Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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The August 7, 1903, “Transcript” mentioned the “Bismarck Palladium” and the “Jamestown Alert.” A new ad: Hotel Davies, Davies & Buesing, props.; “Traveling Men’s Headquarters” “Steam Heated and Gas Lighted Thruout.” All the machinery had been placed in the roller mill, and the crew was building wheat pits and flour chutes. A note said that barber and band leader Lou Smith had left New Rockford [he did so on July 28], maybe for Montana. He had left several debts owed to various New Rockford...
A notice in the July 31, 1903, “Transcript” from Swanson Bros. [John and Sam], the Cash Store: “We now make our bow to the purchasing public of New Rockford and Eddy county, and as an introduction, we desire to state that new goods are arriving on every train and our store will be stocked up with the very best line of General Merchandise ever shown in this city with prices as low as consistent with GOOD GOODS. Give Us a Call Soon.” The brothers were successors to R.R. Woodward and their store wa...
At noon on July 22, 1903, Knute O. Vick and Sigrid Rude were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H.K. Rude of Freeborn, the bride’s parents, by Rev. S.S. Wold of Bue in Nelson County. Attendants were Miss Malla Rude, Miss Annie Vick, Andrew Vick, and Adolph Samuelson. The bridal party carried bouquets of American Beauty Roses and carnations. About 200 relatives and friends were in attendance. The ceremony was followed by an outdoor wedding dance. On that day Trueman [Truman?] House and family a...
On July 17, 1903, Walter Immel and Mr. and Mrs. George M. Pike and family returned from the Chautauqua, as did the younger members of the Treffry family. Joseph Maxwell went to the Chautauqua; he and his family returned on July 19. H.G. Lathrop was in town. James Dafoe was down from Sheyenne on business [but see the next paragraph]. Miss Norah Kennedy went to Moorhead, Minn., with her little brother Harold, who would be undergoing another operation. That evening there was a dance at the Mr. and...
The July 10, 1903, “Transcript” carried an ad for Ulrich Sprecher: For sale at his farm 5 miles southwest of New Rockford until October 1— two mowers (one McCormick and one wood), one 6-foot hay rake, one 7-foot disc harrow, one 14-inch breaking plow; one wide-tired wagon with grain box, one buggy. For sale— milch cows, one fresh; they will be sold cheap, H.A. Buffington. Clayton Hall had a number of horses and pigs for sale. Stonemason Gustave Lauch had completed the stone foundation for Willia...
July 4, 1903, was chilly. There were New Rockford people at the Chautauqua Grove (J. Adam Bede was the orator; Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Thomson and family were there; they returned home the next day; Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Hyde and Miss Eddys Cole were there; they returned on July 6; Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Mitchell and family, Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Clark, Miss Harriet Jefferson, Donald Niven, Lloyd Whiteman, and A.C. Buck were there); Harvey (including John Anderson); Carrington (Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Flater); and...
On June 30, 1903, Mrs. A.W. Cady, who had been in New Rockford for two years, sold her millinery business to Mrs. G.K. Gullicks, who would move the stock to her residence south of the H. Peoples & Company store on South Chicago St. Mrs. Burton Hulbert was in shopping. Frank and David Bailey of the Gudgell Ranch and Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Lathrop were in shopping and visiting. Sheyenne merchant L.G. Lundin was in New Rockford. Morris postmaster D.D. Dailey and W.G. Carter and Freeman Shoemaker of...
On June 24, 1903, Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Leslie and son Myron of Carrington and Mrs. Emma F. Shields and son James of Glen Falls, N.Y., drove up from Carrington to visit Mr. and Mrs. James Hyde. Mrs. Shields and James had been on the Pacific Coast and were returning home. Miss Norah O’Connell arrived from the Twin Cities to visit her parents west of town. Jacob Roffler returned from “a short trip down the line.” Mrs. A.H. Wilson returned from Stewart, Minn. J.W. Perry went to Esmond on busin...
