The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-02-22
Good thing.

Tut in dam, etc. Good thing.
Williston will soon have free do.
livery of mail within the city.
N power ferry will be installed
north of Charlson, Mckenzie county,
as soon as the ice in the old Missouri
goes out.
The Renville County Tribune notes
that the ground hog theory as far as
North Dakota is concerned has been
proven. You >can't tell that editor
that there isn't anything in signs.
A jamestown man was arrested for
stealing all Of the bedding Of pair
of newlyweds, leaving them nothing
TO sleep upon but the bare springs
The fellow ought to get hundred
years in the pen. .....
The State Federation of CONNER
cial Clubs, launched in NAinot last
summer. will meet at Grand Forks,
Feb. % and %. The federation en-
braces ITO commercial clubs.
Realizing that Grano was without a
barber, Rudolph Spielvogel, a farmer.
spends his Saturdays trimming Wits,
kers. If he is like most BARRIERS. he
can "spiel' some. ...
Ryder, Max and Plaza post offices
have been designated as postal saw
ngs banks, effective after March 7.
Warden Hellstrom won't get very
far in his candidacy for the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor. The
voters remember that Hellstrom is
a member Of the notorious board Of
pardons that did such a wholesale
business recently in pardoning muir.
derers and the like. .~..
Anna Marguerite, the nine-yearold
daughter Of Martin Peterson Car
pic farmer, died last week after lin.
gering Illness from diabetes.
Mrs. Otto Johnson, q Carpio wo
man, while engaged in her work about
the house, fell and broke her right
wrist.
Edgar Kodalen, the 19-year-old son
Of E. s.. Kodalen. living west Of Car
pic, died at the Northwood hospital
from appendicitis. He was taken sick
very suddenly but before an opera
ton could be performed, his condl-
ton had become 50 serious that he
died shortly after the operation was
performed.
G. A. Arness Of Plaza offers s10O
reward for the conviction of the brute
who inflicted two ugly cuts on one OF
his horses.
A stink has been raised over in
Burke county over the 1926 warrant
that was paid to John Fl. Nelson,
deputy auditor of Ward county, for q
bill that had been transferred to him
by Ralph Abbott and wife for check.
ing up the Burke county records at
Ninot. The Abbotts spent Is days
in checking up the records in Mtnot
and were paid s25 day for the same
They are now in the west enjoying
the fruit of their labors in Ward and
Burke counties.
A band is being organized at Cando
and the Democrat wants to ten old
suits resurrected for the musicians
Those band boys ought to have suits.
The citizens ought to give them red
caps with gold braid around them.
The suits ought to have shiny brass
buttons. You can't expect those fell
lows to play "Down where the lilies
bloom so fair unless You dress them
up fit for the occasion.
Has Editor Carl Nelson of the can
do Democrat deserted his party? We
notice that he is running Woodrow
Wilson's cut at the head Of the edt
toria1 column. Why not John
Burke's? ..
North Dakota's flax crop in 1911
was 100000 ushels or nearly half Of
the total flax crop Of the United
States.
Fl. Mcmillan of Devils Lake, who
was convicted Of starving horses a
year and a half ago, has just been
sentenced to do ten days for the
crime.
One hundred students are enrolled
at the Rumley traction school held
this week at Devils Lake.
A girl makes a serious mistake
when she begins running after fell
low, for she's liable to get him
All things come more quickly to him
who tips the waiter.
The editor Of an exchange says
that the hardest work he knows of IN