The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-07-20
Around the State.

Several small circuses are do
ing the state.
Glenburn will have a state bank
with $4,000 capital.
The Socialists nominated al
complete ticketi in Nelson county.
Will Glenburn and Deering
please quit scrapping and play
ball?
The Northern Telephone Co.,
will build line from Granville
to Mohall.
Hilda Anderson OF Valley City
a student at the Normal school
is insane from overstudy.
The Deering Tribune devotes a
column telling how their base ball
boys were treated at Gle4burn.
The estimated output OF the
penitentiary Irvine plant up to
August l, is 100000 pounds.
A Cut Bank young woman
tried opening a can with a
Ratchet and nearly cut off her
thumb.
The wages of the teachers in
the rural school Of Granville
township have been raised to
$40 per month.
The Lakota American states
that the Bloomer Girls are three
girls and six boys with wigs and
plenty OF padding.
There are still papers in that
state which have people witness
ing" sights when they have only
been seeing them.
Hundreds OF acres OF fine grain
were wiped out near Bowbells
last week by hail. Little insur-
ance was carried on that grain.
HayiDg is in full blast in the
state and hands can get steady
work at 81 so a day and board.
Farmers are in Minot daily look
ing forhands.
VIM. Dunbar's house, Z miles
southwest of Lansford, was
struck by lightning Wednesday
evening and the family was bad
ly shaken up.
Fifteen candidates took the
state dental examination at.
Bismarck before state board last
week. DR.. Sweet Of Minot is one
of the members Of the board.
J. Buettner, the good natured
Norwich blacksmith was dragged
by the neck for quite distance
by his old grey nag but is glad
the he is ''better already yet
The pure food law seems to have
done much good. Prof. Ladd
says that there is but 20 per
cent OF the food adulterated now,
w..ereas a year ago the percent
age was 80.
With 100000 worth OF new
churches going up in Fargo no
saloons, no gambling houses
and the tenderloin district en-
Joined ~ the town is certainly
becoming good.
The contract for coal for the
penitentiary was let to the Wash
burn people at $1.7O. That was
the lowest bid with one exception.
The owners OF the Sims mine
offered to furnish the coal for
$1.65, but the trustees thought
that the coal from the Wilton
mine was more than five cent
better.
Carl Moser's little girl at
Denhoff had her foot nearly cut
off in moving machine. The
father who is a religious fanatic
refused to employ a doctor, say
ing he had written to a preacher
is South Dakota who would pray
| for the little ones welfare. The
sheriff went to the home and
found the foot tied up in a dirty
rag.
Judge Cowan rendered a decis-
ion at NIinnewaukan, affecting
druggists permits, which if sus-
tanned by the supreme court. will
but an end to the issuance Of
these permits by the county court
or any other court. Thedecision
was, in brief, that the constitu-
ton ecounty courts nopower
to grant druggists permits to sell
liquors. The law under which
the permits are granted gives
that power to county courts and
to 70 other. This was the result
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