Dakota Datebook: Old Maid Teachers? and Snakes, Preachers and Fire Festivals

Old Maid Teachers?

by Merry Helm

April 24, 2019 — In April 1895, the “Minto Journal” proudly reported that the land office in Grand Forks had, in one week, recorded 69 people filing for land and 11 proving up, accounting for a total of 13,000 acres, almost all in Cavalier County.

“There is no mistake about the meaning of this,” the article read. “It is clear that the last four excel...