Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
On July 31, 1906, Mont Biggs left on a visit to St. Louis and other places in Missouri; he returned on Sept. 14. That night, someone entered the Hotel Davies and broke open the "two-bit" machine; however, he left without the money, possibly being scared off.
On July 31 and Aug. 1, F.L. Kermott and Matt Mattson, both of Sheyenne, were down on business.
On the morning of Aug. 1, Miss Julia Shirley drove to Carrington and took a Soo Line train to Minot to see her sister and other relatives. A.E. Hersey from eastern Eddy County was in on business. Miss Honora and Miss Bessie O'Connor arrived from Bismarck for a visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.T. O'Connor; they returned on Aug. 15. Thomas Turner came up from Barlow on business and to visit. Rolla Hill returned from a visit to Idaho; he remained to visit a couple of days and then went on to his home at Maddock. G.W. Brownell returned from a western trip. Mrs. H.M. Clark came home from her visit to Carrington. Mrs. Charles A. O'Connor and son arrived from Spokane, Wash., for a visit with her father- and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. M.T. O'Connor; they left on Aug. 15, but it was stated they went home to Tacoma.
On Aug. 1 and 2, Alvin Keime was visiting at Morris.
On Aug. 2, Morris postmaster D.D. Dailey was in for harvest supplies. H.J. Mitchell and Axtle Johnson were in Minot as delegates to the Democratic State Convention. Charley Baird left to become a grain buyer for the Great Western Elevator in Casselton. James E. Hyde went to Fargo on a business trip; he returned on Aug. 4. That evening, Mr. Houser of the new town of Warwick gave a Grand Ball in his new hall. [Warwick was established in 1906 as a station on the Great Northern Railway.]
The Aug. 3, 1906, "Transcript" said the Eddy County Fair Association had added about $1000 in permanent improvements to the fairgrounds that year.
An ad appeared for Frank Allmaras the Baker, fine bread, pies and cakes, all kinds. Another ad indicated that L.E. Weaver was the local manager of the Northwest Lumber Co. James G. Dailey had a 14-h.p. Minneapolis compound threshing engine and a 32x52 Minneapolis separator with feeder, weigher and blower, both three years old, for sale.
That edition warned that a couple of grocery "sharks" had been working the county and had induced a number of farmers to order foodstuffs that were not up to the standard set by the Pure Food and Drug Law.
A notice from C.J. Maddux and R.F. Rinker informed the public that the two attorneys had formed a partnership under the name Maddux & Rinker and would handle legal cases and sell insurance.
The masons were working on the new Farmers and Merchants Bank building. The H. Peoples store had around 50 feet of new fine glass counters and display cases. John F. Goss had a new cement sidewalk laid in front of his Stimson Avenue West property. Ed Roach had recently rebuilt the cellar and foundation of his farm home and had put in a 50-barrel cement cistern.
Because the township supervisors had eliminated the "unsightly" hitching posts from the main business streets, the "Transcript" was calling on the businessmen to stop burning their waste paper, etc., in the middle of the streets. The businessmen had provided hitching posts for their customers on their backlots. By the end of August, the hitching posts were back in their old places, much to the dismay of the "Transcript."
The men of the Streeter & Cooling Co. were guiding a group of potential land buyers from Illinois and Iowa around Eddy County.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Roach's baby girl, who was bitten by a collie during the New Rockford races, was "almost well."
On Aug. 3, F.F. Fisher returned from a trip to Morton County. Stephen Walsh was in from his Tiffany farm for spring supplies. Marshall Miller of Winona, Minn., arrived to help his brother H.H. Miller in his meat market during the summer. Ulrich Sprecher came down from his homestead near Crosby, N.D., to look after the harvest of his crop southwest of town; after the harvest he would return to his homestead permanently. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bollingberg left for a cousin's wedding in Elk Lake, Minn.; they returned on Aug. 8. F.W. House, J.W. Perry and W.C. Dresser left for Mountain Home, Idaho, where they were looking for land in which to invest; House and Dresser returned on Aug. 20; they also visited Washington. That evening, James Graham was in from eastern Eddy County. The New Rockford Band gave an open-air concert.
On Aug. 4, Miss Laura Conn and her niece stopped off on their trip from Butte, Mont., to their home at Keokuk, Iowa, to visit Mrs. H.G. Hudson and family; they left on Aug. 15. J.A. Fisher, a tailor from Duluth, came in to help local tailor H. Tyler during his busy fall season. H. Peoples sold a big Buffalo Pitts rig to Kucera & Shanafeldt; A.L. Cole then drove the rig the 22 miles west to where they lived. The Insanity Board met on the case of Miss Annie Hammer, who for some time had been suffering from melancholia; she was judged to be insane and was taken to the State Asylum in Jamestown on Aug. 6.
On the morning of Sunday, Aug. 5, Veterinary Surgeon F.W. Tompkins and son Ray drove down from Oberon to visit friends. W.F. Steinweg came up from Barlow to visit his sister, Mrs. H.F. Rodenberg and family. From that evening until Aug. 7, Adolph Wilson of Balfour was in town visiting.
On Aug. 6, school principal E.S. Youngdahl was in town; his family was living in Sheyenne, but would be moving to New Rockford in about two weeks. George F. Fahrer went to Fargo to attend a meeting of the Shrine and to play in the Shrine Band in honor of the visit of Imperial Potentate Clayton. Charles Hartson, a former resident in the 1890s, arrived from his home in Preston, Minn., visited with friends, and left the next day for Towner, where he was going to "look up a location."
From Aug. 6 to 9, Mrs. J.A. McAuley was visiting in Carrington.
On the morning of Aug. 7, Dr. Charles MacLachlan and Donald Niven drove to Kensal to attend the horse races. P.M. Mattson also drove his auto to the races, accompanied by E.S. Severtson, A.J. Clure, J.M. Mulvey, and Dr. G.D. Murphy. John Schmid, the Linotype operator at the "Eddy County Provost," left for a month's visit with his father and other relatives in Washington and Oregon. That afternoon, Miss Carolyn Waters suffered an attack of appendicitis and was very ill for a couple of days; on Aug. 10 she left for St. Barnabas Hospital in Minneapolis, where she would have an appendectomy; her sister Mrs. Frank Reed and Dr. William Bartley accompanied her; Mrs. Reed returned home on Aug. 18.
