The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1907-04-11

The Masons and Odd Fellows
OF Velva will build a hall.

Hogs running on the streets o
Velva are doing well.
James. j. Hill, president Of tie
G. n, has resigned and bis sol
Louis takes his place.
President Merrifeld of the
State University, VINO resigned
has decided to remain another
year. The board could NOT fine
a suitable successor.
Gov. Burke seems to be firm in
the idea that all PIGS in the STATE
must be closed. Recent raids
were made on the pigs Of Dickjn
son and Max.
The PEOPLE Of Fessenden ore
looking for q Moses to lead tt EN-
out Of their financial troubles.
Ditto Minot.
The street sprinkler has been
doing business in Bismarck. In
Minot we ought to have a dozen
force pumps at work getting rid
of some OF the surplus water.
At a masquerade ball at Hyan.
mis-, Neb., two ceons represented
Geo. Washington and Uncle Sam
and danced with AL the bellies OF
! the ball. When time came to IN
mask, the fellows were traced to
a saloon and now an effort is
being made to punish them. But
for what. Better let the matter
drop.
The Wheelock Tribune runs a
column OF quotations from not
ed men but is short on loca! news,
and long on ads.
Mrs. Peter A. Fatland Of Vol
colt has given birth to her
eighteenth child, seventeen child
rem now living. She is after the
Roosevelt medal.
Flowing has commenced in the
vicinity of Fargo. A Ramsey
county farmer who moved to
Texas q year ago, is back and
mighty sorry he left at all.
At Epping, Williams county,
on June l, a gopher contest,
races, ETC., will be held.
Jos. Warfe!d, of Was lburu,
found his wife living with another
man at Oakes. He had given
the woman money with which TO
return to her old hore, Fulton,
Ill.,, where she intended to have
an operation performed.
The Minneapolis Tribune made
good in North Dakota by pub
fishing an entire page refuting
the Wild stories told about the
state during the past winter.
0. A. Ness big department
store was burned at Imperial.
The clerks managed to save
$500 .orUh Of goods. Mr.. Ness
carried $4,000 Insurance, but
loses about $4,000 all the
same.
| Only eight deaths occurred in
the state from the cold during
the past winter, and we're in the
following couH ties. Ward 3;
Wells 3, and Williams 2.
They say that Pete Bertleson,
the big merchant at kenmare,
conducts a matrimonial bureau
at his store. No less than a doz-
en- of his clerks have married
during the past year.
Mrs. James Costello, whose
husband was killed at Aondak,
Mont, last winter, while driving
across the tracks, settled her
case with the G. N. by accepting
$4,000.
With fair weather, seeding
ought to begin the latter part OF
the week in many places in this
vicinity. While seeding is late
this spring, the farmer Who had
time to pillow his land in the fall,
will be able to put in two OF
three hundred acres OF grain in q
little while. Farm laborers are
very scarce this spring, due
largely to the falsereports about
North Dakota circulated
throughout the east. The mois.
ture has been soaking into the
ground in good shape, and the
prospects were never better
Farmers are putting in their
time cleaning their grain and
getting everything in readiness
| for the work which is at hand.
| The wise farmer has laid in a
supply OF formaldehyde ard will
not risk sowing his grain unless
| he treats it with this.