Towner County, ND, Hansboro News Newspaper published June 1, 1910 - July 31, 1910 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ The following news items and articles are all transcribed from the Hansboro News newspaper. The items included in this file were published between June 1, 1910 and July 31, 1910. North Dakota State Historical Society microfilm numbers 09491 Transcribed May, 2000 by: Mary Lindbo, mjlindbo@msn.com Note: when searching for names in this text, I recommend using various spellings of a surname. I noticed during the transcription that some names were not spelled the same throughout. Since many of the names were not familiar to me, I typed them exactly as they were published. (c) 2000 Mary Lindbo June 3, 1910 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL Teachers and Pupils Enjoy Picnic at Big Coulee. Past Term a Very Successful One The school children accompanied by the teachers and a number of the parents enjoyed the last day of school picnicking at the big coulee near Mr. Dumphy's place. School was convened at 10:00 o'clock and the children presented with their annual report cards, after which the rural wagons, several auto loads and private carriages conveyed the children to the picnic grounds, where a picnic dinner and a romp through the meadows and on the banks of the coulee was enjoyed by the little folks. The past term has been a very successful one, notwithstanding the many obstacles that arose in the way of sickness, etc. Miss Steenson and Miss Youngquist leave immediately for their homes, the former to Hillsboro, the latter to Wahpeton, North Dakota. Miss Sorenson will leave Monday on a personal survey of the county in the interest of her campaign for the superintendency. While she has no opposition for that office, Miss Sorenson feels that it is her duty to see as many of the voters as possible between now and the primaries and thus give them the opportunity of becoming personally acquainted with their next county superintendent. NORTH DAKOTA NEWS Omemee - this city is getting ready for a big Fourth of July celebration. Beach - a new Methodist Church will be erected here during the summer. Carrington - plans and specifications have been completed for a sewer system for this city. Kenmare - this city will send a strong representation to the Firemen's tournament at Bismarck. Valley City - the annual conference of the Lutheran Free Church will be held in this city June 8 and 9. Milnor - Nicola Iozzo, an Italian laborer on the Northern Pacific railroad, died very suddenly from ptomaine poisoning. Sharon - a gasoline engine used in hauling grain to market, fell through a bridge near her landing in the water upside down. Jamestown - two boys, aged 11 and 15, took small rifles and grips and joined two hobos near town. They wanted to be in the wild west style. Bismarck - the plans for E.G. Patterson's new hotel call for six stories and a basement, seven stories in all, which will make it the highest building in the state. Wahpeton - John Kischner, who exhibits credentials from the czar, has been doing some landscape gardening in this town that has awakened interest in this line of work. Fargo - the North Dakota Bar Association has postponed its annual meeting until September 8 and 9, owing to the fact that the national meeting was called for the same date as its previous one. Carrington - on account of the laying of the cornerstone of the new court house in this city in June it has been decided to hold no Fourth of July celebration this year. Mandan - the prospects are good for a 100 room hotel with an opera house in this town. Another party proposes building a hall for vaudeville and picture shows. Lisbon - a dispatch from Chicago, states that W.D. Boyce, big game hunter and society man, was recently pummeled by his son. Mr. Boyce was a former resident of this town. Devils Lake - the dry weather in Canada has driven the wild geese to the south and they are here in such numbers as to do damage to the crops. They are not easily frightened away. Edmore - there is talk of an electric road from this place to Devils Lake. It would pass through a rich level country and would be more easily and cheaply operated than a steam road. Fargo - the post office department asks the rural route patrons to paint their mail boxes and the posts to which they are attached white. The name should be in black letters about two inches high. Bismarck - Robert Lytle, living 30 miles northeast of this city, committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun. He left a note saying that he could not live without a girl that had thrown him down. Carrington - Gust Stack has been advised by the geological department of the university that his find is genuine gypsum of high quality and further advises him that it is a very useful article of commerce. Bismarck - the date for the institution of the new Elk lodge of Bismarck has been definitely fixed upon, Friday June 3 being selected. There will be large delegations attending from the several other lodges in the state. Steele - in a high wind at Crystal Springs, this county, the new Powers elevator was demolished, while the small store building and blacksmith shop that the little town boasted were also destroyed. No one was injured. Wahpeton - Joseph L. Drey of Breckenridge was killed on a pile driver west of this city. His foot became caught in the in the wheel of the engine on the driver and he was whirled and pounded to death before the engine could be stopped. Dickinson - an autopsy in the case of Albert Tuma, whose body was found in a reservoir in this city, showed that the man did not come to his death by drowning as there were marks of violence on the body. The corner's jury will probe deeper into the case this week. Dickinson - his North Dakota friends will regret to learn that the eyesight of State Senator Simpson attorney in the Russell will case, has been injured by too close application to that work. He may lose his eyesight. He made a strong fight and the end is not yet. Granville - dates have been fixed for the annual McHenry County fair, October 5, 6 and 7 being selected. The time selected is a great deal later than usual, but that action was taken with the belief that much better exhibits could be secured, by waiting until after the fall season's work had been completed and the crop all harvested. Rugby - after being held in the county jail at Towner for some time and being refused bail, Pat Meehan has finally been discharged under the bonds of $10,000, which the court allowed. Meehan is charged with implication in the death of O.C. Rice recently, for which Jack Bouye is also being held. Alexander - it is now known that Northern Pacific surveyors have invaded McKenzie County and that they will make a survey on a line that will go just south of Arnegard in a westerly direction. G.B. Archer is in charge of the survey and it is understood that the line he will lay out is to connect the so-called Turtle Lake branch. LOCAL NEWS Geo. Wilson autoed to Leeds on Wednesday, returning Thursday. Hon. A.S. Gibbens was in town on business Thursday. Supt. Dunn and Roadmaster Skurdahl are in town today. The L.A.S. are having the interior of the church repaired and calcimined. Engineer Ford is taking a vacation. Mr. Dunn is on the engine in his absence. B.L. Thomas, Edith and Edna Wilson and Jacquette Brown autoed to Cartwright Thursday. D.W. Fraker, republican candidate for Register of Deeds, was in this vicinity this week looking after his campaign work. F.W. Tombs, a traveling man for Jenney, Semple, Hill & Co., and an old-time band leader, assisted in the orchestra at the dance in Rock Lake Tuesday night. Mrs. R.C. McKee arrived Monday from England, rather fatigued from the long voyage but glad to get back to the pure air of North Dakota. They are temporarily located in the Clifford house. A.Blackorby has moved into his new house, several loads of new furniture has been placed in Charles' house this week. Tom Clifford is looking after the bank alone and Charles is somewhere in Iowa. A good guesser may be able to guess the rest. Mrs. Tourtellotte