Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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On July 3, 1901, T.H. Adam was in town. Mr. and Mrs. J. Faust, who farmed in the Sheyenne Valley near Valley City, arrived to visit their daughter Mrs. Olof Lundquist and her husband for a week or so. J.C. Fay and Frank Woodward, carpenters with an NP crew, came in for the Fourth. Farmer Scott Knoble was in town on business. Traveling agent C.E. Clure stopped in New Rockford to spend the Fourth with his parents. Miss Cora Davidson, Miss Alice Swain, H. Peoples, and Donald Niven went to the...
Editor’s Note: The first few paragraphs are continued from the February 19 edition, as this column ended abruptly in the middle of a sentence. We regret the error. The June 28, 1901 “Transcript” continued its attack on State’s Attorney P.M. Marttson with a critique of the story in his newspaper the “Provost’ about his disbarment proceeding. In the Story he omitted the portion of the judge’s statement in which Mattson was cited as being “extremely negligent” and that if the proceeding had been ab...
The Eddy County Commissioners met on June 14 and 15, 1901. On June 14, they voted to pay G.W. Johnston two hundred dollars as partial payment for the Walsh grade. The Commissioners met again on June 15 and accepted bids on the following road grades: John Allred, $18, O’Keefe Slough #1; R.M Kennedy, $23, O’Keefe Slough #2; John Allred, $22, O’Keefe Slough #3; R.M. Kennedy, $26.50, Pat O’Connor Slough; Ed Starks, $100, Delany Weimals Slough; Ed Starks, $110, slough between sections 15 and 16, T14...
On June 12, 1901, B.A. Daniels was in from Tiffany. James B. Dafoe came down from his Sheyenne Valley farm. Veterinarian surgeon F.W. Tompkins was down from Oberon on a professional visit. Mrs. Thomas Halverson arrived from Kiser, WI, to visit Mrs. W.J. Morris for the summer. Other New Rockford visitors included Ike Sanderson and Frank Miller, who farmed near Barlow. Bank of Sheyenne cashier S.G. Severtson was in New Rockford between trains. Thomas Adam was in from his farm. John Cain went to...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
