The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-19
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| Joe Ermantrout of DesLacs was
business visitor here Tuesday.
Senator Bond is transacting bust
ness in Minneapolis this week.
Cash paid for secondhand furniture.
| Phone $50 Black. 4-S-tf
VIM. Myers, the North Prairie
farmer, is building comfortable
home in this city.
Mrs. F. J. Hartl and children are
visiting with the Doctors parents at
New Rockford.
The Independent force enjoys a
large bottle of ice cold buttermilk
furnished by the Minot Dairy Co. Get
man in the habit of drinking butter
milk and he loses all interest in the
prohibition question.
Mrs. Ben Smith returned to her
home at Glens Ferry, Ida., Sunday
after spending a month with her
father, Henry Stammen, and her Sis
ter, Mrs. Frances Botz. She stopped
enroute to visit sister, Gertrude at
Joplin, Montana.
We were glad to see our old friend
Al Campbell out riding the other day
in an auto. AL has been receiving
treatment in St. Joseph's hospital for
several years for paralysis and while
he will probably never be able to walk
again, he loses no opportunity to get
enjoyment out of life.
J. J. Kann has found farming in
North Dakota very profitable: His
share of a crop on half section of
lew, y.1s&, 1-~ tod
him $4,000 and it appears good for as
much more this year. He owns some
good land in Iowa, but his returns in
North Dakota have been fully as much
acre for acre.
O. K. Spires started cutting a fine
field of Marquis wheat Monday at his
form north Of Burlington. He has
over 500 acres in crop of the various
kinds and has been kept on the jump
looking after his grain as we'll as at
tending to fine large herd Of Guern-
sey mich cows.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Corey have re-
turned from the west where they visit
ed both expositions. They had an en-
joyable visit with F. E. Graves at San
Diego, saw Will E. Holbein and other
notables at San Francisco and had a
| fine trip generally.
The Independent received a card
from Harry Winters, the jeweler, who
is attending to business matters in
Chicago. Mr.. Winters sent picture
of the Eastland and wrote: "Was out
today watching them start to raise it,
Going to be some hard job"
DR.. John w. Newlove has returned
to Minot, after spending several
months in other states, and will again
take up his practice here. He spent the
summer at Detroit, Mich, and was in
California early in the summer. Mrs.
Newlove and son are visiting relatives
at Rugby.
i Phil Meyers, had on display We'd
nesday huge bowl full of great big
luscious Strawberries which he had
just picked from the vines at his home
in the western part Of the city. Minot
may not be in the banana belt but
we can sure 60 some when it comes to
Strawberries.
Excavation for the new location of
the Episcopal Rectory is under way.
The building is to be removed to
another part of the lot, preparatory
for the church have been drawn and it
to building the new church. Plans
is possible that the edifice will be
constructed yet this year.
The Minot Curling Club has secured
an option on lots 70x150 feet, facing
First avenue, just opposite the Sco-
field Implement Co., from the Second
National Bank for $4,000. The club
proposes to build concrete structure
before next winter, for skating above
and curling below. This is valuable
property.
:, James johnson has begun the har.
vest on his big farm at Burlington. He
is cutting oats and barley and will
soon be into the wheat fields. Fri.
days heavy wind and rain damaged
some of his crop, lodging third Of il
; in some fields. He has ordered long
fingers to place on the binder which
will gather up most Of it. He had just
stacked ten tons of oats and millet anc
this was drenched, necessitating scat
tering out the feed to dry.
Harry Calhoun, who has been So
journing for the past three weeks ir
the city pest house, suffering an at
tack of smallpox, was released from
his quarantine Monday. Harry says
it's remarkable the care exercised by
the authorities in the maintenance Of
beautifully graveled floors thruout the
pest house, saying that a wagon loac
of the finest kind of gravel may be
found spread over the floor of a single
room.
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