Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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November 22, 2019 — “Home sweet home” was not a term used to describe some of North Dakota’s newest homeowners today in 1921. These prospective homeowners were to have modern, affordable homes built for them by the Home Building Association. The Association’s laws said city homes were to cost no more than $5,000, but homeowners soon found that the Association had exceedingly underestimated this cost. In fact, on average, many of the homes cost 61 percent more than the estimated cost. Among the unhappy homeowners was the NPL Commissio...
June 25, 2019 — “Digging up bones, I’m digging up bones. I’m exhuming things that are better left alone.” These are lyrics from one of Randy Travis’ hit songs about heartache and lost love. Of course, this song wasn’t out on this day in 1915, but had it been, it just might have been on the lips of Leo Verhulehn as he literally dug up bones. Verhulehn had bought property between Niagara and Shawnee and was digging a cellar on this day, June 25, 1915, when he uncovered six skeletons covered by six feet of earth. Five of the skeletons app...
Oct. 16, 2018 — The brewing industry was a fairly successful economy in the years prior to North Dakota’s statehood. Beck’s Brewery near Winona had been in business for twenty years before it caught fire and burned down in 1877, and the Turtle Mountain Brewery kept thirst at bay in Rolette County. Bismarck hoped to share in the considerable success of the industry. Unfortunately for the brewery, it came right before the “dry” spell in North Dakota. The Bismarck Brewery was built and in operation by 1885, but closed shortly after, because i...
September 18, 2018- When the Northern Pacific Railroad asked Jay Cooke’s banking company to be its financial agent in 1865, Cooke was leery of the offer. Northern Pacific needed help in funding construction and selling bonds, but this was a large undertaking, even for the Jay Cooke and Company, a firm that had financed the Union in the Civil War. The railroad was to be the largest enterprise in the country up to that time–larger even than the Erie Canal. Cooke declined the request, but when asked again in 1869, he had grown more optimistic of...
Sept. 11, 2018 — The residents of Bowbells and the surrounding area were armed with shovels in 1908 and were determined to find buried treasure. A story from the late 1800s was revived, and according to that story, a paymaster for the Hudson’s Bay Company was robbed in Canada while delivering salaries to men at several trading posts throughout the country. The loot was rumored to be about $40,000, and was never recovered, even after the robber was captured near Big Butte, 12 miles south of Bowbells. According to the story, the bandit died...
July 19, 2018 — North Dakota’s history is filled with stories of brave soldiers and warriors. Throughout the spring and early summer of 1918, state newspapers were reporting stories of yet another—Charlie Rogers. Rogers was a Sioux Indian from the Standing Rock Reservation. He entered into duty and served first in the 1st N.D. Regiment, then in the 18th U.S. Infantry. It did not take long for this soldier to prove his bravery. “Indian chases 20 Germans” reported a headline in the New Rockford Transcript on this day in 1918. “Indian goes over t...
