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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1912
Page
2
A long record of social calls and gatherings from Williston and Epping areas. Visits include Seaton, Pepple, Shannon, Haney, and Long households. birthday surprise at A C Long’s. dances, masquerades, and charivori pranks near Williston and Missouri Ridge. school events, lectures, and a coal mine note. several lighthearted tales of neighbors, dinners, and community greetings.
Mrs P G Head and twin daughters visited Mrs R C Snook on Wednesday. Wm Hoffman, visiting R C Snook, left for near Gladmar. Clark returned from Williston where he served four weeks on a jury. Mrs Joe Gromatka traveled to Fola and Red Wing Minn for two weeks. Dan Snyder and family visited Clarence Rennberger. Leonard Logan improved from illness. Mr and Mrs Noah Short called. Leo Hollar and wife shared an evening visiting and games. Monday a surprise party honored Mr Grant Rutledge on his forty sixth birthday. Painted Woods folks visited Clarence Rennberger. Fay Logan scheduled a basket social for Friday Feb 9 with a nice program.
A. Johnson and wife of Squires attend a painted wood celebration with C. Cook and wife Sune present on a Sunday. Local spouses mark and share in the family gathering with neighbors and friends observing the event.
Miss M Holbrook set a record walk seven to eight miles through heavy snow to visit John Burke. Walter Wolverton stopped by E C Smiths late in the week. Q Hovind of Wisconsin moved his son Oscar P Hovinds shack to Blacktail homestead with help from Ole and Loken. R Dillree visited Martin Olsons. Guy Smith called at Dillrees. Smith suffered a cow kick leaving a bruised ankle. Jack Martin organized Socialist locals in the region and Carroll Brooks returned home after months in Dakota and Montana. A planned dance at Burkes on Feb 2nd may or may not occur. R E Dillree and Wits and Misse BE Seppe were guests of Earl Swith and wife Sunday. Leland Griffith gave a socialist lecture. audience attendance was fair and the case argued against socialism.
The sun shines as residents watch calendars and await the groundhog's forecast, hoping for a milder winter. Feed shortages press locals, with straw lately fetching higher prices. Thomas Freeman Jr. abandons a coal mine on the Tena Freeman Forty, removing props and timbers and exiting the entry.
Kinamon hosted a surprise party for Allen Long with a fine lunch and a dance. About seventy people attended. Pete Pepple and Charles White were in the City of Opportunity on Friday. Ossip Evjin arrived from Herbert, Canada, on business. M. F. Miller returned home Saturday after a week in Epping. Digging and hauling cost the order of the day. David Willard visited Williston on Monday. Elmer Grisemer and wife were in Williston last week on business.
South Side notes a Friday night dance at the Ackerman home with plans to repeat on Friday February 2. Local residents like Mrs G A Maderson Willis ton aaller Geo Ackerman Prank Poe and Thad Uhlman are active in town. The Riversiis School held a tune setting at Vance's. A party reported an encounter with the Old Missouri but no serious injuries. Rev Olson to conduct services at the saw mill on Sunday February 4 at 3 pm. Gus Edson travels to Anneta for personal matters.
Local sightings include Jack Martin in Blacktail country last week and a mask ball at Rose schoolhouse attended by residents. Several residents traveled to towns, visited family, or reported farm tasks. A socialists meeting at the schoolhouse drew no attendees.
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