Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-08-28


"That street fair idea is a pretty
good thing said a gentleman last
night. II had been wondering what
we could do to get a little life in the
town and when I saw the street fair
suggestion. in yesterdays Inter
Ocean it struck me as the very thing.
1 dou'r now how to get the thing
started but 1 will be found ready to
help if omeone knows..how"continued
he. whether the thing can be
made a success would depend en-
tir ly upon the business people but
they would certainly get far more
than value for the investment.
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"This is a dandy said a travelling
man as he and Gath slipped the cool
ing draught from the glasses on the
counter of one Of Devils Lakes tony
drug stores. eyes" we replied "It is
the finest in this part Of the country
and about the best this side of the
twin cities we have SEEM There
is nothing better in the twin cities
replied the knight Of the grip "and |
doubt if there is anything as good.
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A "Star Light Club has been
organized in a n%eighboring town by
the young people, and a correspondent
writes to ask what the purpose OF the
club is. We are sorry to say that we
do not know. We have heard Of moon
light clubs composed of two persons,
and the mischievious little god of the
bow and culver. These clubs have
had several uses. One is that it has
taught loves first lesson to the human
heart; another is that they have es
tablished a romantic ideal-impos-
sible except in the fervid imagination
Of a love sick school girl,-and that
ultimately leads to the divorce court
with all it's chickering's and scandal.
These are two Of the things these
moonlight clubs are thoroughly COM
petent IF doing. We are not familiar
with the star light edition Of the
nuisance, but presume it has about the
same purpose. Old maids past fifty
and a few cranky bachelors could join
without danger. but good looking
ladies and sensible men should not
become members.
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One of the butchers of the city who
is thoroughly posted on the beet and
cattle question when asked concerning
that article in Mondays Grand Forks
Herald on the beef question said
''That article is too ridiculous for any
reliable newspaper to ,.ublish. A
little taste of the real meat business
would do some people a world OF
good. Or if some of our Grand Forks
county friends would ship their stock
to St. Paul or Chicago today, we
would hear no more from them fol-
years to come as to what cattle are
worth IN South St. Paul.
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One OF the best things in sewers
ways that Devils Lake possesses is tn
hospital. This one thing we hav
both seen and heard. Our father
had limbs amputated without tn
modern anaesthetics, but that woul
be barbarous in these times Of skille
medicine and surgery. We hav
reached that place in the rapid ad
vance Of the science of medicin
where care and attention are as neces
sary to the successful treatment of tn
patient as the skill Of the physical
high as that standard has been made
In the south in the days of slavery tn
negroes believed that putting a shee
in bed with the patient was a SUI
cure for measles That was possibl
the worst form Of ignorance Of med:
c1nes. But there were plenty OF Gu:
toms among the white people half
century ago, that were just as absure
when the difference Of the races in il
telligence is considered. But tho'
things are not so now. Hospita
have become almost as necessary
the physician, and the trained nur
is the co-worker Of the physical
There the patient can receive all Il
care and attention of the trs' m
nurse, the skilled physician, u t
best of care. There everything is
hand to assist the patient to recove
This is why those institutions ha
practically become the necessary pa
of every community. Devils La
in this. as in everything else, i : up
date. and the institution shout
ceive a liberal supportfrom the poop
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A county official who has eve-y
portunity to study the question, d
cussing the change in asse
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