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[Local Mention *HV Official paper. i- School days some more. :H The Graphic list grows apace, f. In time of ice prepare for heat No snow or sleighing in Willis con If you break yfcur resolve don't give up in despair. A new correspondent for this paper the one at Pioneer Hall. Did you save your first Parcels Post stamps for souvenirs Do it now- Advertise from the start and make business thrive. Editor Knutson, of the Ray Pioneer, was a business visitor here Monday. A number of people came over from Culbertson find took in the Elks Min strel. Thos. B. Murphy, of the Land office, was a business visitor in Minot last Friday. Mrs. Dorothy returned Sunday even ing from a two weeks visit to points in Wisconsin. W. S. Davidson, -of the Citizens Bank, spent Sunday in Minot, return ing on No. 3/ Rev. Johansen will hold services at Laken's school house near Marmon on Sunday at 2 p. in. Attorney Palmer returned Monday from a business trip to Milwaukee, Wis., and other eastern points. The North Dakota Experiment Sta tion has issued a bulletin entitled "The Silo and Its Construction." J. J. Blair and W. H. Westergaard were in Crosby last week checking up the years business of their office there. Mr. Chas. Sapp, who directed the Elks minstrel left on Number 4 Sun day for his headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. We have a number, of communica tions relative to the wheat market here which will be published in the next issue. Recent Williston visitors are Mr. and Mrs. J. Fletcher, A. H. Swensen, A. J. Moore and Mrs. Irma B. Moore. —Fairview Times. Rabbit hunting around Williston is good. A party of four hunters went out the other day and returned in the evening with fifty. Miss Strickland and Miss Ames have accepted positons with the Wes tergaard-Blair Company and started the first of the year. BORN—at St. Joseph's Hospital St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday, 5th, 1913, to Mr. and Mrs. V. W. McMurrin, a baby boy. Mother and- son doing fine. Fred Marcure and Georgie Bell re turned home Friday from Williston, where they visited over Christmas. They report an enjoyable occasion.— Fairview Times. Charles and Amanda Blocher, who have been visiting their sister, Mrs. Vernon Ditton, left for Williston, Thursday, where they will visit othet relatives.—Fairview Times. U. L. Burdick received a large ship ment of fine blooded horses and cattle this week. The shipment included blooded horses and cattle and is about the best ever shipped into the county. Some more good scores at the bowling alleys. Six scores of over 250 are recorded, with a high score for W. J. Kelley, of 277. Mr. Kelley lias an average of 280 for 15 games. Special Notice. I am prepared to make you"a"first mort gage loan. Money always on hand. If I make you a first mortgage loan I am prepared to help you at a later date with a second loan. This is important to remember. I am prepared to help you to close a deal to get an additional quarter section of land. I write Fire and Tornado Insurance on farm buildings, grain, hay and stock. E. R. Brownson Rooms 3 & 4, Graphic Block" Williston No. Dak. The Whittenberg Auxiliary meets with Mrs. Lars Christiansen next Wednesday afternoon. An urgent re quest is made for all members to be present. if. 5 Dap Hapip and wife started for New York last week to buy a supply of goods. He will engage in the oriental rug trade with headquarters at Williston. Hrs. W. C. Lynch left Sunday for New York state, where she will visit at her former home until about March 1. This is her first'visit home since coming west about five years ago. The Security Bridge Co., which has offices at Mineapolis and Billings has a crew of seven men at work north of the city on the county roads. G. I. Geckstad is in charge of the work. Dr. Burk, who was formerly veteri nary surgeon in the government ser vice stationed at this place, is visiting in Williston for a i'ew days. Dr. Burk is now located at Havre. Miss Hazel Tombs arrived last week and visited at the home of Judge and Mrs. Frank Fisk. Miss Tombs is a niece of Mrs. Fisk's and is a teacher in Devils Lake city schools. She re turned home Saturday. County commissioner Manford C. Webb and family returned from Tee garden, Ind., Saturday night, where they have been spending the past month at the former home of Mr. Webb. Mrs. Chas. Williams and little daughter returned home to Stanley last Thursday. They were accom panied by Dorothy Corbett and Ada Clair Brawnson. J. A. Corbett went down Sunday and accompanied the young-folks home. Attorney H. W. Braatelien received a card Monday from his brother in Norway, who recently left Minnesota for a visit to that country. He says that worst kind of weather was en countered on the voyage. Geo. Hilbish, a former Williston resident and now traveling for a pack ing* concern, has gone to his home in Pennsylvania for a visit of some weeks. Mr. Hilbish came here on a visit some weeks ago and was taken sick as soon as he arrived. