The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1906-08-02

The Great Northern will build
a new depot at Rugby.
Syndey Phelps Of Deering is
mourning the loss Of his little
girl two years old.
DR.. Chas. HI. Dehm and wife OF
Middle Grove, ILL.,, are the guests
of Chas Taylor south OF town.
The grocery department at
Lees store has been moved to|
the rear while the clothing is now
found at the front of the store.
A Bottineau boy who worked
his head off selling Saturday
Evening Posts in the hopes OF
winning a Shetland pony, won
the fifth prize, 50.
Rev. johnson OF Sawyer, has
been holding revival meetings in
Iowa township. Rev. VIVA B.
Wilgus of Minot will hold reviv-
al meetings there next week.
John 0. Blessum, who started
a chicken ranch in Rugby last
spring, has $50 fine fries about
ready for market. Mipot is the
best city in the state for just
such a ranch.
Those Mohall editors have
grown so rich that Editors Hall
and Schnitzler and wives are at
tending the excursion Of the
North Dakota editorial associa-
ton to the Yellowstone Park.
Those Sawyer preachers are
not too slow. While passenger
train No. 10 was standing on the
track at Sawyer waiting for the
track to be cleared, Rev. Mr..
Johnson entered the coaches and
held divine services.
The number of DE LAVAL
cream separators sold each year
| is ten times that of all other sep
arators combined You can make
no mistake by purchasing a DE
LAVAL machine. Scofield I'm
plement Co., Agent, Minot, N. D.
DR.. White, city health officer,
has served notice on the proper
ty owners along the G. N. slough
to begin work within forty-eight
hours to fill the slough or the
city would do the work for them
at their expense. The slough is
a great breeder OF germs, espec-
tally typhoid fever germs.
Editor Billsboro of the Gran
vile Record, made a trip to Min
neapolis to purchase a white,
shaggy poodle dog for a lady
friend. He advertised in one Of
the Minneapolis papers for such
a dog and hundreds were brot to
the hotel for his inspection. The
Minneapolis Journal gave the
Granville editor half a column
on the occurrence.
The great amount OF moisture
this season was none too good
for the macaroni wheat and
, farmers have about decided that
, blue stem or some other vari-
cites of wheat are good enough
for them. Macaroni wheat is
we'll enough where the rainfall is
slight, but North Dakota is not
even a semi-arid country, Many
farmers did not SOW their maca-
roni wheat thick enough this
, year.
ITO. o. Adams, the smooth
school furniture agent, succeeds
J in getting out of the case all
right which will be tried at Dew
: lis Lake, he will have plenty OF
other charges OF a like nature to
defend. Supt. Warren informs
us that there are no less than %
! charges in all which may be
raked up. Adams had a chance
: to get out OF the whole trouble
| by paying back to the school
: board $3.50 and agreeing not to
2 sell any more school furniture in
!. Ward county.
Albert Freitag, a Velva man
who is travelling, arrived in Vel
: va a week ago Sunday morning
: in q special Side Door Pullman
! Palace car, that being the only
: one available at the time he
, wished to take the train. The
man went to sleep and was in
!. the car when a passenger train
ran into a string of box cars
= standing on the main line. Mary
of the cars were demolished, but
Freitag escaped luckily. Wher
Z he got out OF the wreck he pro
I ceeded to make his will anc
e square himself with his fellow