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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
3
In Rural Williams County Missouri Ridge 8 many local items discuss social visits, school notes, weather, and ongoing building. Families such as Lindholm Wagenman Myer and Miller are mentioned with small events, entertainments, and routine farm life through December. The Rose Hill and Blacktail areas record gatherings, visits, sales, and a few accidents.
Christ Siverson is on the sick list while Chester Hanson visited at Bay. Frank Johnson is sick with rheumatism. Oscar Alexon bought a Universal Bus tractor and plows this week. Alfred and Clarence Helling visited Lloyd Moen of Epping. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Moorman and Miss Ida Renn visited Tioga. A show and dance drew a good crowd. Alfred Sanderson show at Wheelock hall Saturday December 12. Annie Schwartz arrived from Berthold to visit her sister Mrs Wm Raymond. D D Sander shipped two carloads of cattle and hogs one to St Paul and one to Chicago. Chas Truesdell in charge of one car.
George Albrecht family moved into their new home last week. Watkins and Rawleigh agents visited the neighborhood this week. Mr and Mrs Lind and family visited G W Ford home. Miss Inger Skindrud and Casper Syke from Spring Coulee were guests for Miss Hagen. Well diggers at George Albrecht’s found water at about 160 feet.
Gardner Massachusetts reports a state colony resident who has slept ten months and may sleep for years more, with physicians noting unusual prolonged unconsciousness and no awareness of the current war. In Afton Oklahoma an officer shocked when a man opened a case revealing about a hundred snakes, leaving the officer unsettled. Belmont County Ohio sees 1000 license applications for 30 new saloons as West Virginia’s dry status drives regional demand. Jamestown New York to operate a municipal milk plant buying milk at 4 cents and selling at 6 cents with an estimated annual profit above $50,000. The column ends noting that strong advertising boosts business even when conditions seem dull.
The president announced a three member commission to settle the Colorado coal strike. Seth Low Charles W. Mills and Patrick Gilday were named. The president said federal troops would stay and the miners favored adjustment while owners rejected plans.
The article argues that mothers believe infant care is instinctive, but many deaths result from reckless ignorance and careless care. Citing a New York Association report, it notes infant mortality is alarmingly high, with about 210 deaths per 1000 under one year in the monitored data.
The Farm Stock and Home urges the farmers club to move beyond talk. A strong program, action plans, and cooperative efforts are needed to improve livestock, trade, or neighborhood projects. Meetings should yield concrete results or members will disengage. Also notes today’s store fashion news.
Judge George Thomas of Columbus Nebraska held that a man who accepts a paper must pay for it. The Columbus Mile M against a man for 235 cents led to a verdict advocating the old rule that what one receives and uses must be paid for. Editor Graham of the Schafer Record was in Williston early this week.
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