On June 17, 1903, James B. Dafoe and George Nunn drove down from the Sheyenne country. Carrington cigar maker Dan Condlin/Condling was in town, looking up business. “Sheyenne Star” editor C.C. Manning was in town. Paul Duda was in from the Superior district. Fred Laasch came in on business. Daniel O’Connell, employed in a Minneapolis wholesale business, arrived to visit his parents west of town. K. Knudson of Dawson, Minn., arrived to visit his daughter Mrs. John Swanson. Grain buyer B.G. Arbog...
The June 12, 1903, “Transcript” said that Mrs. B.M. Rantz was recovering from her appendectomy and could sit up. Blacksmith John Olson’s little daughter was slowly recovering from her illness [“stomach trouble”]. Taken up on June 7 by H.G. Lathrop at his farm: one black broncho, 750 lbs., with “ST” on its left shoulder. For Alliance Hail Association insurance, see H.M. Clark, agent. Mulvey & Babcock had formed a company to put up the Superior and Eastern telephone line to connect 28 farmers to...
On Sunday, June 7, 1903, Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Dailey were in New Rockford. The Children’s Day exercises at the Congregational Church saw the building “crowded to the doors.” A large number of New Rockford residents went to a baseball game in Barlow. Miss Lillian Phelps of St. Catherine’s, Ontario, a WCTU worker, spoke in Brown’s Hall in New Rockford at 4 p.m. June 7. She was also scheduled for Tiffany on June 8 and Morris on June 9, but a later note stated the historical lecture set for 8:30 p.m. J...
On June 3, 1903, Bank of Sheyenne cashier S.G. Severtson was in town on business. Peter Nelson of the Sheyenne Valley attended court. F.B. Ewald [Ewals?], Jr., was in from his farm “down south” on business. Miss Gertrude O’Connell arrived from Minneapolis to visit her parents west of town; she returned to her nursing duties in the St. Paul City Hospital on June 15. That evening a large chunk of plaster fell from the ceiling onto the sleeping infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Dresser; she w...
During the week of May 24 to 30, 1903, plumbers were piping [underground?] the new acetylene gas lighting plant at Lamborn and Dakota on two corner lots, just west of the Baptist Church; the actual construction of the 25x30 building with a lean-to was set to begin the next week. Anyone wishing to use gas lights should have their piping done while the plumbers were in town to avoid paying more later. The plant would open about August 1. Many businessmen had already placed their buildings and...
At 1 p.m. May 25, the District Court convened in New Rockford; there were a number of civil cases, some of which were the following: P.H. West vs. Northern Pacific Railway was tried by jury and $225 was awarded to the Plaintiff; lawyers were Ellsworth and Mattson for the Plaintiff; M. Conklin and Maddux for the Defendant. Studebaker Bros. vs. M.T. O’Connor found $250.74 being awarded to the Plaintiffs; lawyers were Maddux & Rinker for the Plaintiffs; Manly for the Defendant. Etta F. Hill vs. W...
On May 21, 1903, Gilbert Bymoen from northwest of town, Joseph Christ from the Superior District, Jack McAvoy from Tiffany, John Hogan, and A.F. Prouty were in on business. Attorney S.E. Ellsworth of Jamestown came up, on legal business. Marsh Chamberlain returned from a business trip “down east.” Mrs. W.O. Baird and Mrs. W.C. Beardsley returned from the Degree of Honor Grand Lodge in Grand Forks. Mrs. D.L. Little came home from Red Wing, Minn., where she had visited her parents for a mon...
The May 15, 1903, “Transcript” said that Mrs. W.O. Baird had a sling on her arm for a sore hand. A note said that the title to the East Side Livery Barn had been settled, and the building belonged to Guss Gullicks. Another note said Mrs. J.W. Stoddard would spend most of June in her old home of Crawfordsville and other Indiana towns. B.C. Larkin had planted “a nice bunch” of maple trees around his residences on Stimson Avenue East. James Hobbs’s new 26x34, two-story farmhouse with a full base...
