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12/17/2005: Before helicopters were available, one UND-trained doctor used an airplane.

12/23/2005: John Dering was in dire straits in the fall of 1916. Four months earlier, his two sons had been drafted to fight in what one reporter called “America’s Little War” down on the Mexican border.

6/13/2005: Paul Ebeltoft Sr. would have celebrated his 87th birthday yesterday. He was a well-known figure around Dickinson, and today we bring you a story he wrote of an experience he had in WWII.

6/18/2005: General Philippe Regis de Trobriand, commander of Fort Stevenson, once explained one of the reasons the military struggled when fighting the Sioux during the 1870s.

6/21/2005: General David Jones was appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on this date in 1978. He was from Minot, where a winter storm helped him choose his life’s path. It was during the late 1930s; Army Air Corps planes were flying through on their way to Alaska, when they had to make an emergency landing in Minot because of a snowstorm. David went with a group of other students to talk with the pilots and observe their planes. The planes’ instruments and controls were impressive enough. But when Jones actually sat in a pilots’ seat, destiny called.

6/25/2005: Mark Kellogg was killed on this date in 1876 at the battle of the Little Bighorn. Working as a reporter, Kellogg became the first Associated Press correspondent to die in battle.

6/27/2005: Last Wednesday, we introduced to you Ralph “Doc” Hubbard, who for many years ran the Fur Trade Wild Life Indian Museum in Medora. Hubbard’s great-grandmother was Mohawk, and he spent his childhood on the Seneca Indian Reservation in New York, where his parents developed the famous Roycroft line of fine art and furniture. Roycroft was so popular that famous figures of the late 1800s became regular guests at the family’s dinner table.

6/28/2005: The first automobile to enter the state of North Dakota made its grand appearance on this day in 1897.

6/29/2005: On this date in 1935, a 12-man jury decided the fate of Gladys Gibson, a Dickinson woman on trial for murdering her husband a year and a half earlier.

7/1/2005: This is a big year for Centennial celebrations. Fairdale held festivities last week. A notable Fairdale citizen was Al Van Hal, editor of the Fairdale Times; he later achieved success in OR, where he published The Western Stamp Collector, a national magazine for philatelists.