The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-08-13

Creek. they caught SO fine trout In
about an hour.
! There were nearly dozen blind
folks in the city last week, giving
street entertainments.
P. ]. Engeseth, one Of our prominent
attorneys, is now located In Suite of
the Temple Court block.
i The Van Hook Journal will soon be
issued by Chas. A. Wales, an old time
N. ID. rewspaperman.
j Even the price of ink will advance
because of the European war. One
ink house says, "Our price on and Rf-
ter this date is subject to revision"
The many friends of VIM. Donnelly
sympathize with him in the loss Of his
mother, to whose bedside he was re-
Gently called.
d. A. Dinnie has secured the con-
tract to build $11,OO school build
ing at Makoti and has shipped an out
fit to that place.
/ A. #. Bacon returned from Van
Hook, new town on the reservation.
Mr.. Bacon has secured some nice con-
tracts in sign work and will paint the
town red-and divers other colors. He
says Van Hook is bustling little
city.
M. j. Pavlik, the versatile publisher
of the Carpip Free Press is evidently
some gardener. The editor of the In
dependent received a large box of
roasting ears and cucumbers by parcel
! post from our brother up the 500, and
they were fine too.
James Ely, wealthy retired farm
err from Richmond, Ind, is in Minot
looking after his farm miles north
east Of the city. He will spend the
fall with his son near Tolley. He re-
ports harvest finished in Indiana,
wheat averaging from 16 to 80 BUSH
lels.
Jos. Hunt has completed his task of
testing the weights and measures in
Ward county. During his trip about
the county he found only one man who,
is inclined to be crooked. In most in
4 stances where there was any discrep-
ancy the merchant was cheating him.
self. ia,
]. w. Webster of Burlington re-
turned today from Vandalia, ILL.,, where
he attended the funeral of his brother.
This was the first time he had visited
his old home in twenty years. The
crops in southern Illinois are failure
and Mr.. Webster says North Dakota
appears better to him than ever.
A Minot man Dragged that his toma-
to vines had several large tomatoes on
them and friend was invited to drive
past his garden and see them. The
friend admired the large red ripe to-
matoes and will not know until he
reads this that they were bought at
one Of the grocery stores and fastened
to the vines very cleverly.
N. j. Thoreson, who opened line
Of elevators in Canada, was in Minot
this week, enroute home from the Min
|nesota lakes with his wife, who has
been spending the summer there. He
says that while the crops are poor in
some parts Of Canada, that portionsof
Saskatchewan in which his elevators
are located, has a bountiful Yield; O.!
tt enriches the blood, Strengthen,
The nerves, helps your whole IsYsteml,
Ia remedy you should g take every
or not. It's HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea, take It regularly, twill make
lets. McC Coy Drug Company.
~ r. w. Dalziel Of Glenbufri brings 80
dozen eggs to this city asweek and q
hundred pounds Of choice butter, made
from fourteen Jersey COWS Prom 80
lacres of bromus, he cut q hundred tons
land has 80 tons moved away IN his
|big barn. Mr.. Dalziel is making good.
His poultry comprises the Plymouth
Rock and Brown Leghorn strains.
A Minot woman who read in mag
azine that the Oliver Wilde flowers
were fashionable in the east, among
the Four Hundred, sent for some seed
land when they came up she was shock
led to learn that she had grown noth-
ling but common wild sun flowers that
are to be found by the millions along
hour prairie roads. She hoed them up.
' The Lisbon canning factory is pre-
pairing for record breaking business.
lit started in small way few years
ago and is now located in modern
4 three-story building. This year the
output will be 10000 cases Of "a cans
each, q good part Of which has been
4 sold. The latest machinery has been
I installed, including an equipment to
husk the corn. What can be done at
Lisbon can be accomplished in other
cities Of the state. #
CARD OF THANKS.
i Mrs. D. H. Kimball and children de-
Isire to thank the many friends who
assisted during the last illness Of the
husband and father and at the time Of
the funeral.
DO YOU WANT a. FINE LITTLE