The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-10-08

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81 1t is reported that stranger wa
( held up in the alley near the famou
"Tin Roof" Saturday night and divest
: ed of his pants, shoes and even hi
( collar and tie. He was then heater
up and left to recover the best wa.
he could.
} Frank Dinger, one of the Indepen
dents old readers from Grano, was il
s the city Friday. Frank is prospecting
Z nicely on the farm and deserves it too
{ His wheat averaged 20 bushels, oats
SO and barley 36, besides he raised {
Z prize winning corn crop.
Chart Barton, who declares he will
be elected sheriff on the democratic
ticket, has twenty acres of potatoes
that he is now digging. He engaged g
threshing crew to dig them and hopes
to have them stored before cold wea.
ther. Chart says he will have plenty
of spuds to feed the Jail birds he
hopes.
J. B. Withers, one Of the best farm
, ers from the Surrey district, was in
the city Monday. Mr.. Withers raised
banner crop this year. His wheat
averaged IL bushels, oats &C. barley
IS and flax II. Mr.. Withers demon
strated that good flax can be grown
on old ground, that crop averaging 20
bushels on the old field.
/ G. A. Cochrane, a prominent Berth
oldite, was in the city Monday. Mr..
Cochrane is successful farmer. He
had 225 acres of wheat that averaged
% IL bushels. He informs us that a
Canadian potato buyer bought eight
cars of that product from Judge Sew
erson for 40 cents bushel and six
cars from Chris Olson for the same
price.
O. L. Toftner Of Kenmare was in the
city Monday visiting old time friends.
Mr.. Toftner spent three months dur
ing the summer in the southern states
and says he was glad to get back. The
weather is too hot in the summer for
white man. He could not help but
notice how superior everything is that
is raised north as compared with the
products of the southern states.
j. R. Armand, travelling passenger
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vile railroad, was in Minot Tuesday.
He is comforting with the agents of the
roads in the state with view to work
ing up nice winter business for Flor
ida. The Dixie Flyer which leaves
Chicago each evening is one of the
c. B. Bach returned from Davenport
and other points in Iowa, where he
spent two months visiting. Mr.. Bach
drove home in his new Chalmers car.
Mrs. Bach and children remained in
Davenport, and will return after sew.
eral weeks.
Invitations have been issued to the
marriage of Eva Belle, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Hecht, to VIM. H.
c. Wehmhofer, Wednesday evening,
Oct. 81, at the Hecht home five miles
north Of the city. Many friends will
extend best wishes to the worthy cou-
pie in advance.
p. S. Waterman has returned from
Des Laos, reporting bountiful crops
and prosperous times. We have
plenty of good apples here selling
from so cents to $1.00 per box, he
says.
Will E. Holbein, the Lansford pub
Usher, passed thru the city Wednes-
day, enroute to his home from Brook
ings, s. D., where he visited his wife's
relatives. Mrs. Holbein will remain
in South Dakota for several weeks.
Mrs. Holbein possesses voice Of UNI
usual strength and sweetness and is
now taking course in voice culture
in Bookings.
T. P. Mulick, manager of the Inter-
national Harvester Co. at Fargo, is
here today, the guest Of his daughter,
Mrs. Jas. Huyck. Mr.. Mulick declares
that some day he is coming back to
Minot to live as he thinks our climate
ideal. This city is 900 feet higher than
Fargo and the air is correspondinply|
better.
BY reason Of tina European war,
much money heretofore available for
Farm Loans has been withdrawn, but
we are still in position to handle all
good loans offered us. Let us figure
with you. E. j. Lander & Co., Lee
Block, Minot. 1882
Martin jacobson raised an unusually
fine crop at his ranch eight miles west
of Minot. Some of his wheat averag-
ed 80 bushels and he shipped seven
cars, much of it grading No / with
but a very small percentage of dock
age. He raised nearly eight thousand
bushels Of oats, great lot of barley
and ITO acres of corn. He will have
much Of the corn to sell. He has
nearly 200 hogs and big lot Of cat
tie and horses. Martin made nice
lot Of money from the farm this year
and he is deserving Of it, too. He had
wagon load or more Of tomatoes,
many Of them getting ripe. In addi-
ton to all the other stock, he has q
few chickens, six or seven hundred
he has never taken the time to count
them.