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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-01-25
Freedom and Vicinity.

Matilda Abraham is visiting
in Surrey.
Theo. Silken is visiting at
Yankton, S. D.
Rev. T. Fl. Evers visited at the
home OF w. Abraham and family
last week.
VIM. Sibbald returned to his
claim Saturday after a days
visit in Minot.
George kingstead is doing
shores on the Silken place during
Mr., Silken's absence.
Mrs. W. X. Foster and children
have moved to Minot, where the
children are attending school.
II. G. kuchenbecker left Friday
night for McGregor, Iowa. to
attend the funeral OF his mother.
Vim. Gull is bu ilding barn.
! He is talking building a house
AID we are wondering what his
intentions are.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-01-25

Home made candies
are the best. Why? Be-
cause they are always
fresh. Can be had at
Ferber's, l46, N. Main
ST. Minot.
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Surrey.

The Farmers Elevator Co., has
started the new feed mill, so far
mers can bring in their grain.
Mr.. Holmes has finished the
Burns school house. . Frank
Govalt has been working for him.
A number OF our young people
enjoyed q pleasant evening with
: Mr.. and Mrs. Pence last Friday
evening.
The Young Peoples Circle
meets again next Friday evening
and a literary program will be
rendered.
Religious services are being
held in the Surrey school house
every evening this week. There
is a fair attendance.
The roads are SO good and
weather has been SO nice that
our people can hardly believe the
reports of the recent heavy biz
zard in Minnesota and farther
east.
It is reported that Mr.. D. NJ.
Shorb reached his old home in
Maryland safely. All his &C
quaintances join in wishing him
a safe journey back to Surrey
again in the spring.
The Surrey school board seems
to be getting the schools OF the
district in an unusually good
condition, and is deserving Of
the thanks ofthe many patrons.
People may complain about
high taxes but asa rule they will
not find fault about spending
money for education.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-01-25
lair IDA JOHNSON
\ DRIVEN FROM MIN0T
Young Wlpman With Nothing in
& Particular to do Excepting to
Az do Everyone Has Left the City
sS Will Not Soon BE- Forgotten.

l ' Ida Johnson, the capricious,
good looking, blue eyed light
haired young woman, who broke
the hearts OF several of the young
/ men OF this city, left Minot
Thhrsday under a threat OF her
arrest by Chief Of Police Kimball,
unless she made herself conspicu-
. Gus by her absence.
IN Ida drifted into Minot from the
Hot Springs, she said, and was
looking for employment in a
private family. She wanted to
draw a salary Of IS q week and
play the lady. No0 securing a
position to her liking, she took
situation at one of the restau-
rants and became on familiar
terms with the employees at once.
f From one she took his mothers
$3.50 gold watch which was
fastened about his neck with a
heavy gold chain. She put it
around her own pretty neck and
it looked so we'll that she, kept it.
She did not return it to it's owner
until the Chief OF Police was
called, and then she threw it on
the floor at the feet Of the man,
whose heart she had almost
broken.
TO tell OF all the misdeeds Of
this energetic young woman dur
ing her shortstay in MinotWould
fill a book and might besmirch
the names OF one or two Of our
business men. Ida is gone but
will not soon be forgotten.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-01-25

lSa1lgested and properly assimilated will
lays increase the strength. II your
sia Cure will digest what yeu eat and
enable the digestive organs TO assimilate
buildinfA blood. Kodol relieves Sour
Stomach. Belching, Heart burn and al
forms Of Indigestion. Palatabls and
strengthening. Sold by McCoY 4 Co.
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FOR SALE-Fixtures for a five
chair barber shop including 5
hydraulic chairs, 5 chair mir
ror case, 2 bowl marble wash
stand. All in excellent condi-
ton. Will sell in lots to salt
purchaser. FRED RIPLEY,
tt Minot, n. D.
Ship your cream TO the Minot Central
Creamery. Your cash il ready for your
81.
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Watch Found

Found;-an open face, gold
filed gentleman's watch, Satur-
day Jan. 6. Owner pay charges
and prove property. Inquire OF
Rev. Henry Kettler,
tip. Mlnot, \. y.
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There are AZ mills in the state.
The Minot Mill with a capacity
Of 200 barrels makes -four second
to none.
The soothing and comforting effects Of
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, when ap-
Piled to Piles. Sores, Cuts, Boils, ETC.,
subdues pain almost instantly. This
Salve draws out the Inflammation, re-
duces swelling and acts as rubefacient,
thus circulating the blood through the
diseased parts, permitting or aiding ma
ture to permanently remove the trouble
entirely. Sold by MoCoY & Co.
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Our Job Department.

