Trinity Health held its Park for the Park event with classic cars, Ward County and Trinity emergency vehicles, food trucks and activities for the children Wednesday, June 17, in the hospital parking lot. One goal of the community event was to encourage donations for a park being planned on ...
DUNSEITH – Performances from the second session at the International Music Camp will be held Saturday, June 27. Creative writing readings will start in the Burdick Center for the Performing Arts at 12:30 p.m.. The drumline exhibition will start in the Masonic Auditorium at 1 p.m., and the band concert will be at 1:30 p.m. Dr. Darrin Oeherking from the University of Saskatchewan will conduct the high school bands and Jason Rygg of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, will conduct the middle school bands. The drama production will round out the day at 2 p.m. in the Burdick Center for the ...
WASHBURN — Discover summer fun at Fort Mandan State Historic Site, Washburn, with free interactive learning programs for all ages. Programs are offered throughout the day. The schedule is as follows; – June 29-July 3, Bird Watching Nature Walk. Binoculars, a bird guide, and a field journal will be supplied. – July 4-5, Pinecone Bird Feeders. Create a feeder. – July 6-10, Edible Plants of the Expedition. Learn about some of the plants the expedition observed in this area and how those plants are used today. – July 11-12, Nesting Balls. Create a construction site for ...
The first case involving murder or manslaughter from Ward County was tried in Minnewaukan in January, 1887. Elmer Fosberry (or Fausberry), a teamster, had shot and killed contractor Frank Finnie at a corral near Gasmann Coulee on Monday, August 23, 1886. At his trial, held on Thursday, January 20, 1887, Fosberry was found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison. (The judge presiding at Fosberry’s trial was Judge William Francis, who had also presided over the trial of the Marquis de Mores in Bismarck in September, 1885. He had been charged with the murder/manslaughter of a ...
Edmund Hackett was still living in McHenry County in 1884. He had been a founder of Villard, which he named for a railroad president. He had come to the Mouse River Valley for the first time in the winter of 1881 and 1882 to survey a possible railroad route from Bismarck to the Turtle Mountains. The name proposed for this company was the Bismarck, Mouse River, Turtle Mountain & Manitoba Railroad. Tracks never were laid for it. Before his move to McHenry County, Hackett was a carpenter living in Bismarck, where he settled in 1872. He was appointed Mayor of Bismarck for two months in ...
