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3/27/2009: Edith Hughes was a big city, little city girl. She was born as Edith Wakeman in New York state, but she was raised in Bismarck. When she was older, in 1930, she took her parents to California, and they made their home in Los Angeles. Until 1941, she made it her custom to visit her home city at least once a year.

4/2/2009: In 1900, the Devils Lake Free Press described the state's Republican Convention as "one of the stormiest" ever held in North Dakota. Behind the storm lay a powerful political figure: Alexander McKenzie.

4/6/2009: Today is Army Day. Well, it used to be Army Day. A Bismarck Tribune article stated President Franklin Roosevelt was proclaiming this day in 1943 to be Army Day as a way to honor "the men of the United States Army who have carried the flag of the United States and its ideals which it represents to every part of the earth, and who with their brothers-in-arms from the nations united with us are offering their lives for the future of America and the world."

4/15/2009: The Salvation Army and old bowling pins made the news on this date in 1955.

4/17/2009: On this date in 1930, Emma Zuger received a check for $121.10 from the warden of the State Penitentiary. The money comprised donations from prisoners in appreciation of the many times the Sakakawea Junior Club had entertained them with operettas and cantatas.

4/23/2009: Elizabeth Cady Stanton once confided to her journal, "...we are sowing winter wheat, which the coming spring will see sprout, and other hands than ours will reap and enjoy."

4/29/2009: On this day in 1931, the King and Queen of Siam were treated to a state dinner with President Hoover at the White House. They were the first absolute monarchs to ever visit the United States, and the first Asian monarchs to visit the White House.

5/3/2009: In May of 1911, the cornerstone was laid and dedicated for a new Presbyterian church in Grand Forks.

5/5/2009: It was on this date in 1945 that a Japanese bomb balloon claimed the lives of six people in Oregon. They were the only casualties of World War II in the continental United States. Two of them were the children of Grand Forks railroad engineer, Frank Patzke, 13-year-old Joan and 14-year-old Dick.

5/6/2009: On this date in 1958, the Congregational Christian Conference was held in the city of Lakota. Parishes in Crary, Lakota and Michigan hosted the annual event.