The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-09-26

season. season. one One man writes, Il wish was back
on my North Dakota homestead. North Dakots
lis good enough for me, and I'm coming back
some day to start all over again: But why Is
lit necessary to start all over? II wouldn>C De
had the man remained here The green pug
wheat crop into a cooked hat. A freeze late in
the spring fixed all of the fruit. a drouth in
another portion blasted the hopes of the farmers
But 1.-THE horned toads, the cacti the lizards,
are still there to keep company with the farmers
i who are to poor too get away.
The Independent hears the report that in
many localities grain is not being threshed
Clean three or four bushels going into the
straw pile. At Cando, piles OF straw are being
Refreshed. One man got forty ousnels OF
wheat from q small stack. One farmer VINO
thought everything was not Just rlgnt' inv YES
thresher were not arranged right and after Tx
ing them secured fourteen bushels OF wheat to
the acre instead of ten, a gain OF almost htty
per cent. Quite an item you say Some OF the
wheat is not threshing out clean, on account
of being to green, and this leads US to think
mers are warned not to thresh too soon. The
yield, while not overly large will make the lar
mer some money if he can get the grain prop
erly threshed and secure fair grade
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The JOPLIN NO., News-Herald was wrecked
by dynamite last week, seven sticks being ex-
ploded. Two of the typese ting machines were
ruined and two more damaged. The Dig press
lis a wreck. The better element Of the city alb
hors such tactics and the editor is meeting
friends everywhere offering him financial assls-
lance. The News-Herald made fight against
the Sunday opening Of the saloons. against n gam
posed that those responsible for the wreck be.
long to the lawless element, and if they believed
the wreck of the newspaper plant would be OF
assistance to themselves, they were badly mis-
taken for the sound of that dynamite was
merely their death knell
The Fargo Searchlight in lengthy editorial
ton OF the state The Searchlight is undoubt-
eddy controlled by the old state gang, but was
formerly an insurgent organ. The Searchlight
would like the public to believe that Mckenzie
has dropped Hansbrou9h and has taken up
Little This is very unlikely thing for the
big boss to do, but it's mighty good thing to
lead the people to think that he has done this
for the sake of Hansbrough, The Searchlight
wants the newspapers ofthe state to come out
and speak their little pieces but the editors are
too cute They don't intend to make any rash
promises-don't intend to waste any ammun-
ition until they get paid for it.
Secretary Taft was ridicuied by Wmy. Bryan
in his Oklahoma speech. Bryan calls TAFT,
''The Great Postponer,' because the secretary
desires to postpone the revision OF the tariff
until after the next republican victory TAFT
retaliates,by calling Bryan g 'Postponer" be-
cause he has postponed the. is to until he can
bring it forward again as panacea in times
of financial disaster.
Prof. Sanders was hired to teach the Stark
weather school. He arrived in the town,
looked over the proposition end walked out,
leavidg word that he vas afraid to tackle the
work, on account of there being three years
nigger who recently made that kind OF
sneak got thirty days for his trouble.
Z Devils Lake preacher was considerably put
out the other Sunday. He was called from
the church to answer telephone call
man in the country wanted the minister to
stop on his way and tell a neighbor who had
no phone that he had better come over on the
morrow, for that would be good time to hunt
chickens.
Calico which formerly sold for four or five
cents yard, now retails at ten. fortunately
in these days of prosperity, very little calico has
to be worn.
3a3eEG
Portal woman was , impressed with the
report of typhoid fever germs in water that she
said that she always boiled the ice before using
it.
A thing that tends to keep the modern man
broke is trying t" keep up to the unparalleled
prosperity of his friends.
sssESE
Mr.. Taft says there are too many mllionares.
We cannot agree with him. There ought to be
just one more.