On the Street Where You Live
701 First Street – Nymore
This was the home of Frank and Mary Attridge in 1920. The children were Frederic, Francis, Thomas, Florence, Mary, and Bernice.
Mr. Attridge was a tallyman at the sawmill in 1910, but later went to work for the railroad and was working at the roundhouse in 1920. in 1915, he was part of a team of men from Nymore who competed in a 4th of July Tug-O-War against a Bemidji team. The Nymore team was composed of E. Moucha, H. Sodberg, Pete Edd, R. Edd, F. Attridge, C. J. Wilson, Ole Paulson, John Moberg and L. S. Shadlow. The Bemidji team was made up of H. Anderson, P. Swanson, A. Sellness, Carl Holson, Nels Olson, Martin Brown, Andrew Halseth, T. Nelson, Theodore Hagen and S. O. Neland.
In 1920, Florence held a party at the house in honor of her brother Thomas who was home on furlough from the Great Lakes Training Center. The guests were Misses Agnes and Lillian Parker, Betty Swanson, Dorothy Cole, Dorothy Masterson, Myrtle McCullough, Anna Knutson, Hazel Anderson, Elsie Manick. Martha Mickelson, Alma Elmquist, Mary Kirschbaum, Ellen Ohmgren. Lester Kiehl, Lloyd Bly, Justine Peterson, Bill Holiday, John Swanson, Elmer Wold, Joe Steele, Clarence Bly, Reuben Olson, Leonard Alton, Jefferson Masterson, and Foster Taylor. Bet they had fun!