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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1919
Page
9
The fragment mentions Williston and a graphic section along with postal office terms. Details are limited, but the item appears to reference a local posting or administrative note regarding second class mail status and a person named Maton in connection with a post office.
Prof W G Roylance argues after reviewing state budgets that North Dakota taxes rose only with the national average about 20 percent. He says state-owned utilities will be funded by bonds with future earnings, not immediate taxation, enabling large public improvements without higher taxes. Grand Forks American
The City of Williston issues a proclamation appointing committees to arrange Memorial Day services for May 30 1919. Decorations music speakers parade and a veterans reunion are planned with business closures during the observance.
Williston North Dakota officials urge every officer or soldier who served in the three wars and Home Guard members to join the Memorial Day parade. Captain Jeffrey notes the cemetery grave of a late war serviceman and asks veterans to decorate it, hoping men will feel personally invited through this proclamation and participate.
A sequence of campus gatherings fills Williston with dancing parties at the Hogan and Bell homes, a WN Hartman and Ireland wedding dinner, a fairyland junior senior prom, and a postnuptial shower for Mrs Ireland. Activities feature Onstad orchestra, school hall decorations, and student-hosted receptions.
Williston lodge Knights of Pythias expresses sympathy to E. C. McKrill and family after their loss. Resolution to be published in Williston papers and entered in lodge minutes. Helena checker champion L. C. Lepper tripped state champ R. R. Rutledge in a Williston visit. Rutledge won 15 games to Lepper 11 with 36 draws.
Card of thanks from E C MeKrill and family thanks friends for sympathy and aid during illness and after death of wife and mother. M S Williams of the Whole Wheat Milling Company attends Miller's Convention in Louisville Kentucky this week.
Edited by R R Rutledge this week features a chess problem series and expert notes by J Russell Hannah N D Black, with White to play and draw. Also notices for a maid wanted, sale of poultry and stock, and a hotel patrons notice from Minneapolis.
The piece notes a hearty May Day gathering with Roach and Miss Bella as guests. It urges readers to swat flies, explaining their danger and the diseases they spread, especially from manure and unscreened food areas. It calls for reporting unclean stores and stables to the Health Board and cleaning up homes before summer pest invasions.
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