The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-07-08

the local grounds today.
Clarence Parker won the cham
piOnship of the state at the
shooting tournament at Devils
lake this week and secured the
$50 gold medal.
The Independent job office has
.rinted Il |; rye number OF the
latest and best form OF chattel
mortgage blanks, which may be
,curad at reasonable prices.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mcdaniel,
Misses Lena Weagant, Lottie
Upham and Cetha Williams are
spending a few days at the
Chautauqua at Devils Lake.
At the Presbyterian church at
Minot there will be the regular
morning service at II O'Clock
followed by Sunday School.
There will be no evening service.
Mrs. Jack Nichols was brought
in from Coal Harbor very i'll
with blood poisoning OF the arm.
She cut her hand on a tin can
recently which terminated rather
seriously. She is improving.
Miss Hastad, a graduate nurse
is employed by the county hos
pital and will have charge Of the
training department for nurses.
Fourteen patients are receiving
treatment at the hospital.
Ostcopathy Natures remedy for all
chronic diseases. Ross, johnson
block, Minot. 12-4t
Mrs. Woods daughter at
tempted to lift a child in the city
the other d;ry. In doing SO her
shoulder was thrown out Of Joint.
\ doctor was called and the
Joint put back in place.
J. NJ. Bevins OF Sawyer is hav-
ing good success killing gophers
with wheat soaked with strych-
nine, and sweetened. Try this
plan. BE sure the poison is
thoroughly dissolved.
Flax is only S3 cents a bushel
and still going down. +. W.
Roach believes that with a large
crop this fall the price will 60
down to Is cents a bushel. Still
there is money i'll raising it.
All over the state the gophers
are getting in their work and
destroying from X to x the crops
OF grain. They cut off more than
they eat. Heroic efforts are be-
ing made to get rid OF them.
No services ut the NJ. f. church
next Sunday on account OF the
repairs the church building is
now undergoing. Rev. Edgar
Jones will spend Sunday at
Granville and Buffalo Lodge.
II. A. Hurd is building a man,
moth barn on the l.. l.. Walton
farm near Iennert, 4SxS4 feet.
He also built a big granary. Mr.
Walton is an extensive farmer,
having in 1900 acres OF crop.
On Sunday afternoon Rey. A.
c. Brown, D. d., of Fargo or
ganized a Presbyterian church
at Logan. Robert Waldref was
made elder with David Forbes,
J. d. Bell and VIM. McDermid
trustees.
Archie Johnson is in from Bow
bells where he spent several days
on his claim. He has 40 acres
of flax which stands Is inches
hioh. He can cut go tons Of hay.
The plague at Bowbells is now
under control.
The Bobwells farmers have
solved the gopher question.
They soak oat meal with a
strvchnine solution, sweeten it
and sprinkle it in a deep furrow
about a field. Hundreds OF the
gophers die right in the furrow.
Rev. +. Larke, the Jolly little
Berthold preacher, was ordained
at that place Thursday by the
following ministers: 6. J. Powell,
Il. II. Stickney, Il. S. Shaw, L.
A. Taylor, w. H. Gimlet and MIR.
WindrOss.
Barton Harrington returned
from Milton where he spent the
summer. He reports the weather
very dry about Milton, there be-
ing but one good rain all sum-
mer. Around Park River
farmers are blowing up their
crops.
Eleven are now employed con-
tinually in the Minot Steam
Laundry. The proprietor RI.
w. Titus is certainly doing a fine
business and pleasing his big line
of customers. He has the very