The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-06-13
County News.


TIE hustlers at Bowbells will
establish a water works system
in that city in the near future.
Kenmare people are thankful
for their pure spring water. We
hope it won't rust Bro. Sticks
whiskers.
A Glenburn firm is giving away
Burbank potatoes for seed in or
der to introduce the seed into the
country.
White Earth is to have another
newspaper in the near future.
Parties at Palermo will install
the plant.
The News at MohalI says that
no patients from that town have
been sent to the asylum since the
town started.
Burglars recently broke into a
drug store in Donnybrook and Sc
cured $50 in cash and about SO
worth of chips.
George Spaun, the White Earth
hotel man. has taken up resi-
dence in Williston where he will
make his future home.
See what this paper has to say
about the big horse races in Mi:
not at July race meeting. 1t will
be found in another column.
Marble Thayer and son Jay of
Glenburn plowed 1875 acres of
land last week in six and one
half days, using rotary plows.
The training school for Ward
and McHenry counties will be
held in Minot beginning on Aug.
9Th and lasting for three weeks.
The government has been weed
ing out the glandered horses on
the Berthold Indian reservation
and already 200 head have been
killed.
Fourth of July celebrations in
the different towns thruout the
county are being talked Of and
many preparations are being
made.
Valuation in Ward county prop
erty is piling high. In 1905 the
total valuation was $8,095, 1926,
and in 1906 had gone up to SILL
402, 442.
The year and a half old child
of Mr.. Carpenter, who lives near
Hasse in this county, fell into a
four foot we'll last week and was
drowned, Z.
County Commissioner Black Of
Chilcot resigned his office recent
ly and will devote his whole time
to his cattle ranch out on the
Missouri river.
Notwithstanding the fact that
Little Mac" lives at Stanley and
presides over the destinies Of the
Moral Illuminator,' that town
continues to prosper.
The post Office at Bowbells, by
special permission from the First
Assistant postmaster General,
will be closed each day from Z p.
m. from the first of June until
October l.
August Engeberg, we'll known
farmer living near Kehmare, fell
off a gang pillow the other day and
broke some of his ribs. A Ken
mare doctor was called and he
was fixed up and is reported to
be doing nicely.
The Farmers Elevator associ-
alton at Carpio have declared a
20 per cent dividend, and the
same was very properly dis
t'ibuted among the stockholders.
This shows what a burch of
| North Dakota farmers can do.
Someone tipped over an oil
stove in Mrs. Smiths millinery
store in Kenmare the other day
and started a fire, and there was
some lively hustling with the fire
boys before the flames were ex-
tinguished. AS it was little dam
age was done.
The 12-year-old son of Farmer
Mitbo, residing near Tagus,
looked down the barrel of his
gopher gun and the thing went
off and struck him in one eye.
The young lad is now in the hos
pital in Minot. The eye ball had
to be removed.
Little Mac of the Stanley
Sun has a mistaken idea. He
t inks dispensing hot air is the
same as boosting, This takes un-