The Official Newspaper for Foster County
The Official Newspaper for Foster County
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12 Years Ago August 7, 1947 Dissolution of the partnership of H.O. Beck and Sylvan Lee, operating under the firm name of Beck-Lee Grocery, was announced August 1. Through this transaction, Beck became sole owner of the store. Betty Smith, daughter of Mrs. A.J. Smith of Carrington, John D. Miller, son of Mrs. John D. Miller of McHenry and Sylvia Radke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Radke, Carrington, are included on the dean’s honor list, recently released by Jamestown College. Personal c...
12 Years Ago July 31, 1947 A midget Hereford calf was sold last week by Keith Stedman to James Heron of the Northwest Wildlife Show. Stedman received $200 for the animal. The calf, 18 months old, weighed 400 pounds and was 32 inches high. It failed to grow normally, and Stedman hit upon the idea of selling the animal to a wildlife show which was making the fairs of the state. New district manager here for the Woodmen Accident Company is Donald A. Hess, formerly of Antler, N.D. He came to...
12 Years Ago July 24, 1947 A novelty is in store for baseball fans on Friday evening of this week when “donkey” baseball will be played on the Carrington field. The game is called for 6:30 p.m. Friday, at the west side diamond. The game will be played between the single men and married men of the city. Each player will ride a donkey, and all plays must be executed as the player is astride his animal. Their studies over and drills completed, members of the Carrington Fire Department’s first aid c...
12 Years Ago July 17, 1947 Bike riding at night should be safer for 96 riders in Carrington since the “Scotch-lite” clinic was conducted here Tuesday under auspices of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The reflective stripping was taped onto all the 96 bikes register, white stripes on the front and red behind. Each person whose bike was registered automatically became a member of the Junior Chamber Bicycle Club. “Ten Little Indians” is the play which the John Raymond O’Hara post of the American...
12 Years Ago July 10, 1947 Carrington will be represented by Beverly Breannan and Sybil Garland at the first annual Girls State which opens at Jamestown College July 13 and closes July 18. Another heavy rain shower hit Carrington and vicinity Tuesday afternoon, accompanied by an electrical storm of more than usual severity. Lightning struck at least once within the city limits, and from the appearance of the flashes it must have struck near town, also. The belfry of the Grace Lutheran Church...
12 Years Ago July 3, 1947 Lightning struck and killed Charles Pepple, 38, Cathay farmer, as he was operating his tractor in a field on his farm sometime between 3 and 4 p.m. Monday. His body was found beside the tractor at about 5 p.m. that day. Marine Private First Class George L. Hayashi, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hayashi of Carrington has been graduated from a Marine combat tank crewman’s course. It was announced at Camp Pendleton. Sons and daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thos Lutz g...
12 Years Ago June 26, 1947 Members of the family of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lutz will come here for a reunion next Sunday, among them being Rev. Thomas Lutz, North Freedom, Wis., and Rev. August Lutz, St. Bonifacius, Minn. The two ministers will preach at Calvary Baptist Church Sunday morning. It is announced by Rev. A. Itterman. Carrington’s new Company F. National Guard Company, has a new officer on its official list, it is announced by Capt. Alvin A. Paulson. Walter Engstrom has been p...
12 Years Ago June 19, 1947 Life memberships in the Order of Eastern Star was granted to three members, Mrs. Mae Page, Mrs. F.N. Chaffee and Mrs. C.H. Reimers at the Eastern Star meeting held last Wednesday night. Quentin Jensen, manager of the Hotel Café, Carrington, is a patient in a Jamestown hospital where he is being treated for injuries sustained in an accident on Highway 281 at Buchanan Monday night, in which his companion, Joseph W. Scott, 37, Fargo, was killed. New business...
12 Years Ago June 12, 1947 Last time tonight at the Grand Theatre is “Rage in Heaven,” with Robert Montgomery and Ingrid Bergman in the leading roles. Lucille Ball and John Hodlak are co-starred in “Two Smart People,” which is scheduled for Friday and Saturday. The feature for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday is “It’s a Wonderful Life” with Jimmy Stewart in the lead. Recent visitors at the Henry Lies and Gustav Miller farms were Robert Moore, Rochester, Inc., fieldman for the Chester White Associa...
12 Years Ago June 5, 1947 Planting of trees has been the chief project of the Foster County Soil Conservation District this spring, states Norton Stangeland, conservationist who has been assisting in the planting program. Fred Sommars was chairman of the past presidents program which was held in connection with the Kiwanis Club meeting at Rainbow Gardens Wednesday noon. He introduced each of the past presidents present and asked each of them to speak on a topic of his own choice. The past presid...
12 Years Ago May 29, 1947 Fire destroyed the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hart, Bordulac, on the night of May 14, the blaze originating in a chimney. Only some furniture was saved. The house was a 7 room structure. Last Sunday people of the Bordulac community showered the Hart family with articles of merchandise and money. Hart has purchased the house on the T.H. Cousins farm and will move it to his farm next fall. Observing a birthday anniversary the Girl Scouts of Carrington held a party at...
12 Years Ago May 22, 1947 The sixtieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Kutz was observed Sunday morning, May 11, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Sykeston with the church filled to capacity. Grade children who received honors for spelling improvement through the T.H.Cousins memorial fund were announced at the parent-teachers meeting Wednesday evening. The awards were made by Mrs. T. H. Cousins Sr., winners were: Grade 1. Sandra Footitt and Jerry Miller; 2. Marlin Stokes and L...
