The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-12-28

paying advertising matter.
. 1t won't be long before Walt Tay-
lor will distribute those insurance
statements again. Bless the insur-
ance companies and Walt Taylor.
A. J. Hettwer, the Ignite publish.
err has resumed his old position on
he Plaza Pioneer.
Mrs. Ed Fredeen of Ryder, has re
turned from the Bismarck hopital,
! much improved in health.
w. F. Ries, 1.-The millionaire So
cialist," has spoken in a large num-
! ter of the cities of the state. The
Socialists are sending some of their
best speakers to North Dakota, and
hope to show great gain in the
next election
Dan Manning, an Antler farmer,
lost his house and all of his furniture
! except a piano, by fire. He intended
holding a sale the following day and
got up early that morning to start a
| fire. He went back to bed, but was
soon routed out by the smoke.
Atty. Noun Of Bottineau, was mar
ried to Miss Ida Anderson of Grand
Forks, Thursday last.
Albert Manning, a Minneapolis lad.
who has been roaming around out
west, stopped in Willfston enroute
home in his side door Pullman.
pair of pants and was arrested. The
| lad yearned for his home, and want
ed to be home for Christmas. The
authorities did not prosecute the lad
but instead Clipped in, and gave him
some money. His parents wired the
Price of ticket and Albert was a
happy fellow when he left for home
on the cushions.
Ed Mertins of Flasher. where "I.i1-
tie Mac" lives, butchered hog that
dressed 500 pounds. The hog was SO
large that it had to be scalded III
blankets, no barrel being large enough
for it.
The remains of James Rahik who
died in the Minot hospital last week,
were taken to Ross for burial in the
Bohemian cemetery.
The champion stingy church con-
gregation has been found in Marshall
town, Ia. The pastor of the Friends
Church there resigned when his flock
voted to cut his salary from $1,000
a year to $500. That was bad
enough, the pastor thought, for a man
with a wife and six children to SUP
port, and he decided it was rubbing
| it in for the church to demand that
he keep account of all fees received
and credit the amount on his reduced
stipend. e has quit in disgust.
Many of the newspapers are strong
ly opposed to the ten-year term for
the Judges of our supreme court
1t is generally conceded that North
Dakota will have a humber crop IN
the year 1912, as well as more hogs,
COWS, corp and creameries.
Geo. Wilson shipped car load of
Barnes county horses, grade Percher
ons and ShiFes, to Minnesota last
week. Time was, when Minnesota
furnished North Dakota with her
horses, but the tune has changed.
| What has become of the old fash
toned cake pan with an inverted fun
mel up the middle?
Are there any more Xmas gather,
ines, where all the married children
and all the grandchildren gather at
grandfather's for the occasion?
The sale OF undrawn pouit:y is UNI
lawful in this state according to Prof
Laid. Such poultry is liable to seiz-
ure and the sellers to prosecution.
A Minot man was late in getting
home the other night and his wife
upbraided him. why it isn't late,
| money, lue nuSDdnu insisted anu JuSL
then the little mantel clock struck
70. Oh, no! said the wife, sarcas-
tically, it isn't late! You just heard
what the clock said, didn't you?
And manlike, the husband grew an
CRY That's right, he burst out, that's
the way with a woman--to take the
word of dinky little old dollar and
a half alarm clock against that of
her husband.
If the Mcnamara brothers lived
in this state they would not have IT,
worry about their long sentences
we have state board of pardons -
Washburn Leader.
Possibly YOU have forty acres in
corn, which yields only the average
Of 80 bushels to the acre, or 1900
bushels in all; worth, at 60 cents a
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