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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
8
The column extols a happy home over wealth, urging caring daily acts. It emphasizes warmth, cleanliness, sunshine and time for family, warning that neglect wounds hearts and depletes the home’s influence. It urges action to ease sorrow and build resilience.
By order of the Board of County Commissioners sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Auditor in the Court House Williston North Dakota for painting, k e a l z o mining and varnishing of Court House per plans on file. Bids opened 9 a m Wednesday May 31 1916. $100 certified check and bond required. Board may reject any or all bids. Dated Williston May 9 1916.
Auditor in the Court House in Williston ND seeks grading work with County Surveyor. Several road sections include hills and cuttings with cubic yard limits: Buar d area north of Bu ard ND. highway between Sections 34 and 35 Township 159N Range 102W. Carlson hill in Township 157N Range 108W. grade from Section 80 southeast corner to Section 31 northeast corner in Township 155N Range 101W. Section 28 to 29 in Township 157N Range 100W with specified dirt volumes up to 10900 cubic yards.
Beginning at the northeast corner of section 20 township 158 north range 95 west the project runs east two miles along the section line to the intersection with the McGregor and Tioga road. Bids to be opened at 2 P M on May 31 1916 with a 20 percent certified check. Contact J C Field County Surveyor Williston North Dakota for details. The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to award parts to any bidder. Date May 11 1916 M H Agen County Auditor.
The June issue profiles wealth from film writing, a look at Germany's rise in chemistry, and an interview with Alexander Graham Bell. It includes surgeon tales of earnings, power dynamics, state features, rheumatism notes, life-shortening drink cautions, fiction by several authors, and departments on interesting people and habits.
Field Headquarters in Mexico reports Villa has recovered and seeks to raise a new army in Durango. Cavalry pursues bandits near the Rubio ranch after three Villistas were killed by an American forage detachment. Border patrol reshuffle planned to protect American communities along the Mexican border. General Obregon to police Parral and establish patrols to deter incursions along the Big Bend region.
Governor L B Hanna spoke to about 50 Ford Motor branch employees in Fargo on May 16. He described war horrors, noted prisoners in Germany receive varying aid, and recalled visiting a German hospital showing injuries from shrapnel. He claimed 80 percent of wounded return to the front, with 3 percent dead and 17 percent permanently incapacitated.
List of unclaimed advertised letters at Williston North Dakota for the work ending May 9 1916. Names include Lillian Anderson Carrie Fransin Ola Grim Rob C Hill R J Huber John C Jenson George Knight Lillian Knutson John King J Kelly Kristian Monson Sibert Lester Snow Billie Tinker F W Watson A L Whales Fred Waldo Leonhardy postmaster notes to say advertised when calling.
A World Famous film titled The Devil is praised as intense and beautiful by Thomas H. Ince. Ward J. Connelly portrays the villainy with realism while Bessie Barricade shows the moral deformity. Shot amid Southern California mountains, the New York Motion Picture Corporation marks the project as a fitting finale.
Hart of Williston Rural Route 1 announces candidacy for Republican nomination in the Second District for county commissioner at the June 28 1916 primary. He pledges to work hard for the county business and district interests and asks for voters support and influence.
The undersigned express heartfelt appreciation for the generous aid and sympathy shown during the illness and death of their sister Miss Kate Oar.
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