Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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On the evening of Dec. 16, 1904, the Yeomen Lodge elected officers: Foreman, W.O. Baird; Correspondent, J.N. Kunkel; Master of Ceremonies, Viola Woodward; Master of Accounts, Donald Niven; Physician, J.W. Rager; Delegates to the Fargo Conclave, J.W. Rager, Viola Woodward, H.M. Clark. Installation would be on Jan. 13, 1905. On that day, the North Dakota Supreme Court issued an order for Sheriff J.E. Bennett to release James VanKuren, who had been held on a charge of grand larceny. The case had be...
The Dec. 9, 1904, “Transcript” carried some School Notes written by the English Class: Lloyd Beardsley had been absent almost the entire week with illness. Each day after 4 p.m. an advanced arithmetic class was meeting in the high school to do review work. The Literary Society met on Dec. 8. Sam Swanson and Martin Mostue (Swanson & Mostue) of the North Star Livery Barn had a notice for the party who placed a 9-year old roan mare, a 6-year old dark bay horse, and a Harrison wide tire wagon in...
On Dec. 1, 1904, H.H. Carr leased the New Rockford Creamery; he had managed it the previous two years. Mrs. Thomas Kellington’s mother arrived from Valley City to spend the holidays with her and her husband. A.C. Jones went to Grand Forks as a witness in a federal district court trial. Former resident Mrs. A.J. Allen had died in San Diego from cancer. She and her husband had come to Eddy County in 1884 and resided there until 1900 [actually, Oct. 28, 1901] when they moved to southern C...
On the evening of Nov. 24, 1904, there was a Grand Ball in the Opera House; Dr. C.J. McNamara, Mr. Algeo, and O.B. Tausen, all of Barlow, attended. After visiting their many friends, R.J. Howden and his sister from McHenry went to the dance; they returned to McHenry the next day. “One of the largest crowds ever assembled in the city,” enjoyed dancing to the music of A.W. Johnson, Miss Carolyn Waters, and H.J. Radtke. A supper was served in the Hotel Brown. Also, that evening there was a Tha...
On Nov. 17, 1904, Chris C. Hanson came in on business and to visit from southeast of town. Mrs. Dick Bohmbach and daughter left for a visit with her parents in St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. William Cornish of Tiffany left for the World’s Fair. George Treffry, E.R. Davidson, A.D. Tomlinson, and Alonzo Neutzel took six carloads of cattle to the South St. Paul market; Treffry apparently stayed on for medical treatments. The Nov. 18, 1904, “Transcript” said that barber W.T. Buck owned a half section...
A Nov. 10, 1904, report showed the following: The Bank of New Rockford, Ernest S. Severtson, cashier, had resources (assets) of $176,152.00, up $59,074.31 from the $117,077.69 of Sept. 6. Checking accounts amounted to $99,510.41, up $59,953.12 from the $39,557.29 of Sept. 6. The Nov. 10, 1904, statement of the First National Bank of New Rockford, James E. Hyde, cashier, showed resources (assets) of $81,983.08, up $18,401.64 from the $63,581.44 of Sept. 6. Checking accounts were $26,250.69, up...
On Nov. 4, 1904, a group of boys went swimming in the James River. Olof Barkland was down from the Sheyenne Valley on business and to visit. He had sold his farm to people from Illinois and was looking forward to visiting his mother and other relatives in Sweden, where he hadn’t been in 25 years. J.E. Renfrew came in on business and to visit. Republicans E.F. Porter, running for Secretary of State, and George D. Palmer of Carrington, candidate for the N.D. House from the 32nd District, were i...
On Oct. 29, 1904, William Thorn sold 17 head of cattle, steers, milch cows, and calves at the rear of Davies’ livery stable. F.C. Davies was the auctioneer. Whiteman & Prader pulled in their big threshing rig for the year. Iver Vick was down from the Sheyenne Valley on business and to visit. Rev. S.F. Beer of Fairmount, N.D., arrived to take charge of the Methodist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Slushert and family came up from Carrington to visit Mr. and Mrs. Silas Hylton and family, old friends f...