held services at the Methodist Church in Rock Lake Sunday morning and at Saginaw in the evening, thus releasing Rev. Brown who preached at Aneta. Rev. Dr. Jamieson of Grand Forks held a series of lectures here this week on the "White Slave" question. The lectures were illustrated by means of a stereopticon and those who attended report them highly interesting. Roy Worsley has been having an interesting time with a carbuncle on his neck this week. Mrs. Prewitt received word Tuesday of the serious illness of Mr. Prewitt in Texas and left on Wednesday to join him there. Rev. C.C. Warner of Crookston was in town on business Tuesday. He is having a quarter of land broken - Robt. McCauley having the contract for 120 acres and Geo. Brown 40 acres. A.A. McLaughlin of Cando is in town this week in the interest of a new insurance scheme called the Underhand. The new concern has chosen a good name - there are a lot more that ought to adopt a similar one. Miss Madge Grove, of Big Falls, Minnesota, visited last week with her sister, Mrs. C.M. Smith and family, leaving Wednesday for Devils Lake where she will spend the Chautauqua season with a sister there. Among those who attended the ball game at Perth last Sunday were Messrs. McDougall, Worsley, Jones, Thomas, Mesdames Thomas and Worsley and Misses Sorenson and Murdick. Chas. Blackorby took Mr. and Mrs. Rose to Cartwright Monday in his auto. They went to Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, near the place Mr. Rose has taken land. Geo. Sutherland dropped into our office this week and showed us a model of a device for throwing the drive belt to a thresher. It attached to the engine and is operated by the engineer. It eliminates the dangerous operation of throwing the big belt by hand and is also a handy emergency appliance. Threshers will hail this invention with a great deal of satisfaction. See George about it. June 10, 1910 COPIOUS RAINFALL "Long looked for, come at last" is a saying old enough to be designated proverbial. That expression conveys to the common man what has happened in our district this week. We have had showers and frosts, frosts and showers, with an occasional hailstorm and a breeze also. However, we are glad to say a copious rainfall came during this week and if nature's greatest forces are the silent ones, then the last day or two nature has done good work, the climatic conditions being ideal. Reports have been circulated that after the heaviest frost we had, that is one of the heaviest after the spell of mild weather at the close of winter, nearly every farmer had to re-sow his fields along the country near the international line. If this is the case we have yet to receive confirmation thereof. As far as our own observation is concerned we have only seen one field being re-sown, and this was quite a few miles south of that line. We incline to the view that the reports of damage have been a trifle exaggerated, though in some place damage has been done, yet we are of the view that it is infinitesimal when the spooling process that has taken place is considered. The wheat has been at work underground that its work later on may be more apparent. To this end the rain has contributed very largely and we feel we are well within the realm of truth when we say that not only has the wheat benefited, but all the grain has received a tremendous boost. NEW ASSISTANT CASHIER Not in the Hansboro State Bank, but in the Home of Cashier Charles Blackorby If marriage has a tendency to make the population of a town or city or country more permanent than it otherwise would be then our town has received another assurance of permanency. Some few days ago one of our prominent business men took his department into another state. We do not say he stole out of town but merely say he left for another state to claim the hand and the heart of one whom he had known for a number of years, to place her at the head of affairs in the new home as wife as well as counselor and friend. That June is the ideal month - "the time of the singing of the birds" - is evident for many prospective brides prefer "leafy June" for the time of their wedding. It was on Saturday, June 4 at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, that Clara Ellen Converse, of Cresco, Iowa and Charles E. Blackorby, cashier of the Hansboro State Bank, Hansboro, North Dakota were united in the bonds of holy matrimony at the home of the bride's parents. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. H.J. Hinman, pastor of the Congregational Church, Cresco. The bride was attired in white and had neither a bouquet nor bridesmaid. The quietness with which the ceremony took place was caused through the sickness of the bride's mother. The wedding breakfast was served at the conclusion of the ceremony, to which only the immediate relatives were invited. The happy couple were the recipients of many useful presents, some of which consisted of silverware and cut glassware. The bride and bridegroom left Cresco for Bonair in an automobile on Saturday evening in order to be rid of some of the too friendly attention of friends in the form "of rice and old shoes." The well laid schemes of mice and men aft gang agley", says Burns. The automobile may have been designed by the bridegroom bent on escaping a "ricing" from his friends; but expeditious as its movements sometimes are, it must take second place when the telephone is brought into play. The bride and bridegroom found this out at Bonair, where were friends who riced them to the best of their ability. Parenthetically we might suggest a crusade for some weddings - weddings without rice throwing, as a needed crusade. However, the happy couple were a little more fortunate in their next automobile trip - from Cartwright to Hansboro - from whence they were brought by Hugh Lymburn. Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Blackorby came home by way of St. Paul, where they visited friends; then to Winnipeg where they spent the day sight-seeing. At the termination of the visit to that city, Cartwright next visited, from which place home was reached. We extend to Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Blackorby our hearty congratulations and best wishes. LOCAL NEWS J.J. Beeghly of Rock Lake was in town on business Wednesday. A.E. Sibley of Rock Lake was a pleasant caller at the News office Tuesday. Doc Jones reports the automobile business in a flourishing condition. Miss Sorenson left Tuesday for a trip through the southern part of the county in the interest of her campaign. James and Anna Kelley of Vienna, South Dakota visited with the Murdicks over Sunday. They are old acquaintances. Jas. V. Brooke, democratic candidate for county judge, and his son Richard are canvassing the county looking after Mr. Brooke's political fences. Mr. Brooke says the outlook is very favorable. Thursday morning while Ernest Disher was riding a horse, the horse slipped and fell with the result that Ernest had his right shoulder dislocated Dr. Hamilton was immediately summoned and the injured member placed in position again. Geo. Shiveley was in town yesterday looking after his political interests. Geo. Is making a clean campaign, but is up against a combination of politicians that are out for the office no matter how they get it. Rock Lake will celebrate the 4th of July. The Hansboro Woodmen band has been engaged for the occasion and the committee in charge are making arrangements for a fine program of sports for the day in the way of ball games, races, bowery dancing, street parade, fire works, etc. Rock Lake is the logical place for people in this vicinity to celebrate the 4th - the train runs down at a reasonable hour in the morning and returns in time for those who do not wish to spend the evening there. The train will probably make an extra trip in the evening for those who stay late. The dance in Wm. Wilson's new barn last Friday night was largely attended and all present enjoyed a fine time. At the school election Tuesday, Chas. Blackorby was elected treasurer and Jas. Brown re-elected trustee. The Woodman Band will furnish music for the celebration