The Independents job depart
ment is always a busy place. We
always make it a practice to turn
out the very best job work that
we possibly can whether we are
doing a job OF 100 envelopes or
a 800 page book. We will not
do any Job less than cost price
and always try to make a little
profit on each job that is turned
out. This is of course legitimate
and no fair minded customer can
ask US to do more.
We believe however that with
our equipment, we can not only
do you the best job work in the
city, but that we can turn it out
quicker, and at less cost to you.
Our thousands of customers in
the past year were all satisfied.
We are turning out a better class
Of work this year than ever.
Our Job men are artists. Wen
employ no one else. Did you
ever notice that there was a big
difference in turning outjob work.
For instance, on a lob OF lette..
heads, the printer can Sling
the Job together, in a fearful
hurry at times, ''slap" the form
onto the press, and rush the job
thru in furry. The pressmen
perhaps in his hurry to get the
Job out gets his ink distributed
unevenly, the impression is poor,
some of the letter heads are run
crooked, the pressman allows
them to be piled too many on
top Of each other with the result
OF smearing the ink
Now it takes but a little longer
for the Job men to arrange the
type artisticially, to use care in
getting his INK in good condition,
his press made ready perfectly.
That's the kind Of job men that
will set your Job for you at this
Office. We have twenty or thirty
Jobs ahead all Of the time, even
tho we do send out a dozen a
day.
Remember that no Job is too
large or too small for us to do.
If you need calling cards, fancy
stationery good business station
cry, blanks or books, we do it.
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State k&WS

State N&WS
North EDakota has 1922 ne VS.
papers, 10 OF which are dailies.
J. NJ. Scott OF Gilby is said to
be the finest raiser OF clover in
the state.
Over $4,000 have been subscrib-
ed towards a farmers elevator
at Sawyer.
There are over. 200 elevators
in the state with a capacity Of
30, 900, 600 bushels.
| North Dakota is rolling up a
great school fund which makes
an excellent immigration argu-
ment.
| G. A. Cook of Sawyer has gone
to Calgary where he will file on a
claim and become an English
Nobleman.
Those who doubt that fruit
does not thrive we'll here should
visit Col. Hankinson. 8 farm near
Hankinson. The Colonel has
enough apples for his own use
every year and sells several hun.
dreds Of bushels besides.
Adjt. Creel has ordered the
mastering out OF the Bismarck
company, for inefficiency. The
guns and paraphernalia have
been ordered returned to the
state, and A. B. WEIGH has been
authorized to organize another
company.
A stranger from Valley City
who did not like the actions of a
folding bed in a Fargo lodging
house, battered the thing with a
chair. The proprietor was
aroused about four O'Clock in the
morning by the noise The
stranger paid for the damage
and slept on a couch the rest Of
the night.
The weather continues perfect.
We have not had seven days OF
real winter weather yet and over
lcoats are the exception, not the
rule. In two months or less,
farmers will be at work in the
fields. Those who went to other
states to escape a cold winter
have jumped right into disagree
able, cold, windy, rheumatic
weather.
North Dakota had min e govern
ors OF whom J. NJ. Devine was
the sixth. The first governor
was John Miller, who served the
state i'll 1889-9O. Then followed
Andrew II. Burke, 91-92, Eli C.
D. Shortridge, 1894, Roger Allin.
1896, Frank A. Briggs, 97-9S,
JOS. NJ. Devine, $500, Friedrich
B. Fancher. 99-l9O0, Frank
White, O1-O4, and the present
executive, E. Y. Sarles.
Prof. j. A. Button will organ
ize business college in this city
within the next few days. He
already has large colleges in
Crookston and Wadena. Mimi.
He has also started branch col
leges at Grafton, n. d., and at
Devils Lake, n. D. The Devils
Lake college opened for business
last Monday and now has an
enrolment Of twenty-five pupils.
The college at Crookston now
has an enrolment OF over 200
and the Wadena college Of over
100. Within a very short time
Minot can boast of a fully
equipped business college with a
large enrolment.
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REAL ESTATE BARGAIN!

