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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1908
Page
4
Bowbells Public Schools will print a weekly column of student writing on a rotating schedule. Each week a different teacher’s class fields the notes, showing spelling punctuation and paragraphing as produced by students without correction.
Language class items from Sept 1908 describe Frank’s doves greeting him each morning by rubbing their faces and cooing while implying affection. A Noble Dog tale follows a woodcutter family where a snake intrudes, the dog bravely battles it, but the cradle is overturned and the master fraught with anger over the dog’s fatal blow.
The North Dakota Supreme Court rules the states hanging law constitutional and requires the penitentiary warden at Bismarck to perform the execution. The decision follows Governor Burke’s request on whether the warder or county sheriff should carry out the sentence for the murders tied to Robert S. Noah and the Peltier brothers. Justices Fisk and Morgan signed. Spalding concurred, finding a conflict with the temperance commissioner precedent.
In a brisk rural scene the season shifts with hints of coal prices rising, a duck flying high, and a rabbit pursuing its prey. A cryptic note mentions garments and sharpened sights as summer nears while a red beak brightens a rounder’s gaze. The piece ends with a satirical jab at a politician claiming to be the sole answer as the crowd contemplates his return.
The Tribune reports Jim Briggs plans to be in Bowbells on the 22nd. Cropper, Tucker, and the Sharps received a Hart-Parr 45 HP gasoline traction engine to replace horses. It can draw eight 14 inch plows and may turn 25 acres per day, using kerosene if cheaper. Farmers watch if this saves costs and spurs wider use on nearly a thousand acres owned plus 300 rented for 1909.
Mrs. Art Miller leaves hospital for home in Flaxton after surgery. Governor Burke to speak at Market Day. Albert Miller resigns from J Loucks store to run the threshing machine with Will Gedesch as new operator. Tim Donovan expands drug offerings at Donovan Drug Co. Warren Heath escorts seven Iowans to Canada seeking land, near Ambrose. Business dissolutions update Miller and Conrad partnership. Albert runs the rig. Erickson Devaney Madden return from Canada with land. Dr Campbell files homestead nearby. C S Brown, former city hotel owner, acquires land near Rennie and near Hamar.
Letters for Orie Donely H G Hanson Jno Huth John Himiningaen RE John Carrie Johnson and others remain unclaimed in Bowbella post office for the week ending Friday September 18 1908. Callers should say advertised to secure prompt delivery. direct to RF D number or box.
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