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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
5
Community notices list an Aloe 8 Opera House event for Friday night. Local residents Graham and Schafer conduct trading in town. A series of receptions and parties are planned for next week, with civic notes on schools, rail activity, and local business updates.
This week the ladies of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union will gather at Mrs. VanDyke’s to discuss the subject In Alcohol a Poison or a Food. The meeting is hosted by the local W C T U.
Bids solicited for 120 cords of codalerite rock to be sent to Hedderich Bros Co by August 28 1902. Several local items note residents visiting and advertising services or rooms to let, including Miss Nannie teaching Stony Creek school and rooms for rent with Mrs N Bellinger.
The Star Meat Market will move Monday to the Sherry building formerly occupied by City Meat Market. Public invited to call. Also notes on local visitors, ads for wallpaper and barb wire, business changes, and church services.
About a dozen Ray players faced Williston on the diamond with sheep-skin bats. Ray lineup included Payton Snyder Bishop Cody Hanson Berg Hougen Hanson Wilson. Williston side featured Phillips Lester Schafer Inberg Mansfield Hayes Dow Harvey Snell Leonhardy. Williston rooter C J Howard and Albert Nuessle helped the Rey club. Williston won ten to six after a competitive game.
Official records show the Williston ND board hiring Miss Annabel Mackenzie to teach the coming school year at 55 dollars per month after resignation of Miss Murphy. The board also approved purchasing 800 feet of state blackboard at 18 cents per square foot and appointed Chas Baldwin and Nate Bellinger to repair and fit up the schoolhouse for opening.
Sioux City man recounts how his two year old was poisoned by plant sap while picnicking. A neighbor’s tip led to DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, which eased symptoms and restored his eye health. The ad warns against counterfeit salves from Brownell & McPhee.
Ole Ulven visited Neeson on Wednesday. Frisch and Banks finished cutting hay on the Carey bottom. More hay has been cut in the Newson valley this year than ever before. Mr. Boyd Jr passed through Nelson with new steel cable for Frank Davin's ferry. Geo McKay is busy with a new binder cutting wheat oats barley and flax for neighbors Art and Willis Wilkinson have put up about thirty tons of hay. The board of subcommittee direction rejected all bids for the addition to the school house as too high. A hailstorm caused damage in the valley with stones as large as door knobs. At Hungry Gulch hail four inches deep. A well-digger found good water at about 75 feet near Schiroeder's place and is at Billy Wilkinson's.
A Viola Iowa resident George W Fry credits Kodol with restoring his stomach health after months of trouble. He also notes a neighbor with dyspepsia recovered after using Kodol. The ad claims Kodol digests any good food and promotes overall strength through improved digestion.
An advertisement touts DeWitts Little Early Risers as a pure vegetable liver tonic that expels poison without griping. The copy notes easy, small tablets and claims users like W Toots of Milton Pa recommend them. Brownell and McPiee promote the product.
An old ad claims a remedy can cure a cold in one day, urging use of Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. The copy mentions refunds if it cures and includes a signature purportedly from E. W. Grove on each box.
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