On Oct. 19, 1904, the train brought in Mrs. I.J. Mills of Louisiana and Mrs. Emma Payne of Adel, Iowa, to visit their sister Mrs. F.P. Roush. That evening a farewell reception for Rev. and Mrs. C.F. Sewrey of the Methodist Church was held at the Mr. and Mrs. George Treffry home southeast of town with about fifty church members and friends. L.J. Aldrich, principal of Phillips Academy, presented the couple with “a handsome token of esteem” from the community, to which Rev. Sewrey responded. “El...
Gleanings from the back issues of the “Transcript” on the life of Nellie Davidson Streeter, 1883-1904, whose death I wrote about last week: Nellie Davidson was doing public recitations when she was four years old (June 1888). In December 1895 and up to Jan. 10, 1896; in October and December 1898; in February and September 1899; and in February and March 1900, she was neither absent nor tardy at the New Rockford School. On May 7, 1898, she won first prize in the second annual WCTU Silver Med...
On Oct. 10 and 11, 1904, Bessie Phillips was in from eastern Eddy County to shop and visit. On Oct. 11, Frank Parker was in from the Tiffany Flats for supplies. George Curtis was in on business from eastern Eddy County. John Haley came in from Tiffany. Fred Zimmerman, Jr., came in from his farm and John Weipert was up from Carrington on business and to visit. Mrs. R.P. Allison of Gullicks and Allison took a line of millinery to Barlow for the women of that community to peruse. Mrs. William...
On the morning of Sunday, Oct. 2, 1904, McHenry merchant R.H. Howden came over for a couple days for business, and Mrs. Annie Oliver came over from that community for a visit of several days. At 8 p.m., Prof. H.H. Aaker of Fargo, the Prohibition Party’s candidate for governor, spoke to a large group at the Methodist Church on “Prohibition.” That evening, Francis Pottner took up at his farm one black muley cow, one red cow with a broken horn, one red and white cow, and one three-year old black mu...
Around Sept. 26, 1904, Leslie’s telephone line was transferred to the “Central” location in Babcock and Bucklin’s drug store, making a total of five such lines in the “Central” office. On the evenings of Sept. 26 to 28, the Nix family appeared in the Opera House; “they are good.” On the morning of Sept. 26, Jacob Chamberlain sold his 960-acre farm, five miles west of New Rockford, to Jacob Allmaras for around $20,000; Chamberlain was going to close out his business interests and leave for his h...
At 3 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 18, 1904, Phillips Academy principal L.J. Aldrich preached at the Smith schoolhouse in the Sheldon district on “Success in Life.” At 7 p.m., the Epworth League held services conducted by school principal Robert Muir with a lesson on “Is the World Growing Better?” The forepart of the week [Sept. 19?] the material for the steel bridge arrived; construction was set to begin on Sept. 26. Also “the first of the week” Lawrence Prader threshed his oats, getting 80 bushels to...
On Sept. 10, 1904, the following were named to the County Republican Central Committee: Dr. Charles MacLachlan, New Rockford; John Schaefer, Tiffany; Joseph Christ, Hall; J.J. Anderson, Dutee; H.B. Johnson, Pitt; L.B. Garnaas, Sheyenne; Peter Hanson, Rocky Mountain; I.W. Sheldon, Sheldon; Duncan Ferguson, Colvin; Samuel Lyman, Fay. S.N. Putnam was named committeeman-at-large and chairman. A light frost early on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 11, did very little damage, but heavier ones the...
On September 5, 1904, Will Wilson was up from Jamestown; he came to visit and to hunt prairie chickens. Sylvanus Marriage was in from his Barlow farm on business. A party made up of Dr. and Mrs. G.D. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. McAuley, and Ernest Ohrner returned from a camping and hunting trip of three days; they brought back four Canadian geese averaging 22 lbs. and “slathers of other game.” A report on September 6 showed the following: The Bank of New Rockford, Ernest S. Severtson, cashier, had...
On the evening of Aug. 29, 1904, a hail storm passed west and northwest of town, but its effect was not general as many crops were not hit; losses were 20 to 30 percent, with most covered by insurance. On Aug. 30, it rained. John Welsh of the Sheyenne Valley brought in the first load of wheat for the season and sold it to J.A. McAuley of the Dakota Elevator; it was graded No. 1 Northern and brought $1.01 a bushel. Welsh had threshed around 300 bushels so far, and it was running 28 to 29 bushels...
