The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-02
State Grab Bal

The sourls Republican took a few
slices OF epldermis from $24O Packard
last week In that celebrated story
The Lcoting of the Bottineau Cour.
ant"
Editor Whitehead received a letter
from his boyhood home down In old
Indiana which stirred up the inemor.
les OF the days when he was a boy
and probably feasting ON the neigh
bors melons and apples.
While v.ID. Hyatt Of Granville was
on a trip t. Iowa to bury his wife
WHO had Recently died, his neiRhbors
prepared his farm for seeding. That
Is the best Illustration of genuine re
ltgfon this state has seen for a long
time.
The LaMOure Commercial club
which has been in state of quies-
cence for several months, Is showing
signs of coming to life" again. Two
meetings have been held this month.
and program of activity is being
outlined.
Another prisoner has escaped from
the LaMoure county Jail which ia an
easy trick to turn according to the
Chronicle which offers a reward or a
large doughnut for anyone who will
tell how the prisoner was kent in the
Jail as long as he was.
Mike Nconan OF Devils Lake dug
some potatoes in his garden few
days ago and SO far as known they are
the first potatoes to,be dug this year
In Ramsey county. In blowing up
his garden he turned over quite a
lot of them and they were in first
class condition.
The Norwich NJ. w. A. has adopted
unique scheme for securing a larger
attendance at their meetings. At the
first meeting of each month all the
white pebbles and one black pebble
are placed in the urn and the member
drawing the black pebble has his as
sessment paid fer that month hy the
lodge.
Sigval Owenson, who resides near
Sherwood shot and killed large lynx
few days ago. Early in the morn
ing Mrs. Owenson saw the animal ~
ing in the field but thought 1t was
stone that the melting snow had
revealed. Later, however. She noticed
that the supposed stone had moved
and went to investigate. Upon her
approach the lynx rose to its feet and
she fed to the house, while it gave
its attention to the dog which it had
just spied. Before the animals got
together, though, Mr.. Owenson APP
,peared on the scene with the gun
and dispatched the lynx.
A fellow calling himself Mr.. But
terrified dropped into Medina and
stated that he was a man of means
from Iowa and had a draft for $4,000
tucked away in his spectacle case
where nobody would think of look
ing" He was looking for an invest
ment in real estate and the country
just suited him. One of the real es-
tate dealers got hold of him and took
him to his home and entertained him
In royal style. He was an easy buyer
and in short time had closed q deal
for the purchase of 800 acres. The
dealer In real estate wanted to get
the matters closed up SO as to real
lie on some of his commission. The
gentleman was to go to the bank and
make arrangements to have his drafts
cashed, but lost his bearings and took
tie-pass.
The Bowbells Bulletin tells this
one: NJ. A. Smith. after a little
scunle with an unruly horse that he
was leading into one of our livery
barns last Saturday, missed from his
pocket valuable watch that he car
r1ed for many years, and inasmuch
as the chain was dangling from its
button-hole fastening and the watch
mad entirely disappeared from it. the
conclusion was naturally arrived at
that the time-pfece was lost some
where In the vicinity where he had
been wrestling with the horse. Search
was at once instituted, but the watch
failed to materialize, and our friend
says he didn't sleep wink that night
ION account of worry over his loss.
Next morning he went to the 500
depot to bid goodbye to his friend,
A. Ward, who was about to leave for
Canada and to whom he made known
the loss. The latter suggested that
the missing time-piece might be some-
where about Mr.. Smiths clothes, but
the latter hooted the idea, saying that
he had made the most diligent search
Of every pocket; but Mr. Ward, not
fully convinced, thrust his hand into
a side pocket in the overcoat that Mr..
Smith had on. and, to the utter as
| constituent of Smith. brought forth
the missing treasure. How it had
come there Mr.. Smith was at a loss
to know, as he said he had carried
the watch for many. many years and
never in all those years did he re-
member putting the time-piece in a