Editing St. John, North Dakota (section)

==History==
St. John was laid out in 1882.<ref name="Star">{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YcRkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=loYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=609%2C3700595 | title=Explain Origin of All County Towns | work=Turtle Mountain Star | date=September 5, 1940 | access-date=May 2, 2015 | pages=7}}</ref>  The town took its name after a parish in [[Quebec]], the native land of a local missionary.<ref>{{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|author-link=Federal Writers' Project|title=North Dakota, a Guide to the Northern Prairie State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dCGVnMUdNqMC&pg=PA236|year=1938|publisher=WPA|isbn=978-1-62376-033-5|page=236}}</ref> St. John was incorporated in 1903.<ref name="Star" /> A post office has been in operation in St. John since 1882.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=ND&county=Rolette | title=Rolette County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=February 14, 2015}}</ref> An early history of the town of St. John circa 1890 to 1912 can be found here <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hubertbrooks.com/88HubertBrooks_AppendA6_0_RoletteStJohn.html|title=St. John North Dakota Late 1892 to June 1913 Section 6}}</ref> and.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hubertbrooks.com/88HubertBrooks_AppendA8_HubertBrooksStJohnPt2.html|title= St. John 1910 to 1912 Section 8}}</ref>