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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
WILLISTON A WINNER

The game being somewhat onesided
gave the visiting team an opportunity
of showing their sportsmanship,
which they did by fighting to the last
of the game.
A noticeable feature of the game
was the persistency of basketshooting
on the part of C. O. Harding, left for
ward Of the home team, and the tall
walking of the home center, D. Mar
ston.
The basketball game between the
City team of Stanley, and the Com
munity Center team of this city, of
last Monday evening resulted in an
other victory for the locals, with a
score of so to 16.
Lineup of the home team as fol-
lows: Forwards-Harding, left and
Cunningham right. Center D. Mar
ston, guards, Bradley and Googedahl,
left, Scott and Tisk, right, Guards
playing half and half of the game,
with Marvin Marston saving his
talent for the coming contest.
The Stanley lineup was: Center,
Taylor; Forwards, Alger and Rayder;
Guards, Olson and Lowell one half,
Forsythe one half. C. J. Donaldson is
the Stanley coach.
Stanley has engaged in bask ketball
this past winter, with the city of
Berthold team, finding them strong
team, with weakness for footing
their own horn. Stanley has decided
that what they need to bring them
down on a level with their fellow
sportsmen is to have them meet the
Community Center team Of Williston,
and so they are arranging for meet
ing of the home team and that of
Berthold at Stanley.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
Meet
ing For March

AS announced by the county agent:
Equality Farmers Club, Ray,
March 2.
Trenton-auspices Eight-Mile Far
mers Club, March 6.
Squires- March 8 and possibly
March 7.
Fran Farmers Club, March $40.
Rose Hill Farmers Club, March II.
Angie, March Is.
Summit Valley, March 16.
Outlook Club, March II.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
Large Gathering
of Odd Fellows

About one hundred and fifty Odd
Fellows attended the district meeting
held in this city last night and enjoy
ed the work as put on by teams made
up of members from various lodges in
the district. About midnight lunch
con was served and then the work
of putting on the degrees continued.
The meeting was a fine one in every
way and helped to get the members
of the various lodges better ac-
quainted.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
Battle Cry OF Peace
Teaches Great Lesson
Boston Post

For the first time in the history of
the Boston stage moving picture has
been employed to set forth a public
lesson as we'll as to provide entertain
ment. "The Battle Cry of Peace"
which was given it's initial perform
ance here yesterday at the Majestic
Theatre, is a powerful call to the
American nation not to go to war but
to be so prepared that international
conflict will be averted. The various
episodes and the connected narrative
have been prepared by Commodore
J. Stuart Blackton, from the book Of
Hudson Maxim, "Defenceless Amer
ica."
Spies Advocate Peace
All the incidents, not to say terrible
events, are perfectly possible even if
somewhat improbable, for Mr.. Black
ton has laid on his colors with law
ish hand and made them tremendously
impressive 1t begins with photo
picture Of lecture by Hiram Maxim
on the lack of military and naval pro-
lection in this country and in this
scene the story also begins. A typi-
cal young American, John Harrison,
is one of the listeners and is so i'm
pressed by the truth Of the speakers
statements that he tells his friends
and family what he has heard. They
scoff at his ideas, especially the faith
er of his sweetheart, railway mag
nate.
There are foreign spies at work
who advocate peace at any price, and
meetings are held in which the white
dove is CONSPICUOUS. All the time the
enemies of the nation are plotting and
finally, with scarcely moments
warning, foreign fleet appears off
New York, and without further pre-
liminaries begins to lombard the city.
The troops are landed. The railroad
magnate is shot as sniper and the
young man is also wounded. The in
vading hosts destroy private prop
erty, outrage women and pillage and
slaughter relentlessly.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
MARRIAGES

February 10th Gustav A. Anderson
of Scobey and Miss Beulah E. Shall
better were married by Judge A. l..
Butler.
February 23d Berger w. Erikson
of Catlin and Miss Olga M. Olson of
Tioga were united in marriage at the
Methodist parsonage by Rev. H.
Styles Harriss.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
TEACHERS FOR RURAL SCHOOLS

