The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-11-12
STATE NEWS

DR.. r. w. Campbell has located at
Deering. 49,.
transformers" are taking in many
of the towns Of the state
A Williston firm is advertising
biggest sale on EARTH" Some terri
tory.
James Boulds, aged SO, who lived in
the Saline settlement northwest Of
Granville, is dead.
Jos. Finch pleaded guilty to selling
liquor at Granville and Judge Burr
gave him the limit.
The Equity society shipped a car
loan of apples to Velva to distribute
among its members.
Suffrage won in Montana and Ne
vada but the women Of North Dakota |
will have to wait a bit.
The Minot Symphony Orchestra ap-
peared in concerts at Williston Mon
day and Tuesday nights, followed by
dances.
The Harvey Herald was up-to-date
in giving complete election returns by
precinct in tabulated form for Wells
county.
The name of the treasurer elected
in Cavalier county is Work and the
fellows who elected him ought to see |
! that he does.
The water mains are laid at New |
Rockford and Editor Olson is worry
ing because there isn't anything to
run into them.
dad" Green of Sawyer is indebted
to Ole Larson for some choice rabbits
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says they were fine.
Women are against war, says an ex-
change, because they would rather be
the wife of a live jackall than the
widow of dead lion.
Spell your name backward and pro-
nounce it and you will have the name
of a river over in the war zone, says
the New Rockford Transcript.
DR.. Farrage of Deering will locate
at Louisville, KY, as one Of the senior
internes of the General hospital. He
aims to perfect himself in surgery.
Sheriff Wilcox of Renville county
arrested Francis Steiner, Glenburn
farm hand and took him to Mohall
where he was committed to the insane
asylum.
The Neville Journal serves notice
on its readers that it will charge at
regular advertising rates for all no.
tees of found, lost, obituary, supper,
sale, entertainment, etc.
Geo. Hammerickson, a ten-year-old
Kenmare lad, has lock-jaw and is in a
serious condition. He caught on the
rear end of grain tank and in jump
ing off tore his thigh on a nail.
Glenn, the 7-year-old son of Atty
Wilson of Flaxton, twisted the lead
strap about his body when he was
knocked down and dragged by cow.
He was unconscious when rescued.
Joe Helling of Deering left last
week for his home at Madison, Ia. Mr..
Helling made a number of extensive
improvements on his farm the past
summer and has about 400 acres
plowed and ready for next years
crop. He has left the farm in charge
of a tenant, but will return in the
spring to supervise the work.
The Navy department has asked
i'm Nordenfeldt automatic gun loaned
two years ago. The gun has been on
display at the court house at Towner.
The gun is to be put in serviceable
condition and used as an anti-aero-
plane weapon. Another gun will be
shipped to Towner to replace the one
recalled.
}, Glenburn Advance: Henry SIAM
. men of Muskego township, has field
} of Northwestern Dent corn this year
, that yielded 60 bushels to the acre. He
had the field husked with husking
machine and now has it binned up
near his barns, which makes an I'M
usual sight for this part Of North
Dakota, but one which we believe will
be more common in years to come.
Mr.. Stammen is stock raiser on a big
scale and at the present time has
herd Of about 400 head.
Flaxton Times: The particulars of
the death of Rev. Kingston, who for
merly occupied the pulp of the Pres
byterian church here, has just reached
Flaxton friends. Rev. Kingston came
to his death on his farm near Dietrich,
Idaho, several weeks ago, by being
caught in a threshing machine belt
and whirled to his death. His jaws
were fractured, left leg fractured in
three places and also sustained frac-
lures of the spine. Death was instan-
taneous. The body was shipped to the
old home at McComb, Ohio, for burial.
The wife of Col. Bidlake, a former
North Dakota politician, is suing him
for divorce in New York city. Bid
lake lived at Osnabrock, Cavalier
county, N. D., in the early days. He
was in the house in territorial days
and later, during statehood, was in
the senate. Colonel Bidlake was pop
ular at Bismarck. It will be remem-
bered that during the Worlds Fair in
Chicago, he had all the Midway con-
cessions. In 1901, while in Costa
Rica, he met pretty Spanish girl, 16
years of age, at a bull fight, and altho
he was forty-six, he married her. She
is now suing for divorce on the
grounds Of desertion, claiming that he
is living with a Spanish girl in Colon
bia, known as Mercedes.
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