A sign of bad roads

From the Pope County Tribune, Thursday, Nov. 16, 1922.

Election Returns Complete. The canvassing board met on Monday and made the official canvas of the election returns in the county. The total votes registered in Pope County were 4,961. The total number of votes cast and counted were 4.794. The man who received the largest number of votes in the county was Henry Ness [Sheriff], who received 3490 votes. W.H. Ingebretson [Register of Deeds] came next with 2448 votes and Mrs. Solverud [Supt. of Schools] came third with 3422.

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From the Glenwood Herald, Thursday, Nov. 16, 1922.

Official Returns of Last Week’s Election. The county canvassing board met at the courthouse Monday and Tuesday and went over the election returns from the various precincts. The tabulated returns as published in this week’s issue of the Herald has been checked with the findings of the board. There were a few scattering votes cast for different persons for various offices. Ole Hoplin of Lowry received 4 votes for coroner, and H.J. Berry received 2,804. John Olson of Lowry was high man for the office of county surveyor with 10 votes. The closest contest of the election was that for court commissioner, Tory L. Hoff getting 5 votes and “Cornie” Wollan 4.

  Hans Schey came down from Cloquet, where he has been employed the past season, to spend a couple days with his family here. He left Monday evening for Detroit, where he will be engaged in plastering the new Lutheran church for which E.H. Dahl has the contract.

  As a sign of the bad roads it may be recorded that there were more teams in Glenwood last Saturday than there were automobiles. There were an even dozen of teams tied along the western limit of the courthouse.

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From the Starbuck Times, Friday, Nov. 17, 1922. 

Rev. J. Walter Johnshoy passed through here last week enroute from Eau Clair, Wis. To Fargo, N.D. He had accepted a call from Trinity Church South Fargo, a new congregation organized this year. He stopped off a few days with his family to visit his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Hans Johnshoy.

  Dewey Barsness, Gerhard Swenson a son of Theo. Swenson, and James and William Barsness returned a week ago Sunday from a three month’s stay in the harvest fields of Saskatchewan. The boys say they got good wages while working there. They made the trip up and back in a small Chevrolet car. Roads were fair on the return trip until they got into the mud near Grand Forks where they found it tough going for a few miles.