History of New Rockford: January 23, 2023

The Sept. 15, 1905, "Transcript" listed the high school courses for the year as Latin, Algebra, Geometry, Ancient History, Physical Geography and Elementary Meteorology, English Composition and Rhetoric, Political Economy, Business Law, Drawing, and Oratory.

John Anderson was painting the new residence of Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Aldrich.

An item said that D.B. Wellman's brother had recently died in Maine.

During the week Charles Goss brought in a load of No. 1 Northern Wheat which ran 15 bushels to the acre.

The previous week, James Carroll arrived from Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he had been an attorney since 1883; he was going to open a law office above the post office. The family moved into the Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Tomlinson residence on Lamborn Avenue East.

On Sept. 15, No. 1 Northern Wheat brought 67 cents in the New Rockford market. That morning, Ludvick Hanson came in with a load of No. 2 Northern Wheat which ran 15 bushels to the acre; it brought 55 cents a bushel. O.B. Garnaas was down from Oberon on business. John Aldred [Alldred] was in town for the first time since his illness; he was still weak. Attorney John A. Layne, accompanied by Dr. E.A. Chattsron [sp?] of Rochester, Minn., came over from Fessenden on legal business. The Treffry Bros. received their new separator to replace the one destroyed by fire on Sept. 8. Mrs. H.K. Darud and daughter returned to their home at Ada, Minn., after a few weeks visiting relatives southeast of town. That afternoon, J.L. Kinnaird was taken ill and at first it was feared he had pneumonia; however, after a couple days of bedrest, he was able to be out.

On Sept. 15 to 18, Albert West visited his cousin in Oberon.

On Sept. 16, Mrs. George Schwoebel returned from a lengthy visit with friends in the Twin Cities. J.A. and Frank McAuley's sister arrived from Wisconsin; she would stay for the winter and attend Phillips Academy. Martin Walsh was in from Tiffany. Mr. and Mrs. William Milne and William III were in from the Sheyenne Valley to shop and to visit; Mr. Milne brought some apples from the fifteen apple trees on his farm. B.W. Rantz received a telegram from Indiana saying that his nephew Walter Rantz had died at his home; the young man had spent a couple months in New Rockford about three years before. Master Charles Maddux returned to St. Paul after spending a week with his father C.J. Maddux hunting prairie chickens. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Flory and sons Earl and Karl left for their home in Piqua, Ohio. The parents had been visiting their son O.T. Flory on the Lawrence Prader farm since March; their two sons had been there since the fall.

On September 16 and 17, Mrs. Edna Flater was down from Maddock to visit her mother.

Early in the morning of Sunday, September 17, Harry Hawthorn, who had been wounded severely by a shotgun blast on September 9, died; funeral services were in the Congregational Church, Rev. J.R. Beebe, on the morning of September 18. [However, his gravestone in Prairie Home Cemetery has his dates as May 1, 1891 - Sept. 16, 1905, one day different than the newspaper account.] Mrs. W.E. Radtke and son Lynn visited Mrs. C.J. Maddux and her children in St. Paul; when they arrived home on Sept. 19, they were surprised to see that their house had been newly papered and decorated. That evening, a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Pottner; it was their first baby boy.

On Sept. 18, Walter Schmid came down from Sheyenne; he had sold his interest in the bowling alley there to his partner Nels K. Mattson. He planned on visiting friends and relatives for a while and then probably locate on the Pacific Coast. Both Andrew Anderson and C.C. Hanson came in on business from southeast of town. Rudolph Indergaard was in from Plainview for threshing supplies. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Anderson on their farm southeast of town.

On Sept. 18, Pat O'Connor's almost-new separator caught fire from a spark from the engine and was damaged to the extent it couldn't be used; O'Connor had to get his old separator into shape, which he did by the morning of Sept. 20.

On Sept. 19, "Pomp" Shauers brought a wagonload of ripe homegrown tomatoes into town and sold them very quickly.

From Sept. 19 to 22, Phillips Academy principal L.J. Aldrich and Rev. J.R. Beebe attended the meeting of the General Congregational Association of North Dakota in Fargo.

On Sept. 20, Perry Stanton of Bismarck, but formerly of New Rockford, passed his examination for assistant druggist at the meeting of the Board of Pharmacy in Fargo. A.R. Johns returned from Brinsmade, where he had checked on his farming interests. Mrs. J.C. Smith and Mrs. Viola Woodward left on a trip that would take them to Yellowstone Park for about a week and to the Lewis & Clark Exposition in Portland. On her way home, Mrs. Smith planned on seeing her sister, Miss Katheryn [Kathryn?] Henry, who was part of a theatrical troupe, at Livingston, Mont.

At a late hour on the evening of Sept. 20, Sheriff George F. Fahrer and Justice R.M. Kennedy were in a room in the basement of the court house, where Kennedy was holding court. Fahrer noticed a man outside talking through the bars to two prisoners who had been arrested for disorderly conduct. The sheriff thought the man looked suspicious, so he went outside for a closer look. After a few minutes, Fahrer saw the man pass a bottle of whiskey to one of the prisoners. Fahrer placed the man under arrest and put him in a cell. The prisoner's protests of innocence were silenced when the sheriff went into the other cell and extracted the whiskey bottle from under the bed clothes. It turned out that the prisoner was the man who had supplied the other two with the liquor which caused them to be arrested in the first place.

On Sept. 21, Pat Byron came in from his farm near Barlow; he reported wheat yields of between 16 and 18 bushels per acre. Mrs. J.L. Kinnaird returned from an eastern trip; her health had greatly improved. Mrs. Bena Crepps and her two children returned from "their sad journey to Iowa." Mrs. Charles A. Pake left for Denbigh, where her husband was a grain buyer.

The Sept. 22, 1905, "Transcript" carried some School Notes supplied by student Jennie Hersey: Mrs. Stegenga and Mrs. Purdy had visited the school. Maud Stafford was absent on September 18 and 19. Fena Carlson had joined the 9th grade on September 18. Lynn Radtke entered the 7th grade on September 20. Miss Schmidt's Primary room had 35 students. The members of the Physiology class were examining "real tongue." A literary society had been organized with Merrille Pike, president; Harry West, vice president; Mabel House, secretary; Roger Mattson, treasurer; and a program committee made up of Fena Carlson, Celestia Kellington, and Elsie Tarbell.