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Braaten and E. Anderslan left Tuesday for a few days visit with friends at Churches Ferry, N. D. From there they will go to New York where they will em bark for Kristiania, Norway, where they will spend the winter. They will return in July. W. G. Owens, of Williston Emil Gunderson, Ray A. A. Stenehjenv Arnegard N. F. Snyder, Schafer Robert Norheim, Alexander, repre sentatives this district and Senator W. B.* Overson, left early in the week for the state capitol to be present at the opening of the legislature. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jennison enter tained about forty gentlemen friends of their sons Alfred and John last Thursday night. Cards and music were the diversions of the evening. Grand Nola was played at a number of tables with a handsome card case, cards and counters as head prize. A splendid lunch was served during the evening. Remember the best place in town to play Billiards is at the Arcade— good tables and good balls make It a pleasure. 27tf. Adv. Clean rags wanted at The Graphic office. I THB FIRST POST PACKAGE FIRST PARCELS POST PACKAGE MAILED BY LADY AT LOCAL ,, OFFICE The first parcels post package mail ed at the local office was mailed by Mrs. C. J. Holmes. Already the par cels post is being taken advantage of quite generally and many packages are being forwarded from Williston, as well as many received. Of course the new arrangement has made a greater volume of business for the local office, but things are moving along nicely and all packages received are being handled—"with neatness and dispatch," as Postmaster Metzger puts it. It seems that parons are not yet thoroughly acquaintd with certain regulaions, and with this idea in view we herewith again repeat some of the rules laid down. First, it is necessary-to have the sender's name and address, following the word "from" on each package. Second, only the special parcels post stamps can be used on any fourth class matter now, no matter what the weight may be even on the packages of four ounces and under parcels post stamps must be used. A number of packages had to be held up in the local office because the old style stamps were placed on them. A great many of these wrongly stamped pack ages are discovered at the windows, but when they are dropped into %he boxes at night, this error cannot be called to the attention of the sender, and when this is done and there is no address on the same, the addressee has to be notified of the deficiency, and many times this causes a hard ship as well as a delay. The postoffice has quite a supply of the regulations and will cheerfully furnish copies to all who may need them as long as the supply of pamph lets lasts. Those who wish copies of the Williston zone map and the guide, which contains the unit numbers of every postoffisce in the United States, can obtain the same by sending a post office money order for 75 cents to the chief clerk of the postal department, Washington, D. C. Many of the busi ness men of this city have already obtained these documents and are now making use of them in their business, TAKEN TO STATES PRISON MEN WHO TOOK HORSES GET LONG TERM TO THING IT OVER Frank Jones and Jim Slabo, the men who took the horses from the Hefflefinger farm, will have plenty of time to think it over. They con fessed to the crime and were given four years in the states prison. Dep uty Sheriff Martinson left Wednesday morning with the two men. NEW COACHES ON SKIDOO The passenger traffic on the Bain ville-Plentywood branch has increased to such an extent that the Great Nor thern railway company is preparing to put on new coaches on the Skidoo, between Glasgow and Williston This is made necessary owing to the fact that the present epuipment is not ade quate to care for the large passenger business between Bainville anl Wil liston. It is reported that nearly two hundred go down the line every day going east to Williston. This im provement will be greatly appreciated by those who travel.—Plentywood Herald. High School team has begun prac tice for the first game, which will be played here with Culbertson High! on January 24. The next game will be the week following with Minot High, at Minot. Mr. Miller, who is coaching the team, must build a team from all new material, as all of those that were on the team last year are out of school. He states that the prospects for a good team are very encouraging. Gates Hall is being used for practice. COURT AGAIN IN SESSION The district court resumed the in terrupted term, accasioned by the hol iday vacation, Monday with Judge Crawford, of Dickinson, presiding. The case assault of Dowd vs Mc Ginnity is now on trial. This case has been occuping the attention of the court for the greater part of the week, and will probably not be finished for before the last of the week. Every point of contention is being closely fought by the attorneys. Little Rock, Jan. 3.—The death of U. S. Sen. Jeff Davis, who expired sud denly early today of heart failure, on the eve of the ratification of his re election by the legislature, creates a peculiar political situation in Arkan sas. BASKET BALL IN ORDER Year*» evening was attended by a Basket ball is now in order. The large crowd, the river not being frozen LEGISLATURE IN SESSION THIRTEENTH SESSION OF LEGIS LATURE CONVENED TUES DAY—FRAINE SPEAKER Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 7.