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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Edw. Nelson, who owns a beautl-
full farm four miles down the river,
ds engaged in harvesting his 3oo
acre crop. Mr.. Nelson has quite q
variety of grains, including twenty
five acres of excellent corn. He
raises quite a field Of corn every
year and has had considerable success
He always cuts the corn on tine
"green size" and has an abundance
of feed for his cows for the entire
winter. He has a corn binder which
makes the work of taking care OF
this crop very easy. The cattle eat
M every hit of the corn, stalk and
all, and N the winter the butter
looks just as tho butter coloring
had been used. He sells his butter
the wear round for 25 cents a pound
and makes coed money from the
COWS. Mr. Nelson's farm could cas-
ily be irrigated by damming up the
st. Carl coulee, but he raises such
fine crops that there is really no
necessity to go to this bother. His
wheat is splendid and he is sure
that that raised on the prairie will
average 20 bushels or more to the
ere.
Mr.. Nelson says that it pays 10
plant some corn every year for 1t
is as good for the land as summer,
fo11ow;no He has sown wheat on
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

-Four members of Co. A, OF Bis
marck, seem to have gotten them
selves indp quite a good deal OF
trouble, while their train was en-
route to American Lake, Wash.
When the train stopped at Pasaco,
a small station, the soldier boys, tir'
ed and hungry, made for one OF the
restaurants and this seems to have
been their undoing. One story has
It that an attempt was made to hold
the boys up by charging them TOR
ty cents for schooner Of beer and
fifteen cents for hard boiled egg,
and before they could get around TO
pay for what they ate, their engine
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27
Nelson a Model Farmer
Mouse River Valley Farmer Who Raises Go5n.An Cor Ap
pie Orchard that Promises MuchrWheat
Doe. Well on Old Corn Land

his last years corn land and can see
that this wheat is the best on the
farm. When one raises few acres
of corn, very little hay is needed. he
fed his cattle only one load OF nay
all last winter. Mr.. Nelson has one
of the very few corn planters in the
country, but we hope to see them nu'
merous ere many years.
Here is a point worth consider
ing. The wheat on the old corn
ground showed no signs whatever
of the hot weather. MIR. Nelson has
taken pains to grow some fine trees.
Russian Golden Willows planted 3
years ago when only three feet tall
are now thirteen or fourteen IT. h1gn
and quite large around. He cult
Yates his young trees three or four
times a year. Last spring he set
out a hundred young apple trees
and as he has a sheltered spot for
them, he is quite confident that ne
will in a few years have some nice
home grown apples. He will have to
guard against the rabbits and the
small mice that play havoc with the
young apple trees.
Mr.. Nelson has fine garden and
this year has some exceedingly nne
ripe tomatoes. He has saved the
seed for several years from the to
and now has a very early variety
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27
Co. A Soldiers In Trouble
Four Member. of Co. of Bismarck Placed Under Ar.
re.t-Reported that They Broke Up Dishes and
Stole Things From Restaurant

had been changed and the train was
pulling out. They ran and caught
the train without squaring up. An
other story is that the boys raised
"Old Ned" in the restaurant, by
breaking up lot Of dishes, tipping
over refrigerator full Of water
melons and making way with cigars
and a lot of edibles. When the train
got to the next station, the officers
received telegram that $139 worth
OF damage had been done. A thoro
investigation Is being made and II
anyone is guilty, he will be severe
ly punished.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Louis A. Emerson and Petna -
Roise were united In marriages at
the home of the brides parents, Mr.
and Mrs. U. H. Roise, Saturday ev-
ensnr at 1880 o'clock by Rev. W. o.
hunter, in the presence OF few OF
their most intimate fridnds. They
left that night for their honeymoon
which Is being spent in the east.
Mr.. Emerson is the son OF Coun'
~ Commissioner Emerson, and he Is
ia one of our most enterprising
business men. He is interested IN
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

1t is DR.. Emerson, if you please.
A dope fiend who wanted to go to
the hospital for three or four days
sleep, intercepted Officer Hyland the
other day and asked how he could
gain entrance, Hyland seeing
Emerson, pointed him out to the
fellow, saying, There is the coun-
ty docto." The man approached
Mr.. Emerson and began to act very
sick, saying that he wanted admis-
sion into the hospital and he want
ed to get there quickly. Mr.. Emer-
son turned him down in short or
der and he was sent on toMinneapo-
lis.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

David erittender. who is cha .sed
With me of the x: atrccious
crimes in history, was given a hea--
ing before Judge Davis Monday AID
he was bound over 10 the District
Court under $4,000. He has family
OF eleven children anl the complaint
was fled by two Of the daughters.
Nellie, sixteen year old daughter
was also bound over under $500 10
appear as a witness.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