of Civic Day at Cartwright. Orton's new bowling alleys have been kept hot this week, some good scores and sore thumbs have been made. Chas. Blackorby holds the record with 208. ROCK LAKE NEWS Milt Eller was an Egeland visitor on Monday. Rock Lake was a recipient of the welcome rain which fell during the week. John Lindsay is the next to have a new house in prospect, the foundation being almost ready. Nels W. Hawkinson went to Cando on Monday. The trip may have been a political one. He returned the middle of the week. Verna Latham returned home on Tuesday evening from her school work at Grand Forks. She says she is glad to be home again. Nels W. Hawkinson is having a large cellar dug, which may also mean another addition to the substantial residences of growing Rock Lake. E.C. Latham was in Cando on Monday. He was accompanied by his son Irvine. While there Irvine underwent a minor operation to his throat, it being found necessary to take out one of his tonsils. It is to be hoped the lad will soon be well again. NORTH DAKOTA NEWS Tioga - this town will celebrate the Fourth. McKenzie - railroad surveyors are working in this vicinity. Minot - the two trials of Noah cost Ward County about $12,000. Williston - this city has organized a gun club of twenty members. Buffalo Springs - the Farmers State Bank has opened for business in this place. Stanley - this city is among the list that will have a big celebration the Fourth. Churchs Ferry - a disastrous prairie fire destroyed about six hundred tons of hay. Williston - the Women's Clubs of the Eighth District will meet in this place in June. McClusky - the barn of C. Marson was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Braddock - a drug store is one of the many enterprises that will soon be located in this city. Lidgerwood - both the Soo and Great Northern are making extensive improvements at this place. Sherwood - there is much rejoicing over the formation of the two countries of Burke and Renville. Emerson - the Farmers' State Bank of this city opened for business on Friday with a capital of $10,000. Napoleon - this town and the Soo railroad are still schapping over the opening of a new section line road. Belfield - a colony of Hollanders have sailed on a voyage to this place where they will engage in farming. Minot - complaint is made that tramps are sleeping in the vacant houses on the outskirts of the city. Steele - it is estimated that there are seventy-five steam and gasoline plowing outfits operating in Kidder County this season. Stanley - the steel train has begun work on the branch to Powers Lake and now has several miles of track laid from this city. Minot - members of the Ward County Old Settlers' association are arranging for their annual outing on the Des Lacs River June 14-17. Ryder - the "Reservation" bank is the name of a new financial institution which will be started at the new township between Plaza and this city. Dickinson - Al McKay was awarded damages of $1,000 against the Northern Pacific railway on account of having his hand crushed in the coal chute at this place. Antler - the Woodmen will hold their picnic between June 15 and 20 and promise to make it the liveliest one ever held in the state. Carrington - two thousand five hundred people attended the exercises in connection with laying the cornerstone of the new court house at this place. Dickinson - a new Greek Catholic Church has been dedicated twelve miles from this town, Bishop Waverosky of Philadelphia being present for the occasion. Beach - town sin this part of the state are making arrangements to entertain the "better farming" special train contingent when it gets around to them. Esmond - the new branch from this place to Towner or Rugby will be built before October 1. Surveyors are now at work and the instructions are to push the work to completion. Hope - wile he was crossing the Great Northern track near this city enroute home, Geo. Cole was struck by the fast mail train. His wagon was smashed up, one horse received a broken leg and Mr. Cole himself was bruised. Dickinson - to secure evidence that will fix the guilt for the death of Albert, the Dickinson tinner, whose body was discovered in a pond, seems almost impossible. One suspect is held and the officials are endeavoring to discover the facts of the case but with little success. Beach - a committee of people from this town visited Sentinel Butte to agitate county seat removal from Medora. The matter will be discussed further after Sentinel Butte takes time to think the matter over - and see whether the two towns can get together. Montrose - the name of this town will be changed to Wildrose because the railroad has another town named Montrose on its line. A number of citizens got together and sent five names to the company's officials for their selection and Wildrose was the one selected. Minnewaukan - by the payment of $20,000 of court house bonds, Benson County is out of debt. There is also about $40,000 in the treasury. The county bonded for twenty years with the privilege of paying at the end of ten years, which it decided to do and has done. Fargo - the good roads convention will be held in this city June 22 and 23. The programs have been sent out and are awakening a healthy interest in the state regarding the conditions of the highways. On June 24 the Equity Society will hold a meeting and will take action on a terminal elevator and transact other business. Fargo - the contract for the battleship service has been let by the committee appointed by Gov. Burke, to the Sundberg Company of this city. It will be made by a New York firm that has furnished forty percent of the services for the various ships. The designs are simple and the wild rose and buffalo head figure with the dolphin in the relief work. June 17, 1910 NORTH DAKOTA NEWS Lansford - this city is arranging for a festival June 22. Drake - hoboes are making considerable trouble at this town. Hamilton - this city will endeavor to enforce the curfew ordinance. Brampton - the post office at this place was recently destroyed by fire. Montrose - this town has five new bank buildings in process of construction. Hampden - the second annual spring festival at this place was highly successful. Harvey - the Methodists of this city have let the contract for a new $13,000 church edifice. Grand Forks - the recent rains have greatly improved the corn prospects of the entire state. Beach - this city has started the ball rolling for the removal of the county seat to this city. Lidgerwood - both the Soo and the Great Northern are making extensive improvements at this place. Minot - the Congregationalists of North Prairie have organized and proposed to erect a church building. Steele - President Worst of the agricultural college has been announced as speaker for the old settlers' picnic. Fargo - the latest vital statistics report shows 809 births in the state for May and 291 deaths for the same time. Hensler - this new city in Oliver County is growing very fast and arrangements have been made for a bank here. Bismarck - the contract has been let for the construction of a building for the International Harvester Co. at this place. Harvey - this city is making extensive preparations for the street carnival which will be held June 16-18. Gwytner - a factional fight is on here regarding the name of the town. Some want the old name of Fort Rice retained. New Salem - Fred Rinker, the "millionaire kid" who recently escaped from an officer, has been recaptured at this place. Kenmare - the briquetting machines for the coming plant at this place has been tested in Minneapolis with excellent results. Devils Lake - the Fort Totten Indian band has been engaged to furnish music for the coming Chautauqua season at this place. Devils Lake - a company with a capital of $50,000 has been organized here for the purpose of manufacturing paper from straw. Cooperstown - the tri-county W.C.T.U. convention for Barnes, Griggs and Stutsman Counties will be held at this city June 28-30. Dresden - German Lutherans of this county will erect a $10,000 church building to take the place of the present house of