Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-01-19
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thrOng OF Exposition city visitors. last
Saturday.
H. p. Goddard went to Bismarck
Friday to visit over Sunday with his
family and attend the inaugural ball.
Miss Florence LundQuist returned
to Bismarck last Friday after spend.
Ing the holidays with her parents,
north Of town.
The st. Paul Dispatch had a repre-
sentative in or village last Saturday
inducing their delinquent subscribers
to renew
C. NJ, Snyder and Mrs. A. c. Laird
were passengers to the capital city
last Saturday, the latter to have some
dental work done.
"A. j. Allison came up from Iowa
last Friday, to remain for a few days
as the guest OF his son1inlaw, Howard
Paul, and family.
VIM. Watson and son. George, were
visitors ut the bismarck hospital Sat
urday, where George had some trou-
blesOme adenOids removed.
II. J.. Anderson came down from
Woodwork, near which Ae is in
charge of the large Hoerr ranch, the
latter part of last week. to become
acquainted with the recent addition
to his family.
The many friends and acquaint-
ances Of August Lofgren will be
pleased to learn that he is recovering
from the awful burns received when
a can OF coal oil exploded as he was
building the fire one morning.
The cold snap Of a week ago was
not in 1t with last Monday morning,
when the mercury reached the ex'
tremely frIgid point Of As degrees be
low zero. This Is a little unusual and
In great contrast with Our December
weather, but We have heard no one
complain, least Of all the fuel man.
Since disposing of his motorcycle
last fall, "Heinie" has been an indus
trfous student of diverse and multi
t,,dinous catalogues dealing with the
aforesaid brand Of speedsters. He
has about settled on a twin OF the Tx
celsion make, and thereby shows good
Judgment.
Milton Cox and his. estimable wife
returned last Saturday from q visit
OF four weeks duration with their
daughter in Montana. They express
ed themselves as being pleased with
certain features Of that country, but
taken as a whole, North Dakota seem
ed the most desirable to them.
Trains from the west are from five
to ten hours late these days, owing to
the heavy SHOWS in the mountains
A number of the other transconti
mental lines we're compelled by snow
%blockades to use the N. p. road
through the mountains until recently
when the latter became blocked, also
greatly delaying our trains, which are
gotten through with the greatest dit
ficulty. a
Geo. Olson, Ray Sandry's right
hand man on the Rice Lake ranch
came to Mckenzie Monday and
caught No. 3 for Bismarck, where he
called at the hospital to have his
hands treated, which are covered with
Ia number OF very painful sores. The
doctors were almost at a loss to dag
nose the case but think that the sores
were caused by infection from horses
the same as the epidemic here q yea.
| ago last summer was caused by in
lection from cattle.
Melvin Pomeroy Of Cleveland arriv
ed here Saturday to spend q few days
with his friend. Geo. Manly, and tt
look over the situation with" a view tt
Installing a lunch counter in the poo
room. There is q great demand here
for short order lunches by passen
gers who come up on the Linton trair
and are compelled to wait here fOl
the afternoon trains, and a good ibqusi
ne in this line could be no dOub'
worked up. s.,@
W. r. Bryan came out from Bis
marck last Friday in response to :
telephone call informing him that his
horses had broken into his granarS
on the farm north Of here and were
living hig'.. on all the rye they could
eat. Three Of them had also fallen
through the top Of his large water
storage tank and had to be lifted out
with block and tackle. No har1
came to the horses from their fal
into the tank nor from their oyer'in
dulgence in rye. Somewhat different
from some persons We know.
One Of the problems these days as
the procuring of a water supply large
enough to serve the ordinary house
hold. There are only two good wells
in town and these mornings, when
the mercury roOsts or! 40, or below
/ they have to ybe coaxed with quaint
ties of boiling water before they viii
disgorge. Lots of fun. Your fingers
freeze to the pump handle and Just
as YOU. get the water to the surface
your feet slip on the icy curb and
you see stars as you violently seal
yourself, while the water again seeks
the depths of the we'll with q hollow
moan. Oh, you summertime!
There was something akin to ex
element in the village pool room! last
Thursday. evening, when Harry VII
ton came running in and, requested
some of the boys to assist him II
ejecting a crazy Indian from the no
tel. A number of the inmates rushed
to the hotel with Harry an dfouad
indeed, a. tough looking customer en-
sconced In the Office chair. mutterine
to himself and making suggestive ges
lures with a savage looking knife
The victim was cautiously surround,
ed and at a given signal was rushed