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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
5
A humorous poem depicts tidying a bookshelf with literary figures like Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer and Jane Austen jostling among volumes. The speaker muses on the chaos of mixing poems, histories and novels, from Bible to Sappho, as the shelf becomes a lively gathering of authors and titles.
A quirky WWII era style list outlines cautions for drivers. It mocks bad road etiquette and humorously prescribes signals and maneuvers such as honks to indicate stops or passes and rules about passing on sides, avoiding two wheel turns, sharing fumes, and other oddities.
The Williston schools in eighteen departments celebrate Thanksgiving with in classroom programs. The Junior High and Senior High move into new quarters with about 145 pupils in the Junior High and a modern, well lit building for the Senior High. A faculty addition, Miss Newlander, joins from the new departmental plan. Over 350 pupils and fifteen teachers shifted locations. A Mountaville Flowers recital is planned for December 19 under university sponsorship. A measles case is reported but no cases in the schools.
Notice states that C O Clauson and Mathilde Clauson defaulted on a 1913 mortgage to Rumley Products. Sale of the NE quarter of section 28 township 156 range 98 in Williams County will occur January 6, 1917, at 2 PM at the Williston courthouse to satisfy the debt and costs. Also includes a Department of the Interior contest notice regardingHarry C Hanson heirs and a homestead entry cancellation challenge filed in 1916.
The notice details an information and belief contest regarding Harry Hanson with a 20 day response window after the fourth publication. It also describes a mortgage executed May 4 1913 by Harley Grover Penney and Amber Penney to Jacob Leuthold Jr, with sale at the Williston court house on January 18 1917 to satisfy $656.30 plus foreclosure costs.
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