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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1913
Page
5
The issue lists community items from Williston and region, including theater ads for the Cosmopolitan Four, upcoming lectures, and a variety of local notices. It notes visits by business figures, real estate loan offers, and social events such as a kitchen shower, birthday party, and a surprise gathering. It also covers train delays, muskrat prices, and school and church happenings.
Local editors grant space for church items and praise new grouping method. March 28 is circled as a day of spiritual triumph. Ladies Aid Society hosts a Three Days Rummage Sale on Main Street to support church interests. Woman's night January 19 features talks The Woman of the East and How the Other Half Lives. Ticket sales for two hundred allocations begin for Round the World lectures, first on January 22 with Baldwin. Trustees C F Currie and F P Bergman elected. R M Calderwood treasurer. E G Schollander clerk. Bible School head Minu Florence Dennett. Usher J O Siebert and W F Zion. Evening service S J Dorothy and E VanDerhoff.
Edwin S. Shaw will deliver a special message next Sunday morning and close the home series with The Stranger that is within the gates in the evening. The annual meeting praised as highly enjoyable reported all bills paid, with a small treasury balance. Mrs. Metzger and Mrs. M. J. Swedlund hosted Aid royalty. a social supper followed the business session with toasts to trustees, deacons, Sunday School, choir, and the Pastor. three musical numbers were performed by Mrs. Hardaway, Mrs. Shaw and Miss The A. C. Miller mine north of Williston offers coal at 2.00 per ton, open until April 1.
Rev Noble F Browning pastor of Buford Methodist church spent Monday in Williston during a short visit He had attended a sociable in Trenton Saturday evening for ministerial support The affair was a splendid success Browning recently moved to Buford district from a South Dakota charge and has been in charge for two months He paid the Graphic office a pleasant visit during his city stop
Miss Shepard of the local high school teaching force will resign this Friday to take effect immediately. She is expected to undergo appendix surgery soon after. another instructor will arrive Monday to assume the work. The community extends its best wishes to Miss Shepard in her future endeavors.
The county commissioners ordered improvements in the Clerk of Court's office. Carpenters installed shelves filing racks and doors for the closed window. A new typewriter desk will be purchased. Clerk Seibert says most of the work will be done soon and the room rearranged for better storage.
A Liverpool laundryman named Arthur Pepper gave his daughter a single long surname and a name that used every letter of the alphabet from Anna to Zeno. The unusual naming, described as ingenious, links a string of given names to a unique surname Papper.
A speaker lauds the Williston Commercial Club for uniting efforts to advance the town. He notes prior immigration, irrigation, and land-office drives, but credits the club with the first concerted push that put Williston on the national and world map. The speech promises more details to come.
Ten knights of the green cloth and the First avenue east proprietor were rounded up in a police and state attorney raid led by Chief Nolan and States Attorney Burdick. Walter Adyman pleaded guilty to running a gambling room, fined 100 dollars and costs, with cards and paraphernalia seized.
R E McDonald of McDonald and Company Kansas City spoke on a new combined sedimentation filtration plant for municipal water. The firm has installed 225 plants nationwide with many along the Missouri river and Montana tests show high success.
Before the annual convention in February in Bismarck the North Dakota Enforcement League will hold mass meetings about the state. A first meeting is set for Fargo on February 10 with other gatherings in Grand Forks Devila Lake Williston Minot Valley City Jamestown and Dickinson. The February 18-20 convention date was announced and pastors urged to cooperate.
The Fairview Montana Times continues its cheer for Fairview and the surrounding Yellowstone valley, championing local achievements and community pride.
Congregational, Catholic, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Norwegian Lutheran, United Lutheran, Methodist Episcopal, Salvation Army, and Christian Science churches offer services across Williston. Listings detail pastors, addresses, service times, Sunday Schools, and midweek activities for each congregation.
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