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  • History of New Rockford: Oct. 14, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Oct 14, 2024

    On April 25, 1907, Mrs. Forbes visited her daughter Ida at Phillips Academy. Walter Immel returned from a business trip to Courtenay. P.C. Peterson came up from Barlow on business and to visit. State’s Attorney R.P. Allison returned from a business trip to Jamestown. William Coville, who had attended Phillips Academy during the winter term, came over from Sykeston to visit his friends. Miss Carrie Waters went to Sheyenne to see some friends. Miss Marie Peterson went to Manfred, N.D., to visit h...

  • History of New Rockford: Oct. 7, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Oct 7, 2024

    On April 15, 1907, Miss Hazel Kennedy came up from Jamestown to visit. George W. Johnston boarded the southbound train, telling friends he was going to Anoka, Minn. (He wasn’t). On April 16, Verne L. Norton began work at Rodenberg & Schwoebel. Ed McLean was down from Sheyenne on business and visiting. Butcher H.H. Miller took a carload of hogs to the South St. Paul market. On April 17, Mrs. E.R. Davidson went to Jamestown to visit her mother. H.G. Hudson went to Courtenay on business. F.S. Dunha...

  • History of New Rockford: Sept. 30, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Sep 30, 2024

    On April 9, 1907, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Alva Tomlinson. George Lovell came in on business. Otho Lathrop came up from Minneapolis and remained until April 11. While in town he sold his Lamborn Avenue East residence to Mr. and Mrs. John Von Almen and family, who moved in almost immediately. Lathrop worked for the Kerr Land Co. J.M. Patch came in from Indianapolis to look after his business interests. The Phillips Academy Board of Trustees met to discuss a new $40,000 auditorium; two...

  • History of New Rockford: Sept. 23, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Sep 23, 2024

    The Eddy County Sunday School Association met from 2 p.m. April 2 until the evening of April 3, 1907; officers elected were Mrs. F.L. Kermott, president; Rev. J.J. Graham of Sheyenne and Mrs. S.H. Bailey, vice presidents; Charles Culp, secretary; Alice (Mrs. J.W.) Rager, treasurer; and an executive committee: H.M. Clark, Walter Priest and Mrs. A.H. Johnson [née Floy Richter]. The final session ended with the singing of “God Be with You Till We Meet Again.” On April 2, James Graham came in on b...

  • History of New Rockford: Sept. 16, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Sep 16, 2024

    On March 28, 1907, Frank Goodrich, Ed Starks and A.J. Ford made business trips to Carrington. Asa Hylton jumped out of a car [railroad or automobile?], sprained his right ankle, and ended up on crutches for over a week. On March 28 to 30, Mrs. H.R. Campbell held her Easter Millinery Opening. The March 29, 1907, “Transcript” mentioned the “Hope Dispatch” and the “Minot Optic.” The Eddy County Board of Health – R.P. Allison, president; W.C. Dresser, vice president; Dr. Charles MacLachlan, s...

  • History of New Rockford: September 9, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Sep 9, 2024

    On March 21 and 22, 1907, Adolph Wilson of Balfour was down on business. The March 22, 1907, “Transcript” reprinted a news item that George Fugina had brought with him from Osseo, Wisc. The item was purportedly from a resident of Portal, N.D., to her father in New York State and painted the winter conditions in North Dakota: blizzard after blizzard, temperatures of minus 52, intermittent train service causing a lack of food and fuel, cattle starving and people freezing to death nearly every day...

  • History of New Rockford: Sept. 2, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Sep 2, 2024

    Eye specialist F.W. Soule was at the Barlow drug store and at the Bucklin, Williams & Co. drug store in New Rockford on March 15 and 16, 1907. From 5:30 to 8 p.m. March 13, the Methodist ladies put on a supper at the home of Mrs. James Wiltsie; the menu was roast beef with brown gravy, ham with horse radish, Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread, mashed potatoes, corn escalloped, pickles, salads, rolls, jelly and mixed cake. Price, 25 cents; ice cream, 10 cents extra. Over $40 was earned for the...

  • History of New Rockford: August 26, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Aug 26, 2024

    On March 6, 1907, Peter Michel’s brother arrived from Wisconsin to visit. Mr. and Mrs. F.W. House and family left for their new home, Mountain Home, Idaho; their furniture followed on March 9. J.E. Bennett left to visit his old home, Boone, Iowa, and planned to go on to Idaho; he had resigned as agent of the Great Western Elevator Co, due to his rheumatism. Miss Edith Kizer accompanied Mrs. George Fugina to Alamogordo, New Mexico Territory, where they would remain for the rest of the winter w...