TEACHERS FOR RURAL SCHOOLS
Miss Mary Curran has arrived from
Grafton to take charge Of school
west of Bonetraill.
Francis Keplinger who has been at
tending the university of Indiana has
returned home and will teach school
in the Round Prairie district.
Miss E. Josephine Peterson of Dris-
coll, N. D., will fill the vacancy left in
the school at Howard by A. D. ANS
baugh.
Alfred Erickson Of Hoople, N. D.,
a graduate of the Mayville normal
will take school in the Tandy dis
trict.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
NORTH DAKOTA SUPPORTS
LIQUOR LAW

Washington, Feb. 22.-Attorneys
generals of fifteen states-including
Iowa and North Dakota-filed with
the supreme court joint argument
in support of the constitutionality of
the West Virginia liquor law, pro-
hibiting the receipt and possession of
Intoxicating liquors for personal use.
Postponed
Washington, Feb. 22.-Oral argu-
ment of the West Virginia liquor cas-
es involving constitutionality of the
Webb-Kenyon liquor law, which sub
jects interstate shipments Of liquor to
the statutes of the state to which the
liquor is consigned, was indefinitely
postponed yesterday by the supreme
court. The cases, argued first about
year ago, were restored to the docket
for a second argument, before the en-
tire court and had been set for hear
ing yesterday. AS there isone vacancy
on the bench and Justice Day is alb
sent on account Of illness, they were
again postponed.
TRIP AROUND THE WORLD
The Trip Around the World planned
by the Ladies Of the Episcopal Guild
and held last night was quite novel
ty in the entertaining line and was
greatly enjoyed by everyone taking
the trip. Leaving the Rawson block
the travellers first visited Germany at
the home of Mrs. George Bruegger,
then on to Ireland at the Ellsworth
home and last but not least, back to
the Old U. S. A. at the Mckinney
residence. Each home was decorated
with the national colors of the coun-
try they represented and the luncheon
at each place was arranged on the
same plan.
Songs of the various nations were
enjoyed but the striking up of Amer
ica brought everyone to their feet
with cheers for the land of Liberty"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
STORE CHANGES

F. G. Troppman this week purchas-
ed the remainder of the fire damaged
stock of J. D. Wolpert who will re-
tire from business for the present. The
building that has been occupied by
Mr.. Wolpert has been leased by 0. E.
O'Dell for his new store.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
BAND TO GIVE SACRED
CONCERTS

Sunday, February 27, the Williston
Concert Band will give the first of a
series of sacred concerts at the Lyric
theatre. In giving such a series the
band follows up the custom of sew
eral previous years. The music low
ing public will be glad to welcome
this most popular and fitting Sunday
diversion.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
CLUB OPENS SEASON
WITH new IMPETUS
COMMERCIAL CLUB DECLARES
IN FAVOR PAID LEADERSHIP,
BUDGET SYSTEM
Five New Names On Board of Direc-
tOrs-Need For New Line of
Action Declared

| WeHIy-INe HlcIl, dll CIldC WcIc aole
or had interest enough to attend the
business session of the Williston Com
mercial Club called by President
Metzger for Monday evening, without
a dissenting voice said they favored
the paid secretary plan as means
Of making the club an eficien. force
for the welfare of the community.
The president called on them in order,
no one being allowed to escape. Most
Of the talks were brief but all were
to the point. Some of the strongest
advocates of a change were found
among those who have served on the
board of directors the past year.
In the absence of Secretary Mans
field, who was out of town, President
Metzger made a complete report Of
the years business showing that only
little over four hundred dollars has
been given into the hands of the di-
rectors during the year. The report
had all the items of disbursement
and showed a small cash balance on
hand
Five Directors
The pledge that has been recently
circulated, binding the signers to re-
newed effort toward club efficiency,
was read together with the 26 sigma
lures. On motion those of the sign
ers who were present were made a
nominating committee to select list
Of names op which the meeting would
ballot for five directors to fill the ex-
-rjSod terms. The committee made a
list of 16 names and few were added
at the suggestion of others.
Twenty-Five votes were cast at each
ballot and the first test resulted in the
election of J. w. Jackson with 18 and
J. A. Cunningham with 16, no others
had a majority. After several more
ballots W. H. Westergaard, A. F..
Burk and l. C. Wingate were elected.
The Board
Holdover Members
G. B. Metzger
C. A. Mansfield
DIR. F. w. MacManus
George FAIRIES
NJ. J. Borden
S. M. Hdyle.
New Members
J. w. Jackson
J. A. Cunningham
w. H. Westergaard
A. F. Burk
L. C. Wingate
The board will meet at an early
date for the election of officers.
While the meeting was not large
the spirit was good. It was the
consensus of opinion that the business
men of Williston are not lacking in
liberality or public spirit and need
most of all trained leadership to get
them to working along common lines.
Methods of proceeding toward that &C
quirement was left with the directors.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24
ATTEND NATIONAL GUARD
CONVENTION

