The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-24
State Grab Bag

Editor Hancock of the Edgeley Mail
has been blowing himself for several
days-grip.
LaMoure is still after fair in good
earnest. Fargo has an equity in one
which 1t is claimed could be purchas-
ed at a bargain.
The Evening Press recently assign
ed number OF reasons why men
drink. 1t did not mention the read
ing of the Press headlines as one of
them, however.
If the editors who are advocating
the publishing of the session laws in
the official papers convey that sugges-
ton to some members Of the late leg
islature there will be an increased
mortality in the state from heart fail
ure.
Some final proofs have been reject
ed or held up recently because the
claimant had not raised any crop on
the land but had simply resided on
the land and done a certain amount
of breaking. Cultivation means rails
ing crops and not merely breaking
the land
VIM. Trenbeath, of Neche, lost a
valuable horse in a peculiar manner
recently. The horse had Just been
turned out in the stable yard, and
was running about when he slipped,
fell and slid for quite a distance on
a sheet of ice. bringing up with his
head against tree, killing him in
stantly, presumably breaking his neck.
Earl Peck, the professional from
bone artist, who grew up in Cando, has
found recognition, reward and fame in
Oregon. He has been elected as
member of the Oregon State band,
which will he sent to the jamestown
exposition to represent that state. The
band is under the leadership of ia
nous Italian ibandmaster, and each
player receives salary of $25 per
week.
The N. P. has converted the ladies'
waiting room at LaMoure into an ex-
press Office. giving as an excuse that
the express business has grown so
great that 1t was necessary to take
the additional room to accommodate
it. If the express business does not
fall of at that point under the new
temperance laws. the company should
be made to increase its accommoda-
tiions.
The Crows" well known theatrical
people, have disposed of all their
property in Iowa, and will make their
headquarters and future home on
their claims southwest of Ray, where
fhnxy %ah
shipped out two carloads of house.
eled and showed in almost every state
sion that that section Of North Dakota
was an ideal place to locate.
From the number of new settlers
reported in the columns of the press
of the western counties it would seem
that the sensational stories of famine
and freezing which were published so
extensively in the Minneapolis Jour-
nal and the Grand Forks Herald con-
WINGED the people of other states that
the climate of North Dakota was the
best in the world Taking these pa
pers at the opposite of what they say
usually secures the truth.
After two years spent in Alabama,
Axel Lundgren has returned to Bow
bells, and is very anxious to buy back
the farm south of the city that he sold
when the fever to go south took hold
of him. Two years in Alabama has
given him surfeit of the south, and
now, though a little too late, he sees
and acknowledges his mistake in SELL
ing for pittance of its real value a
magnificent farm in the Bowbells coun-
try, which he could not repurchase to-
day at many times what he received
for it, to chase sunbeams and live on
wind, alligatOrs and malaria in the
sunny south," so-called.
A couple of boys from near the
Canadian line came down on the farm
ers road last night and stopped at the
Sevilla hotel at Devils Lake. Upon
retiring they took turn about trying
to blow out the electric light. After
working in vain an hour or so they
sent for the clerk to come and help
them out When the clerk went into
the room he found one of them blow
ing away at the bulb. and he declared
he could not find an air hole in the
"durn thing" 1t is also related that
in using the telephone one of them in
sisted in talking into the ear receiver,
and was very much Disguised because
he could not hear.
The Donnybrook boys have develop
ed a mania for making life miserable
for any one of their number who is
careless enough to go away and come