12 Years Ago May 15, 1947 Leaders of Foster County 4-H Home Economics clubs will meet at the Carrington School May 13 for a training meeting in project work carried on in their clubs. Miss Julie E. Brekke, extension agent in clothing will conduct the meeting. Names of 4-H Home Economics clubs and leaders are : Glenfield Gals, Mrs. Harland Erickson and Mrs. LeRoy Johnson; Grace City Livewires, Mrs. Jacob Haas; Juanita Clever Cooks, Mrs. Hans Anderson and Mrs. Gordon Pedersen; Bordulac Busy Bees,...
12 Years Ago May 8, 1947 Omar Bonderud, freshman from Carrington, was appointed to serve as editor-in-chief for the freshman issue of the “Trumpet,” a six page biweekly student publication of Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. Bonderud serves on the regular staff as a reporter and carries considerable amount of high school experience in the field of journalism. He was editor of the Carrington High Sentinel in 1945-46. Delegates to the state Young Citizens League convention returned to their hom...
12 Years Ago May 1, 1947 Henry Getty was installed as commander of the Carrington Veterans of Foreign Wars post in a special meeting held in the armory last week. Other elected officers installed were Robert J. O’Neill, senior vice commander; LeRoy Tollefson, junior vice commander; Henry Smith, quartermaster, Alvin Paulson, trustee; Harold Bohnet, post surgeon; Stanley Skadberg, advocate; James O’Neill, chaplain. Appointive officers announced by Getty and James Bronaugh, adjutant; Walter Cav...
12 Years Ago April 24, 1947 Lutheran churches that are affiliated with the Missouri Synod are celebrating the synod’s 100th anniversary this month including St. John’s Bordulac and St. Paul’s Kensal. W. E. Leiniger is pastor. St. Paul’s Sykeston, Woodworth and Pettibone is being served by the newly called pastor, Rev. W.A. Brockop. A Wells road building crew began the construction Monday of a new road leading from the Wells-Foster county line road to the Hawks-nest. Two earth moving machine...
12 Years Ago April 17, 1947 Results for the election of a supervisor for Foster County Soil Conservation District have just been announced by governor Fred G. Aandahl, chairman of the state committee, showing A.R. Suckut of Carrington was re-elected by a large majority. Friends and relatives gathered Sunday, April 13. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee H. Kollman, Stutsman County pioneers, for a buffet dinner in observance of their golden wedding anniversary. Eighty-five people attended, including...
12 Years Ago April 10, 1947 Again in operation after a winter shut-down is Rainbow Gardens, tourist camp, café, and dance hall, operated by H.T. Hayashi. The first dinner of the season was served to the public last Sunday. Mr. Hayashi said service given last year will be continued this year. Dances are held at Rainbow Gardens dance hall on Wednesday and Saturday nights. Winter returned briefly to most of North Dakota over the weekend with heavy snowfall in some sections, strong winds, whipping...
12 Years Ago April 3, 1947 Two hundred thirty people attended the employer-employee dinner, sponsored by the business standards committee of the Kiwanis Club held at the school gym Thursday evening. During the meal, which was served by the Parent Teachers Association, the Carrington school band, directed by R.V. Russ, played a program of musical numbers. Two moving pictures were shown, one on telephone courtesy and the other on “My Job.” Taking over management and operations of the Buchanan Hote...
12 Years Ago March 27, 1947 Rev. A. Sippert, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Carrington has returned a call received three weeks ago from the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church at Town Blaine, Wisconsin, a congregation consisting of about 60 families. Glenfield community has a new agricultural 4-H club, the Glenfield Boys, organized recently at a meeting held at the Glenfield school. Jimmy Edland was elected president, Byron Posey, vice president and Monte McDaniel secretary. Lawrence Utke...
12 Years Ago March 20, 1947 A class of seven men recently finished a course in pilot training at the Carrington airport, it was announced by Ray Kadoun, airport operator. He said each of the men has received his private pilot’s license, and some of the group intend to buy planes on their own. In the class were Alger O’Leary, Kenneth Kadoun, Louis Hoffman, Fredrick Schmid, Laverne Kuehn, Lloyd Peterson and Earl Miller. Mrs. Harvey Nicholson was elected president of the VFW Auxiliary at the ann...
12 Years Ago March 13, 1947 Members of various Lutheran congregations of central North Dakota gathered to pay their last respects to an early-day pastor, the Rev. Ole J. Hungness, who died in his home last Saturday in Sheyenne. Foster County had several exhibitors and consignors at the Valley City Winter Show last week and contributed at least two officers to livestock organizations represented there. Consignors and exhibitors included J.D. Hooten, Skadberg and sons, Henry W. Lies, Gustav...
12 Years Ago March 6, 1947 A number of churches are now being served by Rev. Sippert Will. It has been revealed that First Lutheran Church in Winsor, a town 20 miles west of Jamestown, has joined with the Grace Lutheran Church in Carrington to form one parish. Miss Dolores Suydam, Bordulac, assumed duties as deputy county superintendent of schools this week. Now in operation at Trinity Lutheran Church is a new oil burner recently installed in the furnace. Automatic in operation, it keeps the...
12 Years Ago February 27, 1947 Carrington's Motor Inn, operated by Emmett Carroll during the past three years has been sold to Lawrence Peterson and his son Lloyd and will be operated by them with equipment they are moving from their former location with Nicolson and Carr. The Petersons will be fully equipped to handle tractors, trucks and cars and have announced March 3 as their opening date Lorraine Lampert, 28, chief yeoman, WAVES, daughter of Mrs. Inga Lampert of Glenfield, N.D. has been ass...
12 Years Ago February 20, 1947 M/Sgt. Leonard L. Myers of Carrington, an operator of a ground controlled approach crew at Frankfort AAB, Germany, aided in bringing in an army C-54 transport carrying General McNarney, chief of European theatre of operations, and a party of five, through a heavy ground fog interspersed with light snow in the early morning of February 11. Master Sergeant Myers is assigned to the airways and air communication service, a world-wide organization operating radio and...