Corporal George Wilkinson, and
privates Walter Charnholm and Les
ter Jaynes left for Fargo yesterday
to attend the annual convention of the
N. D. N. G.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-02-24

The city commission met Monday
night and canvassed the vote with the
above official result
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08

Two persons were killed and seven lnjured in . collision between two au- |tomobiIes at the bridge spanning Jobs Greek. Atlantic City.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
Gothic Arehitscture.

The styles called Gothic, springi1g from a common source in RomanesQue architecture and developing through out western Europe on differing lines, are in general characterized by the following features, although not alr of these will be found in all examples:
 Ribbed vaulting, pointed arches, the flying arch and pinnacled buttress. clustered. shafting, traceried windows in all but the earliest phases, stained glass, a progressive tendency toward loftiness, nghtness of supports and suppression of wall surfaces, . sys- tenn of decoration of afhich one ele- ment was the emphasis and adornment of structural features and another the use of sculpture and carving of human. animal, vegetable and grotcsque forms, controlled by a definite didcAtic pur- pose and significance, and finally the use of available materials according to their nature upon principles in part of structural logic and in part of decora- tive efrect.-A. D. F. Hamlin in Archi- tectural Record
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08

 STOCK MARKET 

New York, Aug. 8--Opening: Aside from further variable gains in hith- erto inactive specialties, prices at the opening of today's market were with out material change. Consolidated Gas added 2k points to yesterdays advance and issues like United Cigar Stores, International Paper pfd., Cali: fornia Petroleum pfd. and American Coal Products gained substantial frae- tions to a point. Rails and other standard shares manifested all of their recent indifference to favorable earnings and trade conditions. Deal ings were on limited scale, with continued lack of public interest.
 lNoon-Prices hardened in all quar- ,ters during the forenoon, the short interest being again impel1ed to cov- CT on the apparent scarcity of stocks for speculative purposes. United States Steel assumed it's former place as the most active issue and was free ly taken at a fractional advance. Rails also improved. Marine pfd, the Mexicans, Beet Sugar and some of the war and semi-war descriptions rose a point or better, with as much for Third avenue. Bonds were IT, regular and featureless.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
Full Rioood Ship.

A full rigged ship has thirty-three sails, fourteen of which are Jibs and fOresails.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
, STEPNEY,,

Clayton Hawley has been enjoying . several. days stay with a party of friends at Twin Lakes.
 Mrs. Victoria Fairchild has enter tained Mrs. Sylvester Nichols and children of Bridgeport.
 Sunday guests entertained at The Drew" were Rev. and Mrs. George Powell, Miss Gladys Powell, MT. and Mrs. George Cltngan, Misses Marjorie Connors and Ella Beyer, MT. and Mrs. Goode of Brooklyn, Miss Lavinos of, New York, Mrs. MacIntyre and Daniel MacIntyre of Brooklyn and MT. and Mrs. Crowther of Bridgeport.
 Misses Helen and Bertha Frederick of Bridgeport are spending a few wekes with Mrs. Emily D. Leaven- worth.
 Miss Carolyn Osborne was 8 recent guest of relatives in Danbury.
 Banks Goodsell is riding out in . newly acquired auto. ' About 40, of the. children who have been spending several weeks at the East Side home have returned to New York. As no more children are al- lowed to cc-ne it is expected that young women will be entertained at the home for the remainder of the summer.
 Frank Perkins and Claude Lewis were over Sunday guests of their pa rents.
 Mrs. Carleton Joyce has entertained as a, guest Miss Emma Bray of Tor rington.
 Miss Carolyn Garlick has enter tained Miss Ruth Child of Fairfield.
 MT. and Mrs. George C1ingan enter tained MT. and Mrs. Wakeman of New Haven last week.
 Jacob Goldberg, who has been occu- pying Mrs. -Yetta Miller's place, has moved to the Pavlicx farm in Halter town.
 Moses Thorpe, who recently sold his farm to the Bridgeport Hydraulic Co.,, has purchased M. B. Hawley's place now occupied by Dr. George Smith.
 Alfred Edwards, who recently re- turned from New York, has had car of tubercular-tested t.ttle shipped to him from that state.
 The health office of the town has placed on the several roads leading into the town quarantine signs for bidding persons under 16 to enter the town.
 David Fairchild, who has resumed his position at Waterbury, was an over Sunday guest at Hillcrest. i. -.--ee Summers of Bridgeport has vieited his parents. MT. and Mrs. John Sur1rlers.
 Mrs. Elsie Nichols of Shelton is spending some time with her mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Beardsley.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
=. Finance, Real Estate Insurance =.
OUR VIEWPOINT
 NEWS LETTER

