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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1916
Page
5
An editor laments global war and universal upheaval while urging readers to focus on constructive duties at home. He calls men to clean streets and vacant lots, emphasize sanitation, and demand better roads with renewed vigor and collective action.
Minneapolis Journal reflects on how idealized ifs would change history from the Crusades to modern conflicts. It argues events are driven by powerful forces beyond perfect pacifists and urges vigilance, resolve, and self-reliance while warning that timid, idealistic pacifism fails amid fierce passions and inevitable consequences.
A brief meditation on lodge membership and its benefits. The piece praises joining legitimate lodges for comradeship, mutual aid, and moral uplift rooted in Bible-based tenets. It argues joiners help others in distress and benefit society, noting time, tide and war wait for no man.
A call to widespread action urging residents to campaign for better roads across the region. Emphasizes that improvements benefit farmers and town residents alike, arguing that the cost per person yields long term profit and that 1916 should be declared a good roads year with concerted agitation.
The Reference Department adds an eleven volume work titled The United States its Beginnings Progress and Met Development. It covers American history from Indigenous occupations to modern times and includes religion art economics industry and government across four periods. The set promises substantial insight into the nation’s growth and development.
List of unclaimed letters published for Williston North Dakota with names such as Mable Allen Ralph Rabbitt Sophie Mrs. Denny Ray J. Fort Gullick Kampstad Nelson Bertha Mrs. Abduc Oswald Joseph Rice 8 M. Riecher Swanson Skluzacak Anthony Sweet Marjorie Woods Roy E. Williams R. C. Zalseberg Tom and others. Also notes an Odd Fellows banquet at the I. O. F. hall and a Leap Year verse from Eden Valley with local social chatter and verses mentioning several residents.
The Congregational Church and The Church of the Open Door announce worship, Bible school, and class topics with special music and a guest speaker. Also listed is a public notice for the Williston Special School District No. 1 bond election on March 31 1916 for Central School additions and a new health system, with polling hours from 9 AM to 4 PM.
A public meeting will be held at Library Hall on Mayen 28 at 8 PM to organize a permanent Williston Cemetery Association. All interested are invited to attend.
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