Birthday Surprise for Fred Kruger At Local Home
Correspondence notes a birthday party held last Monday night at Fred Kruger's home with attendees including Mr and Mrs Henry Mischke and families, Norman and Raymond Johnson, and others. Also mentions visits, plaster work, farm youths, and Pherrin school's fifth annual exhibit at Palmer school house on February 28, 1919 with prizes for various crafts and skills.
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Joe Azzar
Williston
Fred Kruger
Henry Mischke
Norman Johnson
Raymond Johnson
Bert Aspland
Wm. Morgan
H. C. Kaetzel
Cyrus
Chas. Aspland
John Kusseth
Pete Oglum
Bennie Olson
Pete Rasmussen
Frank Williams
Bruce Christensen
Charley Robinson
Oys
Pherrin Schools
Palmer School
Missouri Ridge Social News Highlights
Sunday visiters and callers populate Missouri Ridge life with gatherings at G A Rutledge and S M Clark homes. teaching moves mark new Gambetta school openings while Red Cross sewings continue. Local families, including Clark, Bronder, Wagenman, and Jensen, share dances visits and at home hospitality across Williston and Spring Coulee districts.
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W. H. Posey
G. A. Rutledges
Gusta Bronder
S. M. Clarks
Misses Clarks
Sylvia Hartman
Roy Lindholm
Joe Gomatka
Pearl Clark
Tone Home
B. C. Keihle
Williston
Missouri Ridge
Will Clark
S. M. Clark
Peter Bronder
Gambetta
Spring Coulee
H. C. Blankenship
O. C. Ekeberg
Carl Ashwil
Ashwill
A. C.wagenman
George
Millard Wagenman
Lawrence
Howard Short
The
Red Cross
Pearl and
Berdie
Marten Jensen
H. J. Poe
Pherrin Opt Everet L. C. Hart Shippes Shorthorn to Glasgow
Pherrin district notes list several local visits and events. Shorthorn bull shipment to Glasgow Montana, Miss Elsie Petty's Williston visit, and relatives gathering at W A Palmers home mark a busy week. Two Pherrin schools earned state aid, Spring Hill $100 and Pleasant View $60, reflecting strong community support and attendance efforts. Teachers hold first grade certificates and aim to maintain aid for next August to enhance schools and equipment.
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Albert Heffelfingers
Williston
W. S. Hanna
Theo Moen
H. Hanson
Don Haakon
Hanson
T. Ronfstad
H. D. Brokay
V. Lb. Shartle
C. Beard
Frank Monson
John Larson
Pat Ryeson
Jack Schaefer
A. Beard
Marines Expect to Marry When Discharged at Quantico
A Leatherneck survey of 10 000 Quantico Marines shows 90 percent of single men plan to marry upon discharge as they await the end of the national emergency. Training in business and homemaking runs at the YMCA with experts teaching bookkeeping shorthand and dairy farming while many say they can wash, mend, press, and even open canned tomatoes with a toothpick.
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Quantico
Hun
Leatherneck
Hero M,c. A
Pergler Named New Czecho Slovak Envoy to United States
Pergler was accredited as the Czecho Slovak diplomatic representative to the United States after Masaryk left for Europe. He has acted as Doctor Manuryk's secretary for months and earlier for four years was a leading advocate for his people in the United States. Educated in the United States, he spent youth in France, worked in Chicago newspapers, and later practiced law in Iowa.
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Pergler
United States
Thomas G. Masaryk
Europe
Doctor Manuryk
France
Chicago
Iowa
Chinese Women Pawn Gems In Embezzlement Case
Three San Francisco women from the oriental quarter Yip Shee Lee So and Lan Sook were arrested on embezzlement charges filed by Brilliam Jewelry. They bought diamonds valued at 1200 dollars on installment, then pawned the gems for cash and spent the money before police intervened.
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San Francisco
Yip Shee
Lee So
Lan Sook
United States Enters Prohibition Era Experiment
The nation moves into a constitutional prohibition regime after ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment. Congress acted December 17 1917 with swift state ratifications, aiming to ban manufacture and sale of intoxicants one year after ratification. Prohibition press debates enforcement plans, wartime context, and likely political battles between drys and wets.
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United States of America
United States
Congress
Prohibition Party
Prohibition
Senate
James M. Baker
House
House of Representatives
Chami’ Clark
Thomas.marshall
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Addiion
Anti-Safoon League
Antasia- Toon League
Anti-Satoon League of American
H. W. Blair
New Hampshire
John D. Works
California
Hobson
Alabama
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Library notes ship books to soldiers before January end
About one hundred fifty books are on hand for soldiers. Bring books to the library before Tuesday January 28 to add to the shipment. Don’t forget to continue sending magazines with a one cent stamp. New titles include Snaith The Time Spirit a satire on English caste. Kyne The Valley of the Giants. Heroes of Aviation. Laurence L. Driggs exploits of airmen. The French Twins for young readers.
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Snaith
Kyne
Valley of the Giants
California Redwoods
Cappy Ricks
Laurence L. Driggs
Man Brought Back for Wife Desertion Charge
Sheriff Mackenroth returned Sunday from Canby Minnesota with E. McCammon in custody on a wife desertion charge. The complaint says McCammon left Williston on August 1st, leaving a wife and three children with eleven cents. A hearing before Magistrate Ludo nese bound him over to district court on a $1000 bond, which he could not furnish, so he remained in the county jail.
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Mackenroth
Canby
Minnesota
E. McCammon
Ton
McCammon
Williston
Ludonese
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