AT the meeting of the commission
ers last Saturday, Geo. w. KempeT
was given the contract to build a
wooden bridge over the Mouse river
east of Carpio for $174S. The work
will be done this fall.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Neil MoDougal is making quite
record as a distributor for the Stan
dard Oil Co. for Minot. He keeps
three teams busy hauling oil to the
various points around MinoR He
makes all towns as far as Granville,
Velva, Carpio and Tagus. He gives
excellent service.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27
Russian Girl Horribly Flogged
Cruel Parents Beat Foureen-year-od Girl in Unmerci
full Manner Over Nothing-Father Taken
From Rig and Horse Whipped

broom stick and continued the beat
ing. The father then appeared or
the scene and gave the girl a ter
rible fiOgging. She was made to go
into the corn field and shock corn
without any breakfast. About noon
she ran away and told her story to
friends. The parents have been ar
rested On their way home from
town, after giving bail, crowd met
them and taking the father from the
buggy gave him dose of his own
medicine.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Some miscreants broke Is win
dow lights in the school house at
Grand Harbor, and President p. G..
Grtlly, Of the school board, offers a
reward Of SO for information lead
ing to the Identification Of the party
who did the work. And II he 10
found out the feeling OF the direct
is such that he is assured a touch
of high life.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Julius and Mauritz Fauchald and
their wives have returned from a
three weeks trip thru the east. The
brothers did some heavy buying for
their big department store and will
have some exta good snaps to offer
the public this fall. They were in
the Twin Cities, Milwaukee. La
Crosse and Chicago.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Walter Whitehead, the darky pu.
gilist, has be in Minot several days
trying to get a match with some Of
the local athletes. He offers to take
ON both Mark Nelson and Curley
Ulrich, for eight rounds ch the same
day.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27
Prominent Couple w ed
l. A. Emerson Of the Arcade Theater, takes Miss Petra
Ro;.e for His Bride-Couple Touring the East
Surprise their Many Friends

the firm OF r. H. Emerson & Son,
news depot and confectionery, and
he also manages the Arcade theatre,
vaudeville and moving picture
speciality place of entertainment er-
ected a few months ago.
The bride has lived in Minot for
several years, having come here with
her parents, from Wilmar,. MINI.
She is one of our most charming
young ladies'. The Independent ex'
tends best wishes to the happy cou-
pie.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Northern Iowa has gone to the
dogs this year. Word received from
Hancock county informs us that oats
will 20 from five to twenty bushels
to the acre and the weather is so
rainy that it is almost impossible to
thresh.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Glenburn, N. D., Aug. %, o..
This is to certify that H. ]. Hecht,
of Minot, N. D., did in the spring OF
1908 conduct a sale for me Of stock
and farm implements, amounting to
about $2500, and did not get start
ed until 2 o'clock. He was thru at
half past four and I was very much
pleased. The crowd said that they
thot Mr.. Hecht was the best auc-
tioneer in the state.
E. C. PALMER.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Threshing began Monday and is
quite general this week. Dyvlg s.
rig threshed out some bundle grain
Monday for Dan King, southwest OF
the city. What grain has been
threshed, is averaging better than
was expected it would. All grain
has filled we'll, and the yield is bound
to be surprising. The prices are good
too. Flax considerably more than
a dollar a bushel and wheat crowd
ing the dollar mark. The crops with
in radius of thirty miles of Minot
are about as good as We have ever
seen.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

who possesses a beautiful character
and during the few years that she
lived here, she made great many
friends, who are deeply grieved over
her demise. Besides her husband,
She leaves four children.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Says an elderly man in his far
ner's garb: II want liti. piece IN
ycur paper. Wanted, woman who
can cook, wash, iron, milk four COWS
hnd manage a market wagon"
'tShall I state wages?" Wages
nothin', l want to marry her" Man
wants but little here below.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Jessie Coy arrived from Tippeca-
noe City, O., and is looking after the
harvesting on his farm near Sur
rey. He took advantage of the cheap
Eate into Canada and visited the
famous wheat country about Leth-
bridge.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Mr.. and Mrs. 3. B. Parris, from
north Of Burlington, were guests Ct
their daughter, Mrs. Frank Morris
ovsr Sunday.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Dennis J. Carly has begun the har'
vest of his potato crop. He has SIX
acres of fine spuds, which however
he will not sell until the price gets
better. a..
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27
MRS. FROST is DEAD

Mrs. R. T. Frost, wife of Minot's
we'll known architect, died at her
home in this city Friday morning af-
ter lingering illness from consump-
ton. The remains were taken by
Mr.. Frost to Iowa, her old home, for
interment. Mrs. Frost was a woman
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Minot, N. D., Aug. %, o..
H. J. Hecht conducted a sale for
me in the fall of 1907, consisting Of
stock and farm machinery, which a.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Chas. Grow has gone to Chicago
where he is doing his annual buy
ing.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

D. W. Bowker and family are Wis
iting with friends north of Willis
ton.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27

Buy your children's shoes and OK
3ords at cost. Samuelson.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27
salts A C. ITO n

mounted to $4,000. Everone present
said they never saw stock and farm
machinery bring such good prices.
It must have been the auctioneer
that did it.
JOHN CAMPBELL.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-08-27
JOHN CAMPBELL.

