History of New Rockford: Jan. 3, 2022

On September 5, 1904, Will Wilson was up from Jamestown; he came to visit and to hunt prairie chickens. Sylvanus Marriage was in from his Barlow farm on business. A party made up of Dr. and Mrs. G.D. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. McAuley, and Ernest Ohrner returned from a camping and hunting trip of three days; they brought back four Canadian geese averaging 22 lbs. and “slathers of other game.”

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