  • History of New Rockford: August 19, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Aug 19, 2024

    On Feb. 27, 1907, Gilbert Bymoen came in from northwest of town on a social and business call. Veterinary surgeon F.W. Tompkins was down from Oberon. Considerable snow fell on February 27 and 28. On February 28, John “Jake” Schaefer came down from his farm near Sherwood to visit; he stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Maxwell and returned on March 6. Attorney P.M. Mattson went to Bismarck; he returned on March 5. That evening, Fred Davies joined the Woodmen Lodge. The March 1, 1907, “Tr...

  • History of New Rockford: August 12, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr., Drayton, ND - NRHS Class of 1962|Aug 12, 2024

    On Feb. 21, 1907, Mrs. John Von Almen went to Jamestown to visit her sister, teacher Miss Vera Tyler. Mrs. Hugh Kennedy went to the same city for a visit with relatives and friends. Edith (Mrs. A.C.) Olsen also went down to Jamestown to visit her parents, Prof. C.C. and Mrs. Schmidt. Mrs. John O’Connell went to Minneapolis, where her husband was in a hospital recovering from a serious operation. H.H. Miller accompanied a carload of hogs to the South St. Paul market; he returned on February 2...

  • History of New Rockford: August 5, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Aug 5, 2024

    On Feb. 12, 1907, Academy student Mae Engberg was called home to Barlow by the news her father, J.R. Engberg, had died in the Norgaard Hospital in Fargo that morning from pneumonia. Funeral services were held in Fargo and conducted by the Elks Lodge. Engberg was 49, had been born in Sweden, and had arrived in Barlow in 1897, where he helped start the Engberg Farm and Land Co. He was survived by his wife, four children – Sumner, Mae, Guy W. and Thaddeus R. – and a brother Barney L. Engberg, all o...

  • History of New Rockford: July 29, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jul 29, 2024

    On Feb. 6, 1907, James Hobbs came in on business. Gull River Lumber Company manager W.R. Erwin and R. Delle McCloud were married in the home of the bride at Prescott, Iowa; they would reside in New Rockford after March 15 [actually, March 2]. Early in the morning of February 7, the rotary plow went through New Rockford, but the snow drifts were so bad that it didn’t reach Jamestown until the afternoon of February 8. On February 8, former resident Dr. J.A. Carter drove over from Warwick on a p...

  • History of New Rockford: July 22, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jul 22, 2024

    The Feb. 1, 1907, “Transcript” stated that recently in the Morris area, John Seckinger had driven his team and wagon to a haystack to get some hay for his animals and got stuck; James Casey helped extricate the horses and wagon. Also in the Morris area, George Pincott was entertaining his neighbors in the evenings by playing his graphophone [an improved early phonograph]. Mr. and Mrs. F.W. House and family were waiting for the tracks to be cleared so they could leave for their new home, Mou...

  • History of New Rockford: July 8, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jul 8, 2024

    On Jan. 19, 1907, the boiler of the steam heating plant in the Hays & Adams Hardware quit, so the proprietors had to go back to using the “old way” [coal or wood]. Brownlee & Violet came through the blizzard with two loads of grain for the market. Mrs. Jerry Van Heizen [Huizen] died in childbirth at her farm home northeast of town; she left her husband and four children. The funeral was conducted in the home on January 22 with a temporary interment on the farm until the spring when she was bur...

  • History of New Rockford:

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jul 1, 2024

    On Jan. 11, 1907, J.W. Perry returned from a lengthy stay in Minneapolis, where he had undergone an operation; he was much improved. That evening, the New Rockford Band sponsored a dance during which the band played as an orchestra for the large crowd. Early in the morning of January 12, two passenger trains arrived in New Rockford from the north. One then started for Carrington, but found the going so bad that conductor Williams of the other train was told to “tie up” in New Rockford. The sno...

  • History of New Rockford: June 24, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jun 24, 2024

    On the morning of Sunday, Jan. 6, 1907, a special train brought teachers Miss Lillian Lund, Miss Millicent Wiche/Weibe, and Miss Lillyan Faust back from their holidays. That afternoon, a special train brought students Misses Harrison, Solsberg, and Erikson from Esmond; the girls would live in the Phillips Academy dormitory. On January 7, the New Rockford School re-opened after the holidays. A train made it to New Rockford, but there was not another one until January 11 because of the snow nearly...

