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  • History of New Rockford: January 29, 2018

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jan 29, 2018

    On June 1-2, 1901, painter and paperhanger John Anderson visited Carrington. On June 1-3, J.W. Lahart was in Minneapolis on business. On Sunday, June 2, Jack Cain went to Ft. Totten. Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Hester, Miss Nell Hester, and Miss Nellie Davidson visited Carrington. R.R. Woodward, his mother Phoebe Woodward, and Miss Lizzie Bond of Inkster, ND, picnicked at Rock’s [Woodward?] farm near Sheyenne. New Rockford principal Prof. E.R. Thomas left for a summer in Des Moines, Iowa, on June 3. N...

  • History of New Rockford: January 22, 2018

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jan 22, 2018

    On May 28, 1901, Gilbert, the nine-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ole G. Golson, was ruled insane by the Eddy County Insanity Board and taken to the asylum in Jamestown. Miss Ottlie Pottner arrived from Minneapolis to visit her uncles, the Pottner brothers, southwest of New Rockford. B.F. Onstott came in from his cattle ranch in eastern Eddy County. E.L. Green and A.W. Harky came over from McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kermott were down from Sheyenne to shop. Mrs. A.D. Tomlinson and Mrs. May M....

  • History of New Rockford: January 15, 2018

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jan 15, 2018

    It was reported on May 24, 1901, that Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Chamberlain and family were moving back from Oregon.  The previous week Mrs. Dr. Barclay of Sheyenne left to visit her old home in Ohio. Mrs. S.G. Severtson and Mrs. L.G. Lundin accompanied her as far as New Rockford, where the two ladies visited friends between trains and then returned to Sheyenne.  The following was added to the Societies listed in the paper: Century Lodge AF&AM met on the first and third Mondays: W.E. Biggs, Worthy Mast...

  • History of New Rockford: January 8, 2018

    K.C. Gardner Jr.|Jan 8, 2018

    On May 18, 1901, New Rockford principal Prof. E.R. Thomas, County Superintendent Grace B. Putnam, and the following Eddy County teachers attended a Tri-County educational meeting in Carrington: Misses Henry, Anderson, Rud, Burleigh, Atkinson, Susie Monahan, Rose Monahan, Helen Schmid, Verena Schmid, Mrs. Atkinson, and Messrs. Morris and Dodds. The Carrington and New Rockford schools were scheduled to play baseball. Eddy County pioneer H.B. Johnson was in town, as were Jacob Adam, Lambert...

  • History of New Rockford: January 1, 2018

    K.C. Gardner Jr., NRHS Class of 1962|Jan 1, 2018

    The May 17, 1901, "Transcript" said the paper was in receipt of the first issue of the "Litchville Bulletin," published by Hugh Wells.  The "Transcript" was of the opinion that the Eddy County Commission should order a few hundred trees for the court house yard.  Valentine Fertig was spading up his garden. J.W. Stoddard was working on his lawn. R.R. Woodward was planting trees along his sidewalk, and Peter Prader had been adding more trees to his property. Hugh Peoples had planted over 10,...