History of New Rockford - May 28, 2018

On the afternoon of September 7, 1901, L.H. Olmstead and Charles Bellis, the president and the secretary of the North Dakota Harvest Association of Dowagiac, Mich., stopped at the “Transcript” office. They and about twenty other young men from Michigan were headed to the Antelope Valley near Oberon to help with the harvest. Their outfit included a cook and sleeping car, a 36-64 Case separator, and...