Gave His Life to Save Child
Sheldon North Dakota May 14 Joe Larson, a farmer two miles north of Sheldon, died while trying to save his young daughter Vivian from injury as runaway horses dragged him after he placed the child on a hay wagon. The team bolted, the wagon and horses trampled him. the girl remained safe on the road as the team broke away and struck a tree. Larson leaves a wife and eight children. The report also covers local water supply issues in Culbertson and weather effects across Montana, with other brief notes on residents visiting family and travel observations from Osage, Iowa.
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Sheldon
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Joe Larson
Vivian
Mr. Larson
Larson
Montana homesteading plan eyed by City Mayor Smith
Mayor Frank Smith returned from a Montana swing through Poplar Culbertson and Scoby where he eyed land near Scoby for possible summer squatting on unsurveyed acreage. He praised Scoby as lively despite no railroad and noted large crops and cash locally. On return he visited Culbertson and Bay where Bay recently installed a waterworks system.
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Frank Smith
Poplar
Culbertson
Scoby
Mont
the Tribune
Plentywood
Willowbunch
Canada
Smith
Culbertson and
Bay
Butino
Bow Bells High Debating Society Banquet Program
The Bow bells High School Debating Society ends its season with a May 29 assembly room gathering at the schoolhouse. Members may invite one guest, followed by a banquet. The program includes recitations, a duet, a comic piece, a Scrap Basket, and a two–side debate on whether Circumstance justifies departure from truth.
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Bowbells High School
Blanch Mahoney
Edwin Blenkner
William Carter
Clarence Cai
Wilfred Hofius
Miriam
Anna
Alice Kopriva
Miriam Hartman
Kattie Madden
Waldo Lind
Clarence Carey
Blanche Mahoney
Eva Hurley
Katie Madden
Eewin Blenkner
Sealed Artery Fatal After Farm Accident Near Carpio
A 16 year old, Joe Stamen, died from a severed femoral artery while skinning a steer at Stamen Ranch, thirteen miles north of Carpio. Despite rapid medical aid from Dr. Frogner and Tom Cavanagh, he did not survive. Also noted are obituaries and local notices about L N Botton's death in Minneapolis and community updates on local residents and filings for public office.
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Carpio, N. D
Bow Bells High to stage The Captain of Plymouth at Lyons Opera House
Bow Bells High School pupils present the comic opera The Captain of Plymouth at Lyons Opera House next Saturday evening under Mrs C E Pierson. Forty-eight participants, special costumes, and $50 in scenery promise a top local production based on Longfellow’s The Courtship of Miles Standish. Proceeds benefit the public school library.
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Plymouth
Bowbells High School
C. E. Pierson
Lyons Opera House
Longfellow
Miles Standish
Embarrassing Motor Boating Misadventure West of Valley City
A young couple on a river motor boat near Valley City were startled when the female rider’s skirt snagged on a propeller shaft lug. The engine stalled, and two rescuers with jackknives freed her, leaving her skirts nearly gone. County Auditor John Romine then left for Fargo to attend a state county auditors convention.
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Valley City
N. D
John Romine
Fargo
Getting Along Nicely in Idaho Headed to Boise Visit
Mrs John Lesh formerly of this city now resides with her husband near Boise Idaho where both hold homesteads They own Bowbells hospital building planning costly improvements She and husband say they are progressing toward land title Though irrigation firm delays farm work they lease irrigated tract near Boise and report large crops They live about 55 miles from Mountain Home where Bowbells residents are settling
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John Lesh
Boise
Idaho
Mountain Home
Cleanup order urged as typhoid fears rise in Bowbells
The Tribune reports Mayor Frank Smith urged Bowbells property owners to clean premises of rubbish after a city council order. Some complied, others refused, amid two typhoid cases and heavy spring rains washing filth into wells. If locals won’t act, the city will clean at the owners' expense. Ben Schultz returns from LaFleche with illness of wife awaiting. ladies aid society of the M E church to meet next week at W C Martins.
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Frank Smith
Bowbells
Smith
Ben Schultz
LaFleche
Sask
C. P.R
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Burke County
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Oxbow
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Charlie
Jerry Donovan
Main Street
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Mercy
Charity
Patienge
Miles
Precilla
Precella
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Katonka
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Solo
Sexetette
Caesar
John Alden
Leonard Stefanowicz
Elder Brewater
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Pequots
Ida Grams
Anna Krueger
Mable Conrad
Blanch Moore
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W. C. Martin
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