The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-03-26
SHORT STATE STORIES;
THENEWS At A GLANCE

The Grafton Potato Co. has begur
shipping 10000 bushels of potatoes.
Some of our young men are develop.
ing the automobile habit on the wheel.
barrow income.
The American Society of Equity has
organized an employment bureau al
Valley City.
All A. S. of E. societies of the Da-
kotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebras.
ka and Iowa have merged.
7,465 National banks have come un-
der the new federal reserve system,
only 22 banks having failed to enroll
Fl. L. Lee of Falsen sold IS fat cat
tie and some hogs to Minot buyer
reccntly. The kind Of farming that
pays.
There are "right smart" of cam
didates over in Towner county. The
Cando Herald is printing just % an
nouncements.
Kid Traitor was bound over on the
charge of horse stealing at Towner
last week. Traitor is an old offender
ard has served time.
Editor Mitchell of the Mimic Jour
nal recalls the time when it was pos
sible to buy a whole calf for what
the liver and the hide are worth now.
F. R. Miller, Freeport, ILL.,, farm
or, enroute to Grand Forks in IN i'm
migrant car, was beaten and robbed
of $50 in the Minnesota Transfer
yards. b.,
Carl Hubbard, aged Is, farmer
living 30 miles north of Beach, re-
turned to his home to get some cloth
ing and his money and burned to
death. .
The national guard organization of
North and South Dakota, Minnesota
and Wisconsin will participate in joint
maneuvers at Sparta, Wis.,, the latter
part of July.
The editor of the Benedict Banner,
who is an auctioneer, is peeved be-
cause his next door neighbor employ
ed another auctioneer and went to VEL
va for his bills.
u. S. Marshal Jim Shea will soon
retire to private life after eight years
of service. Mr.. Shea has conducted
his Office in very economical man.
ner.
Sister Doherty keeps Adams prom
inently on the map. A base ball team
has been organized, the Woodman
band 5rlstered up and a 500 incrnigr.-
ton club formed.
DR.. Coffin of Dogden will locate at
Drake, which town has been without a
doctor for some time. The doctor
might establish an adjunct in connec-
ton with his profession and hang out
his single thus: "Dr. Coffin, Under
taker."
. The constitutional amendment pro-
viding for women's suffrage lost out
in the Senate 35 to "a. This would
have required two-thirds vote to
have won. Gronna voted for it and
against it.
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K. H. Grace, the newly appointed
states attorney Of Renville county,
sends a warning thru the news col
umns of the county papers that he will
prosecute all violators of the prohi-
bition law without fear or favor.
The sympathy of the newspaper fra
tcrnity of the entire state is extended
to Editor Carlen of the Underwood
Journal, whose wife passed away at a
Bismarck hospital Friday, following a
long illness.
The Velva country has listed $50
quarters Of land in the 500 project.
The 500 will put on cheap rates April
/ and settlers are certain to flock in
from the east. 1t is rumored that
rates Of a cent a mile will be given,
altho no definite statement has been
rlade.
Those behind that electric line from
Drake to Towner have changed their
plans. They figure it will be cheap
er to run steamship line. They plan
A SNAP-1fO acres Of rood land for