The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-09-14
AROUND THE STATE

nIVOIvO I'LL V1nuA
If the telegraph editor of the Grand
Forks Herald will take the pains to
hunt up the issue of Sept. 2, wherein
he tells of the life sentence OF Wal
lace Hopper of Holland, Mich, he
will note that the prisoner would have
chosen a far different mode of pun
isment
Jos, B2uchard, a Canadian who ate
choke cherries, swallowing the pits
was operated upon at Flaxton for per
forated bowels and died.
d. H. Funderberg and family expect
to leave this fall for California, where
they will spend the winter. Mr.. Fun
derberg's sale held recently, was
highly satisfactory to him.
Oscar J. Thompson Of Deer Park
Wis. brother of Hon. A. M. Thomp'
son OF this city, was one of the first
hundred whose names were drawn for
Berthold land.
Miss Sarah Hecker has been rather
busy gathering plums at her farm
near Logan. She has secured twelve
bushels to date.
Where wheat has been damaged by
the frost, one farmer says that 1t
should be stacked in three separate
stacks and threshed separately. The
poorest should be fed to the stock.
In some places, fax that Is well
boiled and will yield at least ten
bushels per acre, has been sprouting
new heads since the recent rains and
these are now blooming. This has
been more common than during the
last thirteen years.
You will have to drive long ways
to find a. better stock of flooring and
dimensio lumber than the Rogers
Lumber Co. carries continually. H.
8. Johnson, Mgr.
A little girl returned from Sunday
school last Sunday and told her moth
or that they sang a very pretty song
1T Sunday school and she wished she
could learn it. Her mother wanted
to know the name Of it and the little
one said Infringing Out the Sheets.
Many farmers are getting better
results from this years crop than
was expected. J. R. Mann Of Han
cock threshed field Of winter wheat
which yielded thirty-five bushels TO
the acre He had a field of winter
rye which made a little better than
thirty-fve bushels to the acre. II
these continue the farmers will be
doing all winter seeding.
Thomas F. Marshall, of the local
telephone exchange, will be the insur
gent candidate for republican national
committeeman. Mr!Marshall has run
on both sides of the fence a number
OF times, and has large acquain lance
all over North Dakota.-Williston
State
It is we'll to ember that the
farmers of the eastern states have
seen just as many, If not more dry
years than have the farmers Of N. D.
and their land sells for 800 to 5000
an acre. They have stuck to the land
and bossy and gotten out of exclusive
grain raising.
A. L. Webster of Billings, Mont.
was drowned in the Missouri at VII
liston Friday evening. He was seen
to disrobe and walk into the river
to battle. The river is treacherous and
the man may have been taken with
cramps. His body has not been re-
covered.
TIL James, own ball team claims the
N. - championship for 1911. Out
Of 8 games played, 81 were won.
There was a hitch in the wineine
and lining of Congressman Hanna in
}Iinc, this week. The Magic City
has some political aspirants who could
stand a little of that liquid refresh.
ment misunderstanding Sun.
Editor Kirsch wrote Of the beauti
full sunshine and other splendid fea-
lures of Devils Lake and F. W. Mann
thereby winning the $50 prize offered
by Mr.. Mann for the best write-up OIL
the Satanic City in connection with
the report of the editorial meeting
Bro. Kirsch won $50. Seven pub
fishers competed for the prize
Geo. Bickeby of Wausau, Wis, wa4
sentenced to the penitentiary at Bis
marck for one year for aiding county
prisoners to escape.
VIM. Mcdonald OF Buffalo, N. Y.
an attache of carnival company play
ing Bismarck last summer, is on tria
in Bismarck charged with sodory
His case Is being tried behind closed