Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-11
NORTHWEST BRIEFS
Fire completely DESTROYED the print.
ing Office at Parshall.


/! ing Office at Parshall.
The Promoter at Stanley has been
sold 10 John Patterson of Ross.
i Train service on the Drake,Sanish
line has been annulled until further
notice.
A Great Northern snowplow plowed
thru team and load of coal near
Minot
i Two hun ired thousand guests reg
istered al Minots hotels during the
year 1915.
The country club at Leith is doing
some excellent work showing what
real community spirit is
Two rotary and one wedge snow
plows are stalled on the 500 line be-
tween Ambrose and Whitehall
Shields will have its first fraternal
| organization. An Odd Fellows lodge
will start with membership of 40.
| Aas
| A plant for the manufacture of lig-
mite briQuetts. will be launched at
kenmare by Minneapolis capitalists.
| The inhabitants of Linton will vote
on a new bond issue which if carried
will give tina, town electric light serv-
| ice
4
Minot is considering the ADVISABLE
| ~ OF opening a night school for the
benefit of the foreign born people of
| that city. 49,.
Over 400 sacks of mail are laying in
the depot at Ambrose awaiting dis
tribution to the various postoffices in
that section Of the state
Five head Of horses persisted in
the vicinity Of Rawson during the
recent cold weather. They were
found standing. frozen stiff
The break of the crank shaft of
the engine at the electric plant caus-
ed a suspension of electric service
for more than a week at Velva.
Bank deposits at Williston have in
creased 80 per cent during the past
year, according TO reports of the sew
eral financial institutions in that city.
Two engines switching in the yards
at New England collided, sending one
of the engines TO the workshop and
one of the engineers TO the hospital.
Luton Ackerson. who formerly lived
south OF Velva. and now a resident
OF COburg. Ore, has won a Rhodes |
scholarship at Oxford university in
England.
The McClusky fire department was
presented with check for so as an
appreciation of the good work of the |
organization during the fire in the
Karl Fairness store.
The snow down at Hillsboro. in the |
Red River valley, is so deep that the
farmers are reported to have been |
using skis on their horses to get to
"
Passenger service on the Wheat
Line in the northern part of the state
has been tied up for the past two
weeks on account of the heavy fall of |
snow in that locality
The interior of the Wantz meat |
market at McClusky was entirely de-
stroyed by fire. Fortunately the fire.
men succeeded in keeping the blaze
confined 10 the interior.
Two Jail birds in the city bastile
at Mandan got cold while serving
time for being drunk and set their
bedding on fire. The chief of police
arrived in time to save the building.
The Stanley Sun has reached its
fourteenth birthday. For Is years
The Sun has been shedding light on
Stanley and Mountrail county and
the hope is that there will be no
cloudy days.
Mrs. Colbert E. Sherin. is elected
assistant cashier of the First State
bank al New Leipzig. Mrs. Sherin is
the widow of the late Robert Sherin
who was cashier of the institution dur
ing his lifetime ~ s.se"-i
The sheriff down in Slope county
made raid on the blindpiggers at
Marmarth last week and bagged a
bunch that had been in tie field for
a long time. He drove 40 miles. over
bad roads. to land his men.
|
The citizens of Dickinson are Cir
culating petitions asking the city to
vote bonds for the erection of new
grade school building The capacity
of the present schools is taxed to the
utmost, even the attics being utilized. |
Electricity was used at Bowman to
thaw out the village water tank. The
tank was frozen to a depth of Z IL
feet and this solid mass was thawed
out in comparatively few hours by
the use of electricity properly APP
piled
County Auditor Romine of Burke
county felt peeved over an article ap-
pearing in the Bowbells Tribune. The
editor was promptly made the defend |
ant in an action for libel. After hear
ing the arguments of the attorneys
the jury awarded Mr.. iRomine dam ID
ages TO the extent of 81. ,