and Williston, medical visits, farm tasks, a smut cleaner purchase, school recitals, a patient illness, spring planting hopes, gopher control efforts, and small town routines.
Sand Creek residents report a grass fire started by a boy with matches near a barn and hay, threatening livestock before the blaze was stopped. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Norris and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Brown with town market day. Sunday school and preaching plans announced. Stella Logan and Cook hosts noted. Head cousins from the East arrived for an extended stay.
Agricultural College warns typhoid fever spreads through water in North Dakota. Boil uncertain water for minutes and seal wells to stop surface drainage. Disinfect excreta with chloride of lime and fumigate after infectious disease with formaldehyde and potassium permanganate, then steam rooms to boost effectiveness.
In this local column, Truax Cleanings and farmers discuss weather delaying seeding, and residents such as Joe Shannon, W. V. Bingerman, and J. Shannon engage in daily business and visits. A community baseball team forms as Peter Karp buys a driving team, while Gamble recounts a coyote chase near Long Creek ending in a fatality.
Valley City Normal faculty banquet for the board of management and Commercial Club featured speeches on Greater Valley City and business teacher cooperation. Enrollment tops 410 as plans for a new heating plant east of the main building were approved for May bids.
Other faculty members receive increased salaries. Hugh McDonald is elected president of the Valley City management organization, succeeding Dr. H. A. Pray who led for four years. A volunteer third study class opens with over sixty members. Old players show new N sweaters as twenty teams practice for baseball. A large high school track meet is planned for June.
The article lists local goings on including a postponed May party at Wild Rose school due to sickness, a Monday election for township officers, and visits among residents. It notes Marked interest in a Williston telephone line, and mentions the health crises of Mr Helland and Miss Tillie with Dr Dochterman called.
Marmon Seeding has begun in the vicinity and several Marmon boys form a local baseball team. They may soon challenge the Boston Bloomers to a game. Pauline Loken is at Williston with appendicitis. A basket social and dance at Marmon’s Ranch raised funds for the baseball nine. John Newman is farming north of Marmon. J. O. Johnson sold his farming outfit to Martin Olson. Mrs. Oje visited Mrs. Dillree. W. C. Brooks will operate August Hoffer’s engine this year. Don Wilders’ school closed for the term and his pupils gave him a teapot set as a surprise.
State University plans a Devils Lake biological station on Chau tauqua grounds. The project, directed by the university biological staff, aims to restock the lake, study fish culture conditions, and host a summer biology program for teachers and students, with external biologists welcome.
Describes the aim to join in developing a helpful lakeside station at Devils Lake. Highlights the lake as a unique water body and one of the most interesting in the northwest.
Monday brings the warmest spring day yet as Baldwin and Linsell arrive to guard Charles Cardwell’s estate who died years ago. Ben Pinney hosts Chicago visitors, Hutchinson returns from Spanish Point, Hasmer visits Nees, and McKay demands the return of stolen whiffe trees and stay chains.
Carden Valley figures Miss Guthrie and Misa Holbrok visited Study Saturday. Cecil McKay spoke on Socialism at the literary society. Miss Guthrie visited Mrs Armstrong. Missouri Ridge township elected Supervisors Francis Khiel Holland Clerk Short Treasurer Smith Justice Hunsley Constable Rutledge Pound Master Clark and road overseers John Hamilton Poe Howe.
Medical claim touts Dr Charests method as highest percentage cure for chronic diseases including catarrh rheumatism lung heart stomach liver bowels kidneys bladder and female complaints without surgery. Consultation 1 00 Fargo office 1124 Fifth Ave South.
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