History of New Rockford: Oct. 26, 2020

The August 7, 1903, “Transcript” mentioned the “Bismarck Palladium” and the “Jamestown Alert.”

A new ad: Hotel Davies, Davies & Buesing, props.; “Traveling Men’s Headquarters” “Steam Heated and Gas Lighted Thruout.”

All the machinery had been placed in the roller mill, and the crew was building wheat pits and flour chutes.

A note said that barber and band leader Lou Smith had left New Rockford [he did so on July 28], maybe for Montana. He had left several debts owed to various New Rockford businesses. His barbershop was in the hands of C.A. Hunt, who had taken over the mortgage on the equipment.

Mrs. George F. Putnam was recovering from her severe burns [suffered July 25] and would soon be able to venture outside.

Early in the week, Mrs. E.A. Gammell went to Esmond to visit. Frank Pottner received a carload of fine heifers and one registered Durham bull from Iowa for his farm southwest of town, as he was going into stock-raising as well as farming. During the week Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Nobles of Sumpter, Minnesota, stopped off on their trip home from Vancouver, B.C. to visit their daughters Mrs. Ed P. Cosgrove and Mrs. O.H. Foster and their families; they left for home on September 1.

The previous week Adolph Broten of Fargo arrived to take a position with Prader & Goss; he was a cousin of Ed Myhra.

On August 7, William Cornish was in from Tiffany. Mrs. Peter Crain and daughter were in shopping. Nels K. Mattson was down from the Sheyenne Valley. Telephone manager William Brueske went to Carrington to meet his wife; she had been visiting in Wimbledon and they returned to New Rockford the next day. That evening the gas lights were turned on in New Rockford.

At 2 p.m. August 8, Sheriff J.E. Bennett sold at public auction at the front door of the Eddy County Courthouse the following property owned by E.M. and M.E. Stitzel to pay off three promissory notes totaling $3,000 to the Advance Thresher Company: one Advance 26 h.p. engine; one Advance 40x64 separator; one Advance wind-stacker, complete; one Heyran wagon loading elevator.

On August 8, Carrington attorney T.F. McCue came up on legal business. Carrington machinery man L.J. Doyle was in town. Veterinarian F.W. Tompkins was down from Oberon. J.L. Pisel came in on business. P.J. Braman received a telegram saying his brother was gravely ill in Corry, Pennsylvania, his old home town; Braman left for Corry as quickly as possible, but his brother died before he got there; he returned on August 25. That evening Fitz & Weber’s Big Company of Funny Fellows and Pretty Girls presented “A Breezy Time” at the Opera House, preceded at 7:30 by the Golf Club Band; tickets: 25, 50, and 75 cents. Frank Greitl and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar College came up from Barlow to see the production. Perry and Charles Blomquist were also up from the Barlow area. Carrington bank cashier W.L. Bennett came up to visit his sister Mrs. E.R. Davidson and family northeast of town.

That evening Carl Pullina and Amanda Lakti were married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Carlson by Rev. Reutenik of the German Reformed Church.

On August 8 and 9, “Esmond Bee” editor Homer Allison visited his parents in New Rockford. Miss Carrie Dutee of Morris was in New Rockford.

On Sunday, August 9, contractor Charles Culp was up from Carrington to be with his family; the next day he returned to Carrington to finish his job there.

On August 9 and 10, T.G. Kellington was in Valley City with his family; he returned on August 21.

On August 10, Col. and Mrs. D.F. Ellsworth returned from Jamestown. Miss Nettie Jensen returned from Ross, N.D. Miss Carolyn Hanson came up from Minneapolis to visit for a couple weeks. William Steinbach came home from the Magnetic Institute in Fargo; his rheumatism was much improved. Gilbert Bymoen came in for binder repairs. Ole Dahler went to Carrington to play for a dance. James A. Manly and his nephew John Layne visited in Carrington. Dennis O’Connell went to Williston, where he would buy grain for the Minneapolis & Northern Elevator Co.

The Eddy County Commission met on August 10 with just two commissioners present, Dafoe and Dailey. They voted to pay the following bills: $73.50 to Olson & Bohmbach, grading Bohmbach grade; $2, Noxon & Oglesby, telephone for July; $30, W.C. Hayes, janitor for July; $25, John Nunn, work on courthouse fence; $13.13, Vincent Lyness, work on courthouse fence; $1.85, Hiram King, work on courthouse fence; $6, Ed Randolph, bridge work; $5, William Mattison, bridge work; $450, Ed Randolph, grade contract for McHenry road; $3.50, A.G. Gardner, recording bonds; $37.87, Mrs. A.G. Gardner, clerk for register of deeds; $45, R.M. Kennedy, balance on DeLancy grade; $40, F.H. Goodrich, grade contract; $12, John Dodds, work on road: man and team; $7.50, R.M. Kennedy, wood to Mrs. Lewis, county poor; $24.95, George M. O’Connor, grade contract, Thorn grade.

From August 10 to 12, Frank Reed’s brother J.W. Reed of Bradford, Illinois, was up for a visit.

On August 11 Sarah Maloney of Esmond and John Coughey of New Rockford were married in the Catholic Church in Minnewaukan by Father Gallahue. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Larson came in from Plainview to shop. Jerry Carroll was in New Rockford. Mr. and Mrs. S.N. Putnam returned from the Twin Cities. Samuel McDowell went to Minnesota to purchase wood for his wood yard and to try to settle the question of the actual location of that yard. George Ackerman went to Jamestown on business. Mrs. Charles Culp went to Carrington to visit relatives. That evening Mrs. C.J. Maddux entertained a “bevy of young ladies” in honor of Miss Carolyn Hanson.

On August 12, Christina Mattson returned from Minneapolis. Mrs. R.R. Woodward came back from Ellendale. J.W. Young’s mother arrived for a visit from Shardon, Ohio. G.J. Schwoebel returned from Fountain City, Wisc. Will Wilson returned from the Twin Cities, as did druggist William Bucklin, who had been there on business. Miss Margaret Howard came in from Tower City to visit her uncle Thomas Adam, with whom Miss J. Adam was spending her vacation; both women would return to Tower City before the new school term began. John T. West drove a steam threshing engine from east Eddy County to New Rockford (25 miles) in a heavy downpour and through mud.

From August 12 to 13, Mrs. Henry Beech of Jamestown visited her nephew Herbert Cilly at the E.R. Davidson farm northeast of town.