History of New Rockford: Sept. 9, 2019

The Aug. 29, 1902, “New Rockford Transcript” said that Jack Griffith had been hired as a night watchman.

P.J. Hester had taken up one bay mare, about 900 lbs., with white front legs below the fetlocks and branded “HR” on its left hip. Wagonmaker R.U. Austin had loaned a buggy wheel to a man whose wheel was broken on July 4; the wheel was never returned and Mr. Austin wanted it back, no questions a...