Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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On Sunday, April 6, 1902, James Hamilton entertained a small group of young people with a dinner at the Hotel Mattson. Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Severtson visited Mr. and Mrs. S.G. Severtson in Sheyenne. Rev. J.R. Beebe was driving home after conducting services in Barlow. Upon crossing the large coulee one mile north of that village his horse came near to drowning. Beebe jumped into four feet of icy water and was able to push and pull the animal to safety. At 3 p.m. that Sunday, Mrs. John Dutee, 67,...
The April 4, 1902, “Transcript” said Edna Flater had purchased the cottage between the Clure Implement office and Mr. and Mrs. R.U. Austin’s residence on West Villard Avenue and would put on an addition and fix it up for a rental. F.C. Davies was fixing up his barn in back of the Hotel Davies. During a recent wind storm G.W. Brownell’s water tank was blown over and was considerably damaged; Brownell had it up again by late July. John Olson was having a cellar dug for his new house on Lamborn...
On the evening of April 1, 1902, the West Side Kindergarten Whist Club hosted “…the Swellest Affair In The Social History of the City.” About 40 members and their male escorts gathered at the Hotel Mattson. At 10 p.m. they walked to Ohrner’s Hall, which had been decorated with flowers. Places were set for 80, but two places were empty due to illness. Many dishes were April Fool’s jokes made up of inedible or unpalatable portions cleverly disguised by the ladies. Prizes were awarded to the most g...
On March 28, 1902, George Fugina returned from three weeks at his old home in Wisconsin. Richard Cahill was down from Esmond to visit his family. Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Ford were in town shopping. Miss Myrtle Yegan came in from Bismarck to visit friends. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scott moved to their homestead northeast of Kenmare in Ward County; a large number of friends saw them off at the station. The couple had to stopover in Kenmare due to Mrs. Scott’s rheumatism. At 7 p.m., a new singing class w...
On Mar. 27, 1902, State Veterinarian F.W. Tompkins was in town on official business. Henry Johnson's brother arrived with a carload of fine livestock. J.W. Rager's brother and family arrived from Indiana to work his farm that summer. That evening a 25 cent charge got you into a supper of oysters, meats, etc., followed by cake and ice cream, a meal that would normally be 50 cents, and a musical entertainment, speeches and recitations at the Methodist Church. The men of the church sponsored the...
The March 21, 1902, “Transcript” said during the recent storm the barn door on Jacob Valer’s farm was somehow left open and five young cattle wandered out into the driving snow. They were discovered dead three miles away. During the previous week (March 9-15, 1902) C.E. Clure had sold his large house and barn in west New Rockford to J.L. Prader Sr. The Clure family would move to their farm south of town. About two weeks prior, two of Walter Priest’s horses strayed. On March 14, one was found dea...
On March 15, 1902, Albert Hendrickson, son of Eddy County Treasurer Hendrickson, was visiting relatives near Sheyenne. He misjudged the intensity of the storm and started out for another relative’s home a short distance away. He was caught up in the thick blizzard and wandered in the snow for three hours before he found shelter. His badly frozen face and hands would require a long time to recover. About 11 p.m. that day, the delayed passenger train arrived with 83 passengers. After the hotels f...
On March 4, 1902, M. Mattson was down from Sheyenne, as was August Kiehlow from the Sheyenne Valley. Jack McCrum was in from Tiffany. W.G. Carter came in from east of New Rockford; he was finally able to get around with only a cane. Barlow farmers C.L. Hatch and William West came up on business. J.T. Smith visited in town, and Chris Fahrner was in on business. Tony Haas returned from several weeks visiting his brothers. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Larkin. A literary meeting that...
On Feb. 25, 1902, J.F. Voigt, editor of the “Oberon Reporter,” purchased the “Benson County News” at Leeds from editor Garver and would take possession between March 1 to 15. Went Mcgee came in from the Tiffany Flats. W.C. Manz of Freeborn was in on business. George Price was in town from near McHenry. David Bailey and Fred Dutee were in town. Pat Byron was up from Barlow. R.P. Allison returned from Jamestown; Mrs. Allison had recovered sufficiently from her recent Royal Neighbors’ initiatio...