  • History of New Rockford: June 17, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jun 17, 2024

    From January 1 to the evening of Jan. 3, 1907, the area was blanketed by the heaviest snow storm in some years. The railroad tracks were blocked until the rotary plow came through on the morning of January 4. Many New Rockford-bound passengers were stranded when trains were stopped in Sheyenne and Carrington; the railroad put them up in hotels. On January 3, Louis Oefstedahl and George Norman came down from Sheyenne on skis; it was Norman’s first experience with skis and probably his last. On t...

  • History of New Rockford: June 10, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jun 10, 2024

    On Dec. 24, 1906, Miss Monica O’Connell visited in Barlow between trains; her sister Miss Gertrude O’Connell accompanied her back to New Rockford. Daniel O’Connell arrived for Christmas with his parents; he returned to Minneapolis on January 4. Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Wilson and family went to Wimbledon for Christmas with her family; Mr. Wilson returned on December 26, but his wife and children remained for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Foster left for a visit in Minneapolis. Dr. G.D. Murphy left...

  • History of New Rockford: June 3, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jun 3, 2024

    The Dec. 14, 1906, “Transcript” said that C.J. Parker of Kennedy, N.Y., had visited with C.W. Hall and family the previous week. H.G. Hudson had opened a temporary branch of his confectionary business in the post office lobby to help handle his Christmas trade. Miss Gertrude Buck was assisting in the confectionary. On the morning of December 14, Perry Blomquist and Emma Anderson were married in the Congregational parsonage by Rev. J.R. Beebe with only relatives as guests. They would live on thei...

  • History of New Rockford: May 27, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|May 27, 2024

    On Dec. 10, 1906, a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hammer. Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Morris came in from their farm southeast of town to shop and say goodbye to Mrs. Morris’ sisters and their families, who had been visiting and were leaving for their home in Washington. Miss Queenie Stiles, who had been visiting the Morrises for some time, left with her mother and would stay in Washington for the winter. [Jay?] Blakely was up from Carrington and was able to rent a house for the winter. Fred Z...

  • History of New Rockford: May 20, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|May 20, 2024

    On Dec. 5, 1906, after selling his interest in the New Rockford Roller Mills to his partner T.G. Kellington, G.W. McDonell left for Valley City, where he and his wife would remain for a while before leaving for their future home, California. Mrs. McDonell’s poor health was the reason for their leaving. Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Fowler and family left for a winter at their former Ontario home; they planned on stopping in New Rockford in the spring when they would be moving to their new home in Idaho. O...

  • History of New Rockford: May 13, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|May 13, 2024

    On Nov. 29, 1906, Thanksgiving, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Newport left for his old home in Missouri and would remain there until the spring. That evening, “Romeo and Juliet” was presented in the Opera House. The play company had given free tickets to high school students in a competitive essay contest based on the play: three to the 1st place winner, Jennie Hersey (it was printed in the December 14 “Transcript”); two to second place, Eva Wakelie; and one to third place, Roger Mattson. Also that ev...

  • History of New Rockford: May 6, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|May 6, 2024

    In “School Notes” in the Nov. 23, 1906, “Transcript” there were 25 students enrolled at NRHS; several high school students were writing competitive essays on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”; the eighth graders were using Mace’s United States History textbook; the Chemistry class had finished their study of air; on November 21, Mrs. E.S. Severtson and Miss Gertrude Buck visited the Primary room; Leo Snook of Tiffany had joined the sixth grade. On November 23, James G. Dailey, O.G. Cooling, a...

  • History of New Rockford: April 29, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Apr 29, 2024

    On Nov. 16, 1906, attorney C.J. Maddux was in northern Indiana, trying an insurance case in federal court. Mr. and Mrs. George Fletcher arrived from Jamestown to live on the W.G. Carter farm northeast of town; she was the sister of Mrs. D.H. Fowler. From November 17 to the night of Sunday, Nov. 18, a “baby blizzard” struck the area. On November 19, Miss Georgia Hersey began work in the Oberon telephone office as a “hello” girl; M.H. Oliver was the manager. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hays and baby re...

  • History of New Rockford: April 22, 2024

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Apr 22, 2024

    Reports on Nov. 12, 1906, showed the following: The First National Bank of New Rockford, James E. Hyde, cashier, resources (assets) of $88,995.31, up $4511.13 from the $84,484.01 of September 4. Checking accounts were $18,874.31, up $5743.55 from the $13,130.76 of September 4. The Bank of New Rockford, Assistant Cashier P.J. Braman, resources (assets) of $209,787.85, up $1652.69 from the $208,135.16 of September 4. Checking accounts amounted to $97,227.26, up $13,699.65 from the $83,527.61 of...

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