FARGO — Three cities in southeastern North Dakota are celebrating their 125th anniversaries this summer with community celebrations, and all three are also named for women. This branch line of the Northern Pacific Railroad has been called the "Ladies Line" or "Old Maid Line" for years, but who were the women memorialized by these small towns?

Alice, North Dakota, was founded in 1900 and is named for Alice Carpenter Lewis, the wife of Robert Steele Lewis. Alice was born Dec. 12, 1857, in Monticello, Minnesota, to Judge George Carpenter and his wife, Maria (Williams). She met Robert, who was born in 1856 in Tennessee and moved to Minnesota just seven years later. The couple married Dec. 25, 1879, in Hastings, Minnesota, and lived in Minneapolis for a year before moving to Fargo so Robe

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