On Aug. 23, 1904, Lois Fairbanks came in from Valley City to visit her brother Albert Fairbanks; she was accompanied by her friend Annie Darelius of Enderlin. Mrs. Sarah Bacon, Mrs. W.C. Hayes, Mrs. P.J. Braman, and Alice (Mrs. J.W.) Rager went out to the Goodrich farm, where they were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Clark B. Goodrich, and Mr. and Mrs. H. Laverne Goodrich. Mrs. W.T. Buck, her son and daughter, and Mrs. Lucy Duck and son Bernard, left for a visit with relatives in Adel, Iowa; Mrs....
On Aug. 17, 1904, Beth and Harriet Davidson returned from a visit with their sister Mrs. John Medlicott at Balfour. Mrs. Charles Martin of Chicago arrived to visit her sisters, Mrs. C.F. Sewrey, and Ella Grierson. Frank Graham of Tiffany and O.R. Pomranke were in for harvest supplies. Carrie Jensen arrived from Forest City, Iowa, to visit her cousins, Hans and Christ Jensen. Lawrence Prader started his binders in a field of macaroni wheat and planned on moving to a field of oats in a few days....
The Aug. 12, 1904, “Transcript” completed the article on Phillips Academy I had last week by saying that new faculty appointments would be made as the demand for them increased. Private lessons in painting and drawing and special lectures in ethics, etiquette, hygiene, etc., would be available. The goal of the Academy was not to be a rival of any North Dakota high school, but to serve as a method by which students would be prepared for college entrance and the practical world of business and...
On Aug. 8, 1904, Mark H. Dunnell died at his home in Owatonna, Minn.; he was one of the original Trustees of the New Rockford townsite and was an early resident (on West Lamborn Ave., today’s 1st Ave. N.), a bank president (1885-1890), a real estate developer, and the man who financed the construction of the first school building. John Dutee was in buying supplies. J.W. Skerry, of the Union Sunday School, was in town looking after the interests of the Sunday school. James Hackney went to J...
On Aug. 1, 1904, Mr. and Mrs. William Brueske and family left for Wimbledon, where they would live. On Aug. 1 and 2, J.T. West was in from eastern Eddy County getting parts for his farm machinery. Fargo attorney H.R. Turner was up on legal business. On Aug. 2, W.A. Cornish, Herb Losee, Burrill A. Daniels, Ellis Hoffman, and Cyrus Ruland, all of Tiffany, and W.G. Carter, and Fred Peitsch were in on business. M.E. Trainor returned from Minneapolis, where he had attended a medical school the past...
From July 25 to July 28, 1904, E.S. Severtson was in the Twin Cities. On July 26, Walter McDonell returned from Valley City. O.E. Nash was down from the Sheyenne Valley to visit and on business. Charles Hatch came in from his farm southeast of town for supplies. Father McDonell [sic, McDonald] was up from Carrington between trains, visiting his old parishioners. John McVey returned from his trip to the Canadian Northwest; during the trip, he visited former resident Nathan Flater, and family....
On July 20, 1904, bricklayers began their work on the Phillips Academy building. Cyrus Ruland came in from the Tiffany Flats on business. Otto Henning, the manager of Dr. Charles MacLachlan’s farm southeast of town, came in on business. Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Forbes were in shopping. Martin Dwzrsman [sp?] was in from his farm northeast of town on business. Ida Radtke of Sparta, Wisc., arrived to visit her brothers W.E. and H.J., and their families; she left on Aug. 8. Mrs. A.A. Pettit left for a len...
On the afternoon of July 12, 1904, the Great Pan American Shows, a two-ring circus with water-proof tents, featured a Grand Free Street Pageant; a Roman Hippodrome; elevated stage; museum; the Cooke Sisters (Anna and Edna); “The Premier Lady Equestrienne Somersault Riders of the World”; 25 funny clowns; Captain Santiago, champion high diver of the world, diving backward from a 300 foot-high tower; and a menagerie with a herd of Philippine cattle, a herd of trained elephants, and trained lio...
