The Mandan Excessive College drama division lately offered a three-act farce titled “The Miser,” a traditional story of an aged man who’s tight together with his cash, set in 18th century Paris. Based on director Bonita Saur, the story created many humorous conditions. The getting older miser, Harpagon, was performed by Shawn Feist. Stage veteran Erika Lund was Frosine, the matchmaker, and Jason Lord, one other MHS theater common, performed Valere. The remaining solid included Katy Friesz, Jason Krous, Danny Meidinger, Zach Frohlich, Bret Herzog, Nicole Bickford, Steve Sunga, Mary Cameron, Tara Thorenson and Becky Silbernagel.

Mandan Masonic Lodge No. 8 has put in new officers for 1998-99. Don Hanson, retired instructor from Mandan Excessive College, is the brand new Grasp of the lodge, succeeding Ross Mushik, Mandan. Others put in: Mark Job, Bismarck, Senior Warden; and Robert Tubbs, Junior Warden, and George Toman, Secretary-Treasurer, each of Mandan.

Temps recorded Tuesday, Jan. 20: a excessive of 17 levels above zero; 9 above for the low.

President James Noonan of the First Nationwide Financial institution of Mandan has introduced promotions, following the annual assembly of the Board of Administrators. Named assistant vice chairman and ag rep is Jan Peterson, 32, who joined the financial institution in 1968 after serving as assistant Morton County agent. Promoted to assistant cashier is Gary Mantz, 25, who additionally joined the financial institution in 1968, following work at a finance firm in Kansas Metropolis, Kans.

W.T. Cummins, a financial institution director since March 1940, has retired from the financial institution’s board of administrators and was honored for his 32 years of service to the financial institution and the neighborhood. Cummins owned and operated a pioneer enterprise, the Cummins Division retailer, from 1924 till 1960.

Tony Gunsch of Mandan and Fred Mernitz, Bismarck, hauled a 23-pound Northern Pike at Beulah Bay on the frozen Lake Sakakawea this previous week. The fish measured 43 inches in size and was so massive that Mernitz needed to lower the opening bigger, whereas Gunsch held the fish on the road earlier than drawing it by way of the ice.

Tremendous Bowl VII was performed between the Miami Dolphins, coached by Don Shula, and the Washington Redskins, coached by George Allen, on a 84-degree day at Los Angeles, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 15. Miami emerged the victor, 14-7, and have become, and nonetheless is, the primary and solely crew in NFL historical past to assert an undefeated season, ending with a 17-0 file. Chosen Most Useful Participant was Jake Scott, Dolphins security. Quarterbacks had been Bob Griese, Miami, and Billy Kilmer, Washington. The price of a 30-second business was $88,000.

Temps recorded Saturday, Jan. 20: a excessive of 30 above zero; 16 above for the low.

The Sims neighborhood of crimson brick buildings, about 35 miles west of Mandan, turned a ghost city in December when the city was formally deserted by the Northern Pacific Railroad for a brand new route over its New Salem-Glen Ullin cutoff. The final resident to show off the lights was Ervin Olin of Almont, who turned appearing postmaster final Could after the demise of his uncle, S.A. Johnson, veteran Sims postmaster and storekeeper. It was Olin who had the melancholy job of closing up the depot, the put up workplace and different amenities after the Northern Pacific made its final run there in the course of the first week of December.

Sims was based in 1883 after the primary lignite mine was opened in 1879 to provide low-cost coal to the Northern Pacific Railway and to offer the wanted gasoline for a brick manufacturing facility, making it the liveliest neighborhood of greater than 1,500 inhabitants west of Missouri. The brick manufacturing facility’s excessive level was reached in 1884 after furnishing bricks for the development of Bismarck’s unique capitol constructing in 1883-84.

Births introduced this week: Daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Repair, to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gustin, to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Keith, to Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Larson, all of Mandan; and to Mr. and Mrs. John Bendish, Fort Rice. Sons, born to Mr. and Mrs. Merton Slinde, to Mr. and Mrs. Magne Syvrud, to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Sherman and to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schmidt, all of Mandan.

