The Official Newspaper for Foster County
The Official Newspaper for Foster County
Sorted by date Results 51 - 75 of 121
12 Years Ago May 20, 1948 Nearly 150 boys have been registered for North Dakota Boys State, Americanism program sponsored by the American Legion, which will be conducted at NDAC in Fargo, June 13 - 20, LeRoy Pease, director, says. Three organizations in Carrington are sponsoring boys to attend Boys State. The Junior Chamber of Commerce is sending Ross Bestgen, the Kiwanis Club is sponsoring Leonard Albus and the American Legion, James Hogan. Attending the state Future Homemakers convention in Fa...
12 Years Ago May 13, 1948 Delegates from Foster County to the Democratic State Convention being held this week in Fargo, were named at a county Democratic convention held last Wednesday afternoon. Chosen as delegates at the meeting were N.N. Loesch, Melville; L.M. Harmon and Otto Klindworth, Carrington, and Ralph Law, veteran delegate, Carrington. Norma Rypka, a senior in the Juanita High School, is the winner of the flax belt prize of $100 in the contest recently conducted by the flax...
12 Years Ago May 6, 1948 Fred A. Sommars, Northern Pacific agent in Carrington since 1929, is now agent in the N.P. Depot at Jamestown, having assumed duties there on May 1. He filed his resignation here as of that date. Under auspices of the Junior Chamber of Commerce a safety program with special emphasis on bicycles, is being carried on in Carrington by a JC committee of which John Lofland is chairman. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Clark arrived Sunday evening from Missoula, and plan to make their...
12 Years Ago April 29, 1948 Flying in military formation, planes from the Carrington Flying Service accompanied Soo Line train No. 3 as it pulled into the station here Saturday morning, April 24. Aboard the train were the bodies of Lt. James L. McCreary and Lt. Clarence L. Bonderud, killed during the battle for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands campaign of World War II. The bodies were being returned by the War Department at the request of the parents for final burial in the Carrington...
12 Years Ago April 22, 1948 Various items of city business were taken up at the meeting of the city council Tuesday evening, when the council was reorganized and new members were sworn in. Taking seats in the council Tuesday night were Theo. Ramsey, T.H. Cousins and A.C. Heinitz. O.E. Dawalt and Richard Schoen were also sworn in, they having been re-eleected in the recent city election. Vernon K. Duntley, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Duntley, has announced that he will open an optometry office in...
12 Years Ago April 15, 1948 A large crowd attended the fun and frolic at the Bordulac school auditorium Friday evening. The one act play, “Leave it to Joe,” was presented. The cast was as follows: Patricia and Theresa Wolf, Edwin Doeling, Leonard Linde, Deloris Bauer and Dan Murphy. A program by the grade pupils and high school was also given. Roger Hjelseth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hjelseth, was taken to a Fargo hospital for treatment last Friday. His mother was there with him until Tue...
12 Years Ago April 8, 1948 Several friends and neighbors gathered at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Larson last Friday night to welcome back Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Larson, who arrived recently from Vallejo, California. Carlton, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Larson, was recently discharged from the Navy. Mr. and Mrs. H.M. Knott went to Bristol, S.D., Saturday, and on Sunday they attended a family reunion honoring Mr. Knott’s parents on their 61st wedding anniversary, which also marked the b...
12 Years Ago April 1, 1948 D.J. Graham of Carrington has been appointed the Foster County chairman of the Salvation Army rural service board. It was announced this week by Major Ernest R. Orchard, the state director of the organization. A.C. Langseth, Carrington, was elected chairman of the Foster County a non-partisan league when the group was held Saturday in the courthouse here. Paul Marriage was named vice chairman and Leo Steinman, secretary. New art glass windows, recently installed in...
12 Years Ago March 25, 1948 Listed among winners in an art contest in Tucson, Ariz., schools is Karen Beatruce Saxlund, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Saxlund, formerly of Carrington. Karen attended schools in Haven Township and in Carrington before leaving for Arizona. Frank Bourdon has been appointed manager of Thompson Yards, Carrington, to succeed N.A. Schmidt, who has resigned. Bourdon is already at work, but he takes over officially as of April 1. Herman G. Kraus was re-elected president...
12 Years Ago March 18, 1948 Defeating a determined Bordulac team 34-28, the Dawson High School girls’ team won the state championship Saturday night in the final game of the 1948 state tournament played in the Carrington School gymnasium. Members of the Bordulac team are Janet Linde, Caroline Reimers, Delores Bauer, Marilyn Zink, Delores Pedersen, Patty Wolf, Theresa Wolf, Dorothy Sabinash, Virginia Wolf and Mary Jane Sabinash, with Louis V. Lund as coach. Beverly Bort, secretary to the c...
12 Years Ago March 11, 1948 William H. Cook, 36, farmer of near Carrington, met his death in an accident at about 5:30 p.m. Friday while he was doing chores. As he walked from the pump hose on his way to the barn, he tripped and fell into the water tank from the icy snow bank which was higher than the tank, and became unconscious when his head struck the tank. The tank was half filled with water and Cook drowned. The Barlow Livestock 4-H Club was reorganized February 3 with Jerrold Skadberg and...
12 Years Ago March 4, 1948 Beverly Briss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Briss, Kensal, died in a Jamestown hospital Tuesday after an illness of several days. She was about 3½ years old. John Harlin Buchanan, son of John G. Buchanan, Carrington, was enlisted in the United States Navy as an apprentice seaman on February 26. He was sworn in by Lr. Commander R. L. Lowe, USN officer in charge of the North Dakota main recruiting station for the Navy in Bismarck. Mable L. Coyne of La Moure, is home...