Newtown. Aug. S-Merwin D. Morgan of Huntingtown district has
 had an apopFectic stroke, which has left his lower limbs in paralvzed | condition.
 Charles Hammond and wife have
 bargained for a lot on the Boulevard
 Of the Misses Peck, upon which they propose to build a substantial resi- dence in the near future. Judge Howard Woodman of the Probate court held an all day session, Saturday. All pending business was cleared up, as the judge starts today for a vacation in the Maine woods during the rest of the month. Probate Clerk Oscar Pitzschler will look after any formal business coming up in the interim.
 The town authorities put on Frank Banks as traffic officer on the Day. ton street detour. Sunday, who skill fully controlled traffic passing from West street toward the bridge. .Traf- fic Policemen Tngraham and Lock- wood looked after both approaches to the bridge and vigorously enforced the rule of only one car on the structure at time.
 The Pastime baseball nine of Bridgeport in a hotly contested 10 inning game defeated the Sandy Hooks at Knoll field yesterday after noon. A large crowd of baseball en- thusiasts attended.
 The Holy Name society and the Sodahty of the Children of Mary re- ceived holy communion in body at the first mass in St. Roses church, Sunday.
 P. F. Shay of Bridgeport spent the weekend and Sunday at his home in Berkshire.
 The delay in operations at the new bridge in Sandy Hook is due to the 'non-arrival of the steel beams. The railroad is blamed by the contractor who says he can lay the steel work and pour the cement in three days. It will take two weeks for the cement bed to harden properly after it Is poured, before traffic may be per- mitted on the bridge. From this the time of completion is problematical, as nobody seems to know when the frame will come.
 The dance given by the Septimo club Friday evening at the town hall was attended by a select assemblage which included many from out of town as we'll as guests of the sum- mer hotels. It was an enjoyable af fair.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
America's Gift.

Maize, tobacco and potatoes are the three great products of the soil which America gave the world.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, DISTRICT OF BRIDGEPORT, ss.. PROBATE COURT.

Aug. 7th, A. D., 1916.
 Estate of James O'NeiIl. late of Bridgeport, in said district, deceased.
 Upon application praying that an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of said deceased be admitted to probate, as per said application on file more fully appears, it is Oredered. That said application be heard and determined at the Probate Office in Bridgeport in said district, on the 22nd day of August, A. D., 1916, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon; and that notice thereof be given to all persons known to be interested in said estate to appear, if they see cause, at said time and place, and be heard thereon, by publishing once in some newspaper having circula- ton in said district, and by mailing in registered letter addressed to Will liam O'Neill. and by leaving with Clara Hennessy for herself and as guardian ad litem for M. Irene and Elizabeth Hennessy, copy of this or der, all at least z days before said day of hearing. anad that return of notice given be made to this court.
 Attest,
 FRANK P. MUNICH,
 asp Clerk.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
OBITUARY
WALTER MARREN.

