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

John Ehr and son william are moi
worrying over the cost Of meat. They
have 90 promising young porkers at
their farm west Of the city and are
raising plenty Of corn to fatten them
Governor L. B. Hanna will delive,
an address at the laying Of the corner.
stone Of a Ryder church Aug. 23. The
governor will motor to Minot that ev-
ening to visit friends.
A little love, little wealth,
A little home for you and me,
It's all ask, except good health,
Which comes with Rocky Mountain
Tea. Mccoy Drug Co.
The two Greeks who have been con-
Quoting the Windsor Cafe took French
leave, forgetting to liquidate about a
thousand dollars worth Of debts. Their
effects are pretty well loaded with q
mortgage too.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
some good. The European war will
undoubtedly have an effect on driving
thousands of people to America as
soon as they can get away. We have
plenty Of room for the right class in
America, too.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Wood, the CHR
Eopractors, will leave Sunday in their
new Buick for Minneapolis, where they
will enjoy their vacation. Their work
will be left in charge Of Miss Minnie
Perry, who recently graduated from a
Chiropractic school with high honors.
The case against Geo. Coombs,
charged with jabbing O. O. Adams
with a pitchfork, was dismissed by
Judge Lynch. It was shown that
Adams was really the aggressor. The
men live at Kenmare and had dis
pute over some hay.
The writer drove north of Granville
Sunday and spent the day at the hos
pitable home of Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Mil
Ter. The crops north of Granville are
not extra good as rule, the hot wea-
ther doing some damage to them. The
farmers are all engaged in raising live
stock and have some good fields of
corn.
Some rye has been threshed at Sur
rev, turning out from 18 to 26 bush
els. P. J. McKone's rye averaged 26
UuSll61S duO IL d. x30HtA xCpOI 10
bushels. Wheat harvest is well under
way. It is believed that wheat in
the Surrey district will average 20
bushels. Some black rust has been
noted in the late wheat, and it will
cut the average of the late wheat
down to Is bushels.
Tracy R. Bangs, former United
States district attorney for North Da-
kota, was exonerated by a grand jury
of the charges of bribery in connec-
ton with the acquittal two years ago
of McLain Cooper, who had been tried
for murder. The grand juryAs report
also cleared others involved in the
bribery charges.
| w. H. Francis, secretary of the N.
D. P. A., was up from Velva on bust
ness Saturday. Mr.. Francis is getting
out the Press Bulletin this week, a
twelve page number that goes TO every
publisher in the state, besides about
five hundred prominent merchants.
Mr.. Francis issues the Dulletin1mo nth-
ly.stThe. NORTH Dnl6 tp.P Press Associa-
tions isnthe.po only afgAfizationsof the
kind ms the United tStAtes iBshing q
monthly publication, we believe. :sist'
~ representative. of TIE Indepe dent
called, At, the, Nyhus 3 Berg store 4
Surrey the other evening andt found
Mr.. Berg all in readiness for brisk
fall business. The store carries af
immense stock Of general merchandise
the basement, second floor and three
large warehouses being necessary ii
store all 1.-THE goods; besides the i'm.
ilmense stock thatfis located in the main
room. Mr.. Berg has been in business
at Surrey for the past fourteen years
and has been most accommod dating.
Major Person cut four tons Of al.
fafa to the acre at his Elmwood farm
and you can figure every ton Of that
feed no less that SIS. Sixty dollars
an acre in one year from a North Da.
kota farm isn't bad. Corn and alfalfa
make a perfect silage for a dairy
COW. Mr.. Person has his barley and
oats in the stack. The barley averag.
ed about 40 bushels and the oats rs. He
didn't raise any wheat. He will feed
practically everything he has raised
on the farm this year, and will moi
have to buy q pound of any kind Of
feed. =
Governor Hanna, on his return To
Bismarck, after two months abroad
was accorded q welcome such as an
official seldom received. He was met
by 5000 people who assembled on the
lawn Of the governors mansion. AS
the governors train pulled into the
station, the band struck up lively air
The governor was met by auto and es.
corted to the mansion by Co. A. The
address Of welcome was given by Gen
Williams, TO which the governor re.
|sponded. He spoke Of the banquet
which he attended in Christiania
which was attended by nearly three
thousand people. The fine band Of st
Olof's College, which played at The
celebration received much praise as
did the singing Of the chorus Of 50(
men which went from this country
The governor said he did not heal
much war talk in Europe, tho it seem.
ed that about every other man he saw
in Germany and France was soldier
They were evidently preparing fol
i war E He dnoot not ho1io1,o %ho% %h1