The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-04-27
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS
Happenings Throughout the
State TerseIy Told.

Elaborate plans are being made by
the business men of Minot for the en-
tertainment of the members or the
Minnesota Automobile association on
the Dispatch trophy tour to Helena,
Mont, and the Fathead country IN
August. The business men of the city
are endeavoring to persuade the MIN
nesota automobilists to change the
schedule so as to spend 4 night III
Minot. According to the announcer
schedule run from Devils Lake to
Williston is to be made In one day.
The Minot business men maintain that
the condition of the roads Is such that
this distance Of $50 miles cannot be
made in one day, and that the sched-
ule should be changed 80 a. to spend
the night In Minot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Haynes, p1o-
nser residents Of Grafton and hale
and hearty 1T the ages of seventy.nins
and seventy-one years respectively,
have just celebrated their golden we'd.
ding. The event took place at the
home Of their only daughter, Mrs. H.
o. Sprsgue, and their oaH Gsoad'
children, Miss Coma a1d vernon
0prasue served the wedding dinner
The brides maiden name WAS La
VIVA LaSaur and the wedding took
place at Rochester. MINI. Haynes
was a blacksmith and at the outbreak
Of the Civil war hs enlisted In Mn
nesota regiment. They came TO osat-
ton twenty.eight years ago an1 -
saged in farming. Haynes ro1Ared
some years ago.
The contest for the ONCE Of shssin
q Richland county is before Judge
Pollock Of Fargo, acting for Judge Al
lon of the Fourth district. Some time
ago Judge Allen called in Judge Craw.
fsrd of Dickinson to sit In the case.
The latter decided that George 81.
Moody had been elected sheriff ana Or
lered Sheriff Hsley to put up bond to
reimburse Moody in case Moody won
out in the supreme court. The sixty
days allowed for Heley to appeal has
expired. The proceedings are to com.
POI Heley to vacate and turn over rec
ords of Office to Moody. Heley had
served one term and was defeated by
Moody for reelection by eleven vo1os
Moody was sheriff some years ago.
Al two automobile parties we're
touring across the country near Minot
the engines exploded and the cars
were destroyed Not one Of the pas
sengers was injured. The car Of DR.
Husser of Berthold caught dro near
Ne high bridge, west Of the city. The
doctor drove it into q coulee in an at
tempt to save It, and got o~t Juse in
time to avoid similar accident 70 the
ear of County Superintendent Warren,
which exploded while being driven by
". c. McCune and William Wondt,
both Of Minot
While Mrs. J. e. Tschider of james
town was preparing her children for a
TIP to claim just taken by the fam
~ Johnny, aged I, slipped away and
1ell into an abandoned WE'LL The fact
that some of the stones had fallen out
q the wall Of the we'll and caught the
boy between them saved him from
probable death A friend went down
the we'll and the little fellow was
hauled to the surface. He was unhurt
beyond a few scratches and in few
moments was ready TO start on the
TIP.
The adjutant general received Il
letter from the war department to de-
tail two additional officers of the ma
tional guard to San Antonio for the
purposes Of instruction, one medical
corps officer below the rank of major
and one adJutant. Captain r. A.
Thompson OF Fargo IL rsgimental ad-
3utant and Captain A. Mcdonald Of
Valley City is ranking medical officer
Of the grade specified, and they will
b given choice of the trip.
The ST. Paul Symphony orchestra
won favor on the occasion Of its first
appearance in Grand Forks, where it
Allied a two-days engagement at the
fifth annual spring musical festival.
Immense crowds, including 800
school children, heard the popular con
oerts, and the Auditorium was the
scene Of the most critical audiences
ever gathered in that city Many Wis
1eors from surrounding cities were in
attendance
Seeding in the western part Of the
state Is general and the acreage will be
large. The noticeable feature Of the
work IL that better farming methods
ore being employed by even the big
farmers, most Of them dragging as
soo1 as the seed Is In the ground with
~ idea Of conserving the moisture
the assertion being made that there
p almost enough now in the earth to
insure crop
The Grand Forks Commercial club
Has called big meeting for the pur.
pose of considering the question Of
creating central slaughter house.
This proposition has been up for dis.