Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-05-07
NORTH DAKOTA NOTES


Seeding is said to have fair start
in Trail county
The Grand Forks Times is afraid
Packard will start preaching again.
Fargo's city assessor will use
card system in making their annual
canvass. ss5E=
Another long term of district court
is about to begin at Minot There are
forty-nine cases on the calendar
The report sent out from Denbigh,
in Towner county, that oil has been
struck there, is attracting the uni
verse--just now.
Farmers at Mayville owning 6,400s
acres to be. -sown to wheat have signed
an agreement to hold their crop until
the price reaches a dollar bushel.
A Milton farmer has recovered a
pocketbook containing $3.50 which he
lost five months ago. His son found
it on the road to town. ;..
Fargo people have already started
fishing excursions to Detroit.
The Odd Fellows have organized
Canton at Williston. It is the third in
the state. && 65 y.
d, Sheldon Progress: * That story
a cave full Of boose in the. public
street at ii Bismarck makes a noise
like chapter from the life. and
works of Baron Munchausen.
Senator Sharpe has the permission
of the Lidgerwood Broadaxe to be-
come a gang candidate for COVER
nor if-he wants to. But Peewee
Packard and "Reiny," too, are yet to
be consulted. n
The people of Mayville want a
Scandinavian to succeed Carhart as
president of the normal school there.
Mayyille should remember the normal
is a state institution, and there are
other people to consider besides
themselves. Il
The Williston Herald boosts Frank
Chapman--tWice a member Of the
house as the first state senator from
the new district comprising Williams
and Mckenzie counties. The Herald
has picked good man for the place
all right. d s $s
The pension vouchers Of veterans
who reside west Of Grand Forks in
this state were lost In the g. N.
wreck at Bartlett April Is and some
200 old veterans are greatly incon-
venienced as a result. It will require
several months to straighten out the
matter. s5s.ss=
Sheldon Progress The Ransom
County Immigration association Off
| ces are displaying samples of
pressed brick made by the Hebron
Fire & Pressed Brick company, of
Hebron, N. D., the finest thing in that
line that has ever been shown in this
locality. Builders contemplating fine
brick fronts or interior work will do
well to investigat this home product
before going to Duluth or Menominee
where tradition induces most arch
fleets to send for this class Of goods.
Lisbon Free Press: The soldiers
Home board had a session on impor.
tant matters Thursday. There were
present B. r. Bigelow Of jamestown,
department commander of the G.: A.
r.. and chairman of the board also
D. F. siegfried, of sanborn; Col. r.
II. Hankinson, of Hankinson; Steen
Hanson, of Sheldon and %. r. Sperry,y,
tof Lisbon. Messrs. Siegfried and
Sperry succeed Col. John D. Black, Of
Valley City and R. M. Davis. Of Lis
bon Col. Black having been on the
board since its organization.
At Neville. just as the family Of
W. M. Short was preparing to sit
down to dinner, the beams overhead
gave way. precipitating about 1000
feet Of maple flooring which was
stored up stairs. and which crushed
down upon the inmates Of the room
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Short were caught
inthe falling mass but for the kitchen
furniture they would have been terri
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