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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1913
Page
2
Rural Williams County updates from Spring Coulee recount harvest anticipation, road work, and social events. Residents such as E. O. Lucas, L. C. Williams, and families attend ice cream socials and picnics, while the prairie fire and drought threaten crops. Several residents, including A. Miller, Roy Montz, and Everett Logan, are mentioned with health, travel, and farming news.
The Missouri Ridge community reports fine haying weather but desires rain. Hugo Clark attended a dance at Pioneer Hall last Saturday night. The radkenald will meet Mrs. HL a Blankenship on Wednesday August 13. Mesars, Ekeberg and Reider looked after township interests. Master George Wagenman has returned home after visiting grandparents. Missouri Ridge Sunday school plans to spend next Sunday August 10 with Mr and Mrs Howard Lampman. H C Blankenship spent days on his wife’s farm northwest of Stady and brought flax home. Most Ridge residents joined the picnic at the experimental farm last Thursday and found it very interesting.
Mrs Roy Foster visited in Williston on Thursday as local farmers around the area began haying. Mrs Bronvel called on Mrs Carlson on Friday for a social visit.
Mrs Albert McIntosh hosts a Williston girl while Vera Smith visits Marmon and St Paul relatives. Jamestown couple Don Wilder and F A Dilker visit Marmon, aiming to return by the 28th. W C Brooks and James Montgomery travel from Williston to fetch a mower and handle farming affairs in Moine. A hoped great game ends poorly as Cottonwood Lake wins 11 to 9 amid umpire disputes and Marmon controversyilligible.
Mrs Damon of Gladys visits daughter Mrs Simmons while Mrs Clarence Beard hosts a Illinois brother arriving Wednesday. Mrs Wylie Thompson and children depart for Missouri to visit her parents. Local farmers haying soon harvesters to run. Mr and Mrs John Wagenman hosted a dance in their new home Friday night. Jim Fox buys a new team of bronchs from Brownson in Williston. Larkin Hart helps break them. A bird cage nears completion as Barney Larson hires Williston painter and paper hanger. cage to be painted outside next week. Barney, a Pherrin bachelor, believes in making a fine cage before catching the bird. The paying-as-you-go saying appears.
Mrs Beard came from Indiana to spend the summer with her sons Clarence and Burt Beard. Mr and Mrs Johnathan Wagen man and daughter Laura Kauffman visited west of Williston. The H H Club met with Mrs J W Brown and quilted with nineteen present. A picnic at Smith ranch prompted by W R B As bury featured lemonade and a helpful talk by Mr Hal. Plans floated for a similar August picnic at the same place.
Pretty dry weather with a bit of rain expected Tuesday. Miss Gladys Messler returned from Ray Monday. Miss Arena Frank finished haying. Miss Gladys Joyce staying with Mr. T. M. Kauffman. Mrs. Garn visited sisters Sunday. no one home. Mrs. Grace McCoy and Mrs. Frank travelled to the City of Opportunity Saturday. Aoy Joyce and family headed for Canada Sunday evening. A large birthday surprise dinner for Mr. Ora Kauffman with Miss Florence and Miss Mildew Kauffman. birthday coincided same day.
The valley has had very warm days lately. Mrs. J E Littlefeld is ill with typhoid fever. David Brunt visited Charles Austin Sunday. Harvesting will commence this week. J H McKay was a business visitor to Ray last Saturday. Many locals attended the Tioga fair. Arthur Hartsoch is building a new farmhouse. Miss Lillie Wilkinson visited her brother Art. Charles Austin is recovering and up most of the time.
A 4 22 calibre magazine rifle discharged while a salesman Mr Grant was demonstrating it to a customer last week. A shell stuck in the chamber, the ejector failed, and the gun fired hitting a floor case and breaking glass in the bookkeeper’s office. Glass sprayed over the bookkeeper. no one injured except startled, and possible further damage avoided.
W A G McClintock of Tioga State Bank sent thirty-one names for Williams County Better Farming Association membership to Secretary F P Bergman and forwarded thirty-one dollars as the membership fee. The move indicates strong eastern county support and effort to advance the association.
Graphic reporter notes at 7 30 Monday evening near four hotels that two men argued about relative prosperity of Williston and Devils Lake. Observation suggests extravagance in women’s dress remains fashionable despite claims otherwise.
The Dickey Reporter recounts a German immigrant who arrived in La Moure County in 1903 with two dollars. He worked hard on a farm, secured fifty cultivated acres, built a stock operation, married a partner, and by 1913 sold his North Dakota holdings to move back to Wisconsin with funds from the sale, having never sold grain.
In North Dakota and western Minnesota we saw hogs fed on pasture with little grain, plus attention to horses and cattle. Expert Ed De Lancey praises pork and horse production as easy stock money, urging farmers to start with hogs or colts, use silos to cut beef costs, and plan small, efficient storage to minimize waste.
In uncertain grain times, consider boosting livestock beyond dairying. A few brood sows and brood mares add little extra work or cost, while returning high with colts and pork as markets allow. Emphasize hogs, horses, corn stalks, and straw to balance and protect farm profits amid variable yields.
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