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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1903
Page
5
Inter Ocean weekly at Devils Lake notes rates and official status while recounting sensational 1903 divorce testimony involving Mrs Burdick and Arthur Pennell, church and rail magnate remarks from Kansas City Star, Bottineau saloon critique, and Florence Maybrick release chronology amid British trial lore.
Farm inquiries indicate a likely large cut in flax acreage this spring due to partial failure last year and low prices. Frost damage adds to hardship as farmers, fearing volatile markets, shift to new lands and abandon flax cultivation in northern and central areas.
A long blend of local items covers Devils Lake court actions, new papers, and politics. Notes include a bank adoption of a child, the danger to rural routes, Lawton newspaper plans, editorials on Mormon history, and vivid remarks on Mormon beliefs and leaders from visiting North Dakota editors.
An advertisement compares children to young plants and claims Scott's Emulsion feeds growing strength. It suggests weakness stems from inadequate nourishment rather than food scarcity and offers a free sample. Contact Scott & Bowne, chemists, 409 Pearl St., New York, and to a druggist near you.
Fargo North Dakota March 30 great interest surrounds President Roosevelt's Fargo visit. Cheap rail rates promise large turnout from outside areas. The address site depends on weather with outdoor plans possible or indoors at the opera house or armory. Congressman Spalding and other politicians join the presidential party. Governor White plans to attend. Captain Grafton leads military arrangements with several companies hoped to participate.
Bids will be received by the undersigned up to 4 o clock Wednesday p m April 15 1903 for supplying lignite coal to the School for the Deaf at Devils Lake North Dakota. All bids to be for a ton of 2100 pounds Free on Board Devils Lake North Dakota.
Shipments to begin after July 1 and continue till July 1, 1904. Bids may vary up to 1000 tons as needed. Each bidder must provide a $100 certified check to A O Whipple, treasurer, with bonds of $500 required from the successful bidder. The Board reserves the right to reject all bids. By order of the Board of Trustees. D F Bangs Superintendent.
Four sealed bids for a dormitory building addition to the Devils Lake School for the Deaf will be received by Superintendent D F Baugs at Devils Lake North Dakota until 4 p m on Wednesday April 15 1908 Plans and specs may be seen at Devils Lake Grand Forks St Paul and Fargo offices Hancock Bros architects a 1000 dollar certified check with each bid to be forfeited if not entered into contract Bonds as state law required Right to reject any or all bids reserved by order of the Board of Trustees
A drayman held seven hundred Calumet shares and kept them as the mine soared to over half a million dollars while the founder, owning 27,082 shares, could not retain any. He fell into poverty despite a single month’s dividends that could have made him rich. The anecdote appears in Romances of the World’s Great Mines in Cosmopolitan April.
For sale: 100 acres south of SW section 14 63 72 with 5000 to 7000 cords of wood plus heavy timber. Features include a 12 log high 16 by 24 gable rock shingled house, 12 by 16 stable, 6 by 9 outhouse. Address J. Avh man St John ND. Also bands sought. Professor J S A teaches St Johns band of 25 pieces.
United States Land Office announces a public sale of a land tract in Devils Lake ND under General Land Office authority. Claims adverse to the lands must file in the office by the sale start date else rights are forfeited. Registered by Oler Seru, Appears from the land office record.
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