Foster County Independent - The Official Newspaper for Foster County

Dakota Datebook written by Sarah Walker.

There’s nothing quite like an unscheduled break from school to get students excited. This seems to be especially true in North Dakota, when school often plunges on, despite six-foot drifts of blowing snow.

Therefore, in 1918, on Feb. 15 , Governor Lynn J. Frazier must have made many children very happy when he signed a proclamation that gave a good man...