The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-08-15
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Current report has 1t that the
lid at Glenburn has been slammed
down for keeps.
Good water has been located all
along the new Berthold branch
Of the Great Northern.
The Flaxton Times served a
hot roast on the Kenmare base
ball management last week.
Thirty-nine barrels of booze
were SHIPPED out of the town of
Glenburn one day last week.
The new hospital at Kenmare
| is said to be large enough to &C.
commodate twenty patients.
On and after August 18th the
500 line will run a daily train to
and from Minot and Bismarck.
Aurelia, the first new town on
the Berthold branch, is clamor-
ing for a bank and drug store.
Sixteen young men at Glenburn
have signed up articles and that
town is now assured of a brand
new brass band.
The Sawyer Telephone COM
pany have their exchange COM
pleted and have installed cbout
fifty new phones in that town.
The Blaisdell News is the latest
venture in the newspaper line in
Ward county, and Mayor Hoff of
Palermo says it's a very good
paper.
A lot of grading is being done
in and around White Earth in
order that the farmers tributary
may get to town easier with their
produce.
The Great Northern may build
a halfway house at Stanley for
the purpose of stalling a couple
of engines to be used in case of
billiards.
The application for a pardon
for Bill Graves, who was convict
ed for numbering his wife three
years ago, was rejected by the
state board of pardons.
Last week the Great Northern
denOt at the town of Tagus was
burned to the ground, and the
cause of the fire is said to have
resulted from the explosion of a
lamp.
The manager of the Stanley
ball team hired an outsider to do
the catching during a game and
afterwards accused the catcher
of working in cahoots with the
other side.
The Donnybrook Courier has
gained twenty new subscribers
in the last two weeks. 1t has cut
the patent insides and prints it's
own paper. So much for home
industry.
A sad accident at Kenmare was
that of E. w. Harris. When he
was unhitching his team his lit
tie 2-year-old boy got under the
wheels of the wagon and was al
most instantly killed.
A county division meeting was
held at Stanley recently and the
enthusiasts decided to call their
new county Mount Trail, the
same name it was before it was
annexed to Mighty Ward.
A lot of political money is said
to lie in use in Ward county to
knock out the North Dakota
Newspaper Unions patent in
sides, and many of the county
papers have discarded patents
entirely.
Last week fire destroyed the
post office and general store at
the town of Goss out in western
| Ward. The store was owned by
G. w. Bennett, who was also the
postmaster. This town was re-
Gently started and is located near
Thompson lake.
It is reported that Mckinney
township has served an njunc-
ton on the Graves Telephone
company restraining them from
operating the line recently put
into service at Mckinney. on the
grounds that the line interferes
with the public highway.
The board of supervisors Of
Greenbush township are said to
be facing a lawsuit, all because a
farmer fell out of his rig while
travelling on a certain road. The
fellow claims that a defective
culvert caused his team to run
away and that he received severe