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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
7
The Bowbells Tribune lists office hours on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon, with additional hours from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. The message appears to be a clerical or typographical note regarding station or office timings.
Miss Olga Mockrud visits Minneapolis. J D Landsborough offers Bed farm horses. Mrs A M Gilbert visits Albert Lea. J W Moore moves to town for winter. Joe Westphal visits from Stillwater. Rural telephone line agitation north of town. Minot papers note Episcopal service and local society events. Many threshing outfits and farm equipment trades discussed. Harvest reports and dairy, fruit, and livestock notices populate the page. Encampment at Minneapolis praised. veterans’ reunion large in scale. Barn fire destroys Will Conrad’s barn. no insurance. loss about 700 dollars.
Mrs Sarah A Spooner died Wednesday morning eight miles east of the city after a paralysis strike while visiting her daughter-in-law. Funeral planned from the Presbyterian church at 2 p.m. Friday. Remains to rest at son L A Spooner's home in Bowbells until the service. Q H Johnson reports a Canadian northwest boom with Edmonton and other towns expanding rapidly, noting high prices but likely future price adjustments. rail lines draw landseekers and hotels along routes prosper.
The Tribune reports a fixed plan for the Great Northern branch paralleling the Soo from the southeast toward Crosby. Bankers S T Dakin C F Fenster maker Breckenridge Minn and W S Kidd Campbell Minn push townsites and financing, with 400 teams to start grading in thirty days and a line to Bowbells then Crosby by October 20. Labor shortages slow progress but large crews and lumber interest from Campbell are anticipated to accelerate work.
Proposals for sealed bids on Bowbells North Dakota water works and sewerage bonds worth 12000 dollars at six percent maturing in five ten fifteen and twenty years with no other indebtedness. Bid security 60 dollars. Bids open at 10 a m 1906. City Auditor D E McLellan reserves right to reject any or all bids.
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