Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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On the morning of August 22, 1901, Logan & Farley opened their restaurant in the old courthouse building and former Headquarters Hotel building with R. McDowell as the cook. It was on lots 4 & 5, block 17, on Chicago St., now 8th St. N., where the Do It Best Hardware is now located (2008). Charles Ohrner of Kidder County came in to work the harvest and was hired within twenty minutes. Miss May Renfrew came over from Harvey before her departure for the Pan American Exposition. Frank Parker was in town, saying he had threshed his best oat crop...
The August 16, 1901, R.R. Woodward was looking for a man and wife to work on his farm. W.B. Cole had a Photo Studio on St. Paul & Lamborn. Mrs. W.B. Cole “…is an excellent photographer….” She was doing a lot of business. Strayed from New Rockford—one six-year-old mouse-gray male pony, about 950 lbs., large wire cut on right ear; contact H.S. Crowder, Bowdon, N.D. Taken up July 13 one dark iron-gray horse colt, about two years old with white stripe on face. J.J. Anderson, Freeborn, N.D. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Allmaras’ new farm house northwest o...
From August 10 to 12, 1901, Oscar Bauer visited his sister Miss Ethel Bauer in Brinsmade. On Sunday morning, August 11, Robert E. Miller and Emily Weeks were married at the bride’s mother’s home, by Rev. J.R. Beebe. That afternoon, A.C. Olsen and A.J. Larkin went to Barlow. Nathan Williams of Viking registered at the Hotel Brown. While the John O’Connell family sat in church, the man Mr. O’Connell had hired for harvest work stole Mrs. O’Connell’s gold watch and chain, a valuable ring, and other jewelry from a locked bedroom, the lock of which h...
On August 8, 1901, the N.D. Board of Railroad Commissioners inspected the NP branch line from Carrington to Leeds. Isaac Sanderson was in from Tiffany; W.J. Morris came in from Plainview; J.M. Shannon came in from his ranch; Andrew Johnson was in for harvest supplies; Fred Allmaras, George Treffry and M.P. Eidemiller were in on business; Jack Haley was in from the east side of the county; Hans Guler was in from his farm; and Henry Garvin came in from his farm west of New Rockford. Ed Morris of Morris passed through town on his way to...
The August 2, 1901, “Transcript” said the Northern Pacific was thinking of putting in an Oberon branch line. The repairs on the Monarch Elevator were completed, and the building was painted red. The paper complained that the backyard weeds were getting too high behind some residences and should be cut down. That issue reported that when P.M. Mattson learned that his newspaper, the “Provost,” had been indicted by the federal grand jury in Devils Lake for mailing obscene material, he quickly left for that city. That issue also carried a warning...
On July 26, 1901, a daughter, Leona Marie, was born to former New Rockford residents Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Hambrecht at LeRoy, Minn. N.T. Hendrickson came down from the Sheyenne Valley, and Henry Hendrickson from his farm north of New Rockford. Henry B. Johnson was in from Freeborn. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walden were in town shopping. At 3 p.m. the WCTU met at Mrs. G.W. Brownell’s. John Weiport came up to root on the Barlow baseball team. By 3:20, the baseball score was New Rockford 27, Barlow 16. The New Rockford lineup was Clure, p; Buttz, c; R...
On July 18, 1901, Orley Couch came up from Minneapolis, where he had attended the School of Pharmacy, and resumed his position in A.C. Buck’s drug store. W.C. Carter was in town. That evening there was a dance in Hulbert’s Grove, hosted by the baseball team; there wasn’t a very large attendance, so financially it was a failure, but the dancers had a good time. On July 18 (or July 11), Miss Nellie Brand, who had been teaching school near Carrington, returned home; she was planning on spending the summer at her claim near Esmond. The July 19, 1...
According to an item in the July 12, 1901, “Transcript” J.E. Renfrew had arrived in Eddy County 12 to 14 years prior with little or nothing. Over the ensuing years he had accumulated between 1200 to 1500 acres, and that spring had purchased three quarters from A.J. Brown and three quarters from A.M. Greely, plus a couple other quarters, which added an additional 1,200 acres to his holdings. If he had bought a few more quarters, he would have been able to drive from his farm seven miles northwest of town to New Rockford and never leave his lan...
The June 21, 1901, edition of the “Transcript” slammed state’s attorney P.M. Mattson in one long and eight short items. Mattson was called a “carbuncle,” a “store dummy,” and in his own newspaper, the “Provost,” admitted he didn’t know he could be prosecuted until he read it in the “Minneapolis Journal.” Mattson was a “spitefully notorious whelp,” a “puddenhead,” and was accused by the “Transcript” of smashing the slot machines confiscated from Doc Leonard in front of the jail window where Leonard could see it, although it was the legal duty of...
