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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
12
Williston grows with a municipal water light plant expansion, new jail, and sewer plans. The city adds a 200 hp engine and dynamo, builds a cement jail, expands power and water, promotes bands and church life, and reports rising grain traffic and elevators amid regional growth.
The Choral Society led by Dean Carson presented a fine concert in the auditorium featuring a 140 voice chorus and the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed by Mr. and Mrs. Carson. The Minneapolis Symphony Quartet provided superior instrumental music at the Armory the following Monday.
Numerous short items show Williston Williston Land Company offers farm loans with special rates. Business and social notes include visits from Hildremye and Watters, a Christmas sale at Brownell Drug Co, a candy kitchen promotion, and a Sunday school tree event.
The Williston concert band, lauded as the best in the state, rose from basement gatherings to weekly open air performances. Professor A Onstad, previously at St Olaf College, became a pivotal instructor guiding violin and cello strengths and directing the band’s growing repertoire. A season-opening engagement in Tioga and a July 4 trip to Yellowstone Valley highlighted their expanding schedule.
The Kaiserhofs and Ladies B and T clubs stage literary programs while Sixty-three Whist and Five Hundred clubs offer fellowship and games. The Musical club hosts soloists and bands, led by Professor Omstad, shaping summer concerts and winter sessions. The Williston Commercial club drives city betterment, hosts visitors, and promotes the city as the "City of Opportunity."
The Agricultural College unveils a three-house greenhouse complex for year round horticulture instruction. Each house measures 60 by 18 to 24 feet with separate uses for class work, forcing and seed propagation, and decorative plants. Automatic temperature control and durable brick and reinforced cement construction promise twenty years without major repairs.
Three men robbed the mall car of an eastbound Great Northern train about a mile from Hill station in Spokane. Fireman Perrin acted quickly to prevent looting of the express car carrying $29,000 from a Spokane bank to a Montana town. The bandits forced the crew to uncouple cars. Perrin exploited a misread in the dark and detached the mall and baggage cars, leaving the express car behind.
North Dakota Senator Hangbrough, ill for ten to fourteen days at the Nicollet Hotel in Minneapolis, remains in critical condition under nurse care. Doctors fear he cannot travel to Washington soon and may miss the current congressional session.
Mrs Lina Marling who had been ill for years died at the hospital after an operation conducted early this week. She had grown weaker and nearly confined to her room but survived the surgery only to suffer a heart attack and pass away. She leaves a daughter two sons and a husband who is away out west.
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