12 Years Ago February 26, 1948 I.R. Sheets and James Clancy are spending enforced vacations as the result of accidents caused by the ice which covered the streets and walks of the city since last Wednesday night. During the storm on Thursday, Sheets fell as he walked onto the porch at his home and fractured his right shoulder blade. Clancy slipped and fell walking on Main Street and fractured his wrist bone. Sheets delivers mail and Clancy works at Carrington Motor Co. A combination of various...
12 Years Ago February 19, 1948 The season’s worst storm hit Carrington at 9 p.m. Wednesday, when snow began falling and the wind blew at 50 or more miles per hour. Before the snow came a heavy rain fell. The wind came up suddenly and with flurry. Thursday morning, the storm was still at its height. Highway travel was impossible. Betty Turner, Carrington High School senior, who was selected as the DAR pilgrim from Carrington this year, placed third in state competition. It was announced by s...
12 Years Ago February 12, 1948 The death of former resident of Carrington, died in an Ames, Iowa hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage. Mrs. Kelly, was a widely-known artist. She won acclaim throughout the middle west and in the east for her oil and water color paintings which were displayed throughout the country. She came to Carrington in 1906 as a bride of Edward Kelly. Her husband was a practicing lawyer here in Carrington. “Keeper of the Bees” is the picture showing tonight at the Grand The...
12 Years Ago February 5, 1948 With the opening of the new semester in Carrington High School, two new teachers were on the faculty, replacing two who resigned. Mrs. Benard Schroeder, a former grade teacher, replaced Mrs. Mervin Nelson, Carrington, who resigned, and Miss Jean Bjerke of Valley City came here to take the place of Mrs. James Bronaugh, who resigned and is now living at Glenfield. A.R. Suckut of Carrington and Lawrence Utke of Glenfield, members of the board of supervisors of the...
12 Years Ago January 31, 1948 Selected as the Good Citizenship Pilgrim of 1948 is Betty Turner, a senior in Carrington High School, it was announced this week by Mrs. J.C. Hoffert, chairman of the daughters of the American Revolution committee which sponsors the Good Citizen Pilgrimage. Jimmy Ferguson, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ferguson, was injured in an odd accident at school last Thursday when a knife pierced his right thigh. It was necessary to have him removed to the hospital to get...
12 Years Ago January 24, 1948 Leaving tonight are four Carrington people and two from South Dakota who will sail from New York on the Maurentania on a cruise to the Bahama Island, points in South America, Panama Canal and Havana, Cuba. The group expects to be gone three to four weeks. In the group from Carrington are Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Rusk, Majorie Buchanan and J.E. Galehouse. Accompanying them will be Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Beier of Watertown, S.D., former residents of Carrington. Annual convention...
12 Years Ago January 15, 1948 In a fast sharp shooting game, the Carrington Cardinals edged the Maddock Aggies 44-36 on the local floor Wednesday evening, Jan. 7. A former resident near Courtenay, Mrs. Eva Schrade, 71, died Friday of last week in a Minneapolis hospital. Funeral services were held in Minneapolis Tuesday. Collection of clothing for the Fort Totten Indians, is a project of the Carrington Grade School, it was announced this week by Mrs. Mary Ruck, grade school principal. She asked t...
12 Years Ago January 8, 1948 Lars Tollefson, Carrington, was named chairman of the board of county commissioners at the board’s reorganization meeting this week. He succeeds C.W. Jorgenson of Kensal. Appointments made by the board included: Dr. E.L. Goss, county health officer: A.E. Donker and Wm. A. Kunkel, members of the insanity board, and C.W. Jorgenson, member of the welfare board. December was a month of marriages, judging from the number of licenses issued in the office of County Judge M...
12 Years Ago January 1, 1948 Negotiations are now in the process for the purchase by W.L. Beaton and son Walter, Jr. of the real estate on which was recently situated their liquor store which was destroyed by fire. The purchase is being made from A.D. Matheny of Los Angeles, formerly of Carrington. Beaton and son plan to construct a new building on the site for the resumption of their business. Glenn Anderson of Grace City, a member of the board of county commissioners of Foster County since...
12 Years Ago December 25, 1947 Publication of a Carrington publicity pamphlet in January is one of the projects of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, members of which studied a draft of the pamphlet at a meeting of the organization last Thursday evening. With a loss and a win thus far in the season the combined Veterans independent basketball team has ten more home games scheduled, the next scheduled game being against Jamestown here. The first game was lost to McHenry 38 to 33, but the Vets...
12 Years Ago December 18, 1947 A motor fire in the Woodrow Topp car parked on Main Street here Tuesday forenoon was quickly extinguished by fire Chief F.K. Wheeler, who used a hand operated extinguisher. The car was damaged slightly. It was fortunate the fire did not make headway for a baby was sleeping in the backseat of the car. Officers elected at the annual meeting of the congregation of Trinity Lutheran Church on Thursday of last week were E.A. Roach, president; Sylvan Lee, trustee; Harold...
12 Years Ago December 11, 1947 Eileen Zink was named honorary chief of the fire department during ceremonies at the Firemen’s carnival held last Friday evening at the armory. She won the honor by virtue of receiving the highest number of votes in the contest which was conducted during the month of November and up to 6 p.m. last Friday. The other four girls in the contest, listed in order of final number of votes, Joanne Putnam, Betty Froelich, Phyllis Nysted and Lois Indergaard, were the q...
12 Years Ago December 4, 1947 Since last Thursday, the Carrington Fire Department was called to two fires, one in the Sylvan Lee home at midnight Thanksgiving Day, and the other in the A.D. Matheny building on Main Street Monday at about 11 a.m. The Carrington High School Cardinals met their second straight defeat at New Rockford Tuesday night, losing to the Rockets 24 to 21 in a ragged contest which saw the Cardinals make a pitiful showing in the first half. Coming back in the second half the...
