Local notes from Sand Creek and Williston area
Mr C E Logan builds an addition to his house. Mrs James Messler shopped in Williston Saturday. Mr P G Head keeps busy getting out coal. The house on the Eby place burned Saturday night. Mr Tenny hauls hay from Mr Markson's the past week. Mr John Hagelshaw and Mr Albert Schultz and wife helped at a hog butchering bee at Mr SR Snook's Friday. T F Cook killed a coyote. Our neighborhood represented in Williston market day. Messrs Carl and Roy Ashwill visited the Head home Wednesday. Thanksgiving observed in Sand Creek with a feast Thursday and a general thanksgiving Friday. Sand Creek literary meets Friday with debate on Nature versus Art. Leave the old claim shack and join us for entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Logan
James Messler
Williston
P. G. Head
Eby Place
Tenny
Markson
John Hagelshaw
Al‘bert Schultz
SR. C. Snook
T. F. Cook
Messrs
Carl and
Roy Ashwill
Sand Creek
Harry Brown
Chris Cook
Isham
Rugby
Henry Helland
Henning Hanson
Patten
Sande
Squires
C. J. Cook
McMurrin
Ethel Rusk
W. F. Garretson
Marie Smith
Alex Turcott
Vern McMurrin
Fletchers
F. C
8. P
H. A
Thanksgiving rural notes and obit in Painted Woods
A Williston area column notes Thankgiving plans and a rural life scene with guests and church attendance. It records Mrs. Harry Brown recovering slowly, deaths of a pioneer woman, and local residents visiting relatives, with poetry about the departed woman.
Social visits and travels span region and country roads
Ben Brekke returns home from Ray and spends Sunday with family. Louie Dahl and family visit daughter Signora with Mrs. Floyd Trumbo. John Lyback hosts a party at Victor Nilson home with dancing. Crest Anderson, Mr Bregan, and Andrew J. Lee report a fine Canada land trip. Dahl and Rostvold families plan visits to Twin Cities and east. Miss Maser to Williston, Anna Nilson housesits. Andrew Lee to Barron. A Stony Creek school basket social benefits the school Wednesday. all welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Brekke
Ray
Louie Dahl
Signora
Floyd Trumbo
John Lyback
Victor Nilson
Crest Anderson
Mr. Bregan
Spring Brook
Andrew J. Lee
Canada
Louis Dahl
Twin Cities
Albert Rostvold
Miss Maser
Williston
E. K. Maser
Anna Nilson
East
Andrew Lee
Barron
Wis
Stony Creek
Local Social Notes From Garden Valley and Area
Mabel Elliott visited Alberta Francis last Friday. John Hamilton, Orin Hamilton, Rudolph Rieder, Alfred Elliott and W C Francis conducted business in the City of Opportunity on Saturday. Mrs O C Ekeberg visited friends in town at the end of the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Elliott
Alberta Francis
John Hamilton
Orin Hamilton
Rudolph Rieder
Alfred Elliott
W. C. Francis
School barn project under way with Ellingson as foreman
The new barn at the school house is being erected this week with Chiia Ellingson serving as foreman. Workers expect completion for the next literary on Friday November 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chiia Ellingson
Checker Column confirms games and problems for readers
The notice invites readers to submit checker problems and games to editor R. R. Rutledge in Williston North Dakota. It details board numbering, piece placement, and black to move first. It presents Problem No. 37 solution and Problem No. 38 by James Langston with commentary from the St. Paul Farmers Dispatch. Also mentions Problem No. 39 and a drowning incident in Rambouillet, France with a man rescued after a long mud-filled wait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. R. Rutledge
Williston
N. D
Gret
St. Paul
P. Vandenoever
Minot
N. Dakota
Honor to neglected genius Jacques de Romas inventor of lightning conductor
A Paris paper credits Jacques de Romas, not Franklin, with the lightning conductor and the kite’s early form. He reportedly devised a brontometre after lightning struck Chateau de Tampouy in 1750, claimed priority before the French Academy of Sciences, and Nerac townspeople seek a monument to the memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacques de Romas
Paris
Benjamin Franklin
Chateau de Tampouy
Franklin
Royal Society
French Academy of Sciences
Nerac
M. Fallieres
Bordeaux
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Williams County
Marmon
Freeman School
Alfred Rye
Marion Brown
Ohio
Brown
W. C. Brooks
Marelius
Eva Marellus
W.C . Brooks
Cora Langford
Lansford Ranch
Roy Dillree
Elmo
Bertha Brown
Ben Thompson
J. ©. Johnson
Missen Floy Brownson
Ana Newton
Gladys
Carrold Brooks
Roy E. Dillree
Justina Thompson
Mormon
J. C. Johnson
Gudorf Loken
Rudser
J. Thompson
J. W. Wright
Eden Valley
Ole Skjothaug
John Beehler
C. R. Kratzer
Shepard
Don Shanks
Ben Franks
James Shepards
DeLorn Brothers
Carlson
Morris Peterson
Will Marah
Keler
Culbertson
Montana
The
Brethren Church
Pleasant Hill
Garden Valley
James Langston
Crockett, Texas
King
Rambouillet
France
Boston
Women and Misses Outfitters
Union Black
Williston, N. D
Cooney, Nearseal and
Poney
Northwest
Great Northern
Williston’s New Flour Mill
Williston Mill Co
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