The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-30
Ray has a post office fight.


stunned by bolt of lightning. One
man had his face badly burned.
Ray has a post Office fight. >,
Some of the weed inspectors of
Pembina county have served notice
that the weeds along the highways
must be cut at once or prosecutions
will follow.
The front page of the Pembina Ex-
press which usually contains some
good hard sense, last week was filled
with official proceedings. More dol
lars, but less sense.
Adams and Fairdale are having
controversary over which place will
accept the location of the 500 divi-
sion. The 500 has not yet been heard
from relative to the controversy.
A Rolette county wife recently filed
on claim as the heir of her deceased
husband, and the happy husband has
just learned that she will not be COM
PEELED to live on the claim in order to
make final proof.
Mrs. d. Mckay of Granville, has
been suffering from blood poisoning.
A few days ago she scratched one of
her lngers on rusty nail and did
not attend to it promptly.
The contract for the construction of
the new Evangelical parsonage at
Cavalier has been awarded to Philip
Koehler.
Forbes has band of Carrie Nation
ties. Their weapons the other eve
ming were rocks in place of hatchets.
During an electric storm lightning
struck the stock sheds at Frank G.
Morris farm six miles west of Penn
bina, and killed four head of cattle
and set fire to the sheds, which were
completely consumed.
Since the government has served
notice on the 500 not to cross the
Berthold reservation, the sale of town
lots at Plaza has been slow, as the
town may be moved.
;. E. F. Barnes, of Amy had the mis-
poisoned and 1t is thought that it was
the loco weed.
The tallest woman on earth was one
of the side show attractions at the
Hamilton fair She is feet and four
inches tall and wears No. "a shoe.
Marshall Mcclure, 1.-THE dean among
newspaper men," has been promised
good job at Washington, and expects
to leave for that city some time during
the coming winter.
On one of the islands in Lake Meto-
goshe, twelve miles from Bottineau,
the. Bottineau Masonic lodge recently
conferred the degrees out in the open,
just like the ancient brethren did
thousands of years ago.
An insane man from Mohall, Ole
Morton, was brought to Minot and
placed in charge of the deputy sheriff.
He did not seem violent and as no
one entered a complaint against him,
he was turned loose. On the way
down the fellow talked about carving
someone with sharp butcher knife
and imagined the men working IN the
fields were Russian soldiers. The man
had $3.50 on his person.
Anton Eggen, a little nine year old
boy arrived at Bottineau having trav-
elled the entire distance from Nor-
way all alone. He was tagged with
directions as to his destination.
The present season has been re-
markably free from hail all over the
state, and the hail insurance compan-
les have reaped a big profit. Some
light losses have been reported In
Cavalier, Walsh, Eddy, Mcintosh and
Ransom counties, but the volume OF
loss to date has been very light.
Five years ago VIM. Savers. Des
Laos farmer arrived in Minot with Just
$500. He invested part of 1t In
house and lot and filed a claim near
Des Laos. Last week Sayers sold one
of his lots for $1.1OO, and the other
for $1,000. These lots cost him but
5000. He Immediately purchased $50
acre farm joining his own, giving him
an entire square section of land.
sayers is worth $4,000 today and he
made practically all of It in North Da-
kota in less than six years.