History of New Rockford- September 3, 2018

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 business. Iver Roaldson came in from Nordmore. Mayor P.C. Peterson came up from Barlow. Charles Trumbull, his son Carl, and Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Anderson were over from McHenry. Henry B. Johnson drove in from Plainview. Gilbert Bymoen and his sister took the train to Leeds to visit a week with relatives and friends. G.A. Krueger left to spend the winter in Winside, Neb.

On Nov. 27, William Cornish was in from Tiffany, and William Sanders was over from Twist. Hans Anderson was in from his farm southwest of town. Martin Walsh visited the court. Elmer E. Evans went to McHenry on business. George McRae went to Jamestown to spend Thanksgiving with his parents. Homer Allison went to Fargo for his brother’s wedding. His mother Mrs. R.P. Allison went on the same train for that event; she was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. E.A. Gamble. That evening the AOUW Lodge elected officers. Robert Walden was in from his farm.

On Thanksgiving Day there was a dinner in Sheyenne; Anson Bonney and Andrew Johnson were among the guests. Walter Schmid came up from Carrington to have Thanksgiving dinner with his sister, and Chris Fluetsch came up from Jamestown to have dinner with his sister Mrs. H.L. Letcher and her family. Charles McMillan of Carrington visited R.U. Austin and family. Dr. John Crawford was down from Esmond. George Flater returned from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Contractor Charles F. Culp went to Esmond to finish a drug store building for Dr. John C. Crawford. Ed Myre [Myhre?] had gone “down the line” for Thanksgiving. E.J. Spraker and Flora Clar of Tiffany were married by Rev. J.R. Beebe. Edward G. Allison, a mail clerk on the Jamestown to Helena, Mont., run, and Flora E. Clark of Fargo were married at noon in the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Clark, at 924 7th Street North, Fargo, by Rev. E.W. Day of the First Presbyterian Church; the couple would live in Jamestown. That evening the Degree of Honor held a Thanksgiving Ball at the Hotel Davies; there was a large crowd. At 8 p.m. in the Jamestown Methodist Church, Hugh J. Scott and Elizabeth Heaston of Minneapolis were married by Rev. T.A. Danford; the groom was a partner in Kennedy and Scott, Draying, in New Rockford. The couple arrived in New Rockford on Nov. 30 by train and moved into an east side residence.

The Nov. 29, 1901, “Transcript” mentioned the “Griggs County Sentinel” and the “Litchville Bulletin.”

That issue quoted the “Carrington Independent” as saying the way for New Rockford to avoid the fight over draying was to incorporate as a city just as Carrington had done; then the city could regulate draying by license.

For rent—Good dwelling house; inquire of P.J. Hester. H.A. Buffington had a few good milch cows for sale.

Sometime during the week, a portion of the Viola Woodward stock ranch 12 miles northeast of New Rockford was purchased by John Welsh of Glendive, Mont., for $11,000.

The Barlow Hotel, its furnishings, and barn had been sold to P.C. Peterson of Barlow for $1,325.

Strayed on Nov. 10, one sorrel mare, star in forehead and strip in face; about 1,100 lbs.; dark mane and tail; J.H. Lake, seven and a half miles northeast of New Rockford. Ray Hester’s dark red steer calf with a white tip on its tail had strayed about five weeks earlier.

In public school notes, Sarah West had been absent that week, and Anson Bonney had been absent three days. On Nov. 25, Almer Evans joined the kindergarten, Lena Evans the second grade, Clista Evans the third grade, Nellie Weeks the fourth grade, Anna Johnson and Alec Austin the sixth grade, and Robert Craig the seventh grade. The primary students were making a Christmas calendar. The rhetoric class was doing arguments and written reproductions. Some students were making a literary study of “Ten Nights in a Bar-Room.” A new book in the school library was “Philip Gerard or American Individual” by Ed. Amherst Ott. On Nov. 27, Miss Frances Thomson could not meet with her class, so Miss Ida Clure substituted in the primary room. During the week the school grounds were cleaned up by the removal of stones, dead weeds, etc.

On Nov. 29, the longest train in the history of the Devils Lake branch pulled into New Rockford under engineer Arthur O’Hearn; there were a locomotive, 57 boxcars, and a caboose. John Dutee and John Seckinger were in town. Elmer Lindstrom was down from the Sheyenne Valley. H.G. Lathrop came in from eastern Eddy County, and Oscar Irwin from Tiffany. Mrs. J.J. Stephens came over from Fessenden to shop. Dick Trembley of Larrabee was in town. James Knox came in from McHenry on business. J.J. Anderson was in from Freeborn. Newlyweds Edward G. and Flora Allison came in from Fargo; there was a reception that evening for the couple at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Allison.

From Nov. 29 to Dec. 2, Dr. James Madden, an eye specialist from Chicago, was at the Hotel Davies. From Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, F.W. Soule, eye specialist, was at Whiteman’s Drug Store; eye exams, glasses fitted.

On Nov. 30, John Cain came in from Esmond. Aslak Aslakson was in from Sheyenne. That evening F.C. Davies sponsored McCabe & Young’s Black Trilby Co., colored artists, singing and dancing; admission was 35, 50, and 75 cents