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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1915
Page
4
The Williston Graphic discusses sacrifice hits in baseball, praising the tactic while warning against careless plays. It then urges readers to improve town property with clean, attractive streets and gardens, and advocates hard roads funded by bonds to boost commerce and growth. It also promotes youth sports and national defense, urging physical training and safety on waterways.
A civic note urges residents to support local churches and attend services, framing the church as a friend requiring presence and respectful consideration. It laments missed opportunities like railroad bargains and motivates action to improve hometown appeal through individual effort.
A devastating cloud burst washes away stores and homes along State Street with two thousand left homeless. Firefighters and Mayor Stern lead rescue efforts as life-savers, police, and volunteers brace for ongoing relief. In Toronto a gale drives the cargo steamer Alexandria aground near Scarboro Bluffs, five crewmen missing, others saved by improvised lifeboats and local volunteers.
In New York on August 2, Mrs Charles Becker, frail and financially strained, risks losing her public school job over a coffin plate accusing Governor Whitman of murder. The board acknowledged the threat to her employment while her husband’s body was laid to rest at Woodlawn Cemetery as officials reported the missing plate had been recovered.
British and French reports say the German advance near Warsaw slowed, with Russian rear guards inflicting losses as Field Marshal von Mackensen’s forces press from Lublin. The Polish capital remains in doubt, while Austrian and Italian fronts show mixed progress and heavy casualties on several rivers and routes.
A. L. Meigs of the Automobile Trail Blazing Association visited the city with an assistant to map the Red Trail from New York to the coast at Glacier National Park. The trail now runs to Williston from the east with marked posts, and it is illegal to cover or remove these trail signs under United States law.
Williston church notices outline routine weekly services at Methodist Episcopal Church with Rev H Styles Harries and special duties by Rev W H Norton. Congregational Church led by James Hoffman Batten lists 10:30 a m sermon on The Basis of Optimism and a 11:45 a m Bible School with E R Brownson, plus a Sunday 3 p m union service with Trinity Lutheran Church in Library Hall titled Power.
Morning service at 10:30 A M Sunday School at 11 45 A M The Methodist Church joins in the evening service at 8 00 P M James Hoffman Batten to preach the sermon Welcome The Church of the Open Book at Trinity Lutheran Library Building 513 2nd e 424 H A W Yung pastor pastorate and address listed this Sunday note
Lutheran notices from Lake Creek and Williston list Norwegian confirmation and communion at 10 30 A M at Lake Creek and 11 30 A M at Williston with no local church service this Sunday. A Monday 8 P M business meeting is called with all members urged to attend. Ladies Aid events are scheduled for Wednesday the 11th at 3 P M and Thursday the 12th at Ploom Creek.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church lists Sunday services Holy Communion at 8 A M Matins and Sermon at 11 A M Evensong 3 sermon at 8 P M led by Pastor J E Elsworth Williston Country Parish Edwin B Shaw Mission notes Sunday Schools meet as usual but no preaching service next Sunday.
Worthington Indiana Mrs Sarah Hayden will celebrate her 105th birthday. She arrived in Greene county when Indiana was a wilderness and now walks without a cane or glasses. She helps with chores and gardens. Horatio Arkansas Poole has a freak ear of corn with 36 small ears on one stalk, plus two other well developed ears. Sterling Colorado trains strike a young colt, dragging it three miles on the pilot. Charleston West Virginia deputy game warden Frank Glenn threatens action against prohibition officers over alleged whiskey pollution of Kanawha river. Pleasant Valley Pennsylvania a cow changes coat by season, black in winter turning cream in spring. Carneria Kansas Roy Harriss amputated his right hand at the wrist at midnight in a pasture, blaming a devil. Cleveland Ohio a theater manager fires blonde ushers and hires brunettes to avoid flirtatious talk with patrons.
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