On Feb. 19 to 20, 1902, H. Arveskaug, manager of the Thomas Ose hardware store, was in Leeds. At 10 a.m. Feb. 20, there was a public auction at the Fred Martin farm eight miles west of New Rockford, where all his farm machinery, stock, and household goods, including eleven work horses, five cows and two calves were sold. At 2 p.m. a free lunch was served. F.C. Davies was the auctioneer. That day J.N. Kunkel came over from Fessenden to remove his household goods to that town; his family was to...
On Feb. 15, 1902, John West and his son Eddie were in from Tiffany. Martin Walsh and Peter McAvoy of Morris were in on business. Two young farmers from Iowa, John H. Scherer and Oral A. Heather, filed on a quarter of land in Eddy County after looking around North Dakota for three weeks. About noon on Sunday, Feb. 16, fire destroyed the house on B.G. Allen’s farm 4 miles northeast of New Rockford. The fire was of unknown origin. That evening a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. William E...
On Feb. 11, 1902, May M. Keime came up from Jamestown to visit for several days. Fred LaHue was visiting in New Rockford, as were Sheyenne harness maker M.H. Oliver, S.P. Pisel and H.A. Buffington. Jacob Allmaras, T.M. Huff, and Christ Berge came in on business. W.G. Carter was in town for the first time since a horse kicked him and broke his leg; he was using crutches. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Shoemaker were in from Tiffany to shop. A.P. Melberg came up from his farm near Barlow for material for th...
On Feb. 6, 1902, James Young was down from Minnewaukan. Charles Pottner came in from southeast of town. Gilbert Bymoen and Knudt Bymoen were in from northwest of town on business. Fred Zimmerman was in New Rockford, as was B.G. Arbogast, the latter to inspect his line of elevators. Charles Onstott drove in from eastern Eddy County on business. Young Perry Stanton’s two eight-month old wolfhounds disappeared from his locked barn; the conjecture was they were either stolen or had followed s...
During the last week of Jan. 1902, H.L. Lyon was in Jamestown on business. Earlier in the last week of Jan. 1902, W.J. Morris sold a quarter section in the Plainview district to T. McGrew of Earlham, Iowa, for $1,600. Banker P.J. Hester purchased the 360-acre Beverly-Kronz farm seven miles east of New Rockford. Mr. Beverly and Mr. and Mrs. Kronz and their family were going to return to their former home, Collins Center, N.Y. The move was prompted by Mr. Beverly’s ill health. Fred H. Martin h...
On Jan. 17, 1902, Miss Jessie Soliday of Carrington came up to visit Mrs. C.J. Maddux for a few days. O.W. Johnson arrived from Arlington, S.D., to visit his brother Henry B. Johnson. O.W. Johnson purchased a half section near his brother’s land for $3,000, sold his land in South Dakota and would move to Eddy County in the spring. Axtle Johnson was in town. Mrs. Ed Hogue returned from a visit with her parents at Guilford, Mo., accompanied by her nephew J.W. Core, who would live in New Rockford....
A news story in the Jan. 10, 1902, “Transcript” said that the previous week [on Jan. 1] former Eddy County resident and current Velva grain buyer J.C. Fay had been walking in an alley behind the Kirkwood Hotel in Velva when a gust of wind blew some bricks off the chimney. The first brick struck Fay’s forehead and gave him a three-inch gash, in addition to knocking him unconscious. Several more bricks hit his face, which was bruised and cut. He was under medical care for several days. In “Scho...
On Jan. 3, 1902, T.J. Backstad, Isaac Hanson, K.P. Skaalen, Ole A. Hegna, and J.J. Anderson came over from Freeborn. That evening Miss Addie Haugh entertained some young friends at her Lamborn East residence with music, games and midnight refreshments. Also that evening the New Rockford Band met with Prof. Ole Dahlen of Sheyenne, who was going to move to New Rockford. The members were Ole Dahlen, leader and Eb clarinet; Laurence Prader and E.M. Myhra, Bb clarinet; A.C. Buck, first Bb cornet;...
