13 Jul 1899
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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1899
Page
1
A brief note lists pine lumber cedar lumber casing lumber doors and windows under a sale or supply listing. It references SE xS KING as a potential supplier or label and includes product types such as pine and cedar lumber framing and finishing materials.
Local brief notes report C A Whittmeier leaving for Bolder Montana hot springs for rheumatic illness with wife accompanying. Mention of an eight mile handicap bicycle race around the 20th with prizes. Williams County State Bank advertising loans, exchange and deposits. Mrs N T Lease and children arrival and stay during husband’s courthouse project. Wa SkypeR and Lu Robinson with daughter Ida visiting. Ida to join ranch for housekeeping duties. Debtors urged to settle accounts at the former general store. Ida stayed with Mrs LeDorquet and plans to accompany her father to the Yellowstone ranch.
Notice states the general retail drug partnership has been dissolved by mutual consent and that all debts and accounts are to be settled with Mr S Crownell who will continue the business. Signed by W R McCresser and Bucsws Williston North Dakota. Biously clear.
Mrs. Kloss will open a bakery in Mrs. Handley’s Main Street building serving lunches year round. Uptown residents are targeted for patronage as the new venture seeks a liberal share.
A mixed public notice page lists for sale three bulls from Galloway Shorthorn and Hereford stock and includes local business pleas, school board politics, new orchestra news, a clerk reappointment, public notices on debts, railroad inspector visits, and person notices in Williston North Dakota dated 1890 with names such as Copeland Freeman Woodley Bergh and Porter.
A mosaic of brief items reports on residents and visitors across Towner county. Names include Mrs. Woolley, Mrs. Sadie Boyd, Mise Rhoda Scranton, Willie Monroe, Tom Mathewson, Isaac Merrvon, David Shaw, M Mercbison, Joe Brown, Otto Dahl, Miss Clara Nelson, J F Woodley, and J E Britton. Community events feature church services, a new public road, a damaging hailstorm, a debut, a Chautauquan note, and a painting contract for the McHenry county courthouse.
Town of Williston trustees meet in regular session. Minutes from July 5 read and approved. Bills approved including survey work on streets 1440 dollars and special police payments. Petition to establish sidewalk along Broadway and Main Street discussed. project proposed for north side initiation at northwest corner.
The board discussed a six foot wide sidewalk on the north side of Browway with twelve feet clearance from lot edges and approved a town levy of 1500 dollars for town purposes. Dr. Van Dyke was appointed to appraise moving M Farrell's fencing from Metzger Street. The meeting adjourned after motions on construction funding and building oversight.
A German physician Dr A Boschee touts Moachee’s German Syrup as a longstanding, proven remedy for coughs colds and lung troubles. It claims two million bottles sold yearly and widespread distribution since 1850 with three doses relieving a common cough.
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