REAL ESTATE BARGAINS
In we'll located city lots, only IL block
from new handsome $4,000 Great
Northern depot. Will sell to prospective
home builders on easy terms. Title ab-
solutely good. Call and see me at once.
Sale will not last long.
tt Dr.. j. NJ. EKaHn.
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Gods Own Country.

Has your dinner lost its saver!
Has your greeting lost its cheer?
Is your daily stunt burden!
Is your laughter half sneer?
There's medicine to cure you,
There's way to lift your load,
With horse and a saddle and North
Dakota road.
Issyour eyeball growing bilious?
Is your temper getting short?
Is this life blind delusion
Or grim, unlovely sport?
There's world of health and beauty,
There's a help that cannot fail,
In day behind the horses,
On North Dakota trail.
Adapted from Bliss Carman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-17

Never say diet" and MANY looks
spoil the cloth have a pointed shaft
for the foibles of today.
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ing house and rang the basement bell.
1t was answered after couple OF min
utes by the cook, and she no sooner
caught sight of him than she shouted
out:
Nothing here for the likes of you'll
But my three children are starv-
ing" protested Mr.. Bowser.
Then drink less whiskey and buy
bread for them
AS he got outside the gate. Mr..
Bowser met a pedestrian. 1t was a
man with his hands in his pockets and
a happy whistle on his lips.
Would you give poor man ten
cents to buy bread for his starving
family" was asked.
Come. now, you old soak, but that's
too thin" replied the man, as he kept
up his pace.
"A wife and three children starving
in this land Of plenty, and 1 only ask
you for a nickel
That's all. but you are not going to
get it. 1 don't encourage buns my
self. Clear out or III give you one
on the nose"
Three minutes later Mr.. Bowser
rang the front door bell of a house
and ii was answered by a woman. He
started to open his mouth to state his
ease. but she closed it by saying:
IF you are not outside the gate in
half a minute I'll call my husband to
throw you outi'H
/ He went without having told his
story. and at the third house below he
rang the front bell again. He heard
man laughing as he came down the
hail. and as soon as the door was
opened the story started off with:
Kind sir. I have just got out of the
hospital. and haven't cent to my
name. Can you spare me enough for
a nights lodging? If you can Heaven
will bless you.
1.-The blessings of Heaven don't come
through such old buns as YOU arei'
exclaimed the man as he bristled up.
How dare you come here and ring my
bell. By John, but you get off this
street Or I'll have you walked to the
jug in a hurry!"
Mr.. Bowser got. He was turning the
corner when he bumped into a deacon
OF the church Mrs. BOwser attends
every Sabbath day and he once in a
While. Here seemed a golden oppor-
tunfty He began in a quavering voice
to tell of his starving family, but
hadn't got half through when the dea-
con interrupted with:
I'D see, you In the river first, be-
cause I know you are an old drunk,
but I'll give you a pointer. Go down
to Maple street and find No. 81. A
man named BoWser lives there, and
you can work him for fifty cents if his
wife happens to be OUT
Ten minutes later Mr.. BoWser
opened his own front door and walked
in. When he had hung up his hat and
overcOat Mrs. Bowser asked:
well. you appealed to your fellow
men. How much did you bring home 2"
What are you talking about?" he
asked trying to look surprised.
'sYou went out to tell a pitiful tale
and solicit sympathy and assistance.
What is the RESULT"
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might have shed tears over it but for
the coming of a girl about fourteen
years old. She had been to the gro
Gerry for sugar and soap.
what were those bad boys doing p
she asked as she halted.
''Tryin' to lick me-.
And you made them all rum Say,
sonny, you are a. great boy. I'm al
most in love with you this minute Are
you used to bossing Jobs like this1'
1--WE seen millions of dead horses
before this answered Humpy as his
pride returned.
said I'd never marry any but brave
boy, and I've found him. I'm Will
ing to be engaged If you are
Humpy was blushing and looking
confused when an old man with q
cane came along. He wasn't looking
for dead horses, but he had to see this
one, and no sooner had be stopped
than he called out:
young man, want to know WHAT
this means!"
Its dead horse"
"Of course It's a dead horse. Tn
no fool. L didn't think it was s. brick
house. What I want to know ts how
he came here ?"
ne was walking along ana he fell
dead"
of a horse or he would have died in
his stable. I suppose the body viii go
to Packingtown and he made into sau-
Eyes, sir"
yes, by thunder it will, and some
body ought to go to States Prison for
it. Young man, what are you hanging
around here for?''
I'm in charge" replied Humpy.
''Well, stay in charge, but If any
more horses fall dead around here
you IL get yourself in a scrape. I won't
have II, tell you 1t gets on to my
nerves, and at my age nobody has any
business getting me all excited"
Then the man who lived in the house
just opposite where the horse had fall
len came home He saw the horse and
the crowd, and he was mad. He came
up and gave the body kick and de-
manded:
who left this here?''
He fell dead" explained Humpy.
But why did he fall dead in front
Of my house 2"
TT dunno, sir"
But some one must know. I'm
citizen and a taxpayer, and the city
has got to protect me. Again I ask,
who left this dead horse here2"
No one could answer and the irate
citizen picked up a club, spat on his
hands and was making ready to lay
about him when the crowd fed. Three
hours after being sent for the broom
Humpy Skinner walked into the house
''Mother dear, the Recommending
machinery had lost two teeth and I
had TO wait for the dentist to put them
in. You see ---
Then the boys out at the gate heard
one wild yell as Humpy was seized by
the neck, and they ran away and sat
down under tree and wondered
whether his death was as sudden as
that of the poor horse on the street
Copyright, 1906, by Eugene Parcells.)
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CHARITABLE BowsER.
He Has Good Opinion of His Fellow
Men.