worship. Williston - Tuesday, August 8, is the day decided on by the executive committee as the date of the editorial association meeting at this place. Fargo - the required sum to secure the Carnegie Library for Fargo College has been raised and work on the building is to be commenced at once. Mandan - a Minneapolis concern has the contract of erected elevators on the new branches of railroad running north and south from this city. Williston - Robert Cochrane of Schafer offers to furnish one of the steers for the proposed barbecue for the editors at their state meeting at this place in July. Carrington - twenty-five thousand gopher tails were received in one day at the auditor's office for the purpose of obtaining the bounty paid by the county. Brinsmade - this city will hold a celebration June 17, gopher day. Prizes will be offered for the one presenting the most gopher tails for bounty and for other events. Wilton - the first market day for this place was a success. The largest load of wheat brought to town contained 150 bushels and the prize for the same was $5.00. Ambrose - rapid work is being done by the graders on the Stanley-Montrose line of the Great Northern and it will not be long before trains will be run to Montrose. Fargo - reports from the Northern Pacific "Better Farming Special" received from the various towns in the state say that it is doing good work and attracting large numbers of people. Grand Forks - Sidney Clark of this city will preside as moderator at the 96th annual convention of the Red River Valley association, which will this year be held at Calvin, June 22 and 23. Fargo - representative Hanna is authority for the statement that the survey of the Fort Berthold reservation would be hurried to completion in order that it could be opened at settlement this fall. Fargo - the newly consecrated bishop Rt. Rev. J.J. O'Reilly of this city, officiated at the dedication of the new Catholic Church at Hankinson. It is a structure that would do credit to any North Dakota town. Carrington - a wreck on the railroad prevented the petition of attorney Miller of McHenry for a place on the primary ballot from reaching the county auditor in time to be filed according to the provision of the primary law. Carrington - Mrs. Ben Chemli, a young woman of this town and a mother of three months old twins, committed suicide by shooting herself with a gopher gun. She had been suffering with severe headaches which are supposed to have caused the act. June 24, 1910 ROCK LAKE NEWS Nels W. Hawkinson was a Cando visitor on Thursday, probably on business bent. President Kelley of the Farmers road was in Rock Lake business Tuesday evening. Miss Amy Bangs returned to her duties after spending Monday and Tuesday at her home in Egeland. The stores are closing at seven o'clock these evenings and on Sundays. Several from Rock Lake attended the celebration in Egeland and report a black time - call it dusty Monday. The crops seem to be doing very badly indeed. Some say a total failure - hot winds have done most of the damage. Job Harrison left for Devils Lake on Wednesday. He will act as the official photographer at the Chautauqua. Quite a number of the people who attended the Dunkard association meeting in Indiana returned home Wednesday evening, reporting a good time. The Methodist Church Sunday School rendered a program on Sunday last, their contribution to Children's day. They acquitted themselves in a very creditable manner. The church was decorated for the occasion. C.A. and Mrs. Lapham were in Cando Saturday evening. Mr. Lapham returned Sunday evening, but Mrs. Lapham did not return until Wednesday evening, when she was accompanied by Mrs. C.J. Lord, it being the intention of the latter to spend a few days here while Mr. Lord is in Fargo on business. Mr. and Mrs. W. Hamilton and family who were also accompanied by Miss M. Emerson, stayed in the village several days last week and this. Mr. Hamilton is a brother of Mrs. Latham and Mrs. Lindsay. They were enroute to Portland, Oregon, coming from new York. A very pleasant family reunion took place while they were here. They left for Portland on Wednesday morning where they expect to locate. LOCAL NEWS John Locklin is reported quite sick. Several parties from here have been fishing but none have reported very good success. Miss Daisy Lloyd of Larimore is visiting with her brother Robert and family this week. Quite a number from here are attending the celebration at St. John toady. John Pound and Nels Hawkinson seem to be the popular candidates for representatives. G.W. Lawrence this week sold his farm to B.L. Thomas. Burt says he is pretty well pleased with the crop outlook so far. A party consisting of napoleon Lambert and sister and Misses Sadie and Clavie Noyes of Rolla visiting friends here Thursday evening. With this issue The News becomes of legal age, having been in existence six months, which is the required length of time as the law now reads. Woe unto the finny tribe of Rock Lake, Canada. Jeff Leftwich, Hugh Lymburn and Jim Brown, together with their families are spending the week there. A fine rain spread over the entire county Thursday night. While it came too late to save the crops in some localities, in others it did an immense amount of good. Contractor Boyce and his crew were passengers on the Wednesday morning train to Egeland where they took the Soo across to Thorne where they have a big job on. Contractor McKee and his crew are working overtime to have the large barn on the W.N. Steele place east of town done by next Friday night, when a rousing big dance will be given. The barn is 40x60. They are also building a house 28x36. A trip to Devils Lake on the Farmers line and up the Great Northern to Cando reveals the fact that the people of this vicinity have been more generously remembered by the rain maker than those of Ramsey County and the southern part of Towner County. The region around Cando has been hit probably the hardest with the drought - the estimated damage being from fifty to seventy-five percent. Comrade T.E. Latimer of the Illinois State University, is scheduled for two lectures, June 28-29 at Cando, in the interest of Socialism. If you happen to be in Cando on those dates, don't fail to hear him. He will certainly tell you some things you never heard of. J.R. Wills returned Saturday from his trip to Hot Springs, where Mrs. Wills underwent an operation. Mrs. Wills is now in Watertown, South Dakota, much improved but still too weak to stand the long trip home. Her friends here are glad to know however that she is on the way to health again. The committee in charge of the band are in communication with the Cartwright fair association relative to furnishing to furnishing music for their fair on August 6. They will no doubt make a bargain as the people over there were well pleased with the work of the band on June 16 and the band is steadily improving. The News is authorized to state that while the statement has gone out through unauthentic sources that the races scheduled for July 4, 5 and 6 at Cando had been postponed, that such is not the case, and not only will the races by pulled off as advertised but that they will be better than ever before. Mrs. Lillie Diggins, who leaves tonight for her new home in Cando, North Dakota was surprised Wednesday evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stevens, 1315 South Second Avenue, by a crowd of about fifty friends. They presented her with a beautiful silk parasol. The evening was enjoyed socially, and Mrs. Stevens served light refreshments. Peonies and other flowers were used as decorations. Times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa Joy and sorrow visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Lloyd the past week. On Saturday morning last, a baby boy came to bring joy to the young people. Only for a few hours however, for the grim messenger of death entered the home Monday morning and claimed the young life as its toil. Mrs. Lloyd is rapidly improving. NORTH DAKOTA NEWS Manning - an Odd Fellows lodge of thirty-nine members has been organized in this town. Max - at an election recently held, Conners school district voted almost solid for consolidation. Williston - Samuel Adams of Perth is the new receiver of the United States land office in this city. Devils Lake - the postmasters of the state will hold their annual meeting in this city July 12 and 13. Ruso - citizens of this town are pleased with the prospect of securing another line of railroad for the town. Munich - this town voted to incorporate and an election for municipal officers will be held in the near future. Fargo - the Eagles of the state will meet in Fargo in July. Preparations are being made for a two day session. Fargo - an election has been called for the purpose of voting bonds for an electric light plant and a water works system. Devils Lake - Judge William Orr, one of the pioneer settlers of this county, died recently at his home in this city. Rhame - Northern Pacific surveyors have been busy north of town and some right of way has already been purchased. Esmond - the surveyors on the Ayr to Minot cut-off of the Great Northern are setting grade stakes between this city and Towner. Cando - at the term of the district court set for June 20, the libel cases against Messrs. Brewer and Plumely will be called. Beach - the quarter section of land adjoining the fair grounds was recently sold for $62.50, the record price for dirt in this vicinity. Fargo - Fargo High School graduated a class of fifty-eight this year, the largest in the history of the school and also of the state. Carrington - four thousand dollars worth of town lots were sold at the opening sale of town lots in Grace City, the new town near here. Finley - the tow mill at this place was burned to the ground. This is quite a blow to the place and was the second fire inside of a week. Plaza - one thousand head of cattle were recently shipped to parties in this town from Canada. This is the largest importation ever made in the state. Carrington - Lee Miller, charged with second degree murder in killing his father, was brought before the insanity board and declared by it to be sane. Oakes - the commercial clubs of Oakes, Fullerton and Monango have met and taken the first steps to contest the recent election for court house bends. Forman - Herbert Foster, who was arrested for robbing and burning the Cooper Brothers Store, has confessed and will be sentenced by the district court. Mandan - Birsell, located seventeen miles east of Mott on the C.M. & St. P. Ry., is the latest town to be established in the state. It is in rich farming country. Dawson - the Northern Pacific is building a three-track coal shed at this place. It has a concrete foundation and will be a most substantial building. Grand Forks - in the Toscas case in this city one of the witnesses for the prosecution admitted he had been sent out to get Toscas to do the act for which he is being tried. Blaisdell - burglars broke into the Great Northern depot in this city and ransacked a large amount of merchandise, stealing a considerable quantity. They successfully covered their tracks. Minot - Mrs. C.A. Dopson has been committed to the asylum for the insane. She recently inherited a considerable sum of money and this is supposed to be the cause for her mental condition. Devils Lake - Dr. Clinton Smith was fined for breaking the speed laws of this city. He was on a hurry up call to set a broken leg and believes the city ought to make an exception in such cases. Dickinson - with the letting of the contract for $10,000 worth of machinery to be installed in its mine at Lehigh, the Consolidated Coal Co. has taken the first step toward mining coal on an extensive scale. Steele - Monday was Old Settlers day and the day also for the better farming special. The attendance was very large and the corps of instructors were taken out in autos and shown some fine fields of grain. Beach - Agaard Carlson, a bachelor living eight miles from town, found a baby girl about two days old on his doorstep one morning recently. It was adopted by a lady near there who had recently lost a baby daughter. Devils Lake - it is reported that the Soo railroad is having trouble in securing its right of way to this city and that some farmers are asking as hush as $300 and $400 an acre for the land wanted for right of way purposes. Grand Forks - Judge Templeton has handed down a decision in the case involving the constitutionality of the fee clause of the primary election law. He holds it unconstitutional and instructs the county auditor of this county to return the candidate's money. The case will likely go to the supreme court for final settlement. NOTICE FOR BIDS Bids will be received by the Board of Rosedale School District No. 6 up to 2 o'clock p.m. Monday July 18, 1910, for the furnishing of a hot air heating plant for Hansboro, North Dakota School. Plans and specifications of building on file at the District Clerks office in Hansboro, North Dakota. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Dated June 17, 1910 at Hansboro, North Dakota. By order of the School Board, O.L. Sande, President Thos. J. Clifford, District Clerk July 1, 1910 NORTH DAKOTA NEWS McClusky - this city has subscribed $1,500 toward a baseball team. Fargo - the excessive heat recently was the cause of two deaths in this city. Goodrich - the Northern Pacific railroad is making an addition to its depot at this place. Havey - S.A. Platt became entangled in the plows of an outfit and was badly paralyzed. Jamestown - the Seventh Day Adventists held a successful camp meeting this city. Jamestown - the Lady Maccabees held a successful state convention in this city recently. Bismarck - light rains have given the crops in this part of the state another lease on life. Mandan - this city is much pleased with the $55,000 appropriation of congress for a federal building here. Washburn - nearly 10,000 pounds of butter were made by the creamery at this place for the month of May. Kenmare - the two year old son of S.A. Christianson met death by being run over by a wagon loaded with stone. Minot - Henry Saunders of the reclamation service met death near Trenton by electrocution while testing the lines. Belfield - improvements are being made in the post office building here and 103 new lock boxes have been added. Devils Lake - the Chautauqua season has opened with flattering prospects and will continue open until July 13. Ashley - voters of McIntosh County will have a chance to vote for the increased jurisdiction of county judge on June 29. Minot - a fire of unknown origin did damage here to the extent of $30,000 and for a time threatened the entire business district. Dickinson - the State Agricultural College board has appropriated $4,500 for the new seed home at the experimental station near this city. Dickinson - as the result of a meeting held in this city it is probable that it will secure a first-class hospital . Bishop Wehrle presided at the meeting. Regent - work still progresses on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound railway which will run through this city and trains are looked for by August 1. New Rockford - Eddy County now has two new towns. Munster, nine miles west of this city and Dundas, eight miles east, both are on the Great Northern extension. Fargo - after a three days strenuous examination the North Dakota Examination Board of Pharmacists passed on and admitted sixty-one candidates as registered pharmacists and pharmacist's assistants. Fargo - four incendiary fires, one near-cremation as a result, an aggregate loss which is roughly estimated at $20,000 and a holdup by a lone masked robber came in rapid succession during three short hours between 12:30 and 3:30 Saturday morning. Lidgerwood - electric lights will soon be provided for the people of Lidgerwood, work on the plant being constructed by A. Movius having been practically completed. A small dynamo has already been placed in operation but it will take a week or two to get the entire plant in operation. Hebron - the special farming train has come and gone and while here learned much about our clays. Those in charge of the train are authority for the statement that the