The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-05-06

Devils Lake is to have yachting
club.
jamestown is to extend its sewer
system.
Near Wilton seven COWS sold for
$422.50.
The strike at Wilton seems to be
over.
Grand Forks has received it's fire
engine.
Business on the Farmers railroad is
booming.
A lot of peddlers are being assessed
for licenses.
New Salem seems to have boom
this spring.
Edmore is to have a Knights of
Pythias lodge.
Donnybrook had a fire scare at the
stockyards.
Minot had pair of fires, but neither
was serious.
jamestown people are purchasing
automobiles.
The Metropole hotel at Walhalla is
to be enlarged.
Valley City is to haye some home
made minstrels.
Center, the Oliver county seat, is to
have creamery.
No town is so dead that it cannot
boast a ball team.
The early closing agitation mas
struck Lidgerwood.
TOWERS telephone system will be
an automatic affair.
The man with garden tools is about
as busy as anybody.
Many Improvements are being made
by the city of Minot.
jamestown will blow in $4,000 Oh
sewer improvements.
Wells county horses have been sui.
fering from distemper.
There is talk of rural delivery
route out of Bowbells.
Ward county seems to be long on
school superintendent.
The new school building at Kenmare
is an imposing structure.
A lot of Balm of Gilead trees are
being set out this year.
There has been a change in the tel.
ephone rates at Richburg.
Ward county is great country for
mysterious disappearance.
Receiver Fox of the Minot land
Office thinks this is flax year.
There were number of resigna.
tons in the schools at Cando.
There is lot of agitation at Lang.
don over the band disbanding.
A Jamestown youth dislocated both
arms while playing basketball.
There seem to be several diagrams
to the Bartlett townsite contest.
Minot is said to be due for sen.
sation in the United States court.
That Michaels continues to get out
an interesting sheet at Willow Cit;
Minoters claim they have the best
town in the state, outside Of Fargo.
The little son of Judge Palda was
badly injured by falling on a stone.
Frank Russell wants to arrange
baseball games for his Lisbon team.
A blind pigger and pair of boot
leggers got it in the neck at Cando.
Secretary Hammond of the railroad
commissions has removed to Bismarck.
The Northern Pacific will iron the
main line this summer with S6-pound
rails.
Representative of the census bu-
reau are gathering statistics in this
state.
AT Painted Woods the native cotton
wood lumber is sold at SIS per thou
sand.
With the arrival of spring the mar
rage records seem to be fully main
taiIed.
1t is said that E. S. Allen will again
be appointed city attorney at Bis
marck
Rev. Sprague, said to be a Fargo
evangelist, is holding meetings at
Stanley.
Ac AlllAlld OoyS ONSi SAAS oSoeS 10
pect good time at the encampment
this year.
Willow City tennis experts chal-
lenge the state, and especially Fargo
players.
The supply of Dago laborers for
this state seems to be equal to the
demand.
More farmers are said to have rar-
chased COWS this year t:lan for many
seasons.
The stray cattle at Mandan are ere.
ating about as much trouble as those
in Bismarck
The question of proper seed grain
received more consideration this year
than usual.
The high prices of houses this spring
has revived interest in breeding stock
in this state
One member of school board de,
clares there are more Minnesotans
than North Dakotans teaching in this
state.