The following New Rockford businesses would be closed at 6 p.m., each evening from Jan. 1 to April 1, 1902: H. Peoples, general store and farm machinery; R.R. Woodward, general store; Rodenberg Bros.; Prader & Litcher; D. Niven (New Rockford Meat Market); J.W. Rager, harness shop; J.M. Mulvey Hardware; George F. Fahrer & Co. (East Side Meat Market); A.C. Buck (Central Drug Store) and J.C. Whiteman (The New Drug Store). Other major New Rockford businesses included the Bank of New Rockford (Hugh...
On Dec. 24, 1901, Hugh Kennedy caught his right hand in G.W. Brownell’s new feed mill and lost the nails and some of the flesh off two fingers. Kennedy had been trying to free some grain that had frozen to the sheet iron slide when his hand slipped between the rollers. Fred Belcher came up from Carrington to work on the “Eddy County Provost.” Oscar Bauer arrived for the holidays from Nome, N.D., where he was the manager of the Monarch Elevator; he had arrived in Carrington via the Soo Line...
On Dec. 18, 1901, Charles Baird came up from Faribault, Minn., for the holidays; he attended school there. Miss Etta Patterson of Wahpeton arrived to take charge of the general delivery window at the New Rockford post office. Henry Kronz was in town. Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Lyon left for a few days’ visit in the Twin Cities. The Baptist Ladies Aid hosted their annual sale, dinner, and supper, with the highlight of the evening being an auction of a handkerchief donated by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. T...
About 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 11, 1901, Alice (Mrs. J.W.) Rager and Mrs. Sarah A. Bacon went to the depot to take the passenger train to Sheyenne. After waiting around an hour, they complained to the ticket agent about the late train. He then informed them that the passenger train had left at 12:01 p.m., its scheduled time, but he could get them on a freight train, which was due in a little later. The ladies thanked him, but declined his invitation, intending to go to Sheyenne on the train the next...
The Dec. 6, 1901, “Transcript” carried the following school notes: the previous week Katherine West of the second grade went to Iowa with her mother. Storm windows were put on the assembly room on Nov. 29. That day the second final exam was given to the advanced physiology class; their final lab work was finding waste matter in seven different types of sugar; and the juniors took their final algebra exam. On Dec. 2 Louisa Setz entered the second primary. That day Miss Frances Thomson ret...
On the evening of Nov. 30, 1901 (known as “St. Andrew’s Night"), the “Canadian Old Boys” of New Rockford hosted a banquet and program of Scottish dances, instrumental and vocal music, and toasts in the Hotel Mattson’s dining room. Covers were laid for 50; the walls were covered with Canadian, St. Andrew’s and American flags; and there were many bouquets of flowers. The tables were formed into a St. Andrew’s Cross. The banquet was prepared by James Hamilton, assisted by Christine Mattson. At 9...
On Nov. 25, 1901, Christ Fahrner and J.M. Dutee were in from their farms. Mr. and Mrs. [William?] Erdelbrock were in to shop. Peter Crane and B.A. Daniels were in from Tiffany. J.F. Clure was in town on business. Elevatorman and Mrs. H.G. Gage went to Fargo on business. J.H. Bonney left for Tacoma, Wash.; he planned on moving his family there next spring if he found a suitable location. On Nov. 26, J.T. Linderman of Cathay was over on business. Carrington machine man C.K. Wing was up on...
Lizzie Monahan had been absent several days. Absent a few days due to illness were Jennie Hersey, Clinton Kennedy and Mabel Kennedy. School organist Ida Clure had been absent a few days with illness, so assistant organist Blanche Brownell filled in for her. Alfred Dinnetz had joined the second grade; Henry Holland, John Cahill, Fred Ackerman and Blanche Butler were new fifth graders; new sixth graders were Mae O’Connell, Eddie Monahan and Lawrence Butler; and John Schmid had joined the s...
