The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-07-25

not and q picture of the group
was taken at tone of the studios.
They are children of liver Nybak-
ken, a prominent south prairie
farmer. They are Peter, Hans,
John, 1ngebret, Inga, Mary, Mat
tie, Mrs. Ronshaugen, Mrs. E. T.
Void, Mrs. y. T. Void, Mrs.
Skaaden, Mrs. Kleven, and Mrs.
John Olson. The last three
named arrived Monday for their
homes in South Dakota. They
made a fine looking group and
the gathering was one never to
be forgotten. It is doubtful if
there was ever so large a similar
gathering in the state before.
A fine baby boy..arrived at the
Peter Nybakken home south of
the city.
Beware of bogus dollar and
half dollar pieces. A very good
counterfeit is being circulated in
Minot.
w. E. Leach of Lynch has 100 pigs
that are doing fine. He feeds them
ground macaroni wheat and speltz.
Since the first of the year he has sold
$3.50 worth of hogs and concluded that
he got $3.50 more for his grain by
feeding it to hogs than by selling it,
He states that speltz is a good feed
but believes that ground corn and
macaroni wheat will get them ready
for the market in better shape.
Mrs. c.. F. Truax and sons are
spending two weeks at the Glib ranch
south of White Earth
II. B. Kelley of Lynch states that a
spoon full of carbolic acid placed in a
quantity Of swill will cure hogs that
have the cholera.
More material for the new Masonic
Temple has arrived and workmen are
again busily engaged in it's construc-
ton. Contractor Lord is at the quar-
ries in the east getting track of some
of the material
T. F. Renwald spent several days
last week at Valley City, Dickinson
and other points of the east on bust
ness. He states that Ward county's
crops are ahead of any he has seen.
Mrs. J. w. Samuelson is the guest
of friends at Devils Lake.
E. II. Mix left Monday for Arizona
where he is interested in copper
mine.
VIM Abraham is we'll pleased with
the crop outlook. He has 40 acres of
excellent crops, the flax and macaroni
wheat looking especially fine.
Ants are said to be destroying flax
in some localities.
The farmer who turned over the
spring braking last fall has concluded
that he made mistake this season.
| We can boast of a few ripe straw
berries in our patch, which was set
out in the spring.
John Bishop, the Glenburn farmer
who went to Wenatchee, Wash, last
winter, recently bought twenty acres
of fruit, paying $500 an acre for the
same.
Dr. Keys, prominent Sherwood
doctor, passed thru MinOt Sunday en-
route to his home from the Canadian
| Northwest
Ben. w. Hosmer, a lawyer from Sna-
fer, the county seat Of Mckenzie
county, passed thru MinOt Monday on
his way to Glenburn, his old home.
Ben is enjoying a splendid practice
at Shafer and reports times good in
| thdt part OF Ine state. lie says tue
Fourth OF July celebration was par
excellent, with the exception OF the
speech which he made. BY the way
Mr.. Hosmer was orator of the day
and acquitted himself with credit. He
touched upon state politics to con-
siderable extent. Mckenzie county
he says, is filling up rapidly, there be-
ing four or five thousand inhabitants
already.
DR.. Jonathan Bruner from Carroll,
Iowa, is in the city and will leave
for Mondak and other cities in this
neck of the weed, looking up loca-
ton.
Chas. Grow returned from visit
to the Twin Cities and on his way
home he spent two days at his big
farm three miles south of Crookston,
| MINI The farm is located in one