The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-07-01
Ancta is long on automobiles.

Inc Crary baseball diamond Is be.
ing improved.
A wool shipment was recently made
from Lalota.
The Leeds bricks are said to be of
high quality.
The question of incorporation is
agitating Mimic.
A Wilton pool room was robbed OF
$50 and watch.
The telephone exchange at Minor
is being enlarged.
Washburn is doing some lively hus.
Ting this summer
Starkweather insists on some form
of fire protection.
There has been too much careless
shooting in Sheldon.
Many RED river valley farmers had
to reseed their flax.
Mintos fair this year will be larger
and better than ever.
Bootlcggers found Crary bad place
to get in their work.
The people of Walhalla have i'm.
proved the cemetery.
The insane man found at Neche was
taken back to Winnipeg.
1t is claimed that there is flax two
feet high around Harvey.
Many of the roads leading to Gran.
Vile are being improved.
From all sections of the state como
good reports of the crops.
Darlington expects to have resi-.
dent Episcopal clergyman.
ihe Lakota fire department is said
to be an enthusiastic one.
The gypsy outfit that made Lisbon
was ordered to move p. d. q.
The telephone lines are being ex
tended in Pembina county.
| Andrew Jeppson, sentenced at For.
man, has skipped the country.
The flax crop in Stutsman county is
said to be the finest for years.
Joe Garbert got five years at Penn.
bina on horse stealing charge.
The people of Minor may give an.
other benefit performance for the
| band
! 1t is claimed that none of the small
pox cases in Pembina county are se'
| rious. &
A lot of new citizens are being made
in Ward county, to take up home
steads
Edmore has a restaurant conducted
by five sisters, and there is no fear of
strike.
Leeds had a bad fire in which liver
son & Eilmen's hardware store was
destroyed.
Scarcely a week goes by without
chronicling the organization Of a new
creamery.
The northwestern part of the state
seems to have been especially favored
with showers.
A lady at Lakota was run over by =
runaway horse and was unconscious
for some time.
Rev. Mcnamara of Lakota is en-
deavoring to build a new Methodist
church at Bartlett
The number of lawsuits about flood
ed lands in the state is growing more
numerous annually.
A marriage, three kegs Of beer and
session at the justice shop created
diversion at Lakota.
A McHenry county man has an auto
and the people of Balfour were given
q ride the other day.
There is a row on at jamestown
over the way things have been torn
up by house mover.
The Ward county crop is so promis-
ing that the farmers are already pur'
chasing threshing rigs.
The salary of the secretary of the
state firemens association has been
increased from 5000 to $500.
A number of the residents of Rich.
burg and vicinity in Bottineau cour.y
were formerly from Hillsboro.
Gucsses and bets are being made on
the result Of the next trial of William
Barry, the Milton man killer.
Nels Erickson, who was reported to
have attempted suicide at kensal, waJ
playing base ball week later.
Since it is claimed that macaroni
wheat makes good bread, less objec-
ton seems to be advanced against it.
The Northwood mill has changed
ownership and the new prcprietors
will furnish the city with electric
light.
o. G. Majors of Hope is endeavoring
to interest the farmers of that part
Of the state in owning their own ele-
vators.
Former street fairs at Hankinson
have been so successful that the peo-
pie are determined to have another
this fall
There are some sections of the state
in which rain is needed to boost the
late sown wheat, which is coming up
irregularly.
Ranchmen in the western part Of the
state are grounding the fence wires, it