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2/13/2007: This day in 1926 started out with much excitement for the sisters of Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Dickinson. An expansion had just been completed, and upon the sisters’ inspection, especially of the woodwork in the new chapel, the new addition was deemed satisfactory.

2/16/2007: Captain Meriweather Lewis set out from Fort Mandan on this day in 1805 to pursue a group of horse thieves. The day before, a group of Siouans attacked a hunting party sent out by the Corps of Discovery, taking two of the party’s horses. The men arrived back to the fort around 10 p.m. that evening and told Captain Clark of the attack.

2/21/2007: A former Minnesota Attorney General succumbed to authorities after a twenty-four hour siege on this day in 1907. The General, W. B. Douglas of St. Paul, attempted to avoid being served garnishment papers after his recent purchase of the Smith-Kenmare Dry Coal Company. The papers were being brought on behalf of E. C. Tolley, the company’s primary stockholder and chief opponent of the sale.

3/4/2007: Although this time of the year brings much appreciated longer days and warmer temperatures, it also brings the threat of one of nature’s deadliest forces…the spring blizzard, and on this date in 1966 the Midwest was in the midst of one of the most severe blizzards of the century.

3/10/2007: Today was another Saturday for legislators in 1951, and no doubt it was a day of much needed rest after a full week of decision-making.

3/18/2007: Dave Osborn was a fine football player at Cando High School who went on to be a standout running back for the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux.

3/24/2007: North Dakota lost one of its most noted historians on this day in 1985. Elwyn Burns Robinson passed away at the age of seventy-nine, after a life-long career documenting North Dakota’s history as a distinguished professor at the University of North Dakota.

3/27/2007: A frightened girl, perhaps suffering from an overactive imagination, leapt from a moving train near Gladstone, North Dakota on this day in 1924. The girl believed that another passenger on the Northern Pacific train had been watching her, and feared that the man intended her harm. Fearing for her life, the girl retired to her berth and leapt from the compartment’s window into the snow below.

3/29/2007: Rolf Harmsen was deaf, so he couldn’t hear the gun, the hard breathing or the pounding steps of his competition on the track. But, the Hazen native was also quick, so chances are he wouldn’t have heard them anyway as he strode far ahead of his competition, despite his disability. Unlike the other boys who reacted to the sound of the gun, Rolf had to wait for his competitors to move.

4/4/2007: During this 2006-2007 performance season, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony is celebrating 75 years as an “official” orchestra. In 1931 Mrs. A.J. Jardine, along with other volunteers from the community, chartered the group, assembled the orchestra piece by piece, and selected Harry Rudd to be the first conductor of the new orchestra.