The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-12-06
Kenmare expects electric lights

kenmafe expects electric lights
Dec. 10.
A daughter was born Sunday
to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brown of
Fairview.
A Kenmare store advertises
that it has $50, 900 to place on it's
books in 1907 to good risks.
The Kenmare Journal publish
ed a special "a page Thanksgiv-
ing number, giving an excellent
write-up Of it's city and business
men. ,...., .
Peter Bertelson, the aggres-
sive Kenmare merchant, comes
out in the Journal with a double
page ad- giving the picture of
himself and his sixteen clerks.
A Jew travelling man who sold
whiskey to the passengers on a
stalled Tolley train at Is cents a
glass, was later arrested in Toll
ley and given a trial before a
Kangaroo court. He was fined
1913 which was used in furnish
ing refreshments for the crowde
According to an Iowa editor,
a certain church wanted some
wine for communion purposes,
but could get nothing but per.
simmon wine. After partaklng
OF it the congregation attempted
to sing the Doxology, but their
lips were SO puckered the best
they could do was to whistle it.
DR.. Larson, from Story City,
Ia, is here looking over the field
and will probably locate here.
He is a prominent Young Scan
dinavian and during his three
years stay in Story City, has
built up large practice. Minot,
OF course is a large and better
city, and that's why the doctor
is looking over this field.
A member of the Nebraska
legislature was making a speech
on some momentous question,
and in concluding, said; In the
words Of Daniel Webster, who
wrote the dictionary, give me
liberty or give me DEATH" One
of his colleagues pulled at his
coat tail and whispered, Daniel
Webster did not write the dict
ionary, it was Noah,' Noah,
nothing" replied the speaker,
Noah built the ark" -,.,'','.
When an editor dies in Kan
sas, this is the way they write
his obituary The pen is silent;
the scissors have been laid away
to rust. the stiffness Of death
pervades the very atmosphere
where once the hoarse voice of
the devil yelling copy or what
the'll.s this word? was want to
resound. The paste pot has
soured on the what-not, the
cockroach is eating the compost
ton off the roller and the blue
bottle is flying in the rich folds of
the printers towel. Exchange.
A Fargo bank recently wrote
letter to the State Bank at the
new town of Kenaston. The
letter was returned to the writer
stamped mo such postoffice in
state named" The bank had
reached the town before Uncle
Sam had got around to put in the
post office. In these days Of
prosperous North Dakota the
bank is the first institution to
make it's appearance in a new
town. In days of long ago the
vanguard Of civilization" was
the saloon. How much more
prosperous and what an improve
ment in the moral condition of
affairs is the present regime over
the old.
Seven years ago a Walsh Co.
farmer, whose modesty forbids
the publication of his name, hung
his vest on the barnyard fence.
A calf chewed up a pocket in the
garment in which was contained
a standard gold watch. Last
week the animal, a staid old
mich cow, was butchered for
beef and the timepiece was found
in such a position between the
lungs of the COW that the process
Of respiration the closing and fill
ing Of the lungs, had kept the
stem winder wound up and the
watch had lost but four minutes
and two-and-a-half ticks in the
seven years. It is one Of the
most remarkable occurrences we
ever heard of. Exchange.
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