Dakota Datebook: Old Maid Teachers? and Snakes, Preachers and Fire Festivals

Old Maid Teachers?

by Merry Helm

April 24, 2019 — In April 1895, the “Minto Journal” proudly reported that the land office in Grand Forks had, in one week, recorded 69 people filing for land and 11 proving up, accounting for a total of 13,000 acres, almost all in Cavalier County.

“There is no mistake about the meaning of this,” the article read. “It is clear that the last four excellent crops have...