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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1905
Page
5
In town Tuesday a runaway occurred with no injuries reported. Greenuard Bros Co advertises 15 percent off tal Misa Minnia Thomas from Hunter NC filed a claim. L V Coulter left town and will visit with Coulter’s parents. For more light on the subject interview J O Freck who can provide information.
In Leavenworth Indiana Mra L V Coulter notes that after doctors failed to help her wife with female trouble they bought Electric Bitters. Her cure allowed full recovery and restoration of household duties. The ad is signed by 8 Brownell druggist. Other items mention Minneapolis visits and a ranch move.
Mr Reid of Harmony Maine recounts his nine year struggle with consumption and coughs and credits King s New Discovery with saving him from serious lung trouble. He notes his mother s death and urges prompt attention to lung complaints. Price 50 cents and 1.00. Trial bottle free at Guardian Brownell s drug store.
The Ladies Aid of the Congregational church will hold its annual capper and de seat at the Williston Opera House on December 14. Our old friend L. B. Cravath and his brother-in-law W. R. King of Mandan are in the city seeking a homestead location. Wm. Bernard buys two acres from Wegley Bros at Sassen hill and constructs a residence.
An ad touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a safe, pleasant cure for bad colds offering quick relief, lasting cure and reduced pneumonia risk. The notice also mentions Les Conitur moving property near the courthouse, Howard Lampman planning an Ontario trip with cattle shipments, E R Brownson offering proofs, a $700 savings claim, a lost gentlemen’s gent case tag reading W. E. Barbie and contact at the Great Northern Hotel.
The many friends of Mrs R M Calderwood regret to learn of her continued serving fitness. Mrs Wm Keyes and children will leave Friday for Leeds ND to visit her parents Mr and Mrs 8 J Mackenise. Mrs Chas Fields underwent a second operation for gall stones last week with Drs Belyea in attendance. The Minneapolis Journal paid 25000 for a story Sir Nigh to be published in its column. Byron Lyon and five other society young men hosted a Young men s game supper at the Great Northern Hotel last week with invited friends.
Great Northern Railway announces ticket sales from November 1 to December 31 for round trips to towns including Winnie Kanene City and major cities such as St. Louis Springfield Peoria and Chicago under the certificate plan with a return limit till April 15 1906. Local agents offer full details. Miss Mary Anderson recently returned home after study at a Minneapolis business college. The Montana case against W H Denny was heard before Gov Sarles with pending outcome. W H Puncoast claims "shacking" is not a financial success. Mrs S Brownell leaves to accompany the late Mrs Trapp’s blind girl to Gary South Dakota for state blind institution placement. She will visit St Paul en route home to Williston.
Herb W Edwards of Des Moines slipped on an icy walk last winter, injuring his wrist and bruising his knees. He says soreness vanished after applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm a few times, and he recovered quickly. Sold by all dealers.
Dra T J and J M Caldwell formerly of Blackduck Minnesota have relocated to this city to practice medicine and surgery. They have rented offices in the front part of the Opera House block and will be ready to receive callers. J O Berg editor of the Lansford Independent visited Williston this week and praised the new location where he, with partner A J Evans, moved the Independent from Motul. Adam McCormick of Rugby bought the Coulter property on Broadway and the Sam Smith lot behind the Graphic office. He plans to remodel Coulter’s blacksmith shop premises into a grocery and, early spring, erect a large brick block on the Sam Smith lot for a mercantile house.
A New Zealand Herald report notes a two year old Pharmacy Board of New South Wales analysis found Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the only cough medicine in Australia free of poisons. The Des Moines Iowa product is praised as safest for children and suitable for coughs including whooping cough, marketed by Chamberlain Medicine Company and sold by dealers.
A Wheelock dispatch reports Constable H R Schriver left town last Monday to perform duties and has not been heard from since. His horse returned Tuesday. Schriver suffers epileptic attacks and authorities fear he may be missing on the prairie. Organized search parties are underway to locate the missing constable.
The Great Northern Railway offers roped trip tickets at one and one third rate for Thanksgiving Day travel to all points east of Montana. Tickets go on sale November 29 and 30 with final return limit December 4 1903. Contact local agents for details.
E. H. Mellor has leased Bert Martin's bakery and will continue the business at the old stand. Mellor is an experienced baker and the public is assured of first-class quality in all products.
An old issue touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a remedy for indigestion constipation and related ailments while noting a local foreman s partial recovery from a leg condition after operations and a circulating letter from land officials imposing a 1.00 cancellation fee with each contest affidavit filed by December 1 1905 and a deadline of November 20 1905.
A fragmentary testimonial from Taguah Plant of Little Rock Arkansas claims Arnica Salve cured painful sores after five years of suffering. A damaged line references a “yelous healer for cats” and a drug store listing at Krownell's Drug Store, 254.
The ceremony took place at the Catholic church in Cannon Falls Mina on Tuesday November 14 1905 with Rev F X Mee Dermott officiating. The couple James A McCann a young farmer of North Dakota and Eva Loretta Carnal daughter of Florian Carnal of Douglas were married amid a large gathering. A reception followed at the bride’s home for relatives and immediate friends before the newlyweds departed for their North Dakota home.
Frank Scott Hullett posts a Sunday church schedule with morning preaching at 1 am and services at 7:15 pm and 3 pm, inviting country folk to Palmer school and Bonetrail District No 7, with notices for November and December Sundays and invitations to bring friends.
If you want to borrow money on real estate or need funds to prove up your homestead, it will pay you to write or see W. B. Overeon at 5211.
Fragmentary notices from Williston and Grand Forks date October 19 1905. Includes references to Baie ice operations ant feminine Jobe Heffernan and land office business by B C Ca Commissioner. Mentions proofa Williston Minot Calon EC Carney and a Bank building. Laundry drop Anticeptic Barber Shop Elliotstone Laundry Grand Forks. For sale or rent good houses via First National Bank.
Sheriff Griffith of Glasgow Valley county Montana returned home last night after being summoned as a witness in a district court case. He denied reports that evidence against banker W. H. Denny of Williston had been obtained from a horse thief shot by an inspector, noting the inspector did shoot and kill a man who resisted but no letters were found. The Grand Forks Herald and Minot Optic clash over statements about Montana efforts to bring Denny to trial and the role of Hill in the pursuit amid clouded accusations and stock growers’ involvement.
Jos Madden M B O Ph D will lecture on eye health and present E Spex inventions at Great Mother on Saturday November 27. The talk promises practical advice and demonstrations of new eyewear technology for readers seeking safer, clearer vision.
Pekin ducks offered for sale with a full hiring note. Quire of B H Nelson Hofflund provides the cattle details and contact hint.
A damaged fragment lists places and administrative terms such as townships ranges creeks and roads, with references to schools commissions and a county seat. It mentions citizen bank building in Williston North Dakota and notes Frew upon application.
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