Foster County Independent - The Official Newspaper for Foster County

Dakota Datebook written by Sarah Walker.

They say that when life hands you a lemon, you make lemonade. According to the Forum and Daily Republican newspaper, on October 4 in 1907, young Jurgen Bolum, from Portal, “got a lemon” through a “Foxy Minneapolis girl” he thought was a peach.

Instead of making lemonade, though, he was out $26.

The pretty girl befriended Jurgen in a train station...