—The house members of the thirteenth legislative assembly were called to order at noon today by Chief Clerk Griffith and after prayer by Rev. Mr. Ofstum, the roll was called and all but two responded. George A. Tucker of Stutsman county was called east this morning by the serious illness of a relative. Louis A. Leu of Wells failed to respond to the' roll call. -v, There was a halt in the proceedings for a minute when it was discovered that no one had made arrangements to have a judge of the supreme court present to swear in the members elect but Judge Fisk was on the floor of the house and was invited to per form the ceremony which he did by taking the members from each district and swearing them in at the same time. Chief Clerk Griffith, announcing that nominations for speaker were in order, Mr. Williams of Burleigh county placed the name of Col. J. F. Fraine of Walsh county in nomina tion. There were about forty seconds to the nomination and then Hon. James Campbell of Morton county of fered the name of W. V. O'Connor of Grand Forks as the democratic nom inee and every democratic member seconded the nomination. When the votes were counted Fraine was declared elected and on motion of O'Connor the election was declared unanimous. The speaker was escorted to his seat by Members Sorlie, Anderson and Streeter, all defeated candidates for the republican nomination Try bowling for your appendix— Bowlers never get appendicitis—it brings into play every muscle in the body without overtaxing the strength or developing one organ at the ex pense of the other—No physician has yet been found to sound a note of warning against it—Bowling try it, lw-29. Adv.* See the Minot Hide and Tanning Company's ad in this issue, lw. Adv. CHARGED WITH THEFT TWO MEN IN COURT CHARGED WITH TAKING LOAD OF FLAX B. J. Lee and Chas. Finley, who live near town, were brought into court last Saturday on a warrant charging them with taking a load of flax from a farmer and disposing of it at a local elevator. The men first made a plea of guilty, and later changed their plea to not guilty. They are awaiting trial. NESSON Write it 1913. The New Year came in rather cold and has been cold since twenty three below zero Sunday morning. There is several setting of flax yet to be threshed in this valley. John McKays little boy was quite badly hurt one day last week. He fell off a horse and hurt one of his legs so he can't walk on it yet. E. O. Westcott came near meeting with a serious accident last week while digging coal, the bank caved in, catching him by the legs but was not badly hurt. The dance at the White City New hard enough for teams to cross some of the young fellows had a novel way to get their partners there. They sent them by Parcel Post. Gene Littlefield was making fare well calls here Sunday and Monday before" going to California. C. O. and E. O. Westcott were do ing business in Williston Wednesday. MIDWAY Jas. N. Holbrook, from Sask., Can ada, is here visiting friends. Floyd Kindle was on our streets Sunday. Gladys. M. Levitt spent Sunday evening with Gladys E. Levitt of Spring Brook. C. A. Levitt was in Williston Satur day. 1 Jas. Notman called at the C. A. Levitt home one day last week. Clarence Swimley was a Spring Brook visitor Sunday. Willie Osborn was a Spring Brook caller Wednesday. Hershal Penney was an Epping vis itor last week. There will be a dance Friday even ing January 17, in Epping, at Miller's hall. Music by the Epping dance or chestra. Everybody is cordially in vited. Come and enjoy the evening. FIRE DULL Recently the children of the "north side high school at Rugby responded to the fire drill signal and in less than fifty seconds every pupil was out of doors despite the fact that the thermometer registered more than ten below zero. And it was a real fire alarm, too, for the janitor had dis covered that soot or dust was burning in an over-heated flue and not know ing how dangerous the fire might prove to be he lost no time in sound ing "fire drill" with the results as stated. After the children were out the fire was quickly extinguished with the hand grenades which are supplied to all parts of the building and with the aid of these little extinguishers it was but moment's work to have the fire out and there was no need of general alarm. Learn to bowl. We are always glad to show the beginner how. lw-29. Adv. WILLISTON CHURCHES Congregational—344 Main Street. Rev. E. S. Shaw, pastor, residence 336 Main Street. Services—Sunday— 10:30 a. m., 7:30 p. m. Sunday School 11:45 a. m. Catholic—St. Joseph's Church—143. E. Broadway. Rev. Father O'Neill, pastor. Services—Sunday: First mass, 8:30 a. m. second mass 10:30 a. m. Sunday School 2:30 p. m. Evening services at 7:30 p. m. Episcopalian—St. Peter's-Seventh St. East. Rev. Cowan, Pastor. Ser vices—Sunday: 8:00 a. m., 11:00 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School 12:00 m. Services Holy Days at 10:00 a. m. Lutheran-Zion