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One of the broadcasting pioneers in Fargo, and throughout the state of North Dakota was John Boler. At the height of his career, he managed 100 radio stations throughout the region, many of which he owned including KVOX-AM/Fargo (Now on 740 kHz), and later KFGO/Fargo (790 kHz). Boler also foresaw the rise of television signing on the city’s second television station (Behind WDAY-TV), KXJB-TV (Now KRDK-TV.) Whil

The Flaten family is from Norway. O.E. Flaten was born November 6, 1854 in Vanders Norway. He came to America at the age of seventeen. at the urging of his uncle, Ole Boe, who sent him $45 for his passage over the Atlantic. After five long weeks at sea, Flaten arrived in Quebec, Canada. From Quebec he traveled by water and stagecoach, to Northfield, Minnesota. Flaten stayed there for six years, working for the photog

Solomon Comstock came to Moorhead in 1871. He came from a modest background, born in May 9, 1842, in Maine. His father was in the lumber business and from a young age Comstock knew that was not what he not what he wanted to do with his life. Comstock attended the Maine Wesleyen Academy in Readfield, Maine in his early twenties. It was known for its law degrees. Comstock received practical training in a law office of

Originally built for the “International Order of Oddfellows” in 1893, The building that the Hotel Donaldson occupies was one of the first buildings in Downtown after the historic fire that destroyed most of Downtown Fargo. Records show that it was 1915-16 when the building was renovated to the hotel that is still in business today. Originally billed as a “modern european hotel”, the 2nd and 3r

Jake Schumaker will be given a preliminary hearing in charge of selling liquor to a youth who had told police in court that he had given the beverage to two Fargo minors a few days prior. Schumaker was arrested by police and then taken before Judge E.U. Wade. The youth was 16 years old would also be arraigned in police court. Fargo Police found one of the minors who was 15 years old around the back of a Broadway hote

Four men were arrested in Moorhead by the federal prohibition agents Wednesday March, 15. The establishments that raided were, Peter Meehan, the soft drink parlor on 23 Fourth Street South, The Oxford club, 224 First Avenue South, Martin Redman Cigar Store, 11 Fourth Street North, and G. A. Saumweber barber shop, 15 Fourth Street South. No liquor was found at the Oxford club or the Redman establishment. The liquor wa

J.H Sheppard, once Professor of Agriculture and President of North Dakota Agricultural College, spent time in Chicago at the International Judging Contest. He believed that NDAC should have an organization like this because it would increase the animal husbandry interest on campus. So in March 1918, Saddle and Sirloin Club was born and still thrives today. [1] The biggest event that S&S club puts on is Little Int

In March of 1952 at the 5th annual North Dakota Spring Market Hog Show, the NDAC Livestock Pavillion was renamed the Shepperd Arena. This building can hold 1,500 people, and it has as well arrival rooms for the livestock and and a meat laboratory. In the 1970s, the arena grew and expanded its meat laboratory. Little International, Shepperd Arena’s biggest event of the year, uses the arena for livestock judging as wel

  Of the many historic buildings torn down during the urban renewal process, one that stands out is the Carnegie Moorhead Public Library. The library was a one story Classical revival style building that was built in part to the Women’s Club of Moorhead, who persuaded the City Council in 1904 to establish a library fund and obtained a $12,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie for construction of the library.[1] Carn