The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-09-03
Additional State News.

The Ryder News will soon be an all
home print paper.
Wheat on the j. p. Peterson farm
near Ryder averaged 25 bushels.
Plaza people are gathering plums
along the Knife river.
Dave Carlson is giving Towner one
Of the best weekly newspapers of the
state.
More houses are needed in Neville
Editor Harry Case boosts his town
weakly with telling results.
Rev., Crosse, pastor of the Ryder
Presbyterian church, has received a
cab To- Portal, D
g3E. 49,, Pewell, the Brinsmade post
master, will install moving picture
show at Towner and run it.
ssGranville has capitalist who paid
an income tax of 1913 this year and he
isn't in the newspaper business either.
Editor and Mrs. M. Breen of VOL
ford have returned home from three
weeks trip to Mikes old home in Can
ada.
Thompson Greer, trap drummer
with tent show, was married last
week at Rugby to Miss Maggie
Schoonover of Russell.
Editor Crazy of the Devils Lake
World has installed an Intertype ma
chine. Crazy is making quite a sue
cess of the newspaper game.
There are "a bridges to be built or
the Makoti extension of the 500 and
none Of them are completed. 1t will
be some time before the steel can be
laid.
Next Monday will be big day for
sportsmen, when the state law permits
the hunting of prairie chickens and
ducks. Both birds are very plentiful
this year.
As the result of drunken brawl at
Russell, Ed Burke is dead and Thos.
Dods confined in the Bottineau coun-
ty Jail charged with murder. Both
were transients.
H. D. Wyman Of Westhope market
ed three fifteen months-old hogs that
brought him $104.75. IF anyone can
beat that raising grain, let's hear
from them" says the Standard.
An enforcement league detective
worked Guthrie until some of the cit
liens objected. They caught him, rub |
bed his nose in the gumbo and started
him towards Minot up the track.
John II. Bloom Of Devils Lake |
blames Gronna for his loss Of the Dew
lis Lake postoffice. It is said that a |
remonstrance was sent to the Senate
signed by 500 patrons Of the Devils
Lake postofice.
The barn back of the Lutheran par
sonage at Ryder was struck by light
ming and damaged from flames to the
extent of $3.50. The fire ladies did
good work and saved most of the
structure.
The barn and some small sheds on
the Lewis Hill farm near Granville
were struck by lightning and burned.
The News hears that the 500 has
bought 80 acres near Drake for nurs-
cry purposes.
A. P. Buchanan died at the home of /
his daughter, Mrs. J. P. Wedge at
Towner. He was once engaged in
business at Drayton and St. Thomas.
Mrs. Thos. Bakken lost her barn by
lightning near Drake.
w. j. Anderson of Mountrail county,
formerly engaged in the newspaper
business at Rugby, has decided to be-
come candidate for secretary of
state on the Progressive ticket. He
was deputy in The Secretary Of States
Office for time.
Martha, the nineteen-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Ma
honey Of Ryder, died at Bismarck
hospital from appendicitis. She had
been employed at Douglas where she
became i'll. Death overlook her be-
fore an operation could be performed. !
T. F. Hicks of Des Laos is suffering |
from blood poisoning which started
from barbed wire scratch on his arm.
Elmer Griffen of Des Laos nearly
lost his life when his clothing caught |
y in the cogs Of his engine. His arm and |
leg were badly lascerated and nearly
all Of his clothing was torn off.
The Devils Lake World criticizes
\ Secretary Of State Hall because he |
awarded the constitutional amend
mentsi to the only Simon-pure Demo-
cratic newspaper in Ramsey county,
the Devils Lake Journal, overlooking
the seven republican papers that are
! expected to stand by the state ticket.
F. o. Swadlund, father Of Commits
v sioHer Nels Swedlund, died at the