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5/15/2007: News was received in Fargo on this day in 1917 that caused quite the commotion, and even more chuckles. The obituary of Mrs. John W. Springer from New York appeared to many quite the fitting end to a sensational story.

5/19/2007: State’s Attorney J. B. Wineman of Grand Forks received an interesting affadavit on this day in 1908.

5/22/2007: In 1963, writer Edward Barry wrote for the Chicago Tribune Magazine: “Imagine a profoundly learned man who likes loud sports clothes, a scientist who talks slang like a fight promoter, a holder of a doctor’s degree who looks like an actor, and a university professor who would be quite capable of carving out a career as a comic.”

5/21/2007: Today there are a growing number of trends and diets that are supposed to help Americans, especially children, get healthier. From avoiding carbs to eliminating transfats some people have tried everything. Or have they?

5/28/2007: If undisturbed, the poppy seed will lie on the top of the ground for years without producing a plant and partially for that reason the poppy has become a symbol of war and remembrance of those who were wounded or died in combat.

5/31/2007: The steamboat Yellow Stone reached Fort Tecumseh on this day in 1832, as part of the Fort Union expedition led by Pierre Chouteau, Jr. The expedition was sent by the American Fur Company in hopes of reaching Fort Union along the Missouri River. No steamboat had completed the feat before, the boats’ hulls too deep to manuever around the Missouri’s unpredictable sand bars and cottonwood snags.

6/3/2007: Dorothy Stickney was born on June 21st, 1896 in Dickinson to Margaret and Dr. Victor Hugo Stickney. She made her first appearance of the stage of the Minot Theatre in 1921, giving recitations with the Southern Belles Concert Party.

6/4/2007: Bertril W. Benson was a member of the 1883 Dakota Territory legislative session, and he had enough clout, that when the area he represented was organized into a county the next year, Benson County was named after him.

6/9/2007: For seventy-two years she stood, majestically dominating the shoreline on Stump Lake.

6/28/2007: The city of Granville is celebrating its centennial this weekend, with a full slate of activities, including a parade, classic car show , concerts, a wagon train and several trays of Lucille Loftesness’ delicious centennial long johns!