The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-01-24
State News ! ! !.

4. Grano now receives mail from
Lansford by carrier route.
| Lansford has a business mems
club with Henry Willis, president.
i Grano is complaining on &C
count Of it's very poor mail SER
vice.
| Dunseith has d woman station
agent and is Offering 20 acres
Ifor the new Baptist church.
| Congress has voted to increase
the salary Of its mem bers from
So, 900 to $500 a year.
The Bowbells Bulletin says
some bad things about Billy
Bennett and his s:.Ten Nights in
a Bar Room
The Mclean County Miner
among other nice things said re-
garding a bride, stated that she
was q beautiful dancer.
H. R. Campbell Of Grano visit
ed a week at New Rockford and
/ the Tribune devntes a whole col.
umn relating his adventures on
the 500.
The pes Moines evangelist who
converted 25 prisoners in the
jails OF that city, ought to do a
good stroke OF business in North
Dakota.
i Adolph Prust, alocal bad char
acter at Underwood, has been ar
rested charged with stealing sew
eral loads Of wheat from a wom-
an near that place.
Ole E. Nylus OF Berthold town
ship, has filed a petition in bank
ru ptcy. His assets are placed
at 1880 and liabilities $S616.25
Ole has been going some.
| The editor of the Lansford
Times calls down a number fell
lows who persist in smoking at
the post office while waiting for
their mail, in the presence OF la
dies.
While -four famine threatens
some parts of the state, on &C.
count OF the lack Of coal, the
Balfour Statesman saws there
will be none at that place long
as bridge timbers and snow
fences hold out.
Congressman Gronna has intro
duced a bill providing for more
pay for rural mail carriers. If
the bill passes, after July l, mail
carriers will receive 5000 per an.
mum on routes "a or miles long.
Rural mail carriers should be
better paid.
R. D., johnson and Norman
Hall Of Mohall stood under Gov.
Burke's plum tree long enough
to land good jobs at Bismarck
during the present session OF the
Legislature. Tim Murphy and
Jack Sheridan are at home feed
ing the sheep this winter.
Thefarmers' hair may be bushy
his skin bronzed. but his eyesare
clear. his digestion is like that OF
a three-year-old mule, his con-
Iscience is like the ether above his
head, and his bank account as
fat as his favorite shoat. He is
the most independent creature
that wears the garb OF civilized
man.
Senator Hansbrough stated in
the senate that he had received a
letter from a friend in Minot
stating that three women had
been frozen to death and that
the matter had been suppressed
in the newspapers. The sena-
tors friend got things badly
mixed, but it's lust as well, for
perhaps that was the reason the
resolution was passed granting
the homesteaders a three months
leave Of absence.
| An effort will be made at the
present session Of the legislature
to amend the criminal laws so
that persons up to % years OF
age may be sentenced to the re-
formatory at Mandan for GER
tain offenses, rather than at the
penitentiary at Bismarck. The
present law requires that per-
sons IS years old and over shall
be sent to the penitentiarv, and
those who have made a study Of
criminals believe there would be
a much better chance of making
good citizens of them ii it was