The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-05-20
Carrlngton boasts OF its kid band.

to be rather dry.
Some horses in Ward county have
died mysteriously.
Jamestown wants the streets sprin
killed. this summer.
At Napoleon twelve people were re
Gently naturalized.
Mrs. Cochrane, wife of the supreme
court justice, Is ILL.,
Alice has received the first car load
Of nut coal for year.
steads around Medina.
There seems to be row on at Wash.
| burn about some gossips.
In Grand Forks it is held that Arbor
day is not 4 legal holiday.
| Improvements have been made in
the opera house at Cakes.
Bottineau man may establish 9
harness business in Dunseith.
Lidgerwood is getting a lot of adj
vertising out Of the new hospital.
Much improved stock has been
brought into the state this spring.
Alfred Steel was elected president
of the school board at Jamestown.
Incendiary fires are reported in the
vicinity Of Rchburg, Bottineau coun.
ty.
The big Troy farm at Tappen will
seed 200 acres of bronze grass this sea-
son.
New Rockford people are endeavor
ing to create a lake for a summer re-
sort.
Cando is to have cement sidewalks.
Wahpeton seems to have rival
bands.
The Woodmen are reported to be di.
vided regarding the plan of assess.
ment.
The question of Fourth of July Gel
ebration at Minot is being warmly dis.
cussed.
Efforts are being made to improve
the grounds around the state capitol
building.
Several townships in the northern
part of Grand Forks county are after
the 500.
Dunseith is rejoicing over the estab
lishment Of 4 bank there by some Min.
nesotans.
Souris boasts of three banks. and
the town has been on the map only
three years.
A sneak thief at Stanley was foxy
enough to dodge some bullets fired in
Ills direction.
! Some people express fear OF lack
of rainfall in the northwes tern part Of
the state this summer
| Some Of the Grand Forks teachers
have resigned, and it is expected that
Dan Cupid is to blame.
Supt. of P,eic Instruction Stock
we'll seems to grow in popularity with
the people OF the state.
! Uncle John" Russell Of Valley City
has returned from the Pacific coast
after a pleasant winter
The city council at jamestown is de
termined to have some of the delapi-
dated sidewalks rebuilt.
A. L. Martin of Sentinel Butte is re
ported to have closed a land deal
which closed up $4,000 for him.
I The discussion over the double tele.
phone franchise at Grand Forks seems
to have resulted In some bitterness.
The report that the people of Carl,
and Rolla are just dying to get to ride
in those new hearses is not believed.
Hannah rejoices over the fact that
the town has never had bad fire. bu.
wants fire department just the same.
1t is said that North Dakota has a
woman who has secured four divorces
and is about ready to marry the filth
victim.
The peddlers claim they will be
driven out of North Dakota by the new
license law. and no one seems TO
mourn greatly.
A Bowbells woman is after United
States commissioner who is alleged to
have taken money to make a proof
that was never made.
Notwithstanding the fact that ex-
| elusive franchises are forbidden, there
is an effort being made to secure one
for q gas plant at Cooperstown.
1t is said that MinoI followed the
example of Mandan. and out Of respcc.
to the presiding judge the blind pigs
were closed during the court sessions.
One Rolla barber was in Missouri on
visit another died suddenly. and
third got drunk. so Cando face-scrap-
err had to go up there to do the Wits
ker-pushing act.
| Heretofore the North Dakota poo
pie have always been strong symDa-
thizers with the employees of the Great
Northern in labor troubles. This time
the sympathy seems to be the other
way.
The shippers and legislators seen.
to be awakening to the fact that they
were Duncoed by the Elkins law. which
was entirely for the relief of the rail-
road companies in the matter 0!
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