The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1903-05-20
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NORTH DAKOTA|'
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Palermo continues to grow.

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Palermo continues to grow.
Milton is to have baseball team.
Walhalla wants local telephone
system.
Hail insurance people are getting III
their work.
Esmond boasts of its fine enclosed
Baseball park.
Donnybrook intends to celebrate the
glorious Fourth.
Five gambling joints at Williston
were ralded.
Sidewalk scorchers are in for lot
of trouble at Reynolds.
sheepmen report great success with
their lambs this spring.
Efforts are being made to secure a
creamery at Northwood.
Steam breaking plows are doing a
lot Of work around Balfour.
The Woodmen rttoice over their
great growth in this state.
The Knights of Pythias lodge has
been instituted at EdmOre.
Two steam plows are breaking raw
prairie land near Goodrich.
Grand Forkers may invest some in
the new telephone company.
Chris Rudd, former Fargoan, seems
deservedly popular at Edmore.
Lisbon people complain of the tres.
pass of lot of milk producers
A lot of barley has been seeded in
the northwestern part of the state.
Efforts are being made to straighten
out the history of Fort Abercrombie.
The Great Northern is putting in a
!wenty-stall rOundhOuse at Devils Lake.
John Allguire of Lidgerwood was
broken.
The farmers in the southern part OF
the state anticipate a big corn yield
this year.
Efforts are being made to secure bet
ter roads in the northwestern part of
the state.
North Dakota orators are in grea:
demand for Decoration day and the
Fourth of July.
c. c. Dalrymple has purchased the
complete interest in the Tower City
telephone plant.
The responsibility for some of the
prairie fires in Morton county still!
seems undetermined.
Minot retail grocers are organizing
getting coffee and sugar
One of the coal mines at Willistor
Is to furnish the coal for the Devils
, Lake deaf and dumb school.
The upper part of the Red river val
ley seems to be in better condition
than for seven or eight years.
Mimic people rejoice over the demo.
lition of an old elevator that has al
ways been regarded as fire trap.
Minnewaukan boasts of an epidemic
Of tree planting and there seems tn
have been no effort at quarantine
The Northern Pacific has so many
Dago laborers at jamestown that a
building has been erected for their
use.
The bowling alley at Velva caught
Ore from a pan of ashes, but the flames
were extinguished without great dam
age.
The humble hog seems to be attract
ing considerable attention along with
the development of the creamery in
dustry.
The North Dakota national guard
seems to have made good showing
en- the inspection by regular army
| officer
Lars Nelson and Oswald Goldner
were given the usual dose at Devils
Lake on the charge of selling booze
| illegally.
Sam Dainerd of Cando lost half a
dozen head of horses several weeks
ago and has just found them near Min
| newaukan.
A Ward county man recently
threshed field of fax that he couldn't
reach last fall. 1t went only two bush
els per acre.
Most North Dakota papers rejoice
over the fact that this state has such q
big lead in banking business over
South Dakota.
Now that the wheat Is practically
all seeded the farmers can worry oyeS
drouths, hail storms, Hessian flies and
things like that.
The different state institution boards
are up in the air as a result of the de-
cision of State Treasurer Mcmillan III
the bond matter.
The people OF Lisbon are rejoicing
over the possibilities of cement side
walks since Fargo firm has estab-
lished plant there.
Some fakirs are alleged to have been
operating in Grand Forks, endeavor-
ing to mislead old soldiers regarding
their homestead rights.
Hillsboro has hopes of the 500 from
a branch to be extended west from
Minnesota through Hillsboro. Mayville,
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