The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-04-22
Local News

Local. news
Ira Stoddard reports the loss of two
fine heifers killed on the 500 tracks
near Burlington.
Silver Strand, the lightning rod
! with the guarantee. Sold by D. C.
Hoy, Minot, N. D., Box 1912. 4-22-t2*
Local grain dealers were paying
$1.50 per bushel for wheat Saturday,
Monday and Tuesday. the highest
price ever known in Minot.
Louis R. Larson grew nice crop of
flax last year, which averaged II
bushels per acre and he has 500 BUSH
els of nice clean seed for sale.
Eggs for Matching from single comb
Rhode Island Red chickens, per set
ting of Is eggs, rs cents. Mrs. VIM
Estlick, R. r. /, Minot, N. D. 4-22-t5
A good many thousand acres in this
vicinity have already been seeded and
farm work is progressing very nicely.
The ground works up as nice as gar
den.
O. X. Spires lost 5000 mare one
day last week and most of his other
horses have the distemper, which in
terferes a good deal with his spring
work.
r. H. Hauser, local manager of the
Singer Sewing Machine Co., left Tues
day for Rochester, MIMI, where he
will receive treatment for an illness
of long standing.
John Christianson, from southwest
of Minot, recently invested in car
load of feeders in St. Paul which are
fattening on the nutritious grass of
John Stakston's pasture.
Young man with excellent qualifca-
lions and best of references desires to
teach school the coming spring term
Address 0. K, care of Independent.
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T. L. Smith of Glenburn was in the
city Saturday. Mr.. Smith has quit
grain farming largely and recently
seeded most of his farm to timothy
and bromus. He has invested in fifty !
five head of cattle.
| R. w. Dalziel brought 24O dozen
eggs to Minot last Saturday, besides
a large amount of fine butter. R. w. |
is putting 402 bushels of seed wheat
into the ground this year, which at
present prices is worth just $59634.
DR.. E. J. Walsh's Buick 81 was bad
ly damaged the other day when the
doctor ran the machine into a curb to-
avoid running into an auto that passed
directly across his path. The right
front and hind wheels were torn off.
A. B. Easthagen, who went to the
Dunseith tubercular sanitarium last
fall, has returned. He reports that
he is feeling like new man and the
treatment has done him a great deal
of good. He will spend the summer in
the city.
Paul c. Evans was in the first of
the week and took out three blooded
Guernsey heifers that had been secur-
ed in Wisconsin last fall by O. X.
Spires. Mr.. Evans is stocking his
farm with some of the best animals
that money can buy.
j. S. Beam has returned from Port
Huron, Mich, and will again be en-
ployed in the city this season as build
ing foreman. Mrs. Beam and babe will
soon arrive. Mr.. Beam was foreman
for D. A. Dinnie for several years and
is one Of the best in his line.
III Cilo loSuc Vic CdIHpDell MerCdn-
tile 20. carries an attractive adver-
tisement, quoting some excellent bar
gains on high class merchandise and
offering 10 cents per dozen for fresh
eggs. This store expects to carry a
message to our readers each week. H
Several from Minot may motor to
Russell Saturday night to hear the de-
bate on the cooperative creamery
question. Russell farmers are con-
sidering going into the co-opertive
creamery business, together with a
cheese factory and ice cream plant,
and there is talk of securing stock in
tn cooperative creamery at Minot.
Lawrence Gregorson returned from
a visit from his old home in Minneso-
ia, where he went to settle the estate
of his father, who recently died. Law
renee in some manner got rid of that :
most luxuriant growth of spinach,
which changes his appearance so much s
that his faithful old dog would hardly
let him return to his prairie home. ,
L. E. Gregorson of Burlington, who !
raised some of the cleanest and best
alfalfa grown in this vicinity last year, .
is advertising limited quantity of the !
seed for sale. He secured the seed
from Prof. Waldron of the Dickinson
Experiment Station and got the very
best that could be procured. If YOU i
want to get some pure alfalfa seed, s
see Mr. Gregorson. i
H. E. Wheeler, city assessor, is
making the rounds this week, making I
the annual assessment and taking the S
five year census. He receives a fee a
of two cents per canita for nococ