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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1913
Page
3
January correspondence from Missouri Ridge recounts snappy weather, visits between Lippincott Hicks and others, travel by Will Clark and a local misfortune. It includes a lengthy anti cigarette tract by Prof. Aygarn citing schools and businesses that boycott smokers and urging parental influence civic enforcement and youth education.
Snowing with eight below zero on Friday morning. Ray Kritner learned a relative died in Iowa and left Saturday for the funeral. Mrs. Miller Mrs. Marsh and W W Keltner visited George Rails last Thursday. Cora Kaufman toured the city in a new auto and claims a new patent prevents freezing. J M Kauffman Ara Mires butchered hogs last Wednesday. Christ Hanley has a sick boy and Dr Distad was called. Claud McCoy and wife attended Edison talk Tuesday at Ben Franks. W W Marsh helped Keltner kill a beef Friday. Boys prepare sleds for sleighing, a Dakota staple.
About 100 people attended the Pioneer Hall dance on January 10 despite 30 below zero. The Pioneer Hall Association considered buying a new piano. The next dance is Friday January 24 with an invitation to all. Residents note new sheriff’s office faces with approval from locals.
School notes report eight incoming graders and fifteen or more prospective students will fill seating. W. W. Norton of the University of North Dakota music department will visit January 21 with a pianist to present a lecture recital on The Ballad Song Oratorio and Opera. School opens January 20 for term with six year olds slated to enter spring semester. Should start then if possible, two weeks leeway allowed for those unable to attend.
Attorneys for imprisoned dynamite conspirators won a victory in the U S circuit court of appeals in Chicago when a writ of superseders was granted and an order issued for release on bonds from Leavenworth Kansas. Bail is $10,000 per year of sentence, totaling $30,000 for Charles N Beam and $70,000 for President Ryan of the ironworks.
News from Scandinavia reports Norway Sweden and Denmark formally agreeing to observe the same neutrality rules at sea under Hague tribunal guidance while stressing it signals cooperation rather than a strict pledge. Also notes outbreaks of scarlet fever near Copenhagen, legal fine reversals, royal public appearances, a mine cruiser launch in Stockholm, and labor wage dispute threats in Stockholm.
A 12th Jonkoping officers entertainment on 12-12-12. A farmer’s boy found a pure gold bracelet worth at least $125. the government will buy the find. Westerns city council gains its first lady member, with her husband already serving. Miss Martina Crup of Linkoping bequeathed about $5,000 to the Society for the Protection of Animals. Baron Axel Taras wed Isabella Gyllstroem after a thirty year courtship begun in Sweden and culminating in Melbourne. Rev Karl Sandgard of Upsala faced a pulpit omission, awaiting archbishop-backed continuation. Ahus buys land for a nitrogen factory with $800,000 capital and 20-carload output.
Dispatch from Christiania reports Captain Thorvald Nielsen of the Fram arriving from Buenos Ayres to a reception by about a dozen scientists and leading citizens. The scene echoed Amundsen's secrecy about ceremonies while debates on abolishing royal decorations for the storthing advanced, amid shipwreck and tragedy stories and the suicide of Arctic explorer Captain Hjalmar Johansen after Amundsen’s party departed.
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