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THE PRESS
JANUARY 29 t 2014
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AbOei andbn Houser showsoff a perch he caught at the Pii RiVer i'ks arlcl RiCqeatlbn's Kids Fishing Derby
at Homme Dam on Saturday. Bottom Left: A Reel Rod Bender. Elias Markusen is all smiles as he just pulled a perch
out of the icy depths of Homme Dam. Bottom Center: T oren Beneda seems to.be looking for help from above to
catch a fish at the Kids Ice Fishing Derby. Bottom Right: Smooth sledding. Josh Stromberg pulls, Front, (I-r) Haylee
Pickar, Avery Stromberg, and Kylee Pickar up the boat ramp at Homme Dam during the fishing derby. )
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Late- (very late-) breaking news....Park River, Jail. 191,
By David Larson
for The Press
PARK RIVER, N.D. -- The new agricul-
tural school building was dedicated on January
7, 1914. The state Superintendent of Education
gave and address, an so did Governor LB
Hanna. The last address came from John Worst,
president of the agricultural college and future
US senator. A large crowd attended the cere-
monies. The school song, "Hand and Brain,"
written by Mrs. Wm. Broyles, was played
("Hand and Brain" was the official motto of the
agricultural school.) At the evening banquet,
with the hall decorated in the school colors of
Green and White, Governor Hanna spoke of the
upcoming trip to Oslo, to present the people of
Norway with a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
More than 400 were served at the banquet. This
article on the agricultural school featured a full-
width headline, the biggest headline the Park
River Gazette had ever used.
Page 1 featured a line drawing of the build-
ing--looking exactly as it did in the 50s. It had
two storeys, a full basement, and a one-storey
addition to the west. The basement housed the
boiler room, the forge room, and the dairy and
soils laboratories. The first floor (home of the
ominous principal's office was) had the domes-
tic science room, an assembly room, and class-
rooms. The second floor was not yet com-
pletely fmished. The school also owned a piano
and a stereopticon for giving lectures. The fi-
nal cost of the building was around $40,000.
Approximately half of this money came from
the county. Park River citizens have subscribed
$15,000 of the cost. [Fifteen thousand might not
seem like a lot of money nowadays, but the
same issue of the Gazette mentions that Joseph
Reeson purchased the Claxton farm, one of the
finest half sections in the Valley, for $16,000.
The citizens were willing to tighten their belts
when it came to the town's well-being.]
The domestic science department now sup-
plies twenty people, including teachers, with a
noon lunch. The second semester will begin on
February 2. WCAS will offer classes in botany,
farm animals, physiology, pedagogy, grammar,
geography, advanced cooking, sewing, black-
smithing, manual training, and mechanical
drawing. Toward the end of January the stu-
dents in manual training began leaming furni-
ture repairing. For practice they worked on as-
sembly chairs that were damaged in shipping.
Birdie Clementson is a new pupil in the first
grade. Paul Farup has his ann in a sling. While
repairing a small firearm a bullet that was in the
chamber discharged, giving him a flesh wound
in the left hand.
In tlhe city school, the senior English class is
reading "The House of Seven Gables." The jun-
iors are reading Ivanhoe and Loma Doone. The
debate team consists of Lois McPherson, John
Berg, Magni Davidson, Thurman Thompson,
Clarence Bateman, and Russell Phair.
The Great Northern Railway has taken over
management of the railroad line between Edin-
burg and Concrete.
A remonstrance (protest) has been given to
the city government, signed by AH Walker and
53 other citizens. They are protesting against the
constraction of a city sewer system.
The high school basketball team played
Lakota on Saturday, losing 25-16. The team re-
turned on Monday's train.
Photo: Larry Bid
Above: Not Another Blizzard !!i!!!! This car was pictured Sun-
day evening at 6:00 p.m. along Highway 17, miles fro m
Grafton. Saturday evenings 3-5 inches of snow coupled with
Sundays winds led to blizzard conditions for much of the state.
It seems travel conditions are hazardous every other day.
A week of
blowing snow
By Kellen Dobmeier
of The Press
PARK RIVER, N.D. -- As last
week wore on, it genuinely felt like
one severe weather warning or
travel advisory after another. Winds
plagued northeast North Dakota
for much of last week into Sunday.
Both Interstate 29 and Highway 2
were closed, at different times.
While many roads weren't the ice
patches they become in other situ-
ations such as drastic temperature
changes, blowing snow made vis-
ibility the biggest issue for most of
the week, while drifting snow
blocked a few roads.
On Wednesday morning, 1-29 be-
tween Grand Forks and the Grafton
exit varied between quarter mile vis-
ibility and whiteout conditions.
Drivers were forced to watch more
than just their speedometers-the
scariest part of the situation was the
idea of sneaking up on another ve-
hicle because of the visibility issues.
Just after noon, the north bound
lane of Highway 17 from 1-29 to
Park River was plagued with snow-
drifts that slowed drivers and made
travel somewhat hazardous.
Snowfall was relatively light in
the region during the week, but the
wind rarely died down, even caus-
ing the postponement of a girl's bas-
ketball game that was scheduled for
Friday. Sunday's blizzard produced
constant blowing snow that closed
all of 1-29, 1-94 from Fargo to Bis-
marck, Highway 83 from Bismar-
ck to Minot and other main roads.
No travel was advised for the entire
eastern half of North Dakota all day
Sunday.
North Dakota may be known for
it's harsh winters, but we can only
hope that we don't have deal with
another week like this past one.
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