Temps recorded Tuesday, Jan. 20: a excessive of 26 levels above zero; 12 above for the low.

“The primary assault on the Ku Klux Klan in North Dakota got here within the senate chambers on the Bismarck capitol this previous week when Senators McCoy of Richland and Sperry of Burleigh county launched a invoice to ban the sporting of masks or different disguises in public and designated a penalty for a similar. The penalty for violation of the regulation is just not lower than $25 nor greater than $100, or imprisonment within the county jail for 20 days. Ku Klux Klan exercise has been reported within the jap a part of the state, at Grand Forks and at Fargo.

“The biggest cargo of footwear ever introduced into Mandan, for retail sale by anyone firm, was obtained this week by the JC Penney Firm retailer, managed by D.C. Mohr. The cargo contained 41 instances and almost stuffed a giant categorical automotive.

“Yesterday’s leniency by U.S. District Choose Andrew Miller in imposing on Tom Kopp, solely a $25 positive and a lecture for the violation of the Volstead Act, reasonably than a jail sentence, was not directly accountable for saving the lifetime of Fred C. Riz, 83, who lived alone in a small home within the excessive southeastern a part of town.

“For at 8 p.m. final evening, younger Kopp occurred to look out of the window of his residence and noticed the Riz shack in flames. He rushed to the place and, disregarding the flames and heavy smoke, entered to search out the outdated man struggling to lug a mattress to the door. Kopp seized it and hauled him outdoors, returning to safe the outdated man’s trunk, containing his U.S. Citizenship papers, a long-prized fee within the Danish military, garments, and so on. Thirty seconds later, the shack was a mass of flames. Though the hearth division responded pretty quickly to a belated alarm, they had been unable to achieve the blaze with their 200 ft of hose, and, with just one hydrant in “Dogtown,” the water stress was too low to make a distinction. As a substitute, the firemen and neighbors shaped a bucket brigade to extinguish the blaze.

“Tom Kopp, who saved the outdated man from demise within the fireplace, is the younger man who, together with his father John Kopp, was arrested thrice final 12 months for violating the prohibition legal guidelines. When a Pioneer reporter mentioned he was a hero for saving a life, Kopp replied, “Does that imply my title can be within the paper once more? I didn’t do something!”

A file excessive temperature of 44 levels was set on Saturday, Jan. 17.

Temps recorded Saturday, Jan. 20: a excessive of 25 levels above zero; 4 above for the low.

“At 2:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 20, the temperature was 28 levels above zero.

“The climate continues positive.

“Thursday morning was Klondike morning on the Northern Pacific, which now runs particular vehicles thrice every week for the lodging of Klondikers to Seattle, the place fortune hunters get their 12 months’s provides for his or her lengthy journey to the gold fields of Alaska, or, if already provided, to buy a steamer’s ticket to Skagway.

“The overland Klondiker, who handed via town final summer time with a canine crew, has lastly arrived in Seattle, enroute to the gold fields. He says he has been supplied $100 apiece for his canine.

“There have been 47 canine in crates on this morning’s west sure practice en path to Seattle and the Klondike.

“D.R. Taylor states, that whereas touring east, he discovered the Klondike fever fairly prevalent. Each practice arriving in St. Paul, from the east and south, introduced scores of impatient individuals keen to achieve the gold fields in Alaska. The prevailing opinion was that each one they needed to do was to achieve these fields, and they’d be capable of scoop up nuggets by the basketful.

“Mr. Etherington has returned from Lynn, Mass., the place he had been visiting pals and kinfolk. He additionally says there may be a great deal of Klondike pleasure there, and plenty of shoemakers of that city are going to Alaska by the use of Cape Horn. A number of crusing vessels have already left and anticipate to achieve the “promised land” earlier than September. The shoemakers anticipate to get wealthy, not by panning for gold, however by promoting footwear at excessive costs.”