The funeral of Walter Marren was held from the undertaking parlors of Rourke & Bouchers, 1925 Main street at 8:30 o'clock this morning, and from St. Augustine's church one half hour later, where a requiem high mass was celebrated by the Rev. Edward Hayes. There was a large attendance of sor- rowing relatives and friends. The bearers were the immediate friends of the family. Interment was in the family plot at St. MichaePs cemetery.
 MARGARET CALLAHAN
 Margaret, wife of John Callahan died early this morning at her home, Al Sterling street. While Mrs. Cal lahan's health had been poor TOT some months and her death not un- expected, her passing away has cast a pail of sorrow over her numerous friends, and her family to whom she was devoted mother. Mrs. Callahan is survived by her husband, two daughters, Nellie and Gertrude Calla- han and three sons, John, James and Leo Callahan. She was for years a devoted and active member of St. Charles church from which her fun eral will be held.
 HARRIET A. w. HAWLEY. Following a severe illness of six weeks, Harriet A. Wells Hawley, widow of Julius Crane Hawley. died at her home. 439 East Main street, at 11:15 last night. She was born Nov. 16, 1885, and came to Bridgeport IT years later. In 1853 she was married
 to Julius Crane Hawley, now deceas- ed, and for4the last 39 years had lived in the home at 439 East Main street. She was a member of St. PauPs Epis- copal church. Not only her many i'm innate friends will feel a deep sense of grief over the loss, but all who
 came under the spell of her charming. womanly character will feel a same sense of sorrow over her death.. Even in her advanced years she seemed to possess a remarkable vitality, as her
 fine erect carriage would indicate, and her almost girlish enthusiasm endear- ed her so with every one she met. More beloved was she for the quiet, generous manner in which she was continually doing things for others and forever holding herself inconspic-
 uously in the background, pleased only with what she could do for those in need or distress.
 Mrs. Hawlay is survived by daugh- ter, Elizabeth R. Warner. A son. Fred V. Hawfey, is deceased.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
Shaving on One Side.

The shaving on one side only of the heads and boards of prisoners of war was obviously done to prevent any at tempt at escape. But there have been other motives for such half shaving. wlS b occurs at all sorts of points in history. Sometimes the act has been pure insult, as when Hanun, king of the children of Ammon, shaved on half of the boards of David's servants. In these days the victims would have mended matters by shaving the other half. But Jewish reverence for the beard forbade that, and David told the men to "tarry at Jericho until your boards be grown" Demosthenes, when he shut himself up for months in subterranean chamber to practice ora tory, shaved half of his head to cut off all temptation to go abroad.-Lon- don Chronicle.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
BASEBALL IN
 GOOD OLD DAYS

Professional ball players of today
 may not be he-angels, but they would
 be considered hopeless mollycoddles
 by many of the old-timers of the '78s and 's0s. The diamond pastimers of that era were, as a general pfoposi-
 ton and with numerous notable ex- captions. hard drinking, hard swearing, high-lfving bunch of rough necks. Perhaps the most noteworthy aggregation of this type of diamond stars was that got together in '86 by Dan O'Leary to represent Scranton. The Psnnsylvania city was baseball
 mad. and the O'Leary fairly revelled in luxury. Wilkesbarre and Williams port were Scranton's principal rivals
 and by beating the clubs of those cities the O'Leary gang made them selves so popular than they owned
 the town. The most notable contest
 of that memorable year was with Will Transport, which had a club which had licked big league teams, and was considered unbeatable. O'Leary and
 his players wagered nearly $5,000. every cent they had in the world. on
 Themselves. and won by wire margin.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
of Finance

 pounds, valued at 26,500,000. This is four times the average for the pre- ceding three years and exceeds the combined imports of that class from Chile, Cuba, Canada and Mexico, the leading foreign sources of this form of copper.
 Canned salmon shipped to the United States in the last fiscal year amounted to 216,00O,0OO pounds, valued at $18,333.000, an increase of 24, ,O0O,0 900 pounds over 1915 and of 40, 900, 900 over 1914
 The shipment. of $15,200.00o worth of Alaskan gold to domestic ports was larger by $1,000,o00 than the total for 1915 and by $4,000,000 than that for 1914. Silver shipments, valued at $760,0O0 in 1916, were $500,000 more than in 1915 and $600,000 more than in 1914.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
. SHARP EXPANSION IN
 AIAASKA'S COMMERCE.

AlAska's sales to the United States in the fiscal year 1916 aggregated nearly $60,000,000, a sum double the annual average since 1912. In addi- ten to this. Alaska shipped to this country in 1915-1916 gold valued at $1s,000,000., and silver to the value of $7o0, ,000 'both from its own mines.
 The feature of the years trade, ac- cord1ng to an analysis made by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce, was the rise of copper to the frst place among Alaska's export staples. supplanting salmon and gold as the leading items. Receipts of cupper in ore. matte and regulus from Alaska, Y Aggregated 117,0O0,00O