The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-10-23
STATE STATE NEWS

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$500 for five bushels of Early Ohio
potatoes. The Major will plant them
on his farm near Minot.--Drake News
North Dakota farmers owe $780,
100000, for which they are paying
interest at an average of 91s per cent
according to p. D. Norton of Hettin-
ger, cong1 essman from the Third con-
gressional district.
Sometimes mistakes are made by pa
pers in quoting people, for example:
"A Red Red Rose informs the world
the spring we love is here" found it's
way into leading journal as "a Red
we love is beer"
John Milloy, gray haired, walk
ing with bent shoulders and shutting
prison step, has commenced serving
his sixth sentence in the state peni.
Tertiary for stealing.
A quart bottle of gasoline around
the neck of which box of matches
was tied, was discovered by threshers
near Drake while being pitched from
the bundle wagon to the threshins ma
chine.
C. w. Doss of Bantry made $34O
from eight just ordinary mich cows
in four months and these cows cost
him nothing for feed but the wild
grass that grew in the pasture. His
account stood like this: Eight calves
at SIS, $3.50; received for butterfat,
500; homemade butter sold, $40.
An unusual wedding occurred at
Dickinson last week when a mother
and her son were married at the same
time. Mrs. Nellie Ramus, of Belfield,
was married to Frank Dick, a we'll
known farmer. Frank Ramus, the
son, wed Miss Julia Wilson.
At a supper given by the ladies of
the Rolla M. E. church, 81 prairie
chickens and 80 domestic fowls were
served. The men of the church form
ed a hunting party and secured the
wild game.
Dean M. Veirs, one Of a party Of
three engineers checking up the
Great Northern mileage in the state,
was thrown from a railroad motor
near Souris and painfully injured. The
motor struck couple of spikes that
had been placed at rail joint.
The thirteen months-old baby of
w. 0. Bergman Of Bottineau was
scalded so badly with hot water from
washer that the child died.
A fifteen-year-old Overly lad nam
ed Sinneshau, fell while riding on a
gas tractor and foot was crushed by
the cogs. The lad wrapped piece of
battery wire about his leg to stop the
flow of blood
Morton & Mohr, the Lansford at
torneys, harvested big crop of pota-
toes this year.
J. J. Somers, the poet laureate of
the Mouse River Loop, who wrote
"Along the Minot Trail" and many
other poems, is visiting the scenes Of
his early triumphs, over in Bottineau
county.
Many North Dakotans are trading
their stores and buildings for land.
Safe investment.
The Antler American has installed
a Unitype typesetting machine. Edi-
tor Lee is progressive.
Jas. j. Armstrong, for the past
twenty years resident of Bottineau,
died in Boston.
A field of Norway oats near Shey-
enne, averaged 81 bushels per acre.
w. w. Sleight, a Forfar farmer,
lost three horses that ate wheat from
a granary built in the field.
"Chief" Bender, the Indian pitcher
who opened the game for the Phila-
delphia Athletics in the recent World
series battle, is from the Fort Totem
reservation in North Dakota.
The 7-weeks-old child of Ted organs
from near Grano, died from cholera
infantum.
There have been numerous cases Of
diphtheria in Renville county. A ply
stefan suggests that parents should
lose no time in having a culture of the
throat made. Some of these cases are
innocent in character, but possess the
property of injecting in a virulent
form.
The Upham Star has launched a
boom for Joe WIKI, present deputy
sheriff, for sheriff of McHenry county
and the Drake News seconds the mo-
ton.
Carl Dockter, a prosperous Ana
moose farmer, was picked up from q
ditch where he had been thrown from
his buggy, with his neck and back
broken. He was conscious and made
arrangements for settling up his es-
tate. Twelve hours later he was dead
The largest yield of wheat in the
Drake country was on the Mrs. T.
Rakken farm where 100 acres averag-
ed 16 bushels.
The crew diopinp the railroad well