wheat in this vicinity makes the best showing of any in the state and that it is remarkably healthy and clean. Bismarck - Frank Deardahl, a homesteader near Steele, died at a hospital here as the result of a bad fall from a bronco which he was riding. Minot - Claude Holland, who was adjudged insane by the examining board, was found to have $500 in cash and checks on his person at the time of the hearing. Hillsboro - expert marksmen of the North Dakota National Guard will meet in this city some time next month in a competitive shoot. The object is to select a team to compete in the national rifle competition in August. North Dakota is said to have a chance to carry off first honors this year. Fargo - Congressman Hanna has secured a total of $235,000 appropriations for public buildings in this state. Three buildings one at Williston, Mandan and Wahpeton have been provided for and the purchase of sites at Jamestown, Valley City and Dickinson. This is said to be the best record ever made by one man in congress at one session. Jamestown - Jamestown members of the Order of Eagles have let the contract for the construction of a new building which will provide a home for the lodge. The contractor expects to start operations immediately. The building will be 50x143 feet, two stories high and is to be modern throughout. The order is expending about $35,000 in its construction. Lisbon - real estate men in this city have been stung by a man representing himself to be a land man in search of land for several farmers. He first cashed a small express order at a bank and returned a few days saying his men would soon be there. He then asked the real estate men to endorse a check for him which he cashed at one of the banks. The checks come back marked either as forgeries or "no money on deposit". He cleared up $300 here and $150 in Edgeley. LOCAL NEWS Rock Lake is preparing for a big crowd Monday. Miss Sorenson left for her home in Buxton, North Dakota Thursday. The farmers of Elsberry have decided not to build an elevator this summer. It is no uncommon sight to see wagon loads of flour going out of town these days. G.A. Olson placed a fine large glass show counter in his store this week. Mr. Ben Weinerberg arrived from Stillwater, Minnesota Tuesday and has accepted a position with the G.A. Olson Co. A heavy rainfall was reported at Cando Thursday evening. Very little fell in this vicinity and the fields are looking pretty brown. Turn out Sunday morning and listen to District Superintendent Moore at the church. Sunday School at the usual hour. Preaching in the evening, subject, "Our Nation". C.A. Weeden accompanied by his two little daughters Alberta and Nellie went to Devils Lake Thursday to meet his sister Miss Nellie Weeden and her friend Miss Adah Kreider of Wenona, Illinois, who have come to visit with Mr. Weeden and his mother. Wednesday afternoon the ladies assembled to give the church a thorough cleaning. While the scrubbing was in process some one raised the register in the floor and Mrs. Leftwich accidentally fell in. For a time it was thought that she was seriously hurt but within an hour she was able to move about again and aside from a shaking up and a scare she was not badly hurt. Ye editor has always prided himself on being able to come out on top but he was caught underneath toady when we took a stroll over to where Geo. Laing had just moved his house and barn. After inspecting the barn and the lower portion of the house, Mr. Laing was near the top and ye editor about midway, the stairs broke, precipitating both to the floor with George on top. Aside from the loss of several inches of cuticle from the hunker of the editor and a good shaking up on Mr. Laing's part, no serious results followed except that it may be necessary to give the house a thorough airing before moving in as the things that both said may have some effect on the air in the house. G.A. Olson went to Starkweather Thursday to look after his farming interests there. Miss Villia Murdick with Mac's auto hustled in the lady voters Wednesday to the polls to vote for Superintendent. Blackburn & Worsley have secured the services of Miss Bessie Bangs, formerly hello girl at Rock Lake, to attend to the switch board here. Misses Angie and Louis Agarand and Leda Fernyhough, arrived home from the normal school at Valley City Saturday to spend their vacation. Mrs. F.C. Rather of Perth was the guest of Miss Sorenson at the Murdick House Tuesday afternoon. Oliver and Wilford Roy of Manchester, New Hampshire two nephews of Prof. Racicot, came up Tuesday evening with the Prof. They went to work with Contractor McKee. L.H. Sennett of Cando will soon move to Roundup, Montana where the former disreputable editor of the Cando Herald, Holy Willie, now resides. God save Montana. July 8, 1910 JULY FOURTH AT ROCK LAKE Heavy Wind Makes Things Uncomfortable for Those Who Went to Neighboring Village to Celebrate Monday morning, July 4 dawned bright and clear and it was a happy crowd of about a hundred that boarded the train here in anticipation of a glorious time at Rock Lake. And it was a glorious time. About the time the train arrived in Rock Lake the wind rose to cyclonic fierceness making life unpleasant for all who were on the streets. Sand and dust in blinding clouds swept the streets and many of the sports scheduled for the day had to be stricken from the program. At 11 o'clock the Hansboro band played several selections on the street and then the throng of people gathered at the bowery where Presiding Elder J.G. Moore delivered a stirring oration. Rev. Brown in a few appropriate sentences introduced the speaker, who, with many pertinent and laughable anecdotes interspersed through a patriotic and cheering address held his hearers in rapt attention, and all seemed sorry when Mr. Moore concluded his address. All would have liked to listen to him talk another hour. The bowery was then made ready and throughout the afternoon and evening those who so desired engaged in the terpsichorean art. A ball game in the afternoon between the Perth and Bisbee terms was played under great difficulty and resulted in a victory for the Bisbee team. At 7:30 the train left for Hansboro, bringing a tired, dirty and disappointed bunch of celebrators. A PLEASANT SURPRISE A very pleasant surprise was played on Mrs. G. Locklin when a number of her friends and relatives gathered at her home early Monday morning to help her celebrate the glorious Fourth - that glorious day being also her sixty-eighth birthday. Immediately upon the arrival of the guests the hostess was caught and draped in our national colors amid loud cheers from the enthusiastic fold. A toast appropriate to the occasion was then presented to her. The guests then took possession of the house, and owing to the strong wind their plans for eating a picnic dinner on the lawn could not be carried out, so the tables were spread within doors and all did ample justice to the sumptuous repast spread before them. The afternoon was spent in playing basket ball, in which a number of our worthy young gentlemen found themselves quite closely cornered. An exciting base ball game followed between teams representing Hansboro and Picton, the score being 2 to 0 in favor of Picton. Some of the young men having Kodaks with them took pictures of the house which was tastefully decorated with flags and bunting also several pictures of the guests gathered in groups. After a luncheon of ice cream and cake, the guests took their leave, wishing Mother Locklin many more such happy birthdays and all looking forward to the next Fourth when we will be ready to come again. LOCAL NEWS Misses Edna and Edith Wilson are visiting the Robinsons over in Canada this week. Those who attended the races at Cando report the best races ever pulled off in the county. Will Lipp, the cigar manufacturer from Cando was up Thursday evening taking orders for Havannas. John Wilson spent his fourth in bed. He was taken ill Saturday evening and was confined to his bed until Tuesday morning. Mrs. J.R. Crum returned yesterday evening from Jamestown where she has been visiting with her son