The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1905-10-25
NEWS Of The STATE

Carpio needs a dentist and a shoe
maker.
H. A. Magee raised some fine corn
at Ryder.
Piggers and gamblers still hold
the fort at Sherwood.
A fine specimen. of an Arctic earle
was shot at Granville.
The restaurants are long on pump
kin pies at this time of the year. IT.
A little more than half the thresh-
Ing has been completed at Kenmare.
The Herald boasts that there have
been no holdups in Granville this fall.
Four BARRIERS were arrested and
fined at Rugby for working on Sun
day.
Over $1,000 bushels Of Canadian
grain were sold in Sherwood in
one week.
Have the Independent print your
sale bills and receive notice of sale
in the paper.
The Glenburn Advance cannot see
why anyone should sympathize with
J. A. Erickson.
Durum wheat is reported to aver
age as high al rs bushels In some
parts Of the state. ...
A farmer at Enderlin raised beet
three feet long, 20 inches around.
weighing 1ex pounds.
A report from Morton county
states that 800 bushels Of onions
were raised on one acre.
About twenty beeves are sold at the
Velva market each week to say MOTH
ing OF the hogs, chickens etc.
The Bottineau Courant printed six
teen pages last week. The Bottineau
merchants are good advertisers.
Editor Young threatens to throw
the Berwick Post plant, which he
calls junk, into the "hell'' box.
The Bottineau Courant and the
Omemee Herald are lavish in their
bouquets regarding one another.
Two dead horses, shot thru the
heart, were found in the Turtle
Mountains. A piece of spite work.
A. NJ. Brusven, a Flaxton farmer,
has a flowing we'll 118 feet deep, with
water rising six feet above the ground.
The street fair at Carpio was
grand success, the grains, vegetables
and baked goods, were Of a high class.
Mrs A. B. aShattuck had a serious
runaway north of Minot, in which
one of her horses was nearly killed.
Warden Boucher raised 1000
bushels of potatoes on the peniten-
tiary's farm. with the help of the pris-
oners.
V. A. Kemp drove to Mohau two
5000 pounds, after walking fourteen
miles.
Three men dug their way out of
the Grafton Jail with case knives.
They had been left alone to eat their
supPers.
A Carpio automobile caught fire
and the chauffeur saved the machine
with a pail of water. Dash board
was burned.
The way that the North Dakota
merchants are throwing printers ink
these days. makes the catalogue
houses sick.
Frank Kaiser of Valley City lost
two threshing machines this year by
fire. 1t seems that someone had a
spite against him.
Joseph Ringer. farmer ten miles
south Of Stanley, reports his oats
averaging 107 bushels per acre. This
is machine measure.
Several empty cars were side
tracked at Carpio and other 500 towns
repeat the dose daily.
At Eckelson last week, girl fell
down fifty foot elevator shaft. She
caught a rope ten feet from the bot
tom which saved her lie.
The weather man has been good to
the North Dakota farmer and no
grain has been damaged by reason Of
the congestion Of the crop.
E. T. Carey raised a potato at Dom
nybrook which he says is the largest
potato raised by anyone. 1t weighs
four pounds and one ounce.
The North Dakota farmer on the
average has done very little fall plow-
ing. Threshing has hung on like
cockleburr to sleeps back
Five Canadians left a threshing
outfit near Souris, stealing a quantity
of blankets. They hiked across the
line before they could be arrested.
A Minot family who recently re-
turned to town from their claim, was
surprised to learn that stupid renter
had painted the hard oiled floors blue
Eighty-three North Dakota farm
ers were awarded gold and silver
medals for exhibits at the Portland
fair. North Dakota captured more
prizes than any other state in the