Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-08
News of the State

Travelling statesmen who make the
Mott line towns say that crop pros.
poets in the vicinity of Flasher and
Gwyther are sgood as any part CT
! the state.
Flasl er's new opera house is near.
ing completion.
! Gwyther had big crowd at her
celebration on the Fourth.
Flasher's Fourth of July celebra.
tion was one of the good ones.
Gilbert, ball player of Mott, pitched
two games at Regent on the Fourth
and allowed only seven hits in the
two games. The betting was even
money that he couldn't even last the
eighteen innings
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In the neighborhood of Lidgerwood
the crops have gone democratic, and
they had only hal ia crop last year.
The Cooperstown Sentinel says St.
Henry, the aviator, broke the contract
made by his company for flights at
the Griggs county fair. and conse'
quently put the fair on the bum.
There is a. man living at Mimic
! whose name has cooling and refresh
ing effect. 1t is Robert Szczys.
Five thousand people attended the
MinOt race meet.
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The La Moure Echo has bought the
Verona Standard.
Minot had a three-day race meet
and no DRINKS.
The United Commercial Travellers
of Bismarck are already planning their
campaign to get the state council OF
the order for Bismarck in 1913, and be-
tween stations are putting in their
time devising new forms of entertain
ment for the boys when they come.
At a trial recently held not very far
from Bismarck, the prosecution had
failed to make case, when the de-
tense put the defendant on the stand.
On direct examination the counsel
accidentally drew statement from
the defendant that stuck him. II
the defendant ever finds this out there
will be an opportunity to get some
good films up in his attorneys office.
Kenmare adveritses for bids on its
new city hall, and on the $4,000
bonds to be issued in payment for it..
Heat naturally develops thunder
storms, and reports of buildings hav'
ing been struck by lightning are un'
usually numerous this season.
John D. Gray Of Valley City was
caught beneath an overturned auto
a few avs ago near that city and he
is now in the hospital with number
of very bad bruises.
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The pasture in the Bad Lands is
luxuriant. Cattle are sleek and fat
and their owners are happy.
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At Linton. Mrs. Louisa Murdoch
celebrated her Dist birthday anniver'
sary on June IS.
The MinOt Commercial club is try
ing to arrange for meeting of CON-
mercial clubs there on July IL and IA
with a view to perfecting general
state organization.
The Esmond Bee reports light
frost one day last week and the One
NEE Herald does likewise In neither
case was any damage done except to
curl the leaves of a few tender plants.
It cost a couple of Steele boys $35
to break a plate glass window the
other day while playing cotch on the
street, and the Ozone reneWs its rec
ommendation that the practice be
stopped.
The Linton Record has this timely
W cdtHCl uOLC. III CAII ChAO NOlu "OoSAA
err people in this latitude who are
out of doors for even short time
should be careful that their ears and
nose are not exposed, as the dry at
mosphere will allow these members
being frost bitten almost before you
know it.
The authorities of Divide and Will
liams counties. the former having
been carved out of the latter, are try
ing to arrange a financial settlement
of the claims arising through the d.
vision. Expert accountants have
been employed and it is hoped that.
an amicable settlement may be reach
ed without the appeal to the courts.
One evening last week Valley City
had one of the highest winds in it's
history during the passage of thun.
der storm. Late in the evening a
stranger reached town. bruised, bat
tered and bleeding, and told of hav-
ing been blown from a high culvert
on the railroad track. He fell from