for the past week. Her daughter Francis accompanied her. Tom Clifford and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Worsley left in the white Ford Thursday morning for Berwick, the former home of the Worsleys and Cliffords. They will spend the balance of the week. There will be an excursion Sunday to Chautauqua. Train leaves here at 8 o'clock a.m. and will return after the evening performance. Fare $1. This is the only excursion that will run on the Farmers line during the Chautauqua season. In the rise and fall of Geo. Laing and ye editor last week Mr. Laing sustained a broken rib. Geo. Says he's glad we were underneath as otherwise he might have had his neck broken instead. The Hansboro band is growing in popularity. They have been engaged for the fair at Cartwright on August 6 and are considering an engagement at Killarney for August 3, 4 and 5. They will have full new uniforms next week. C.E. Blackorby spent the first part of this week in Grand Forks on business. Rev. Brown of Rock Lake visited Thursday with Rev. and Mrs. Tourtellotte. The press and the pulpit will both have a struggle for existence in small towns for the next year. Hon. Alex Currie was in town today. He ways of 1800 acres of crop he will cut only 60 acres. Mr. Jens Anderson of Hammond, Indiana has been visiting the past ten days with his brothers, A.C. and Otto. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Lawler entertained a number of their friends on the Fourth. A pleasant day was spent. The train Wednesday carried an extra coach to accommodate those along the line who wished to attend the circus. Dave Farrell returned Monday from a two week visit throughout Nebraska and Iowa. He says the prospects there are as slim as they are here. Mr. and Mrs. Murdick, Misses Villia and Velma Murdick, Mr. McDougall, Chris Orton, Jay Wills and Chas. Berg took in the circus at Devils Lake Wednesday. They report a good show. July 22, 1910 RENO ON JULY 4 The streets became more and more jammed. At every step big gambling places did a rushing business. Every where the click of the dies, the whir of the roulette wheel, the call of the dealer and the clink of gold and silver coin was to be heard from the gambling district poured a steady stream of Eastern money. All through the crowd circulated scores of pickpockets. This is a picture of Reno, Nevada on the morning of July 4, as presented by the correspondence of a daily newspaper. Evidently all the scum of the nation was gathered at Reno that day. It was a national convention of the vicious. A general gathering of gamblers, thieves, thugs and brutes to whom the absence of statutory enactment gave protection. But if the opinions of decency prevail and we believe they will it is the last time the State of Nevada will disgrace itself of the nation for the day of prize fighting and prize fighters ins almost gone. It is time to humanize these brutes in the only way it can be done, by making them and their business prohibited by law. This has already been done in most of the states and the seventeen dead and almost one hundred injured in race riots as a result of the Reno affair, is ample reason for having it done as soon as possible in the others. In this connection and to the same purpose civil authorities throughout the country should take immediate and effective action to prevent the prize ring scenes at Reno from being reproduced in the moving picture shows. These hatcheries of vice are bad enough now, without making them worse. FAREWELL SURPRISE Tuesday evening a large number of members of the M.W.A. and R.N.A. lodges gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Crum for a farewell surprise prior to their departure for their new home in St. John on Wednesday. The ladies of the R.N.A. had prepared refreshments in the way of ice cream and cake. Mrs. Tourtellotte in behalf of the members of the lodge in a few appropriate remarks presented Mr. and Mrs. Crum with a handsome silver souvenir tray as a token of their esteem and appreciation of their work in the lodge. Mr. Crum responded in a befitting manner and after a most enjoyable evening the guests departed wishing Mr. and Mrs. Crum God speed in their new home. Mr. Crum's work for the future as representative of the International Harvester Co. will be in the N.W.T. Thus Hansboro loses and St. John gains a highly respected family. RUPTURED BLOOD VESSEL Wednesday morning A.H. Cool, who has been in the employ of R. C. McKee for same time, was brought into town in a semi-unconscious condition and suffering intense pains in his head while the rest of his body was partially paralyzed. Dr. Hamilton was summoned and found that a blood vessel had been ruptured in the man's head. He was taken to the hospital at Cando Thursday evening where he is in critical condition. TRAIN LATE TUESDAY The train was several hours late Tuesday evening on account of something being wrong with the means of propulsion. When near the city of Crocus, Hank found that she would not maintain her regular speed of 61.2 miles per hour, but could not ascertain the cause while she was in motion. At Crocus he made a thorough examination and found that the caflugiator that controls the differential had slipped out of the sopsocket and caused the dinghizer that fits over the dilpot to become twisted in such a way that the transmission could not perform its proper functions. In addition to this difficulty the steering wheel got loose, the batteries weak, the spark plugs dirty and the carburetor got out of adjustment. It took some little time to get her in trim again, but Hank is never at a loss when anything goes wrong and piloted her into port about three hours late. ADVERTISEMENT: THE MURDICK HOUSE Rates $2.00 per day Special Rates by the Week. Large, clean, airy rooms. Special attention given to travelers. Hansboro, North Dakota LOCAL NEWS Sheriff Taylor and Dr. Real of Cando are here today on business. Mr. and Mrs. VanOrder and Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn spent several days at Fish Lake this week. Miss Daisy Pound of Ontario is visiting at the home of her brother, J.W. Pound. Miss Fannie Reese and Miss Kate Hart of St. Clair, Pennsylvania are the guests of the formers brother, Mr. John Reese. The County Commissioner had an unusually long session this time. Meeting on July 4, their work was not completed until July 13. Master Cliff Olson of Rolla and Miss Marie Olson of Cando are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas this week. When Mrs. Jas. Galbraith, who has been visiting her son W.J. out at Picton for several days returns to her home in the east she will have the warmest words of praise for the people around Picton. Through their hospitality her visit to this neighborhood was made a most pleasant one. July 29, 1910 OLD SETTLERS HAVE PICNIC At the Farm Home of J.J. Eikenberry, Short Program and Encouraging Speeches. Rock Lake, North Dakota, July 23. An old settlers' picnic took place Friday in what is called Mount Pleasant Township on the farm of J.J. Eikenberry, north of this place. The participants began to assemble early in the day and some the night before. Many were present from cavalier township as well as Rock Lake. An exceedingly pleasant time was enjoyed by all present. In connection with the day a brief program was given just before noon when the president of the old settlers' association, A.A. Crowl, presided. The meeting was opened with devotional exercises after which the minutes of the previous meeting were read. The Rev. T.S. Brown was then called upon to give an address, dinner following immediately at the close of the address. Dinner took place in the grove and in the barn. Dinner over, further exercises were enjoyed at which the officers were elected for the ensuing year. A.A. Crowl retaining the office of president, C. Fish that of treasurer and J.J. Eikenberry that of secretary. J.V. Brooke of Cando gave an eloquent and profitable address. At the outset, while lamenting the fact of the shortage of crops in this section of the country he proceeded to encourage and enhearten his hearsers as to the future. In order