The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-08-12
BRIEF STATE NEWS

A Tolley bank erected windmill to
pump the water from it's basement.
The Cash Carnival Co. will show at
Palermo soon.
A hobo at Beach, who made an in
sulting remark about woman was
knocked stone cold by one of the citi-
zens.
A contractor moving the White
Earth drug store building to a new
site, grew weary of his job and left
before the job was finished.
Sherwood heard it's first church bell
short time ago when new bell was
installed in the belfry of the M. +.
church.
Suffragists thruout the country will
celebrate Lucy Stone Day Friday,
August 10. This is the birthday Of
the founder of the pioneer suffrage
weekly, the Woman's Journal.
Chas. Briar has over 300 head Of
sheep at his farm near Plaza. He
writes that he has just completed the
largest sheep shed in Ward county
John Grafton did the work.
Marius Peterson, while demented,
escaped from a hospital at Williston
and was located in the business dis
trict.
Axel Johnson, a Mandan farmer,
began cutting Marquis wheat Aug. >.
There are several fields of Marquis
wheat in this vicinity that will be cut
this week.
A woman near Ant]er was arrested
for refusing to send her children to
school. The sheriff took her to Botti-
neau, where she promised to do bet
ter and was set free.
The crowds at the Fargo fair last
week were quite disappointing. The
fair was good but Grand Forks SEEM
ed to have commanded the attention
of most of the people the week prev
ious.
Lightning struck the home of Nels
Erickson at Palermo, doing some dam
age. Nels lost most of his eyebrows,
which were singed off. Lightning al
so struck the house occupied by Edi-
tor Schley and family, without doing
much damage.
f. L. Penn, the Sherwood publisher,
visited Camp Hughes in Manitoba,
where 5000 Canadian soldiers are in
training. They will be sent to the
front early in the winter. He saw a
sham battle, saw thousands of the
riflemen practicing and now has some
idea of what war really is.
Colonel Wynn, who has charge OF
the Sunshine Limited up the Sherwood
branch, has returned from the San
Francisco exposition. The Colonel is
president of the Swearing club
of America and he had an idea that he
could do some business out west, but
after listening to the line of talk along
Market street, San Francisco, he gave
up in disgust.
, Malineus Saby of White Earth, re.
ceived a consignment of squirrel wits.
> key from the east and proceeded tc
l drink it in record time. He visited his
neighbor, Theo. A. Thompson, anc
broke up the furniture and some farm
implements on the place. Malineus
paid $265O for his little spree.
Two young women giving thei1
names as Dick Lowery and Peggy
Penz were walking across the state
last week, enroute from Winnipeg tt
San Francisco. They passed thru thu
towns in the northern part of the STATE
and sold their pictures to defray ex
penses. If they are not captured by :
couple of forlorn bachelors enroute
they expect to complete their journe!
by November l..
In the eastern part of the state stem
rot or Fusarium wilt is reported il
the potato crop. This disease is char
and gradual willing and premature
death of the vine. The lower part O.
the stem becomes black and brittle
I Fusarium wilt exists in the soil of oil,
potato land, hence it cannot be check
n ed by spraying plants or treating tn
\ seed. Where its presence is noted
potatoes should not be sown on tn
same land for five years.