Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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June 7, 2018 — On this day in 1893, a huge portion of Fargo burned to the ground. At 2:15 p.m., something took place behind Herzman’s Dry Goods Store at 512 Front Street – or current-day Main Avenue. According to a Fargo Forum special edition, the fire began when someone from the Little Gem Restaurant threw ashes out the back door, inadvertently catching the dry goods store on fire. Another version of the story states Lily Herzman was burning cardboard packing cartons behind the store and the flames spread to the building. At that time, almos...
May 28, 2018 — In 1986 on this date, a 90-year-old Avon lady appeared on NBC’s “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.” She was Rosie Gries of Goodrich, N.D., and she called it the second biggest highlight of her life. Her best biggest highlight was when she got to travel free of charge to the national Avon convention in Morton Grove, Ill. Gries had been selling Avon cosmetics for 48 years, and she made her first sale in 1938 when she sold a 10-cent tube of hand cream. She brought her sales pitch with her to the show, but when she got Johnny to buy o...
May 10, 2018 — Today is anniversary of the only official riot in North Dakota state history. It started innocently. In April of 1969, NDSU student body president Chuck Stroup couldn’t afford to go to Florida with his sister for spring break. So he came up with a cheap alternative and took it to NDSU’s school paper, "The Spectrum." He was planning a gathering near his hometown of Hazen to be held the following month. He called it “Zip to Zap” and took out a classified ad. A responsive front-page article about the event set things in motion. I...
April 30, 2018 — It was April 30, 1952, and oilmen near Tioga were falling behind schedule. “We should have begun drilling by now,” said one, “and here we haven’t even been able to get our rigs in the field.” One might guess the problem was weather or spring flooding, but that April had been among the driest in history. No, the problem was 50 freight cars of equipment arriving from Minneapolis. There simply weren’t enough trucks or qualified drivers for hauling it out to the drilling sites. With the Williston basin considered one of the nation...
April 20, 2018 — The “dirty thirties” conjure up images of bankruptcy, soup lines, drought and awe-inspiring dust storms. On the Great Plains, conditions were disastrous for waterfowl, and conservationists became greatly alarmed when they realized ducks were quickly disappearing. Jay Darling, of Iowa, was a renowned political cartoonist of that time – he used a shortened version of his last name, “Ding,” to sign his work. He was gutsy, energetic, handsome and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He ate pie for breakfast and counted among his f...
March 21, 2018 — Today is the birthday of Louis L’Amour, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century. His father, Dr. Louis Charles LaMoore, was a large-animal veterinarian who had moved to Dakota Territory in 1882. Louis was born in Jamestown in 1908, the last of seven children. Louis’s grandfather, Abraham Dearborn, lived in a little house behind the LaMoore’s. He sparked Louis’s imagination with adventure stories based on his days as a soldier in the Civil War and then in the Indian Wars. Louis also had two uncles who worked ra...
On March 14, 1941, the United State Weather Bureau forecast that North Dakota would have “increasing cloudiness... followed by occasional light snow at night and on Saturday and possibly in extreme west (today); no decided change in temperature.” Many people made their weekend plans accordingly; the next morning they were encouraged with mostly fair skies and temperatures above freezing. Meanwhile, the forecast had been revised, saying “Light local snows tonight and Sunday with cold wave and strong northerly winds.” By mid-morning, a stronge...
Cavileer March 6, 2018 — Today is the birthday of Charles Cavileer, who was born in 1818. He was a saddler by trade, and while living in St. Paul, he was also a druggist, a postal worker and the Territorial Librarian. Cavileer was also adventurous, and in 1851, he brought to Pembina the first permanent group of agricultural settlers to what is now North Dakota. Two years later, he became a U.S. customs inspector and was then appointed postmaster by President Abraham Lincoln. His written accounts of wildlife and fur trading have since become i...
January 29 - The last lynching The last illegal execution in North Dakota happened in Schaefer. On this date in 1931 when a mob seized a prisoner named Charles Bannon and lynched him a half mile from the jail. About a year earlier, in February, people had begun to notice that they hadn’t seen the Albert Haven family around. Twenty-two year-old Bannon had just started working on the Haven farm, and when people asked him about the family, he said the Havens had gone to Oregon and that he was now renting the place. Friends thought it was s...
