The community of Daily began with the establishment of a post office called ''Sheyenne'' on April 13, 1881 with James Daily, a bridge-builder and homesteader as the postmaster. The post office was located in the home of James Daily.

Daily, Dakota Territory. Center, Right: Daily School. Center, Left: Ole Hjelde store. Far Left: Sorenson Far Right: Hjelde home.

Ole P. Hjelde had built a store in 1881 located a half mile east of the Sorenson Mill on the Sheyenne River and a short distance south of the Daily (Yucatan) School building which had been built in 1879.

On March 28, 1882, the post office was moved to the Hjelde Store and the name officially changed to that of "Daily." Ole P. Hjelde was named the new postmaster. He occupied this position until the post office was discontinued on November 15, 1908.

The Daily school and store became the social as well as the economic center of a wide area for over thirty years. With the founding of the village of Kathryn a few miles south of Daily, the loss of the post office and the burning of the Sorenson Mill in 1910, the need for a general store gradually lessened and Ole P. Hjelde closed the store about 1925. The building was dismantled, the school was discontinued and the building moved to Kathryn and Daily, an important institution in its day, became a legend and a memory.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 282