The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-04-22
ShortState Stories

Oranges are being soll at )me
points at 60 cents a peck
Former Congressman and Mrs.
Marshall are now touring Spain.
John King has secured a reap
pointment as postmaster at Donny-
brook.
The r. Calder house. barn and
sranary, six miles south Of Granville
were destroyed by fire.
U. G. Morrison of Granville has
sold his furniture store to A. w.
Gansz and W. J. Ho1brook, of Rugby.
Rumors are afoat at Stanley that
the G. N. will surely build its line
north Of that place, tapping a rich
country.
R. M. Trimble of Bottineau county
shipped a car load of hogs to St.
Paul recently. This beats shipping
in car load of Swift's sugar cured
hams.
The new revenue bill will soon ad-
vance the price of beer, a dollar a
barrel, which is making the thirsty
fellows in the alkali districts take
notice
The Norwegian Lutherans have
bought lumber for a new church to
be built seven miles southeast of
Glenburn. 1t will be known as the
Nidaros church.
Ambrose has druggist named
Darling, who is quite an advertiser
by the way. Here is one of his locals
in the local paper: Darling wants
to see YOU"
The Coteau Sentinel would like to
see the county dads call in about
$3.50 900 worth of outstanding war
rants. figuring that there. is plenty
of funds in the banks.
A moving picture show which
played a return date at Kermit,
didn's give Observation-Disclosures the
same identical pictures we're shown
the second time as the first.
The only paper that copied our r.
w. Jones article dealing with his
success with clover and failed to
give us credit, was the Westhope
Standard. Help yourself, brother
Mankato, Mimi, is preparing to
adopt the commissioner form of gov
ernment and the experiment will be
watched with great interest as this
will be the first city in that state to
work under his plan.
Since the shooting affair at Fargo
in which Ed Simpson. colored, shot
and killed another colored man, Chas
Clark, owner Of a negro restaurant,
the Fargo police say they will drive
all undesirable blacks out of the city.
The annual Elk's ball, the most
important social function to be Civ
en- by this order during the year.
will be held Friday evening, April 23
This promises to be a very elabo-
ate affair and will be attended by
the best people of the northwest
Ben Whitehead of the Willston
State claims that Bud Jackson ell
tered his print shop, and attacked
him as he was sitting writing at his
desk. Ben says lie had one arm
and three ribs broken. = a runaway
a short time before. ',ut protected
himself fairly well with the one
hand. Ben acknowlejS I'd that he
got black eye and says some un-
kind things about Jackson.
Frank S. Clark and his little
daughter were drowned at Hettinger
N. d., when attempting to ford the
river at the old crossing Mrs.
Clark clung to the buggy top and
finally f1oated on piece of ice until
rescued, but is near deaths. door
from exposure. The father grabbed
the little child. as the buggy sank
into a hole in the river, and attempt
ed to swim to shore, but went down.
The little girl came to the surface
but shortly sank
There is certainly one thing at
least upon which the editors of the
Buford Tribune and The Indepen-
dent can most heartily agree and
that is that the past history of the
editor Of the Loco Weed, Harry W.
Franklyn, smells worse than does
the perfume from the animal which
nearly suffocated Sam Taylor's dog
last week" Franklyn beat Old Bill
out of $6.25 and trimmed up the lnde-
pendent for three times as much. The
smooth tongued shyster has been
feeding at the public crib in Nc
Kenzie county for quite number Of
years and ought to be able to square
up some Of these 11ys, Bill.