Now, l live here in Ward ooun-
ty and am prepared to handle your
sales on short notice, and cheaper
than anv outsider, considering good
work and poor work. My schooling
was of the best and fifteen years OF
success at the business. Yours for
a square deal,
Ward County Auctioneer,
If H. ]. HEIGHT.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-28
THREE ARE L|VIN C
WIDOWS OF EX-PRESiDENTS OF
THE UNITED STATES.
Mrs. James A. Garfield, Mrs. Benjamin
Harrison and Mrs. Grover CleVe-
land Alone Remain of For
ner Mistresses of White q.
House

with the death of Grover Cleveland
the last of the living eX-presidents of
the United States was broken, but it
added one more to the ranks of the
widows of the men who had in former
days ruled the nation, so that now
there are three women who once
shared the honors with their husbands
in the White House. These three wild
ows are Mrs James A. Garfield, Mrs
Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Grover
Cleveland. 1t has nearly always been
the case that the widows of presidents
have outnumbered former holders of
the Office.
Mrs. Garfield has long survived her
husband, who has now been dead al
most 81 years.
Since his death she has lived to see
her son, James Rudolph Garfield,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-28

of warfare which will render warships
useless.
OF course every country maintains
4 land force, but all realize that the
best move against an oncoming enemy
is to beat them to the battlefield, and
as a consequence, the usual approach
being water, the navies Of the world
are strengthened to their top-most
point. Russia has not yet recovered
from its set-to with the mikado's sub
jects, but the scrap left the Japs with
few more battle-ships and splendid
plan for strengthening tLeir navy
without expending great sums of
money and contracting new loans.
Going farther into the probabilities
Of the new style of warfare which
seems imminent, we may have battles
Of the ARA very dangerous mode OF
scrapping to the uninterested specta-
tor below Probably that would be the
deadliest sort of combat known, for in
sinking" an airship every man aboard
would undoubtedly be killed by hard
compact with mother earth.
Then, on the other hand, perhaps
there will be no future wars, at least
among the large and civilized powers.
OF course the barbarians will break
out occasionally, but among the bigger
nations there are now so many peace
bodies that one has to walk about
carefully in order not to encounter
doves of peace, minus feathers. There
are dozens of international peace and
arbitration societies whose one theme
is don't shoot" and these hold ses-
sions annually 1t is said that they
really cement relations between coun-
tries and the time may come when
they will become so numerous that con-
fict will be impossible without staying
brothers. The Hague tribunal Is an
other medium of the big powers, al.
ways ready to decide little disputes
which threaten to develop into inter
national complications"
AS a consequence it looks dark for
the dogs of war and just as inky for
the men of peace, who would keep the
CANNES tied. But come what will,
within a generation or two the world
is to be given some new fighting force
which will astound the nations, not in
on the secret, to such an extent that
there will either be an entire cessa-
tion of all hostilities or some two will
get together and one will be made
such beautiful example of that the
watching nations will decide that Gen.
Sherman was right about war. :
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-28
OPEN DEALING IN PAINT.

Buying paint used to be like the
proverbial buying Of a pig in a
poke Mixtures in which chalk,
ground rock, etc, predominated were
marked and sold as Pure White
Lead" the deception not being ap-
parent until the paint and the paint.
ing were paid for. This deception is
still practiced, but we have learned to
expose it easily.
National Lead Company, the larg.
est makers of genuine Pure White
Lead, realizing the injustice that was
being done to both property owners
and honest paint manufacturers, set
about to make paint buying safe.
They first adopted trade mark, the
now famous "Dutch-Boy Painter" and
put this trademark, as a guaranty of
purity, on every package of their
White Lead. They tnen set about
familiarizing the public with the
blow-pipe test by which the purity
and genuineness of White Lead may
be determined, and furnished blow
pipe free to every one who would
write them for 1t. This action was in
itself guaranty of the purity of Ma
tional Lead Company's White Lead.
AS the result of this open dealing
the paint buyer to-day has only him
self to blame If he is defrauded. For
test outfit and valuable booklet on
painting, address National Lead Com
pany, Woodbridge Bldgu New York.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-28