81 wish you had got home half an
hour earlier" said Mrs. Bowser to Mr..
Bowser, as they sat down to dinner
the other evening.
'tAnd for what reason? ~ he asked.
"A big, saucy tramp came to- the
door and asked for money, and be-
cause I wouldn't give him any he
swore at me. 1 wish you had been
home to throw him out of the yard
How did you refuse his request?''
why. I told him had no money
for idlers.'
You knew that he was an idler. did
you?''
tramps are idlers. I take it. You are
not going to, say that I did wrong, are
you?"
Il am going to say this, Mrs. Bow
ser The chances are that you have
hurt the feelings of a worthy man and
embittered him against his fellow men.
The man may not have been a tramp.
You asked him no questions. and can
not therefore say that he was. The
chances are ninety in a hundred that
he was some poor man out of work.
Winter is not far away and work has
become scarce"
HE didn't look to me like a work.
ing man" replied Mrs. Bowser.
but that's nothing to go by. His
wife may be lying i'll. He may have a
sick child. Some hard-hearted land
lord may be about to turn him into the
street He saw the house all lighted
up and came up the steps with hope
in his heart. He probably said to him
self that a Christian family lived here
and that he was sure of help WheE
you opened the door and saw the poor
man standing there I know just how
you looked al him. II was a look that
drove all hope from his heart even be-
fore you had spoken. word. He knew
that he would get a. stone instead Of
bread
II simply asked what he wanted"
Yes, but l know your way of ask
ing Did you inquire into the situation
of affairs? DO you know whether his
wife lies at the point of death or not?
Can you say that he was not gone
home to children who are crying for
brsad2 When the man left here feel
ing that all the world was against him.
he might have gone down to the river
and committed suicide IF you have
driven him to that. Mrs. Bowser.
don't see how you can ever forgive
yourself"
"ff you want me to give money to
every beggar that comes along then
you must furnish RI she retorted
rather sharply. 7zptf5 80 tot
That's not the. Question. We know
that there are urdeservfng people So
,liciting charity but at the same time
there are others that we should be glad
to assist. What T. ssfn plain Of is that
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you did not ascertain whether he was
deserving or undeserving.
Am l to invite the next tramp into
the parlor and ask for his story?
mo, ma am. You are to keep right
on in your cold-blooded way and drive
deserving people to suicide How many
you have thus driven cannot say,
but the list must be a long one"
Mrs. Bowser had no more to say, and
the meal was finished in silence AS
they went up to the sitting room she
worked up a smile and, said:
I'VE haven't been to the theater this
fall. Suppose we go to night?"
II happen to have other business on
hand tonight" replied Mr.. Bowser.
Going. to a club ?"
mo. 1 am going to settle this ques-
ton of charity. I contend that the
man that called here was no tramp.
contend that you ought to have lis
tened to his story. I have got that
faith in my fellow men that 1 believe
their hearts and their purses are ever
open to alleviate deserving case
well ?"
And I am going to prove 1t to you"
But how can you
Mrs. Bowser, am going to put on
an old overcoat and cap and go forth
I am going to halt several pedestrians
and call at several houses Not one of
them will turn me down. Not one Of
them will say me nay,P
But how silly all that would be!
You may run across some one who
knows you. If you viii let it all go
and come along to the theater will.
give the next tramp quarter ana talk
with him with tears in. my eyes"
Her levity was unfortunate. 1t
only strengthened Mr. Bowser in his
determination. He looked at her very
seriously for a moment and then said;
Il believe in my fellow=man and de-
sire to still further strengthen that be-
lief. I will appeal to the sympathies
of ten people, and will come home to
prove to you that at least nine OF them
