Lignite Bank Robbery Suspects Connected to Flaxton Case
Yeggmen blew open The First State Bank of Lignite using nitro glycerine, stealing about $2,000 in silver and currency. The same two men suspected in the Flaxton post office and Bowbells bank raids. authorities searched the hills and questioned witnesses, while hardware store loot and a Bowbells sighting linked the pair. The incident prompted sheriff patrols and community alarm.
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State Bank of Lignite
Flaxton
Bank At
Lignite
John Jacobson
Bank
Central
Clarence Bliss
Stainhofer
Grendahl & Christenson
Lignite Bank
A. C. Wiper
C. N. Johnson
T. N. Johnson
Yeggs
Flrst State Bank
Cottonwood Lake Burns Half Its Business District
Sunday night fire in Cottonwood Lake Williams county west of Wildrose destroyed five business buildings including Dan Murray’s confectionery post office and local offices. Fire started in the Murray store from an unknown cause, efforts saved little, most buildings insured and to be rebuilt. Also note Gus Albertson plans to use a Big Four gas tractor for threshing and thistle control after harvest.
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Cottonwood Lake
Williams County
Wildrose
Dan Murray
F. E. Stefanowicz
The
Tribune
Dr. Jensen
Murray
Gus Albertson
Coteau
Robbery On Bowbells Main Street Injures Hotel Operator
Miss Elmyra Porter, daughter of Mr and Mrs G I Porter, faced a street assault while managing the Palace hotel. She was seized, robbed of money and fainted, later recalling a duck coated man and a case that left her unconscious until eleven. Sheriff Stainhofer investigated but could not identify a suspect. Local threshing reports followed.
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First National Bank
Bowbells
Yeggs
Burke
Mowers
Bulletin Office
Tate
Laurence Hunter
Stainhofer
Porter
North Dakota gardener seeks help on destructive cut worms
A North Dakota game warden sent cut worms to the North Dakota Agricultural College asking for guidance as these pests damaged gardens all summer. The college explains the worms are not true army worms but a Noctuidae species with two broods yearly, pupating in prairie sod or stubble, and suggests burning dry prairie and plowing fields before May to destroy pupae.
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Stanle Hendrickson
Coteau
Department of Horticulture and Forestry
North Dakota Agricultral College
Hendrickson
Agricultural College
N. D
North Dakota
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Yegis
Peter W. Mogren
Niobe
Minot
E. J. Remington
Elgin
Ill
Noonan
Great Northern Road
the Tribune
Gottonwood Lake
Tam
Soren Hanson
Eis
Posits
A.C. Wiper
B. M. Wohlwend
F. J. Kroman
Asst. Cashier
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