The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-29

for the improvement of the country
roads OF Fargo.
The Devils Lake Inter-Ocean says
citizen of Crazy wants the saloons
OF that place closed on Sunday. Some
mistake somewhere.
G. w. H. Davis is experimenting
with straw baler which is intended
to manufacture blocks of fax straw
suitable for burning.
A business block in Devils Lake
which went begging for purchaser
at $500 a few years ago was sold
the other day for $4,000 cash.
The Pratt postoffice will be discon-
tinued April Both. One by one the old
landmarks are being removed since
the coming of the railroads and rural
mail routes. -
The editor of the Leeds News went
down to Minnewaukan and discovered
that nearly all the inmates of the Jail
were from Leeds. The inspection was
from the outside of the institution.
The editor Of the Grafton News and
Times holds the Evening Times re-
sponsible for the formers lack Of re-
ligious information. We might as
we'll be held responsible for the fall
of Adam.
Frank B. Tracy, formerly editor Of
the Langdon Republican, writes an in.
teresting short story in the Ladies'
Home Journal under the title 1.-The
Hand in the Fire" He is we'll known
to many of the press boys who are
pleased with his progress as writer.
Father Macdonald. of Sheldon, in
burning some old sermons in his yard
last week, set the prairie afire, and
it came near ending in burning up
the reverend gentleman's barn and
some of the neighbors' buildings. The
Sheldon Progress intimates that the
sermons were ':drier than he supposed
they were" Ought he to have asked
his hearers opinion before touching
the match? It's the first instance of
dry sermon setting North Dakota
afire
A dago passenger ON No. who left
the train at Jamestown to get sack
of apples had to run for the train
as it pulled out of the station.
He made an attempt to catch onto the
step rail, missed it and fell between
the platform in front of the express
Office and the wheels. One wheel hit
the mans foot but strange to say 6e>
escaped uninjured-still holding to
his sack of apples. The spectators
were expecting to see the mangled re-
mains of the passenger left after the
train had pulled out.
The entire upper floor of the E. G..
Patterson building, with the exception
of the rooms occupied by Mockler &
johnson, has been leased by the Bis
marck Commercial club and arrange
ments will Immediately be perfected
making the club social as we'll as
a business organization. Billiard and
pool tables will be installed, and ev-
erything possible will be done to make
the rooms popular among the MEM
bers. The membership has recently
been increased about fifty, and there
are now more than One hundred men,
bers.
Last week while eXcaNating els
tern. NJ. L. Barnes of Cando unearthed
several pieces Of bones when down
'about seven feet indicating that at
some remote time someone or some
thing had been buried there The
bones were too badly decayed. for the
average person to tell whether they
| were human or animal, but the depth
| at which they were found might in
! dictate that they were the former. Who
knows what race may have inhabited
this place in by-gone days and left
these decayed bones as their only
identity.
| Ben Works of Towner county load
ed up his pipe from supply of to-
bacco he carried loosely in his coat
pocket. The air was becoming fragrant
with fumes of the weed when an ex-
plosion took place and Ben's pipe,
eyebrows and general appearance as
sumed a very disappointed appear
ance:: In some way 90 cartridge
had got into Ben's pocket and also
into his pipe and when 1t became
overheated it went of. The ball
lodged in the ceiling and the only
damage was demolished brier and
slight burn on the Worlds noble
brow.
Only Natural.