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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
6
Red Cross holds monthly meetings for various societies on specified Thursdays and Fridays and designates Mondays for sewing and Saturdays for knitting. The instructors invite all to help on any listed days and emphasize joint participation beyond specific groups. Calls for Red Cross material or work should be made at the Elk's Home.
President Wilson appeals for a $100 million Red Cross war fund to start May 20 and run a week. Local Red Cross auctions in Towner and Parkston raise substantial money, while Minot and Bantry youths organize knitting and gardens to aid relief. Northern Division seeks Italian clerical staff and other workers. volunteers from Bantry, Jamestown, and South Dakota schools contribute to ongoing relief efforts.
An article advocates morning health routines noting that after sleep the bowels accumulate waste and toxins. It recommends drinking hot water with limestone phosphate to cleanse the alimentary canal and improve symptoms like headaches, constipation, foul breath, and fatigue. It emphasizes inside baths over external cleansing.
A. J. Surratt, State Field Agent, urges farmers to plant 15 to 20 acres of corn due to a below average outlook for crops and hay. Seed corn from J. H. Shepperd at Fargo, N D, costs about 6.00 per bushel and shows good germination. Corn could yield forage advantages across eastern and southern halves of the state despite dry spring conditions.
A recipe for a wheatless quick bread uses oat barley and corn flours with cream of tartar soda salt molasses sour milk and shortening. Mix dry ingredients then add molasses sour milk and shortening and bake in a greased pan.
Minneapolis opens Hotel Dyckman downtown with 300 rooms each featuring private baths. Rates range from 1.75 to 3.50 per day. Graphic subscription advertised.
A new act speeds citizenship to about one hundred thirty thousand aliens in the National Army and many more in civil life. The measure, approved by the House Senate and President, clears existing obstacles for enemy aliens to gain papers if they meet government tests.
P D Norton notes the value of lignite coal development for the nation. A United States Bureau of Mines Station is planned for North Dakota under existing law with $25 000 annual federal support. The Station will study lignite coal and promote mining and briquetting in the West and Northwest.
Secretary of War Baker urges Boy Scouts and American youth to abandon loafing and nuisance behavior. He warns that idle hours harm morals as nations fight a global war, and calls for discipline, work, and patriotism among the young to shape future manhood.
One iron gray three year old mare taken up May 23 1917 and appraised at 75 dollars will be sold Friday May 31 at two oclock at the J C Helland farm three miles north and a half mile west of the Dunkard church. L J Stutsman Justice of the Peace 48 31
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