The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-10-09
| North Dakota
News Notes

NEWS NOIcS
Wales.-The first issue Of the Wales
Progress will soon make it's appear
ance.
Cavalier. - The dedication OF the
new Pembina county courthouse will
take place Oct. 10.
! NOonan.-Fire of unknown origin
, burned the meat market and charred
the windows of the Security State
bank
Lankin.-Lena and Tena Horejski
were injured when an auto in which
they and two young men were riding
turned turtle.
Michigan. Michigan authorities are
, searching for Angus Brandt on the
double charge of grand larceny and
Jail breaking.
Tioga.-Tioga is to have electric
lights within FIVE or six weeks. A
company has been organized and the
plant ordered
Buffalo.-A durum wheat yield of
thirty-one bushels an acre is reported
BY Beterl Anderson. The field was
thirty acres in extent. 4
Langdon.-The annual meeting Of
the North Dakota Presbyterian synod
will open in Langdon, October 8, con-
tinuing until October 10.
Des Lacs.-C. J. Boswell 10 under
arrest charged with attempted suicide.
Officials say Boswell has several times.
| n Ii II,
Charleston. Citizens have been
promised branch Of the Great North
ern. The 500, which has made sew
| eral surveys, Is also expected to come
through the locality.
Finley.-The separator to the outfit
operated by William Lieske was
burned when sparks from the engine
fell into the selffeeder and spread
rapidly to the chaff and straw.
Mandan.-J. w. Good was attacked
| by Emmett Cusic and beaten into I'M
! consciousness. Good was brought to
the hospital in a serious condition and
| Cusic held on charge of assault with
intent to kill.
Crosby.-While Sheriff Henderson
| was in Canada he found Perry Nome
maker, wanted at Lyon, Kan, on a
! charge OF abducting and abusing a
girl. The sheriff communicated with
! the Kansas officials
Lankin.-Deliberati marked the
burglary of the Lankin Mercantile
| company's general store and the Olaf
| Garden hardware store. In each place
goods to the value of about 500 and
some small change were taken.
Grand Forks.-Rev. William H. Ell.
wiring of Sioux City, Iowa, pastor of
the Mayflower Congregational church
| of that city has been invited to be-
! come pastor of the Plymouth Congre-
gational church of Grand Forks.
FargO.-Because so many Of their
regular patrons want sayings depart
ments in connection with national
banks, both the First and Merchants
National banks of Fargo announce
they will open savings departments.
| Heimdahl. For three days Adolf
Thon wantered over the prairie insane
and without anything to eat. He en-
deavored to commit suicide by beat
ing himself in the forehead with a
stone, which he still carried when
found by neighbor
| Minot.-A loss of $4,000 was sus-
tanned by the Great Northern when a
fire consumed it's storage icehouse in
the yards here Tuesday. The building
will be Immediately rebuilt. William
| Jones, colored, convicted of blindpig-
| ging, was sentence to ninety days in
jail. Another negro, E. Reese, was
sentenced for running gambling
house.
Mandan.-But one bid was submit
ted for the construction of the federal
postoffice in Mandan, being that Of
w. D. Lowell of Minneapolis, who pro-
poses to do the work for $4S,995. This
provides for sandstone structure.
The bid Is greater than the appropria-
ton and it is probable that new bids
will be called for when alterations in
the plans are made.
Valley City.-With prospects for the
largest attendance of the twenty-five
years of its existence, the Valley City
Normal school opened. President G.
| A. Mcfarland who has returned from
IN extensive trip through the east
arranged for twelve new members Of
faculty, some coming to fill vacancies
caused by designations, and others to
assist in crowded departments.
Sheldon.-Running shoestring into
Z bank roll on the racetracks 10 by
no means certain, but George Marks
has demonstrated that it can be done
on 4 little corner of North Dakota soil.
Last spring he had quarter of an
acre left on his farm. He purchased
some onion sets for SLIGO and worked
the little patch at odd hours. The
other day he sold $50 bushels of
onions at 81 bushel.