History of New Rockford- July 8, 2019

On July 4, 1902, County Superintendent of Schools Grace B. Putnam went to Minneapolis for the National Education Association meeting. John Dutee, Sr., was in town. Jacob Allmaras took second in the “Fat Man’s Race” in Fessenden.

On the morning of July 5, two of Peter Dodds’s colt were killed when a bolt of lightning hit the wire fence they were standing near. Mr. and Mrs. B.W. Rantz wen...