Norwegian—Cor. 2nd Ave. E. and 8th St. Rev. J. Wulfs berg, pastor. Services—Sunday in Norwegian and English languages, 11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran— Cor. 5th Ave. W. and 5th Street. Rev. J. B. Falkanger, pastor. Ser vices—Sunday, 10:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. United Lutheran Church—Cor. 6th st. and 1st Ave. W. Rev. A. Johansen, pastor. Services—Sunday, 8:00 p. m. Sunday School 10:00 a. m. Young peoples meeting every other Sunday 8:30 p. m. Methodist Episcopal—101 W. Broad way. Rev. M. D. Wickard, pastor. Sunday services 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School 11:30 a. m. Ep worth League 6:30 p. m. Mid-week prayer meeting. Salvation Army—Meets every Tues day, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8:00 p. m., 183 Main Street. Sunday School at 3:00 p. m. Christian Science—Meets every Sun day at 11:00 a. m. I. O. O. F. Hall. Sunday School at 12:00 m. ROSE HILL Frank Nasner was a Rose Hill call er one day last week. A basket social will be given at the Rose Hill school Saturday January 18. There will be a program. All come and enjoy yourself. Don't for get the date. Be sure and come. Pro ceeds will go toward buying a book case for the school. German Lutheran services were held at the Rose Hill school. It was quite well attended. Serviecs will be held again on the 26th day of Jan uary. Mr. John Albrecht and son Phillip, made a trip to Williston last week. The Rose Hill school started again Monday after a two weeks Christmas vacation. Phillip Albrecht is on the sick list. The Rose Hill Literary society will hold their meeting on Saturday even- LOWEST RATES PROMPT SERVICE wm DEAL Marriage^! On Monday afternoon a double ding took place at the home of lav. Johansen when Barney Larson nd Fredrika Staven, of Williston, and John Lovsletten and Lena ffanf, also of Williston, were united in mar riage, Rev. Johansen performing the ceremony. The newly married coup les will make their homes in Williston. McAllister-Pake:—Millard Ol Me Callister, of Ray, N. D., and Mrs. Al berta J. Pake, of Minot, N. D., were united in marriage by Rev. Wickard at the M. E. Parsonage Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The newly maried couple left for Minot, and after a brief stay in that city will go to the grooms claim near Medcire ake, Montana, to reside, Larson-Foster:— Announcement* have been received in Williston an nouncing the marriage of Miss Viva Foster, formerly of this city, to Mr. Edwin O. Larson, of Crosby. The wedding took place at Crosby on Jan uary 5th. The bride was a former resident of Williston, and for a time was in the register of deeds office. For the past several months she has been Deputy register of deeds oil Divide county. The newly married couple will make their future home at Crosby. Donohue-Shea:—A very pretty wed ding was solemnized Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, at St. Joseph's Church, when Mr. Jos. M. Donohue and Mist Mayme E. Shea was united in the holy bonds of matrimony. Rev. Father O'Neill read the service. The church was 'beautifully decor ated with ferns and roses for the oc casion. Miss Beulah LaBerge played Mendelsohns wedding march attendant to the ceremony and Mrs. B. L. Hard away sang "O Saul Atris," and "Ave Marie" during mass. "A Perfect Day" was sung at offertory. The bride was gowned in a beauti ful creation of white silk Messaline and Marquisette, with veil with lillies of the valley and carried a boquet of brides roses and lillies of the valley. They were attended by Miss Bridgle Shea, sister of the bride, and John Heffernan, Jr. Following the ceremony a four course wedding breakfast was served at the home of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Shea. Mr. and Mrs. Donohue left on No. 2 for the Twin Cities, Chicago and Winnipeg, for a wedding trip of three weeks duration, after which they will make their future home in Williston. The bride and groom are among Wil liston's most popular younger set and host of friends join in extending congratulations upon this occasion. fEMU YOU KNOW We have loaned money in this section since 1883. Our home office is at Grand Forks, and when you make a loan from us you deal with people you know. Prompt Service—Lowest Rates Call and see us or write if you are interested in making a loan on your land. E. J. Lander & Co: Grand Forks Rugby Minot! Williston J. ARTHUR CUNNINGHAM, Nfr. WIMm Oice 1 it •si tV^ if Everybody come A swell program ing, January 18. and enjoy yourself. is being prepared. .] Peter Rasmussen called on the Rose Hill teacher one evening last week. Mr. Pete has a new graphaphone so he invites everybody up to hear it. John Yoreness made a trip to Wil liston one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Albrecht spent Sunday with his parents. John Youness is going to start to school next Monday. Ed Katzel purchased some new horses. Some of ns saw him in the city with them. 7 •_ Mr. Otto Hintz and sister Lydia ex pect to leave for Wisconsin in the near future. Say! Please don't forget the Liter ary meeting Saturday, the 18th. Ev erybody cordially invited.