opened their hearts in response All
this talk about the world having be-
come selfish and cold-hearted Is an In
justice to it."
II a cyclone had come along and IN
rooted the house Mr.. Bowser might
have been turned from his project, but
as nothing of the sort happened he
got out an old overcoat and cap and
started off. Mrs Bowser talked to
him till the last moment, but there
was no stopping him. he took a walk
for six or seven blocks, cooking up
tale Of woe as he wandered along, and
then he turned in at cheerful look
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Mrs MoIlie Lee Clifford has written
a new volume entitled Polly. the An
tobiography of a Parrot" just pub
lizhed BIZ H. NJ. Caldwell company. OF
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Boston. in theirAninal Autobiograp hi
cal Series ''PoIIy'' tells his own story
from the life in- the tungIes of South
America to the time she reaches her.
home where loving care for the future
Is promised her. She is a mfschiev-
BUS bird, and often gets herself and
her mistress into much trouble, but
with 1t all she shows much common
sense and her life makes an entertain
ing as well as true story for young
readers polly can talk, at times
her vocabulary seeming almost limit
less, and frequently perhaps it would
have been as we'll for her if she had
talked less. The book Is bound in sim
liar style to the other volumes of the
series, and contains five full-page IL
Illustrations and a colored frontispiece
by l.. J. Bridpnaan.
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might be pleasure for himself, as we'll
as an unlimited number Of admirers
and friends. in the presentation OF
such portions as could by no POSSIBLE
ity give offense to any one now living
Accordingly. the opening pages of this
life story were given in the first fort
nightly issue of the North American
Review, dated September Z. The va
riety of experiences depicted. the truth,
sincerity, frankness. and unhesitat-
and unrestricted human feeling dis
played, make this autobiography tru-
ly wonderful work.
Mr.. James Montgomery Flagg, who
wrote and drew IF; a Guide to Bad
Manners" one of the most mirthful of
last years collections of nonsense has
broken loose again with Why They
Married" The whole world has re-
peatedly asked "Why they married"
Nobody seemed to know. 1t is about
time some truthful and discerning per-
son stepped up and told. There are
one-half hundred real reasons in this
little book. every one done in verse,
SO polished one can see ones face in
II. together with faithfully unfatter-
ing portraits OF the persons talked
about
The fashion chronic1ers announce
that Scotch plaids are the thing for
this winter. Meredith Nicholson, the
author. of that acknowledging ro-
nance, The House OF a 4nCuSanQ
Candles was delighted to learn of this
on his return from q summer in Scot
land, where he devoted several months
to a study of the history Of tartans, a
subject which had long interested him.
He has accumulated a considerable
library of books on the subject, and
has collected specimens Of practically
all the plaids known in Scottish annals
for some literary use which he has not
yet disclosed. The Nicholson plaid is
one of the most gorgeous of all. and
Mr. Nicholson paid considerable duty
at the New York customs house on the
scarfs, dress patterns. Glengarry bon
nets, etc. which he brought home for
members of his clan. 1t will be re-
membered that the tam-o -shanter
worn by the heroine of 1.-THE House of
a Thousand Candles and so charm
fngly illustrated by Christy, started a
boom in tams which swept the coun-
try.
Mrs. Mollie Lee Clifford has written
a new volume entitled Polly, the An
photography of a Parrot" just pub
lished By H. NJ. Caldwell company, OF
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ANY one who reads Tom Mason S
new book, 1.-The Van Burners" just
published by Moffatt Yard & Co, will
regret that he has never before tried
his hand at a complete novel. 1t is
brimful of humor and the story is a
good one,