Rural Missouri Ridge Social Notes and Local Moves
Rural Williams County Missouri recounts Mrs Fay Ashwill hosting Ladies Wednesday gathering. Neighbors Gromatka Blankenship and Ashwill families travel, work and visit. Leonard Poe returns home from Williston after helping, Carl Ashwill buys cattle in Sioux Falls, Roscoe Blankenship to California for lumber job. Pat Tone hosts dinner for nineteenth anniversary. Miss Fay Logan resigns Sand Creek teaching. Mrs avy LaBarge to replace. Village prize winners noted for potatoes and corn. Eden Valley updates on Stayer Marsh Bontrager Delorme and community cattle movements. local visits, aid meetings, and travel to Medicine Lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Ridge
Fay Ashwill
Joe Gromatka
A. L. Blankenship
Hinsdale
Montana
Hugo Clark
Julia Honek
Paul Bell
S. M. Clark
A. C. Wagenman
O. C. Ekeberg’s
Garden Valley
Virgil Blankenship
Ray
Carl Ashwill
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Ashwill Brothers
Leonard Poe
Williston Sun
Pat Tone
Oscar Harrington
Howard Brothers
Rowland
Fay Logan
Sand Creek School
Avy A. LaBarge
Eden Valley
Ray Stayer
Ray Marsh
Will Marsh
Cleo Bontrager
Ralph Myers
Myers
Trenton
W. W. Keltner
City
Irene Sorenson
Rhodes
Abe Delorme
Rule
Ray Kratzer
O. A. Myers
I. M. Kauffman
Keplinger
Goldie Joyce
A. Myer
Roy Marsh
Frank
Abram Miller
McDonald
Medicine Lake
Montan
Buford News Letter confirms local social and business notices
Buoyed by a string of brief items, the column lists residents like J. W. Lewis, Lola Smithwick, I. J. Moses, J. P. Beisel, and Rev. Nelle Osmeen visiting, dining, or transacting business in Buford and nearby Williston, with multiple sick lists, guests, and small-town routines across a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Lewis
Lola Smithwick
I. J. Moses
J. P. Beisel
Mise de Railey
G. L. Welsh
Joe Goode
H. W. Holloway
Nelle Osmeen
Bainville
W. Scott Stranahan
Wm. Baker
Wallace Hanson
Clyde McNary
Jane McNary
Jim Beisel
Newmann
James P. Beisel
Williston
Helen Akers
George Bramen
A. K. Bergman
Ruth Thompson
McKenzie Co
Ansel Evans
William Stranahan
Edward Mumby
Joseph Evans
R. L. Holloway
William Dish
Ovida C. Beisel
Corbett
W. Hanson
Arnold Bell
George Southard
Westview
P. F. Elmore
F. M. Shatswell
Johnie Owings
Sa Shirley
H. H. Miller
Elizabeth Newmann
Mildred Corbett
Lola
Corma Smithwick
J. J. Carey
M. L. Hal
J. J. Tad
Paren
Dishon
Ed Jack
Etta Noteboom
Miss Etta Noteboom
A. E. Twichel
Ovida
Iris Beisel
Sylvia Jones
Smithwick
Bud MacMaster
W. W. Keltner
Genevieve Gonn
Buford
Ansel
O. J. Morken
Frances
Frank
Charlie Shats
Ralph Johnston
Mondak
C. M. Smithwick
Ila Shirley
M. L. Helgerson
H. D Scott
Genevieve Conn
William Dishon
Chrisman
Floy
Frank Corbett
Sha
J. J. Raastad
Noteboom and Rogers
Teachers Institute
E. E. Jones
Master Earl
Ira Shirley
Luke Sweetman
Ernest Scott
Ernest
Dan Scott
Dave King
Sweetman
Lakeside
Montana
W. F. Reiland
Font
Mr. Bown
Paca Aeee Jr
Cartwright
W.L. Braman
A. L. Butler
Spring Coulee Farm Moves and Local Clergy Gatherings
Charles Hellyer takes over P A Campbell farm for three years while Moses Cartier plans to move to Isaac Dicker farm and be there next week. Rev Marston preached at Spring Contes last Sunday and will preach again next Sunday. The community notes threshing near completion with hopes for fair weather. Visits by Rev Batten of Williston, EC Carney, and Rev Marston to Williams residence preceded the Williston marriage of Charles Hellyer and Mary Lucas by Rev Styles Harris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Coulee
Charles
Williston
H. Styles Harrias
Hold Breeding Stock Warns of War’s Toll on Livestock
Farm Stock and Home warns that the war drains breeding stock as the front line casualties rise. It notes cavalry obsolescence in western trenches and the quick depletion of horses, with front service life averaging ten days, threatening plow horses and broader livestock in Austria, France, England, and the low countries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earmany
Austria
France
England
Aia
Poland
East Prussia
Belgium
Heroic Miss McDonald Sacrifices Life Saving Children
Miss Ella McDonald perished after rushing to save four Beach children when a kerosene fire ignited in their home near Carrington. She sheltered the youngsters and extinguished flames before succumbing, leaving a newborn baby spared and all other children unharmed. The tragedy occurred about 11 AM with Mr Beach arriving shortly after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrington
N. C
Harry Beach
Ella McDonald
Mrs. Beach
Melville
Mr. Beach
Beach
Miss McDonald
Miss. McDonald
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Williams County
Roscoe Blankenship
California
Mabel
Maude Poe
Bert Lindholm
Tande
Childrens Industrial
Chatrain
Buford News
McCalley Entertainment Comay
James W. Riley
Foley
North Dakota
Paines
Norine Lucas
Matter Lee
San Francisco
Troy
Pharoah
Red Sea
Coleman
Wis
Emily Ermis
John Ermis
Miss Ermis
Charlestown
W. Va
Kelly's Creek
Louis Peters
Peters
Cal
Atlanta
Georgia
Coast City
Bethel
Maria Kurr
Pennsylvania
Kurr
Millersburg
Monroe City
Albert Farquer
Farquer
Greengard Bros. Co
Northwest
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Munsing Union
Northwestern Fuel Co
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