The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-07
STATE GRAB BAG
Mandock is to have a new hospital

Inc MclntO6n Republican Ia seven.
teen years old.
Lansford has new fire fighting an.
paratus.
The Paramount News says that COM
munity had slashing shower,
H. r. Young has assumed active
management of the Berwick Post.
A rear end collision in the Mandan
yards killed seven horses and two
head of cattle.
The large number of prospective
weddings has induced ieweler to
locate at Grano.
Bowbells voted for water works and
sewerage and both carried by North
Dakota republican majorities.
The village trustees put the lid on
at Lansford, and then hired a man to
watch that no one lifted it.
A thief near Bowbells drove into A.
w. Movius' meadow and hauled away
all the hay the latter had cut.
Mike De la Bere wants Prof. Ladd
to certify the brand of liquor which
can be safely drank in this state.
The Cogswell Enterprise wants the
next legislature to investigate the op-
portunities for graft in the state print
ing laws.
An epidemic of barn fires has been
prevailing in Mandan for some weeks
past, two o'clock of Sunday after.
noon being the favorite starting time.
Harry Hart the owner of the famous
democratic donkey, offered it to the
Kenmare Democrats as their ascot
for the democratic convention at
Minot.
John Jacobson who is stone mason
doing work at the new town of Ker-
init, drives to the town from his farm
in sulky drawn by yoke of eighteen
months old calves.
The New Rockford Transcript kicked
until it got the hitching post removed
from the streets and it now wants the
merchants to stop burning paper in
the middle of the streets.
Kermit which is not fully three
weeks old is one of the busiest towns
on the new 500 line Lumber and
building material can hardly be haul
ed in here as fast as the carpenters
can put it up.
Two lovers from Minot were stopped
in Buford, and returned on to Minot
to explanationize for the haste in
which they departed from the metropo-
lis of the Mouse river 1t was reported
as elopement.
The Kuhn creamery did an excep-
tionally good business during the
month of July. The patrons received
in cash $2,557.33. John G. Sempel re-
ceived $101.31 from eighteen COWS dur
ing the month
Two of the rural route carriers
from the Bowbells Office having signi-
fed desire to resign the positions,
parties wishing to enter the service
can find blank applications by apply
ing at that Office
One witness in blind pig" case at
Williston testified that "he did not
know whether he drank whisky, beer
or buttermilk," and the Judge took pity
upon him for his ignorance and placed
him under $1,000 bonds to answer to
charge of perjury.
A small cyclone did a considerable
amount of damage about six miles
south of Lisbon. The Cox farm, for
merly the old Ward farm, suffered
the most. The house was complete
ly demolished, and the occupants. Mr..
and Mrs. Cox were seriously injured.
A New Rockford young man who
stayed out late with his best girl,
went to sleep on his way home and
concluded he was lost, when he
Weakened up. He drove into barn
yard and waited in the rain until
morning and then found he was at
his own barn.
The Wahpeton Globe said that C. M.
johnson Of Richland wouldn't attend
the state fair at Fargo If Alex Nc
Kenzie was to be there as superin-
tendent-as reported. Alex wasn't
there but johnson was-which indi-
Gates how considerate Mckenzie was
OF JOnnSOn'S feel1ngS.
Kenmare had an excitement over a
man who was thought to be an es-
capped murderer from Alabama on
whose head there rested a reward of
$4,000. The suspected man was
Swallowed all night and arrested in
the morning, when it was thought he
was the wrong man and was discharg-
ed.
This week Owen Burns was struck
by tightening near Darlington and in
stantly killed. He had been building
fence with Milo Gravath when they
started across the prairie with team
to escape from the coming storm. The
tightening struck the rig, instantly
killing Burns and knocking Cravath
fnsensible. The horses were both
killed.
The large barn on the farm of Ed.
Fellison, near Darcy, was struck by
lightning and burned. Mr.. Fellison
was away from home and in his alb
sence Mrs. Fellison proved herself
heroine by going into the barn and
cutting the halter ropes of six valuable
horses and driving them out of the
burning structure. She was complete
ly exhausted from the intense heat and
smoke.
The supreme court has recently
handed down decision of much in
terest in banking circles. in case in
which the First National Bank of Lis
bon is plaintiff and the Bank of Wyn-