Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
On March 1, 1906, Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Whiteman came down from Sheyenne to visit. W.B. Whetham came in from eastern Eddy County on business and to greet his “army of friends.” That afternoon, the Lowell Literary Society met and put on a program; Mable Kennedy attended and her friends were hoping she would soon return to school. A number of Phillips Academy students attended. That evening, the New Rockford Camp 2214 of the Woodmen Lodge met; Marcus Medved was the clerk. Initiated into the Lodge were Frank Bailey, Charles Baird, George W. Johnston, Clyde Newport, J.E. Newton and Len J. Olsen. Also that evening, Miss Ida Kersten hosted a farewell party for young people at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Prader on Lamborn Avenue West in honor of Miss Lyle Yegen, who left for Portland, Ore., on March 3. The guests played whist and enjoyed light refreshments. Miss Yegen had been the delivery clerk at the post office for a number of years.
The March 2, 1906, “Transcript” mentioned the “Courtenay Gazette.”
Fena Carlson edited the School Notes: on Feb. 22 the Intermediate room had a program on Washington; on that day Mr. and Mrs. Lauch visited the sixth grade room; Mrs. Crawford visited the Primary room on Feb. 26; during the week H.A. Grimshaw of Jamestown visited the rooms of Miss Weiss and Miss Schmidt; sickness had caused the absence of Vance Beer, Willie Dresser, Leo Wiemals and sixth-grader Carl Lauch; the eighth graders were memorizing Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”; they would then study Irving’s “Sketch Book”; they were also reviewing Civil Government; the Geology class was studying various types of rocks; the Rhetoric students were studying “Rip Van Winkle”; on the morning of March 1, Messrs. Churchill, Litchard, and Hoverstad spoke to the seventh and eighth graders in chapel [?].
A letter from Frank Parker said he was located in Boise, Idaho [he had gone there on Feb. 2]. A letter from former resident Charles Rosenberger said he and his family were living in Edinburg, Va., where he had purchased a home; his health was about the same as it had been in Eddy County. [His family had moved there in November 1905 and he followed in December]. A letter from J.M. Patch said he had been ill, but with his recovery, he would be in New Rockford around March 20.
An article from the “Wells County News” said that recently Alfred Dinnetz had been over from New Rockford and with his partner E.G. Cummings had installed new laundry equipment [Neostyle] in the Connor Hotel in Fessenden; Dinnetz returned to New Rockford on March 1.
Recently, Florence, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olof Lundquist, got her hand caught in the sprockets of a clothes ringer, resulting in some bad lacerations, but the hand was healing nicely.
On March 2, J.W. Lahart was in New Rockford on business. That evening, the Phillips Academy Musical and Literary Society presented the following program: Song, Glee Club; Quotations, Students; Address, Monroe Wilder; Recitation, Harry Burt; Essay, Hazel Hall; Newspaper, Paul Burhans; Reading, Wilson Dafoe; Piano Solo, Minnie O’Neill; Debate, “Resolved, that an academic education is a better preparation for success in life than a commercial education”; Affirmative: Mont Biggs and Charles Griffith; Negative, Asa Hylton and Lawrence Prader; Piano Duet, Minnie Syftestad and Mrs. H.J. Mitchell; Recitation, Olive Couch; Blind Essay, Minnie McAuley; Music, Amphion Quartette; Comical Story, Pearl Beer; Reading, Charles Carlson; Music, P.N.R. Mixed Quartette; Dialogue, “A Finished Education,” Irene Brownell and Mildred Keime; Critics, Blanche Brownell and Gertrude Buck.
On March 3, George F. Pincott went to Minnesota to secure a load of work horses for sale; he returned with a carload on March 22. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Martinson [Lewis Mortensen?] left for St. Paul, where she would seek treatment in a hospital. Miss Jeanie Hendry, the day operator of the local telephone exchange, went to Leeds to visit friends for a few days. On her way to her new home in Portland, Ore., Miss Lyle Yegen stopped off in Bismarck to visit relatives and friends; Miss Edith Schmidt, Miss Jessie Treffry, and Frank Layne accompanied her as far as Carrington. That evening, a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Brownlee at their home west of town. Also that evening, the New Rockford Improvement League sponsored a local talent concert in the Opera House. On the program were “Beautiful River” by a Double Quartette (tenors Messrs. Thompson, Hill, Burt, and Hill; basses Messrs. Beebe, Hylton, Griffith, and West); Piano Solo “Flying Dutchman,’ Miss Marguerite Carroll; Vocal Duet, “Maid of the Greenwood,” Mrs. McAuley and Miss Waters; Reading “Gladiators,” Mrs. R. Learn; Piano Solo “Pegase”-Galop to Concert, Miss Aldrich; Vocal Solo, Mrs. C.C. Cook of Barlow; Piano Trio “Hip Hop,” Mesdames Carroll, MacLachlan, Mitchell; Piano Solo “Bubbling Springs,” Miss Haugh; Vocal Solo, “Answer,” Harry Burt; Piano Duet “Qui Vive,” Miss Waters and Miss Hazel Hall; “Kitchen Symphony” (a humorous pantomime using kitchen utensils); “Goodnight,” Double Quartette. The large audience called every act back for an encore.
On Sunday, March 4, a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dodds. That afternoon, a woman was driving a team south of town when they took fright and ran away. She held onto the reins and after four miles was able to get the horses stopped. She then calmly drove home, meeting some men who had started out to “rescue” her.
On March 5, R.R. Woodward left to look over land in Missouri; his sister Mrs. H.J. Mitchell accompanied him to Jamestown and returned the next day; he returned on March 21. James Thomas returned from Fargo, where he consulted with a specialist and underwent an operation on his nose for catarrh [excessive buildup or discharge of mucus in the nose or throat].
The Eddy County Commission (Dailey and Gunvaldson; Dafoe absent) met on March 5, 6 and 7. On March 5, A.M. Greely appeared and offered to pay $40 for the redemption of some tax certificates and a judgment on Lot 16, Block 8, which was accepted. [From records at the court house, it appears that Aurelius and Anna M. Greely had purchased the lot from Mark H. and Sarah A. Dunnell on Oct. 22, 1903, for $10 and had sold the lot to B. Geno Allen of Benson Co. for $45 on Jan. 8, 1906.] The following bills were ordered to be paid: $80, John Collins, janitor for Jan. and Feb.; $6, H.W. Wilson, phone rent for Jan. and Feb.; $7.95, D. Labhardt, laundry and repairing shoes for prisoners; $1.25, E.A. Buck, shaving prisoners; $20.70, Frank Hawthorn, delivering two cars of coal to court house; $25.87, Zenith Coal Co., one car of lignite, less freight; $36.97, Zenith Coal Co., one car of lignite, less freight; $32.50, New Rockford Light and Water Improvement Co., lights, Jan. and Feb.; $90, Mary Tracy, clerk, treasurer’s office, Jan. and Feb.; $45.55, R.M. Kennedy, wood and coal for county poor; $2.75, Matt Fautsch, draying.
