History of New Rockford: April 26, 2021

About 8 p.m. Jan. 9, 1904, Charles Ducke, 26 and unmarried, went out of his farmhouse with a lantern to check on the livestock, leaving his aged mother in the house. When he did not return, his mother thought he went to a neighbor’s house and stayed there. He still had not returned by morning, so she thought he had spent the night at the neighbor’s. However, by noon she was alarmed enough to walk...