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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1912
Page
5
The article extols the woman who runs the culinary department at home and proves that superior cooking comes from Royal Baking Powder. It emphasizes economy, quality ingredients, and the expertise of experts supporting homemade, well baked food.
Department Store owner called to Green Bay Wisconsin by serious illness of her father. Deputy sheriff Peterson was in Ray last week for legal business and checking liquor law violators there.
Readable items note a weeklong stock reducing sale at The Boston with half price on ladies and misses wear. Local social and business tidbits mention visits, weddings, lectures, and community events across Ray Williston and nearby towns with names like Mrs Herman Skarie Edith McAllister August Metguard Genevieve Champ Clark and Rev Edwin Shaw.
States Attorney Braatelien arrived from Williston with officers and pledged a strenuous effort to clean up the city from bootleggers and liquor venders who have thrived all fall. He reports a prior bootlegger roundup at the county seat and says every town will be put through the mill with offenders receiving the limit.
Mr James J Glover of Antelope Montana and Misa Ethel C Humphreys of Lisbon North Dakota were married by Rev E S Shaw at the Congregational parsonage on Thursday November 1 at 10 in the forenoon. They were joined by Mrs Fowler Humphreys of Lisbon the bride's mother. The couple left for Antelope where Glover runs a bank and holds a homestead after a brief city stay.
Government and University researchers press forward with flax straw as an alternative pulp source. Prof. Charles Brand arranged a carload purchase from Dickenson for a Cumberland Mills test in Maine and seeks central market pricing, aiming for 35 percent pulp yield to spur local mill expansion if transport costs are favorable.
Captain Ronald Amundsen the famed Norwegian explorer comes to America to speak at the Minneapolis Auditorium on February 6 1913. The event is sponsored by the Sons and Daughters of Norway and other Norwegian groups in the city.
Hauge Lutheran Church announces services next Sunday at eight p m with Sunday school at 2 p m in Norwegian and English. A bowling party for four couples offers a special alley rate of 1 25 per hour or 1 00 per hour for two or more hours to reserve an alley and avoid waits.
About thirty ladies gathered at the home of Mrs J J Murphy for an afternoon party. The rooms feature pink roses and ferns with two contests a guest-name guessing game and buttonhole making. Mrs Bell and Mrs Moses led the guessing, while Mrs Myklestad and Mrs Braatelsen won for buttonhole craft. An elegant three course luncheon followed in pink and white.
In Baden North Dakota October 31 amateur burglars pried the store door and attempted to crack the Herman Falk safe but lacked explosives. They abandoned the effort after failing to reach about 1700 dollars in cash and papers nearby. The loss was not reported and parts of the intruders’ plan were thwarted by Falk. Meanwhile Schafer businessmen plan an open air winter skating rink on the town’s flat north of the town with weed removal, flooding from a nearby well, a gasoline pump and lighting.
In Minot North Dakota on November 4 the jury in Hans Gausvik against Great Northern Railway failed to agree after nearly twenty four hours of deliberation. Gausvik seeks 30000 damages claiming a defective brake on a handcar caused a derailment that fractured his hip and left him using crutches with permanent injuries.
Olger Oseth has been sent to the G N R B Co by the Union Commercial College of Grand Forks. His salary is now $75 a month and he is expected to advance as he is a worker. The ad invites readers to learn business skills at U GC C and to request a free catalog.
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