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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1897
Page
4
The Hartford Courant recounts how a Yale Divinity student using a toy rifle fired at a lamp, and the eminent professor of science traced the bullet’s path to a colleague’s room with infallible calculations. The guilty student confessed and urged dropping the matter, avoiding public shaming.
A list of legendary figures said to have died at age fifty six includes Dante Capet Henry vii and other rulers poets and scientists. A separate note on long distance riding advises steady pacing and minimal stops to maintain comfort and efficiency. Notice: election for one Williams County district commissioner to be held November 2 at Stony Creek schoolhouse from 8 am to 5 pm.
Sealed bids for the delivery of ten cords of good 4 foot cottonwood wornl sawed once in two and piled at the court house in Williston Williams county North Dakota will be received by the county auditor of Williams county ND up to November 10 1897 at 2 o'clock p m The board of county commissioners will open bids then and reserve the right to reject any or all bids By order of the board
Bids for construction of a Pine and logs school house 18 by 30 feet and 10 feet high are invited by the Grinvell School District No 4 Williams County North Dakota. Bids due by November 10 at 7 p m at the clerk of the district Hoffland North Dakota.Plans and specs available at the clerk’s office under the school board order.
The text presents Earl de Cray as the champion hunter, claiming he holds the world lead for game killed by a single man. It notes a 20 year span with about 35,000 game read per year and an extraordinary incident where he allegedly killed 50 targets in free minutes.
County commissioners advertise for sealed bids on bridge construction and related surveying near Little Maudy river across the creek at Williston North Dakota. Bids due November 160. Work includes a 16 foot span bridge with 6 foot coal-way, approaches thirty feet, and single 15 foot pole. Right to reject any bids reserved by commissioners.
Novice of Special Election in Williston township North Dakota on November day. Voters choose four thousand chatturs debt for steel ditties project along the Lite Mande Uv river at Shiny gueke. Polls: Birst Precinct coast home Williston Second Precinct Stony Creek school house Holland post office. Ballot reads Yes or No.
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