Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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 in town campaigning. A.E. Wiltsie went to Ward County to look over his homestead; he returned on Nov. 24.
On Nov. 4 and 5, the F.E.W. [Foster, Eddy, Wells] Teachers’ Association met at the court house in New Rockford with around sixty teachers in attendance. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 4, the visiting teachers observed class work in the New Rockford Schools. In the evening Miss Carolyn Waters of Eddy County sang “Asleep in the Deep,” accompanied by Mrs. H.G. Hudson on the piano and Andrew Johnson on the violin; she did “Pretty Red Roses” as an encore. A female quartet (two of whom were Mesdames Woodward and Hudson from New Rockford) sang “Last Night.” The visiting teachers were entertained that evening by the members of the various Lodges and the New Rockford faculty at the Masonic Hall, which had been decorated, mostly in red, with snowy white chrysanthemums on the refreshments table. Eddy County participants in the General Assembly on Nov. 5 were Prof. R.T. Muir, President’s Address; Prin. V.G. McLeod led a discussion of professional reading; George Brown and A.N. Tomlinson, vocal duet; C. Lillian Lund led a discussion of 7th and 8th grade U.S. History; Prof. R.T. Muir presented “Ethical Value of Literature”; Mrs. R.R. Woodward sang “Violets”; Phillips Academy president L.J. Aldrich presented “Unity in Educational Work”; and Mrs. Nellie Carr spoke on “School Room Decoration.” That afternoon the visiting teachers were taken on tour of the New Rockford Roller Mills.
On Nov. 5 G.A. Erickson and Ludvig Hanson [on his return he was identified as “Hans Hanson”] left on a hunting trip in the badlands of the Little Missouri River; they returned on Nov. 19 with six deer.
On Nov. 5 and 6, the annual Eddy County Sunday School Convention was held in Sheyenne. Rev. John Orchard, state field worker, and Mrs. S.P. Johnson, state primary worker, were there.
On Sunday, Nov. 6, the new Methodist minister, Rev. S.F. Beer, preached in the Sheldon district, just as Rev. Sewrey had been doing. Lloyd Whiteman came down from Sheyenne to visit his parents. O.R. Pomranke was hunting with two other men when their team ran away. All three were dumped out of the buggy and suffered bruises. The team was found on Nov. 8 on the Reservation.
Beginning on Nov. 7, Mrs. John Swanson had a Millinery Reduction Sale with 25 percent off all hats.
On Nov. 7 George Fields from Tiffany, Eddie Anderson from Plainview, and A.F. Prouty from southeast of town were in on business. At 10 a.m. Bert Studebaker sold at public auction at his farm three miles west of New Rockford: 9 work horses, 12 milch cows, six 2-year old cows, 12 spring calves, one full-blooded black poll bull, 60 hogs, one full-blooded Poland China boar [it evidently didn’t sell], 2 gang plows, a drill, two binders, one reaper, one caldron, two lumber wagons, one bedstead, one hard coal heater, one soft coal heater, two sets of harness, one feed grinder, “French burr” [a millstone], around 100 bushels of Brome Grass. There was a free lunch at noon. F.C. Davies was the auctioneer. Mrs. A.C. Buck went to Barlow. Jacob Roffler left for a visit to the World’s Fair in St. Louis and went to Chicago and other points. John Vogt left for the World’s Fair and a winter in Illinois.
Precincts, polling places, and inspectors for the Nov. 8 election were New Rockford (T149, R 66-67), court house, H.J. Mitchell; Sheyenne (T150, R66-67), Olsness Hall, Simon Nelson; Sheldon (T149, R65), Sheldon School, J.R. Craig; Tiffany (T149, R64), Tiffany School, George H. Fields; Colvin (T149, R62-63), Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Carroll residence, John W. Seckinger; Rocky Mountain (T150, R65), Rocky Mountain School, Ed Nystrom; Dutee (T150, R62-63), William Mattison School, J.J. Anderson; Hall (T148, R66), Schwoebel School, Joseph Christ; Pitt (T148, R64-65), Plainview School #1, Ole Johnson; Fay (T148, R62-63), school house, Hans Pederson.
The nation and Eddy County voted for the re-election of Republican Theodore Roosevelt for President over Democrat Alton B. Parker.
Republicans took almost all of the county races—Sheriff: George F. Fahrer, Dem., 452; George A. Lovell, Rep., 343; Treasurer: L.C. Oefstedahl, Rep., 394; Martin Walsh, Dem., 375; Auditor: W.C. Schwoebel, Rep., 563; B.W. Hersey, Dem., 264; Register of Deeds: A.G. Gardner, Rep., 593; Walter Priest, Dem., 178; Clerk of Court: C.J. Stickney, Rep., 332; Peter Prader, Dem., 246; O.C. Gronvold, 190; State’s Attorney: Robert F. Rinker, Rep., 569; no opposition, but James A. Manly, 7 write-in votes; Coroner: W.M. Bartley, Rep., 409; G.D. Murphy, Dem., 297; County Judge: C.W. Hall, Rep., 411; R.P. Allison, Dem., 365; Public Administrator: Seth H. Bailey, Rep., 552; no opposition; Surveyor: E.T. Quam, Rep., 563; no opposition; 1st District Assessor: M. Anderson, Rep., 94; A.J. Richter, Dem., 80; 2nd District Assessor: C.A. Parker, Rep., 205; Pat O’Connor, Dem., 163; one write-in vote for O.C. Gronvold; 3rd District Assessor: H.J. Sylling, Rep., 187; William G. Milne, Dem., 28; Superintendent of Schools: Grace B. Putnam, Rep., 568; no opposition, but one write-in for May M. Keime; 2nd District County Commissioner: N.C. Gunvaldson, Rep., 188; P.J. Braman, Dem., 175; Justices of the Peace: Republicans: J.L. Kinnaird, 513; C.C. Manning, 506; James Graham, 539; R.M. Kennedy, 503; Democrats: A.M. Greeley, 313; Patrick Boyle, 209; Ole Mattson, 176; Constables: Republicans: A.J. Larkin, 556; H.O Holsten, 524; Joseph Boule, 505; E.M. Morris, 524; Democrats: Julius Ponto, 160; Jerry Carroll, 189; Gilbert Bymoen, 188; Ed Randolph, 174.
The measure to pass increased jurisdiction for the county court failed 448-259.
On that day little Miss Matie [Mattie?] Bennett returned from her two months’ visit to Boone, Iowa, to see her grandmother; she made the trip all by herself. Frank Richmond of the “Jamestown Alert” was in town. William Blow left for a winter in Michigan, his old home. Tertulia Forszein returned to her Bowdon home after a visit with Mrs. Ed Starks. A light snow flurry that evening was a harbinger of the approaching winter.
On Nov. 9 Stephen Walsh was in on business. Charles Onstott came in for the winter after three months at Glenburn, N.D. Sgt. T.P. Morris celebrated his 76th birthday. That evening “Don’t Tell My Wife,” a comedy made up of local talent, was presented by members of the Congregational Church. That evening Hans Pederson was in visiting from his farm one mile north of McHenry.
On Nov. 10 P.J. Hester went to Harvey on business.