The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-11-19
STATE NEWS

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At an auction sale at Antler, a COW
brot SLOT.
This is good time to fill the barn
lofts with hay and straw.
A Souris barber sold a barrel of
hair for $9.40, plus the freight.
A small tract of land half mile
from Drake sold for $500 an acre.
The Velva Journal says the Lincoln
county proposition will be revived in
1916.
Gilbert Teien, the very observing
editor of the Aneta Panorama notes
the following:
A woman near Lansford had her
face bitten by a horse, losing part of
her lip.
Bob and Eva Mckinley are back in
the state for their annual series of en-
tertainments.
Geo. Plaza Smith is an old time
hypnotist-along with his other &C
complishments.
An appreciative threshing crew at
Sherwood presented their cook a gold
locket and chain.
Some wretch overturned 20 gal
lon tank of gasoline at Westhope fol
Halloween prank.
The Loretta school house nea,
Aneta, caught fire from an overhead
ed stove and burned.
The editor of the Aneta Panorama
thinks every town ought to have a
public watering fountain.
The daughter of County Commits
sioner Capes of Bottineau county, was
recently married in California.
Lawrence Hussy, employed at the
depot at Velva, was taken to Ana
moose, seriously ill of pneumonia.
E. G. Long, who sold his Egeland
Enterprise some months ago, has bot
his old property and the "boys" are
glad he's back on the job.
John Steen, treasurer of Pierce
county, who has been elected state
treasurer, has given up his Office and
his deputy, Erick Revling, appointed.
P. R. Johnson, who publishes papers
at Fairdale and Nekoma, will eithe,
sell or lease his plants and locate al
Bremerton, Wash, where he owns val.
liable property. &
The vote on woman's suffrage ir
Ransom county was a tie, which in.
spired Colonel Boyden of the Lisbor
Free Press to write little ditty or
"The Tie that Binds"
John Keller, after starting a big
Job of grading west of Sherwood
found he could make no money anc
threw up the job. The commission
ers will re-advertise.
Mr.. Page has disposed of his Rugby
Tribune to S. C. Barnes, until recently
employed by the Bismarck Tribune
for five years. Bro. Barnes will give
Rugby an AL paper.
A Mckenzie county rancher used al
automobile in rounding up his stock
He finds that one man in an automo
bile can accomplish more in the da!
than two men on horses.
0 Nine-year-old Melvin Rusley Of Mil
ton nearly met death when his hea'
was drawn into the cylinder of a ma
nure spreader. The bones Of his fac
anu Hedu were CTuSHeu anu ugly SdSIi
H es cut in his face.
Ten smart Alexis at Westhope wer
arrested upon complaint of Mrs. Min
ME Campbell, charged with creating
disturbance Halloween night. Tw
pleaded guilty, and four were foun'
guilty, all being fined.
The trains on the G. N. branch line
were all late one day last week, await
ing the arrival Of Jim Hills bloode
bulls. S. c. Lonsbrough is the for
tunate Bottineau county farmer to re
ceive the only bull in that county.
The cost of living has advance
materially in Canada since the out
break Of the war. Fifty cents wi
buy no more meat than good health
man can eat at sitting. Tobacco
is very high, can of Tuxedo retailin
for rs cents.
VIM. Wruck, Bottineau farme
lad, set fire to his clothing Will
starting a fire with kerosene and "a
/. 100 yards to watering trough, jumI
ing in and putting out the fire. Il
was seriously burned, however, an
is being treated in the Bottineau hos
pital.