to enforce his argument he contrasted the condition of the early settlers who landed a Plymouth Rock of who were with the John Smith party with the condition of this day. In doing so he thought the early settlers in North Dakota were as heroic as any, especially when one noted man described it as nothing more than an alkali waste. It needed something like heroism to bring this state from that condition to that of one of the best in the United States. If anyone undertook to whisper despair in the ears of the residents in the northern part of Towner County he would have a lonely task, for those men laughed at the idea they could be balked. Labor fell lightly on the younger generation because of what the old settlers had done. Songs were sung by the Rev. T.S. Brown, while Mrs. H. Cover presided at the organ. Several old settlers spoke. If July 23 stands for "skidoo", then the drought which has been troubling this district for many weeks was broken this morning when an abundant rain fell for several hours. The rain fell so copiously that inches of rain fell. Those in the midst of haying will be hindered, but the general good done will be greater than the hindrance. Forum EGELAND MINISTER WEDS A very pretty wedding took place at Egeland yesterday when Rev. R.A. Garrison was married to Miss Minnie Paulina Borgerson. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. John Borgerson, and is well and favorably known in Egeland and vicinity. Mr. Garrison and his bride will shortly leave on a wedding trip to the east, going by way of Duluth and the lakes to Buffalo, thence to Philadelphia and visit some of Mr. Garrison's relatives. BAND HAS ENGAGEMENT Hansboro Band Has Three-Day Engagement at Killarney - One at Cartwright Wednesday afternoon the management of the band received word from the fair committee at Killarney for the Hansboro Band to be on hand and furnish music and August 3, 4 and 5 for the big Southern Manitoba fair. The band is in good shape now and will give our Canadian cousins a fine repertoire of musical selections. Hansboro should feel proud of the fact that we have one of the best organized and best drilled bands in this part of the state. Few realize what an amount of work it requires on the part of the personnel of a band, to bring it to the point of proficiency. During the entire summer our boys have worked hard and been to a great deal of personal inconvenience and expense without the slightest remuneration except the satisfaction of knowing that Hansboro would some day have a band that it would fee proud of. Under the careful instruction of Prof. Racicot their efforts have been rewarded and we now have an organization that would be a credit to a city several times the size of Hansboro. Next week will try their metal - from Killarney they go to Cartwright on August 6, making four days of strenuous work. Prof. Racicot will accompany the boys on this trip. Killarney promises one of the best fairs this year that they have ever had. They have an abundance of sports scheduled and there will be no end of entertainment. A.H. COOL DIED MONDAY In the Hospital at Cando. Buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery Monday Evening at 7:00 o'clock. A.H. Cool who was taken to the hospital at Cando last week, died at 11 o'clock Monday morning. Mr. Cool, who was working for Contractor McKee, in some way last Tuesday week, ruptured a blood vessel in his head. He was brought to Hansboro and later it was decided that it would be better for him to go to the hospital. He was taken to Cando Saturday, where all was done for him that medical skill could do. He never regained consciousness and was completely paralyzed when the end came. He was buried in Odd Fellow Cemetery Monday evening at 7:00 o'clock. Ashford H. Cool was born in West Virginia. He was 31 years old at the time of his death. He had been a resident of North Dakota 16 years, having come to Rolla with his parents when he was 15 years of age. He leaves his parents, Rev. and Mrs. A.S. Cool. Now living in Virginia, three sisters, Mrs. Anna Stearns and Mrs. May Rylander of Grand harbor and Mrs. J.A. Cherry of Hansboro to mourn their loss. ROCK LAND NEWS Rev. Z. James of Rolla, visited in Rock Lake on Wednesday last. Former Assistant Cashier Thompson, Mrs. Thompson and daughter left for their former home on Wednesday. We hope Mr. Thompson may soon regain his health. Mrs. C.A. Lapham is spending a few days at Fish Lake, the guest of Mrs. Harry Lord. Mr. Lapham also spent from Saturday until Monday there. The grade across the big slough east of town was finished on Friday of last week. Forman Burnett is to be congratulated on the work of himself and his men. Rev. Brubaker and Rev. Deal returned from the St. John district on Thursday, where they had been holding special meetings. Mr. John Lindsay has taken possession of his new house, having moved into it Monday last. Mrs. Harter and family returned from their trip east on Wednesday and reported an excellent time. Mrs. Kreiger and family joined Mr. Kreiger this week and are occupying the Fred Lindsay house on Main Street. LOCAL NEWS Some barley is being harvested this week. Rev. and Mrs. Tourtellotte are visiting this evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Underwood. Rev. T.S. Brown of Rock Lake was in town Monday on business. While here he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson. Mrs. Anna Stearns has been in Hansboro most of this week settling up the affairs of her brother. She returned this morning to Grand Harbor. Some of the young fellows have constructed a tennis court on the lots between VanOrder's store and the drug store and are having some lively games these evenings. The band will leave here Tuesday evening in time to catch the ten o'clock train at Cartwright. They will not return to Hansboro until Saturday evening. Wm. Howard and family expect to leave the first of the week for Cando, where Mr. Howard has accepted a position with the electric light company. The Picton School picnic in the Fernyhough grove Friday was well attended and a most enjoyable day spent. A fine picnic dinner and all the pleasures of a school picnic was the program for the day. If you take close observations when you meet Harry Asplin or Jay Wills you will observe a young moustache sprouting. We don't know why the boys are raising moustaches, but presume it will help to balance them up when they ride horseback. F.C. Jones who has been in the employ of A. Blackorby as machinist and expert since spring, left Wednesday morning in response to a message to the effect that his mother was sick at their home in Iowa. C.A. Weeden returned from a trip to his farm at Manvel Wednesday. Mr. Weeden stopped in Grand Forks long enough to see the flying machine which was on exhibition at the fair. Mr. Weeden says it was a great sight to see the great machine soar hundreds of feet into the air. Mr. and Mrs. L. Dingman of Sarles are visiting with the George Wilsons. Mrs. J.E. Knight will entertain the Ladies Aid Wednesday afternoon. NOTICE FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that bids will be received by the School Board of Rosedale School District No. 5, up to 2 o'clock of the 14th of August 1910 for the furnishing of teams, drivers and conveyances for four school routes to be known as follows: Route No. 1 Andy Dumphy, W.E.H. Porter, Hugh Lymburn, John Ed Knight, A.C. Anderson, Mike Lawler, Jas. Brown. Route No. 2 Wm. Krisher, F.H. Gray, John Scott, Ole Peterson, Svan Olson, J.W. Pound Route No. 3 Chas. Tribble, Wm. Disher, Marion King, Thomas Rod, Jerry Blackorby Route No. 4 Henri Janson, J.D. Leftwich, Geo. Smith, Robert McCauley, T.J. Moore, Wm. Wilson Route No. 5 S.L. Phillips, Claude Lawrence Drivers will be expected to carry any additional children coming into their respective routes at an average cost per mile. Drivers must furnish bond in the sum of $200.00 for the faithful fulfillment of their contract. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Dated July 29, 1910 at Hansboro, North Dakota. By order of the school board, O.L. Sande, President Thos. J. Clifford, Dist. Clerk