Many traveling visitors noted for Williston week
Local column lists residents and guests from Schafer Minot Devils Lake and other towns visiting Williston on business and social trips. Mentions include N N Landing of Hope and other professionals, church activity, late court cases, and regional commerce notes with grain shipments and local hotel stays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.N. Landing
Hope
N. D
C. H. Bie
Great Falls
Mont
Williston
Fairview
Berg
M. Jensen
Cottonwood Lake
Stenehjem
Arnegard
O. T. Foss
City department heads resign and budget talks stall
Bottineau officials report two city department heads resign while auditors debate hiring from state services at ten dollars daily. The city considers selling a 1100 volt generator for 360 to Willis ton Electric and discusses electric sign ordinances and lighting repairs as the deputy auditor reviews meters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pert
Bottineau
State Department
Wilson
Bruegger
Mn Wilson
Williston Graphic
Gramatka Grove
Williston Electric Company
City
Dorothy
Montana
Pres. Craven
Com
Williston man chosen to fill county board vacancy
The county commissioners met for the June session and elected M. J. Borsheim of Williston to fill the unexpired term of Frank Banks. Borsheim qualified and began duties immediately, with high regard for his business ability and integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Frank Banks
M. J. Borsheim
Williston
Painted Woods Social Notes and Local Mentions
Mr Keltners are having a well put down. Mrs Garn visited her sisters Sunday. Rev Deardroff is giving good sermons. How many are swating the fly. If you have not swated them yet after them. Mr Prof Ben Kauffman is working at Abe Millers this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Painted Woods
Taken Up Notice for Blue Gray Horse Near Williston
Blue gray horse, three years old, halter on, not branded, taken up June 16 at Lenette Place, 1 mile east of Williston. Owner may reclaim by proving property and paying costs to Elliott Cray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliott Cray
Lenette Place
Williston
Wipd
Orchestra Comique Delights Quincy Audience At High School
Miss Dolly Dandolph presented Orchestra Comique at the Quincy high school auditorium to a large crowd. The quirky program featured improvised instruments and humorous scores, with intermission violin numbers by Miss Randolph and a solo by Miss Kraft. The show, praised for lively direction and constant laughs, will tour Williston under Congregational church auspices at the Library Auditorium on July 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Dolly Dandolph
Orchestra Comique
Miss Randolph
Helen Kraft
Williston
Congregational Church
Chhoir
Thomas Carlyle on War in Drumrudge Tale
Carlyle argues war causes needless slaughter by inflaming quarrels of governors. He imagines Drumrudge’s 30 English artisans and 30 French workers conscripted to face each other, then killed after a manufactured conflict, reducing sixty craftsmen to sixty corpses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drumrudy
Dumrudge
Spain
Thomas Carlyle
Natural Kopaa Water Slide On Kauai Draws Visitors
Description of a lava formed water chute on Kauai near Kalao. A fifty foot wide pool lies below a twenty foot volcanic drop. Tourists in Honolulu travel to Kauai Island to ride the Kopaa rapid and slippery slide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kauai
United States
Honolulu
Kalao
Ihe
Kaual
First Presidential Elections After the Republic Formed
In early U S history electors were chosen by state legislatures and voted for two persons. The winner became president and the runner up vice president. In 1789 ten states cast 69 electoral votes. George Washington received all 69 and John Adams 34.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic
George Washington
John Adams
Massachusetts
John Gay
New York
John Rutledge
South Carolina
John Hancock
The Empusa muacae Fungus Attacks House Flies
A historical note describes a parasitic fungus called Empusa muacae that targets house flies. It explains the fungus grows on walls ceilings and window panes as white powdery spores after infecting flies and may spread to other flies via contact or ingestion. It notes uncertainty about how flies acquire spores.
French official's two minute workday shocks ministry
Investigations into the French department of navigation reveal an official whose daily hours amount to exactly two minutes. The worker, residing near the Belgian frontier, merely fetches a list of barges entering French territory in the last 24 hours and delivers it to another office. The post, if continued, pays about 140 monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Navigation
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Q. H. Brenvick
The
Magic City
Ambrose Olaon
Minot
G. N. Hotel
H. ©. DeLong
Wolf Point
A. Pickins
Devils Lake
Theo. Everson
Williston Land Co
A. L. Burdick
Eping
Fairview Times
John P. Zeaton
Great Northern
E. B. Andrus
Minneapolis
Maybelle Baystrom
Alice Borden
Christian Endeavor
Thomas M. Koegen
Stanley
E. S. Shaw
Pioneer Hall
J. A. Corbett
E. R. Brownson
M. S. Williams
Cole Brothers
Ira Cray
McKenzie County
Kather’s
Shaw
Calderwood
Missouri Ridge
Squires School
Ady
Fisk
Hangen
Dolly Randolph
the Post
Morgan Park, Il
M. H. Asen
G. A. Stenehjem
Chatek
Wis
H. L. Weatherwax
Jamestown
Elks Lodge
Williston Confectionery
Geo. E. Clark
Stillwater, Minn
E. A. Palmer
Clark
Minnesota
University of
That State
Attorney Palmer
United Methodist
Congregational
Nantucket
Nan
Solomon Esberg
Esberg
W. P. Haskell
Fairbault, Minn
St. Paul
Haskell
City Dept
Borsheim
Williston No. Dak
Java
Island
the Bakery
Hjalmar Borrade
West Broadway
Williston, N. D
North Dakota
E. J. Lander & CO
Grand Forks
Rugby
C. T. Swenson
Mgr. Williston
Alliance Hail Association
A. J. Field
Agent Williston
Dak
John A. Corbett
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