The May 8, 1903, “Transcript” carried an article from the “Jamestown Alert” which claimed that New Rockford had had automobiles for years and that all the towns along the James River had them that year. [The first mention I have found in the “Transcript” of car-ownership by a New Rockford resident was from the June 13, 1902, issue, which said that on June 11, 1902, veterinarian J.C. Whiteman had received an automobile and had given just about everyone in town a ride over the next two days. F...
The May 1, 1903, “Transcript” mentioned the “Litchville Bulletin.” A letter to the paper from Robert Walden indicated he and his family had located in the Westminster District of British Columbia, Canada. J.H. Hohl was in Washington State, but indicated he would return to New Rockford in May. A subscription list was being circulated to pay for a dam on the James River east of town; the cost was estimated to be a couple hundred dollars. T.G. Kellington was the first to donate, $25. Quickly...
The April 24, 1903, “Transcript” said the mail route from Oberon to Ft. Totten had been changed; it would go from Sheyenne to Ft. Totten. Two ads—The East Side Livery Barn, Guss Gullicks, prop. The New Rockford Shoe Store, John Wenz, prop. A professional notice: Dr. Charles MacLachlan, M.D., residence Stimson Ave. West, telephone 4-3-b; physician and surgeon, offices over the Central Drug Store [Buck & Couch Drug Store], telephone 4-3-a. “Wanted—a girl for general housework; see Mrs. S.N. Putn...
About 9 p.m. April 16, 1903, a fire was discovered in Nathan Flater’s blacksmith shop. It had started in one of the forges and had burned much of the south wall of the shop before discovery. Fire Chief R.U. Austin broke a window and put out the flames. A strong northwest wind would have endangered the northwest part of town if the fire had spread. Austin said he had tackled the flames by himself because the past two monthly meetings of the NRFD had to be cancelled since there was no quorum, a...
The April 10, 1903, “Transcript” had an article on the local telephone situation. Noxon & Oglesby had around 100 telephones in New Rockford, plus two well-built and durable lines running into the country which were sufficient for the amount of business they carried. However, because they were not heavy insulated cable wire with cast iron poles, they couldn’t be hooked into a long-distance line to New York City or any major community. Neither the area farmers nor the residents of New Rockf...
On April 5, 1903, the Eddy County Board of Health (James A. Manly, president; J.W. Stoddard, vice president; Dr. Charles MacLachlan, superintendent) adopted the following orders: All manure, garbage, offal, or refuse near any dwelling, business, or water supply must be removed. No such material, unless spread out and plowed under, could be within a half-mile of any dwelling or public highway, or within a quarter-mile of any water supply. Carcasses of domestic animals must be removed and buried...
On March 31, 1903, Nels K. Mattson and his foster brother Bruce came down from the Sheyenne Valley. James Lahart was in on elevator business. Ned Morris was down from Hesper [northwest of Maddock], where he was a grain buyer. August Wolgamuth came in from eastern Eddy County on business. Elmer Dinnetz was in town. Charles Dinnetz came in from northwest of town for spring supplies. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Flater and Harry and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel McDowell and family returned from southern California....
On March 23 B.F. Onstott held a sale of stock and personal property at his farm northeast of New Rockford. John Welsh was in on business. Frank Parker of the machinery department of Prader & Goss went to Minneapolis; he returned April 1. Frank Fugina had his right hand badly crushed by an engine; his right index finger had to be amputated. On the evenings of March 23 to 25, Prof. G.B. Thomas and family, as the Thomas’ Tours and Concert Company, gave a series of entertainments and lectures, f...
On March 17, 1903, Carl P. Bye of Sargent County came in with a carload of horses and began selling them at the Hotel Davies stables. Mrs. Andrew Johnson, Sr., and daughter were in from Tiffany to visit for the rest of the week. J.W. Walters came up from his Barlow farm and J.F. Clure was in from his farm northeast of town on business; J.G. Daley was also in on business. Pat Byron was up from Barlow and Philip Ackerman came in from west of town. At 2:30 p.m. the WCTU met at Mrs. W.E. Biggs’s. Th...
