Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Jennie Grace Foster, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Foster, died on March 19, 1913, and is interred in Prairie Home Cemetery near the graves of her father and mother: Orrin H. Foster, 1855-1932 [or 1933, according to cemetery records] and Lovenda H. Nobles Foster, 1860-1935; and Carl W. Foster, 1894-1959, and Ivan Stillman Foster, 1887-1966, who might have been her brothers.
On that Sunday, March 19, H.A. Grandy returned from a visit to his ranch near Anamoose and to Washburn and Bismarck.
On March 20, the Eddy County Commission (Dailey, Dafoe, Gunvaldson) held a special meeting and passed a motion to organize Congressional Township 148, Range 62, as a civil township, following a petition signed by the majority of voters in that Township. The name of the Township would be Paradise. The first township meeting would be on April 1 in the Paradise schoolhouse. The Commissioners then adjourned to look over the grading and stonework necessary on the new James River bridge.
On that day, Mrs. W.C. Wortman and two children arrived from Oelwein, Iowa, to visit her sister, Mrs. Norman Treffry, and family southeast of town. Perry Stanton came up from Bismarck to visit his parents northeast of town and many of his friends; he returned on March 27. Albert Fairbanks returned from Valley City, where he had gone on Feb. 8 to recover his health; he had resumed his position with the local telephone exchange. J.D. Carroll returned from a business trip to the Twin Cities. A.D. Tomlinson and Clayton W. Hall went to the Twin Cities on business. Mrs. A.H. Johnson of Sheyenne (neé Floy Richter) was on the southbound train on her way to Minneapolis to meet her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Richter, who were returning from a winter in California. Miss Carrie Jensen left for her Forest City, Iowa, home after visiting her cousins, Hans and Christ Jensen, since Aug. 17, 1904. Mrs. John Gunter returned to her home in Michigan after visiting her daughters, Mrs. A.N. Tomlinson and Mrs. George Brown. Mrs. George Brown went to Jamestown to visit. That evening, Miss Blanche Brownell and Miss Ethel Treffry entertained the Phillips Academy students at the Brownell residence on Stimson Avenue West with music, games, and refreshments.
On March 21, Alfred Dinnetz sold at public auction at his farm 12 miles northwest of New Rockford all his horses, farm implements, etc. Norman Treffry was in for spring supplies. J.M. Patch came in from his home in Indianapolis. Adolph Wilson returned from a winter in Rio, Wisc. The two registered Clydesdale stallions purchased by J.A. Wren when he was in Ontario arrived; they had been shipped directly to Ontario from Scotland. Miss Elizabeth Trainor left to visit in Washburn. That evening, there was an “R.O.B.” entertainment in the assembly room of Phillips Academy.
At 11 a.m. on March 22, W.O. Baird sold at public auction all his horses and farm machinery at his farm two miles north of New Rockford. There was a free lunch at noon. Captain C.H. Culver came in from his home in Sioux Falls, S.D., to look over his business interests. A.L. Spraker [Sprecher?] was in on business from his home near McHenry, where he had returned on March 18 from a visit to Iowa. Bert Studebaker returned from Lansford. Irv Spraker [Sprecher?] was in from Tiffany on business and to visit. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thelander and family left for their new home in Alberta, along with three carloads of household goods and stock. That evening, the Philharmonic Ladies’ Quartette appeared in the Opera House; admission was 75 cents for reserved seats; 50 cents general admission, Academy and high school students; 25 cents for children. Miss Elizabeth Ferguson’s contralto voice was described as “superb” and Miss Adele Davis was “one of the finest violinists and impersonators in the west.” Miss Fannie Ferguson sang the soprano solos. Miss Harriet Gene Eddy was the mezzo soprano and accompanist. “A large and appreciative audience” heard the ladies, including Mr. and Mrs. P.C. Peterson and Thomas and Katie Turner of Barlow.
On March 23, D.Y. Stanton came into town. W.A. Coleman arrived from Iowa to look over his real estate holdings; he had been ill since leaving Eddy County the previous fall, but was gaining strength. F.W. Pitsor of Webster, S.D., arrived to help in the “Transcript” office during the absence of Linotype operator, Len Olsen, who left that day for a three-weeks’ visit to the Twin Cities and other Minnesota points. A big prairie fire swept through the country east of Tiffany, burning a considerable amount of hay and some good grazing land. Luckily, a number of local residents did “strenuous work” in confining the fire since several farmers had no fire breaks. That evening, the North Dakota Nobles of the Mystic Shrine instituted a lodge in Winnipeg. Among the Shriners, in attendance were the following from Eddy County: Dr. William Bartley, James E. Hyde, C.J. Maddux, J.A. McAuley, Donald Niven, H. Peoples, George M. Pike, and E.S. Severtson, most of whom returned home on March 25. Also that evening, the faculty at Phillips Academy hosted a banquet for the students.
The March 24, 1905, “Transcript” carried an ad for Mrs. E.A. Gammel, the agent for Chas. A. Stevens & Sons; tailor-made suits; shirt waists; woolen, silk, and net dress skirts; walking skirts; silk waists; and cotton waists.
George Treffry had received the full-blooded Percheron stallion he had purchased in Iowa “some time ago.”
Elias Saad was putting a large addition on his general store on Chicago Street North. Mrs. H.C. Tarbell had re-opened her bakery.
Matron Fannie Phelps of Phillips Academy had been quite ill for several days, but was improving.
The previous week, Mrs. V.D. Gilchrist’s mother and sister had arrived from Brownsville, Minn., to visit for several months. The previous week a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. E.G. Allison in Jamestown.
Recently, two of Axtle Johnson’s gray draft horses ran away without a driver and headed for the downtown park where they smashed through the panel of a fence, snapped off numerous young trees, and took the bark off several older trees before the wagon got hung up on a big tree. The wagon and harness were total losses.
On March 24, the winter term of Phillips Academy closed, following a week of review, examinations, banquets, and musicals. The curriculum had been English, three grades; mathematics, four grades; Latin, three grades; bookkeeping and shorthand, two grades each; history, two grades; German; Bible; commercial law; typing; penmanship; piano, organ, and vocal music. The spring term began on March 27. Most of the winter term classes were again taught, but the following were added: arithmetic, physiology, grammar, and reading and spelling for teachers and advanced preparatory students. On the 24th, fifteen Academy students, including the Nightingale Quartette, went to Maddock to attend a school entertainment, that evening. The next day, they played the Maddock team in baseball, splitting a double header. Rev. J.R. Beebe and Principal L.J. Aldrich accompanied the students; Rev. Beebe returned on the 25th and Prof. Aldrich stayed until March 27.