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Williston Graphic

Location

Williston, North Dakota, United States of America

Date

May 15, 1913

Page

5

Local notes on residents and business activity in Schafer

Local items report E R Brownson visits Schafer and offers screen doors and windows from Sanborn Lumber Co. Richard Feyton and Esma Miller visit relatives in Devils Lake and Great Falls Montana. Drees returns to Hub Clothing after illness. Swedland Bros. promotes a demonstration for a four roadster. Mrs Fuller and daughters visit Lake City Minnesota. Fuller recently toured the coast. National Guard drills underway in preparation for state encampment at Devils Lake next month. Solomon Esberg, former attorney, at Schafer with Converse in McKenzie county. Rentals listed with light and water included. Great Northern orders elevator owners at Stanley to move buildings for sidetracks. Band directors elected F Anderson, Robi Arsenault, J A Cunningham. holdovers J A Corbett, W J Kelley, A J Field. Fourteen teachers take certification exams. trip to Chicago for Orpheum Theatre addition fixtures. Alice Bryant to visit Streator Illinois. Boston department advertises dresses and Munsingwear. Clerk J O Seibert notes final naturalization applications due by 10 am June 5. Eight Grade exams May 15 and 16. Joe Cutting returns from southern Minnesota trip. Advertising proclaims persistency and postmaster leave for North Dakota convention at Jamestown July 22-23. Asbury Grocery prize for largest butter sale won by C Allard. Jos W Jackson returns to Williston after serving on state boards for medical grafton, deaf school, tuberculosis sanatoriums at Dunseith and Devils Lake.

E. R. Brownson Schafer Sanborn Ltor, Co Richard Feyton Great Falls Mont Esma Miller Devils Lake J. A. Miller Rather Pharmacy Drees Hub Swedland Bros D. F. Fuller Lake City Minn Suits Great Northern Stanley F. Anderson Robi Arsenault J. A. Cunningham J. A. Corbett W. J. Kelley A. J. Field Shaw Great Britton United States Orpheum W. Y. Schabel J. B. Settle Oklahoma City Okla Minot VanCle Alexander McKenzie County Schafer and Alexander Tioga Martha Tatem S. R. Wood S. R. Wood & Co Williston Woods Northakota Halvor Odden Kjerate Ausland Walter Peterson Elizabeth Buchanan Aubrey Pendergrast Nora Rolette L. B. McFarlin Florence Rutledge John W. Caley Susan Woodside Christian Foss Agnes Arnson Yellowstone News E. A. Palmer Wisconsin Hudson New Richmond Baldwin West Salem Sauk Center Fargo Palmer Miss Baldwin Chicago Tribune Chicago Alaska Buffalo Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt Supreme Court Indianapolis News Nelson Amundsen Wilson Eugenes Panama Progressive Party Salvador North Dakota Union Cana

Peace Sunday sermon and town notes variant

Rev E. 8 Shaw will preach a Peace Sunday sermon at 10 30 am next Sunday amid fast Sunday significance. The Orpheum Theatre expansion is planned with a 60 foot rear brick concrete addition. Local notices cover births deaths licenses and May observances, with school exhibits and civic updates across Schafer Williston and McKenzie county.

N D A Commencement Program Details Declared

Arthur Ogaard of Kenmare supplied the May 1 and June 1 schedule for the N D Agricultural College commencement. David Starr Jordan of Stanford will deliver the Baccalaureate address on Sunday June 1. Ogaard to receive Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at the ceremony. The Jefferson motorcycle control line appears misplaced.

Arthur Ogaard Kenmare Williston N. D

Williston Choral Union Concert at Library Hall May Seventeenth

The Williston Choral Union presents a second season concert at Library Hall on Saturday night May seventeenth at nine. tickets are twenty five cents to cover expenses. The program opens with two orchestra numbers then Dvorak Humoreske and Bela Keler Lustspiel. The oratorio The Song of Thanksgiving by Maunder follows with a sequence of choruses and solos including O Come Let Us Sing and Forever O Lord.

Williston Choral Union Library Hall Everly Dvorak Keler Bela Maunder

Social Notes from Local Center: Dances and Visits

Mrs Ed Lowe sent off yesterday afternoon in farewell for Mrs T E Fuller who leaves today for Minnesota with her two daughters Nellie and Lois. Mrs W T Gile hosts Methodist ladies this afternoon. Trefoil club plans Friday dancing at Gates Hall. Mr and Mrs Geo Grogan hosted twelve at dinner Tuesday with white carnations and whist. Daughters of Rebecca Lodge held a dance last Monday with high school orchestra. Civic league hosted a fund raising dance Friday at I O O F Hall for library grounds.

Ed Lowe T. E. Fuller Minnesota Rebecca Lodge Civic League

Married McFarlin Rutledge in Wiliston ceremony

L Bliss McFarlin of Ray and Florence M Rutledge of Wiliston wed at the bride’s home last Monday in a ceremony conducted by Rev M D Wickard of the Methodist church. A wedding dinner followed and the couple planned a wedding trip east before settling in Ray where McFarlin serves as a bank cashier.

McFarlin-Rutledge Ray Mr. McFarlin Miss Rutledge Don Rutledge Williston

Silver Anniversary for Rev and Mrs I G Monson

Rev and Mrs I G Monson celebrated their silver anniversary with a church basement social attended by friends and congregation members. A lunch was served by the ladies, talks were given, and music followed. The couple, married in Kindred North Dakota twenty five years ago, were presented a sterling silver set.

I. G. Monson

Card of Thanks for Lillian DeLaney's death

Mr and Mrs Val DeLaney express gratitude for kindness and sympathy shown after the death of their daughter Lillian DeLaney and for the floral offerings.

Lillian DeLaney Val DeLaney

field day exercises continued at central and Webster

The report lists multiple track events with first and second place finishers by grade and school. Webster dominates with numerous firsts including Norman Falkanger and John Falkanger in sprints and field events, while Central and Webster share points across events. Final score shows Webster 74, Central (incomplete) with Brown and Falkanger leading in overall points.

Page 1 Central Joy Sherin Webster School Norman Falkanger Webster Nash Brainerd John Falkanger Oliver Westby Ian Brown Willis Ferris Roland Shaw Opal Bruner Almeda Arnold Mabel Merril Ames Mildred Collings Eva Braseth Gladys Ingram Nnd Gladys Brown Ethel Schneider Signa Hansen Norman Falkanger Raymond Olson Harold Bruegger Don Brown Is Ferris Geo. Cann David Green Brown Henry Vohs McCann David Greengard Costa Centra Fon Brown Norman Parkanger John Geo. McCann

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