will recall the session of parliament
which dealt with the last British
naval budget, the largest in the his
tory of the nation. Emperor William
of Germany it was reported at the
time, addressed a personal communi-
cation to Lord Tweedmouth, who had
charge of the naval end of England's
welfare, asking the latter to cut his
naval budget, This story was not de-
MED, but talk of it was so avoided by
officials that the British public to-day
believe that the letter actually was re-
ceived. 1t aroused criticism from all
Britain. 1t is said that the kaiser
realized that the two biggest nations
of the old world must keep pace with
each other in this line, and perhaps
feeling that large expenditure by
Germany was not advisable, realized
that the only avenue of exit from such
a possibility was to see the British
budget reduced.
President Roosevelt's feelings on the
matter were amply told in the record
of the last congress when he tried to
get that august body to appropriate
for four new warships. However, there
there were too many men of peaceful
and public buildings inclinations
among the wearers of the toga and
they dealt a solar pleXus blow to the
project, from which it only half re-
covered-to the extent of two war
ships. Both of these vessels have
already been launched.
With Japan, the little terror of the
far east, furnishing up it's navy, the
probabilities are that the powers may
go even farther next year in expendi-
lures for warships, and the only block
to the great amount expended seems
to be the devising of some new mode
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-28
Capt. 5aldwin's Airship.

men fought from RATS. Later came
their crude canoes and then the
Vikings. Several hundred years
elapsed and big nations fought from
behind bulwarks on wooden ships. Eff
forts were then made to put speed into
the sailing vessels. The discovery
OF the steam engine helped this.
Then came the eventual discarding of
wooden vessels. This was brought about
in America when the battle between
the Monitor and Merrimac was fought
and the fight in itself marked step
in naval warfare. The Merrimac en-
bodied an idea up to that time un-
thought of in its armor of steel rails
laid half a foot or more thick on its
sides and top. No shells of that time
were found able to pierce this arrange
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-28
SHE WAS NO HAsREEN.
Smoking Car Just the One Old Woman
Was Looking Far.

Madam" said the brakeman as the
train stopped at village station and
little old woman started to enter
the smoking car "the car back is the
one you want"
How do you know" she tartly
asked.
Because this is the smoking car"
She pushed past him and climbed
up the steps, and after taking a seat
she pulled out and filled pipe, struck
match on the sole of her shoe and
after drawing a few puffs she said to
a man smoking cigar across the
aisle:
THAT young feller out there don't
know half as much as he thinks he
does"
How so?" was asked
'He took me for an old woman that
had never rode on the cars before, and
told me this was the smoking car"
"And you wanted this carr"
why, 1 never ride in any other
not unless my pipe is broke, my to-
bacco all out and none O you men
folks will lend me a cigar"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-28

given to the world, and by the eXer-
tion of bits of imagination here and
there naval experts declare they fore
see one of the strongest navies which
ever kicked up spray in the Pacific.
Here's the way it's being done, this
being the official announcement given
but by the Japanese admiralty bu-
reau ut Tokyo:
The Japanese admiralty has de-
cided upon a large scheme of rearma-
ment instead of building new ships,
the ornaments of the old will be
altered so as to bring them into line
with the most modern ideas and with
the requirements indicated by the war
with Russia. Thus vessels of the
Mikasa type which have hitherto car
ried four 12-inch guns and II siX-inch
will henceforth carry four ten-inch
instead of II six-inch, so that their
principal armament will be brought up
10 eight pieces of heavy caliber. In
fact, their fighting strength will be
doubled. Similarly in the case of YES
sells like the Retvisan, taken during
the war, their new arament will con-
sist of four 12-inch and four ten-inch
pieces, the latter being substituted for
,the IL siX-inch which these vessels
originally carried.
when the programme is carried out
it will have the advantage of creating
a thoroughly homogeneous fighting
force.
"First-clRss cruisers are to be added
to the navy. These ships will have a
displacement Of 1860 tons with a
horse power of $4,000 and a speed of
25 knots. They will be $50 feet long
over all with so feet beam and draft
of 25 feet Their armor will be seven
inches and their armament will con-
slst of ten 12-inch guns, some six
inch and ten 4,7-inch. One of these
ships is to be built at Kure."
Every year naval efficiency is
reaching higher plane and experts
declare it to be physiological cer-
tainty that more powerful mode of
warfare on the water must come. That
has been the trend of events from
time memorial One may go back into
history To the time when the Morse.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-08-28

and dignity that were irresistible,
and that gave her perhaps more thor
ough popularity than any woman of
the many who have held the title OF
first lady of the land"
For four years more in private life
Mrs. Cleveland continued to hold a
place in the affections OF the people,
and when in 1892 the vote of the peo.
pie carried Grover Cleveland back
into the chair of Washington many a
Republican found the panss of hav.
ing Democratic president lessened
by the fact that his selection returned
Mrs. Cleveland to her old place.
Her triumphs of the first term were
abundantly repeated. and when ones
more the pair retired to private life
to take up their home in beautiful!
Westlands, their Princeton abode, Mrs.
Cleveland remained a beautiful mem,
ory TO the nation that had genuinely
loved her