The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-16
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How Shaking Hands Origima tcd.-shaking hands is
a rei'c OF narharisrh' anyhow. IT became the custom
in the days when every ono carried a dagger i'll his
belt and when one friend meeting another thought it
necessary to attest the peaccfulness of his intentions
by extending an open palm. Then the other man
could d" no less than make a similarly rcassuring dem
onstration. and the grasp of these two extended hands
naturally followed. Subsequently. by a logical process
of evolution, the handshake grew to be the conventions
al form of greeting and the refusal of a proffered hand
can only hc wiped out with blood. Now the custom is
too firmly and widely established for its abandonment
10 no conceivable. and Yet there are various things
about ii which render it unsatisfactory.
Another Crooked Rcpor,.-The Daily Ledger of
Exeter. Mo-. contained the following sensational report
in its Sunday edition. and which is at hand this morn
ms. II seems there is some follow having considerable
fun =, the expense of tho ncvsn,ncrs and Cr,nd Eorks
Note. Huron. \. d. Following is the tom:
Huron, y. r.. April l%.--Word is received here
this evening of a tragic accident which occurred in
Grand Forks this afternoon. when tho elevator in the
Grand Forks Ice Cos fatiron building. Kittson and
Great Northern avenues. dropped six stories killing
three passengers and fatally iniurinc tho elevator boy.
NO details OF tn" accident have been received.
Now, wouldn't that jar YOU?
After lying dormant for over thirty years the neat
little town of New Rockford. county scat of Eddy coun-
". has awakened. and incorporated as IA city. The
Great Northern railway company is erecting big shops
there and there is promise of that city becoming one
of the Very hest inland cities in the state. There is one
good thing about the situation and that is. Now Rock
ford has the surrounding country to back up any
growth ii may make.
'9dHi Stldll is sun pOpfSnlnE the judith Gap
'Mont.) journal. and at present is into a county divi-
sion fight. From the way Sam is scra piping one would
think he had al ono lime conducted a newspa per in
Ward county.
Jack CharmleN. for a number of years of the KEN
marc News. has left that field and will superintcnd a
line Oft newspapers for Rrcr. Crockard, with head
quarters AT Mott. AS a side line he will carry on his
candidacy for railroad commissioner.
Judging from the way the agriculturalists of this
stat" are Incoming interested in tho potato business.
and the way the newspapers arc boosting the idea,
North Dakota is destined to become the banner state
in the union.
Too" Sloan. the great jockN. has been sued for alb
solute divorce by his wife. Julia Sandcrson. the actress.
Tod is long on spccd--in fact it is his speciality
and when he got married he necer could null up on the
relns. Hut then. Julia will have Il new line of adyer.
Using through her experience.
Carlisle. an inland post office in Pcmbina county for
moro than thirty Years has been discontinued and her
glory has forever fed.
IT tho state press continues PUBLISHING that cdi-
fhrlaI headed Are You Paying Your Debts p the CUES
tion will become embarras sing-scem if.
"f air supply i'm the lungs is the cause of yawning. Sure
or else an excess Of hot air in the conversation.
An Uncle Toms Cabin company is lowering over
the western part of the state.