A Very Pleasant Leap Year Party Given at the Home of Miss Roberts at Which Everything Was Carried Out In Genuine Leap Year Style
The Leap Year party given Monday night at the home of Miss Roberts was a grand success. All were present that were invited, and the main objects of entertainment were a written proposal contest in which prizes were given for the best and poorest proposals, by the ladies and answers to the same by the gentlemen.
The ladies recieving prizes were Miss Lizzie Palmer first prize and Miss Henrietta Falk booby prize. Both prizes were very nice.
The gentlemen winning prizes for the best and poorest answers to the proposals were, Olie Sather, first prize and Ray Reinheimer booby prize.
The next was a heart and mitten contest. Each gentlemen was supplied with one heart and five mittens, then the ladies with nice words and sweet smiles were to win the heart or mittens from the gentlemen. If the gentlemen said "no," they were to give the lady a mitten and if it was a "yes" they were to give them the heart. My! but it was fun, and gives the fellow a funny feeling. Prizes were given to the lady wining {sp} the most hearts and the one wining {sp} the most mittens.
Miss Ida Brasington, won the most hearts, and received, as a prize, a beautiful picture, and Miss May Roberts won the most mittens and received a musical whistle as a prize. All seemed to be well pleased with the prizes they received. After these two most interesting features of the evening's entertainment were over, light refreshments were served. The gentlemen waited on the table, carrying out the idea of Leap Year in its fullest. Shortly after the company retired to their homes well pleased with their evening's entertainment.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 3/3/1904
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Lloyd Carr, bookkeeper at the Nick Robe harness shop at
Sheldon, fell through a skylight and dropped a distance of 20 feet to the basement floor. He escaped with a badly lacerated nose.
Bismarck Daily Tribune, 2/29/1916
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Mrs. Sarah Haggerty, a lady seventy-six years old, is the only person who has ever died in
Keystone, in
Dickey county.
The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 10/23/1884
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Clandina
{sp} Johnson, of Fargo, recently on rial
{sp} before Judge Hudson, charged with infanticide, was acquitted on Tuesday last. In addition to a certificate of innocence, the jury handed the accused $60 collected among themselves while out of court. The spectators who received the verdict "not guilty" with uproarious shouts of applause, increased the amount to $100. In many respects it was the most remarkable criminal case ever before the courts of Dakota.
Jamestown Alert, 2/24/1882
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FINDS HUSBAND DEAD.
Farmer's Wife's Discovery in Going to the Barn to Hunt Eggs.
Groton, S.D., Feb. 12—When the wife of William Marschrider, a farmer, went to the barn late yesterday afternoon to search for eggs, she was horrified to stumble over the dead body of her husband.
It is believed that while at work in the barn he suffered a sudden attack of heart failure and probably died instantly.
Wahpeton Times, 2/14/1907
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SEVEN CHILDREN FORM CHAIN AND SAVE PLAYMATE FROM DEATH
Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 27—Forming a human chain over the thin ice of a skating pond near a school house in Baldwin township, seven children, none over eight years of age, saved their companion, Charlotte Smidt, from drowning. The little girl, after repeated warnings, started across the pond with the words "I am not afraid," and about twenty feet from the shore broke through. One little one went for the teacher, but before she had return {sp} the human chain had been formed and the little Smidt girl brought safely to shore, none the worse for her experience.
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean, 12/27/1912
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