The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-06-10
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Lakota had burglar scare.
Pony races are the fad at Walhalla.
Fort Yates will soon be lonesome
place.
Devils Lake is making sewer ex'
tensions.
The new creamery at Lisbon is open
for business. s
Hamilton will give bigger fair this
year than ever.
The demand for sidewalks continues
at Darlington.
Much drainage is to be done in
Pembina county.
Bathgate has decided to celebrate
the nations birthday.
No section of the state seems to
have missed good rains.
Grafters of all kinds are reported
numerous around Marion.
Harold Westergaard Of Buffalo will
teach at Pembina this fall.
w. G. Whin has hauled the first
batch of wood to Dickinson.
A colt without any fore legs is re.
ported in Bottineau county.
The Denhoff blind piggers are said
to be on the mourning list.
The consolidation of schools is a
live issue in Ramsey county.
Langdon people are making siren
nous effort to save the band.
Company A boys at Bismarck are
being examined for promotion.
Lightning seems to have killed some
valuable stock over the state.
A lot of cattle in Ward county are
said to be afflicted with the scab.
The eight-year-old son Of Mr.. Scha'
uer, near Mandan, was drowned.
There was so much scarlet fever at
Dickinson the schools were closed.
Fake mutual insurance people are
getting roasted by the state press.
Richland county claims to be the
banner county in the state for rain.
Bathgate will be we'll represented In
the Pembina county baseball league.
A telephone line is said to be prom
Used Mohall from some point on the
500.
Crazy gets long distance telephone
connections with the Northwestern
| line. .... ....
Excursions on Des Laos lake from
Kenmare will be popular this sum-
mer
Kids and matches and small barn
furnished some diversions at Caring
| ton.
A Bottineau man was bound over on
charge of selling mortgaged prop
erty.
Another application will be made at
Grand Forks for a street car fran
chise
Mary Ellen Coddington secured d.
vorce at jamestown from Enoch Cod
dington.
Edmore fans took stock and found
they were shy four of last years base
ball suits.
Some Pembina county people have
been adopting children from the home
in Fargo.
The capital of the German State
! bank of Glenullin has been increased
to $4,000.
The mail carrier between Bowdon
Is no o,,5nr
! an automobile.
| A number of travelling men are ar
ranging to make Devils Lake their
headquarters. rs.
The report that it rained beer in
| East Grand Forks recently is not re-
| garded as true.
Mrs. Henry Boehnke of Bottinear'
| took the butcher knife route into the
| next existence.
w. W. Good has started a general
F, store at Center, the new county seat
of Oliver county.
At Steele man kicks on the small
amount Of stuff sent some people who
were quarantined.
At Grafton a feature Of the school
work is visit of the old soldiers to
the different schools.
Courtenay people rejoice that Prof.
Button has been re-engaged as prin-
cipal of the schools.
Kidder county continues to get lot
of advertising on that fire break story
that started last fall.
A Towner man measured hop vine
one day recently and found that it
grew an inch an hour.
While in Linton last week Bishop
Mann lifted the debt from the Episco'
pal church in that town.
At Courtenay some one varied the
monotony by poisoning a COW that be-
longed to a prominent citizen.
w. L. Yeater, formerly so long in the
motel business at Williamsport, has
located with his family at Hazelton.
Landseekers have not been so MI