The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-10-04
STATE SKETCHES.

The state convention OF the
Modern Brotherhood OF Ameri-
ga is to be held in Devils Lake
next year.
Langdon and Stillwe]l have
been connected by telephone and
now the people of those places
claim the privilege OF saying he'll
.lOhell over the wires.
The new Jail over at Kramer
was recently dedicated having
had a full consignment Of hobos
land it is reported that the city
marshal was baptised soon after
the dedication.
An Eastern Star Chapter was
~consecrated at Kenmare Wednes-
day, Sept. Goth. with appropri-
ate ceremonies and an elaborate
banquet. MIR. and Mrs. Nolan
net OF Minot, acting as Grand
Lodge officers.
sLittle Mack" the STANLEY
scribe, was a visitor in Minot for
a few days last week and in the
course OF his visit he intimated
that Stanley was such a busy
town that he hardly found time
to say mis- prayers.
A Wisconsin chemist is said to
shave discovered a method Of
concentrating beer SO that a
man can carry around in small
vial $50 schooners OF beer. Such
walls would be in great demand
in Minot.
julius Holngren, a Palermo
farmer, made SO much money
this year that he will take a trip
soon to his old home in Den.
mark. Its a fact that North Da-
kota farmers travel more and
have better times than those
from any other state.
The contract for the furnish
ing and installing Of the pump
ing machinery for the Buford
and Trenton irrigation project
in Williams county, N. d., has
been let to the DeOiler company
of Philadelphia at a cost OF $780,
.S35.
Jack Irish, an employe on a
farm near EdmOre, was struck
by a train while driving across
the track and killed instantly,
He was hauling wheat and the
wagon was demolished and the
horses injured. His remains
were shipped TO his old home in
Minnesota for burial.
Help Is SO scarce in Devils Lake
that hoboes and DRINKS are cap
tured by the police and CON-
PEELED to pay their penalty by
working ON the new sewer now
under construction in that city.
In Minot they are usually CON-
PEELED to crack boulders for the
city.
William Walsh and Elmer Carr
of the town of Cobbs, Mich, and
Glare Weathersbee OF Three
Rivers, Mich, were arrested in
Kalamazoo on the 2Sth ult., on
a CHI rge Of perjury in connection
with grants OF land which they
have in this country and they
have returned from their native
country to stand trial.
The Willow City Eagle thinks
that the steel range peddlers in
that locality should be trimmed
up in a way that would leave
them destitute. They certainly
are a pretty cheap outfit and
their goods are Of a cheap, in
ferior quality and unfit for com
mon use.
Judge Engerud, Of the supreme
court, refuses to sit on the bench
with John Knauf, Of Jimtown,
and also says that if the latter is
elected this fall that he will re.
sign. 1t will hardly benecessary
for the Judge to resign tho if the
average voter will exercise his
rights in the coming election in
November.
A young farmer over at West
hope loaded up on mixed drinks,
entered a poker game, and lost
$50 in a questionable resort; got
kicked out into the street, picked
up by the town marshal and
knocked down again, carried to
the city bastile, laid on a
,stretcher and had a dozen
stitches taken in his head and
the citizens are claiming the END
is not yet. Poor Teller!
Last summer the body Of 6
man was eXhumed at Portal tC