Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
The Sept. 28, 1906, “Transcript” stated that Mr. and Mrs. P.H. West and family had moved into their new home on Lamborn Avenue East. The Consolidated Elevator, managed by J.C. Smith, was planning on a 40,000 bushel addition.
Miss Edna Lloyd was a student at Phillips Academy.
On September 28, Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Stout came in from Granville, N.D., where they had been looking over some land; they owned land at Tiffany, next to the William Cornish farm, and were planning on living there in the spring after they left their Iowa dairy farm. Mrs. W.A. Cornish came in from Tiffany to shop. P.M. Mattson, accompanied by C.J. Stickney and George F. Fahrer, went to Jamestown, where, that evening, he took the 1st Degree in the Elks Lodge. From 8-10 p.m. there were a box social and an entertainment in the Tiffany School. That night thieves made off with around 100 bushels of wheat from a granary northeast of town belonging to W.C. Dresser.
From September 28 to 30, Mrs. John Von Almen visited her sister Miss Vera Tyler in Jamestown, where she was a teacher.
On Sunday, Sept. 30, Crosby Fox, who was employed by Fred Utz, was hunting with a group near Larrabee when his shotgun accidentally discharged, the shot ripping into his left arm and mangling the muscles horribly; a doctor was summoned and worked on the arm, which he hoped could be saved.
The Eddy County Commissioners (Dafoe, Dailey, Gunvaldson) met on October 1. They voted to pay the following: $6.30, A.M. Labhardt, laundry for prisoners; $8, H.W. Wilson, phone rent for July-October; $36.40, W.W. Bartley, medical attendance to county poor; $19.65, O.E. Couch, supplies for county poor; $17, Rodenberg & Schwoebel, supplies for county poor; $225, Mrs. A.G. Gardner, clerk in register of deeds office, May 1 to Oct. 1. They voted to establish T149, R62 as a separate voting precinct to be known as Washington and Peter Hockest was appointed the election inspector.
On the morning of October 1, the Farmers and Merchants Bank moved into its new quarters on the corner of Lamborn and Chicago [today, 1st Ave. N. and N. 8th Street, site of the Vorland Land Co.]. Mrs. Alfred Dinnetz left for her new home, Ballard, Wash.; her husband shipped a carload of goods there the next day and would remain to take care of business matters before joining his wife. Mrs. F.P. Roush and Miss Irma went to their former home, Adel, Iowa, to visit.
On October 2, Miss Gertrude McGeoch went to Oberon to visit. At 8 p.m., Rev. E.W. Burleson of the Grace Episcopal Church in Jamestown conducted Episcopal services in the Methodist Church. That evening, Nels K. Mattson came down from Sheyenne on business and to visit; he was accompanied by G.S. Schlytter of Wittenberg, Wisc., who would be affiliated with Mattson in the Northern Land and Colonization Company.
On October 3, Miss Helen Faxon drove down from Oberon to visit a few days with Mrs. J.M. Mulvey and family. That afternoon, high winds caused smoldering ashes left several days earlier by a threshing rig to burst into flames; the ensuing prairie fire northeast of New Rockford burned a “great deal” of hay and some wheat.
On the morning of October 4, Charles Conley of Minnewaukan and Mrs. Sarah J. Warren were married by Father L.G. Vandenburgh; they took the afternoon train to Minnewaukan, where they would live. That evening, teacher Miss Lilyan Faust visited her brother in Sheyenne.
The Oct. 5, 1906, “Transcript” had “School Notes” by Pearl Beer, editor: Matilda Hammer was absent the previous week on account of illness; Miss Ruth Aldrich was ill during the week; George Hammer had been absent two weeks after being kicked by a horse; the first monthly exams were held on September 27 and 28; on October 1, student George Brown attended his cousin’s funeral in Jamestown; the “Minneapolis Junior Journal” mentioned the 8th grade and, in particular, the short story submitted by Miss Lydia Hylton, who was now wearing a Junior Journal pin; the chemicals and apparatus for the laboratory and the two compound microscopes for the Botany class had arrived and were in use; the new piano was in Miss Edith Schmidt’s Primary room for a trial; the Pedagogy class had been studying the Central Nervous System; the freshman English I class was finishing “The Vision of Sir Launfal”; the junior English class was reading “The Merchant of Venice.”
There was an ad for The Arcade Short Order Restaurant and Pool Hall, James M. Thomas proprietor; first door east of Bucklin, Williams & Co. on Villard Ave. [on Villard, now Central Ave., the former site of the Latte Lobby]. Mrs. James MacLachlan had a gasoline stove, a new bed couch, and some small household articles for sale.
Mr. J. Harvey Johnson had opened a music studio on the second floor of the Farmers and Merchants Bank building; he gave lessons in violin, clarinet, piano and mandolin.
Flax was yielding a very low 3-to-5 bushels per acre near Morris.
The Farmers’ Elevator was so full that grain was being stored in an open-air bin east of the Dakota Elevator; it was surrounded by a barbwire fence.
In the contest sponsored by St. John’s Academy in Jamestown, Miss Anna Mary Allmaras of New Rockford was in eighth place (out of 18) with 391 pts. The leader had 1137½ pts.
During the week. Dr. J.A. Carter moved his office to a suite of rooms above the Farmers and Merchants Bank. Also during the week, a Great Northern Railway crew surveyed a line that was supposed to run from Ayr in Cass County to Granville in McHenry County; the surveyed line crossed the Devils Lake branch of the NP just south of town and continued northwesterly. [This would make it part of what became known as the “Surrey Cutoff.”]
Toward the end of the previous week, Lawrence [Leonard?] Whittemore of the Arcade Short Order Restaurant and Pool Hall, sneaked out of town, leaving a large number of creditors in the lurch. Sheriff George F. Fahrer and State’s Attorney R.F. Rinker located him between Carrington and Kensal and returned him to New Rockford, where he made arrangements for the payment of the debts and left town on the evening of October 1 “for parts unknown.” The June 22, 1906, “Transcript” had described him as “a first-class chef.” James M. Thomas had taken over the business and had spent the first few days cleaning and getting the place “slicked up.”
About two weeks prior, Miss Blanche Hester had died in Lewiston, Idaho; she was a former resident and New Rockford School student. [She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Hester, who left New Rockford in October 1902.]
