The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-10-28
BRIEF STATE NEWS

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Richland county, Mont, was voted
dry 1888 to 1872.
The name Of the Bismarck State
News has been changed to the Public
Opinion.
Antler has commercial club which
bids fair to have membership of 100
before long.
A threshing rig was shipped from
Enderlin to Douglas to take care of
some of the grain.
Threshing is nearly completed over
IN Bottineau county, several rigs pull
ing in last week.
Farmers have done very little fall
blowing but this work will start this
week in some localities.
DR.. Thyng, formerly of Willow City,
who died recently at Rochester, Mimi,
left $4,000 life insurance.
Harry Hamilton and Walter Kline,
Kramer blind piggers, pleaded guilty
and were sent to the penitentiary.
DR.. Craise of Towner lost his car by
fire and has invested in Ford, a car
that will take one anywhere but into
society.
VIM. Heart, of Dogden, was arrest
ed, charged with opening mail belong
ing to another and he will be tried in
federal court.
A subscriber presented Editor Varty
of Bantry with turnip weighing z
Ia pounds, which would make real
nice watch charm.
1900 sheep from Montana were driv-
en- thru Carpio enroute to the H. F.
Hilborn farm near Mohall to be fin
ished for the market.
A. E. Blair, a Bantry farmer, lost
his barn by fire, but got out the stock.
Matches left in the hay NOW by
threshers appears to have been the
cause.
Some Of the young men just over
the line in Canada, who are old enough
to enlist, are receiving white feathers
by mail from their young women
friends.
DR.. S. A. Danford, formerly M. E.
superintendent of the Bismarck dis
trict, has been appointed humane and
juvenile officer, with headquarters at
Bismarck.
A. E. Perrin and wife of Omemce
were arrested for disobeying an in
functional order from Judge Burr
They refused to keep their place of
business closed.
A Bottineau county bank advertiscs
that it has some special funds to loan
on elevator storage tickets. Why
special funds? There is no better Sc
curity in the world than grain in IN
elevator.
There will be town lot sale at Par
shall Nov. 10 and at Van Hook Nov.
IL. There will be no sale at Sanish
tbs fall, owing to dissension among
various factions concerning the town.
site location.
An old fashioned husking bee was
held at the Forbes home near Wash
burn one moonlight night recently.
Fifty children dressed in working
clothes participated. A lunch of hot
cocoa, doughnuts and apples was serv-
ed.
Floyd johnson, young vaudeville
performer, of Superior, Wis, is near
death in the hospital at Devils Lake,
as result of being held up, beaten
and left in an unconscious condition
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latter city. His money was all taken.
Gilbert Teien, editor of the Aneta
Panorama, was in Minot Saturday.
Gil makes more money in the real
estate business in year than some
publishers do in their business in five,
but he simply can't let loose of his
print shop, and has one Of the best ar
ranged and neatest plants in the state.
Carpio elevators are filled to the
top with grain and the Free Press re-
ports car shortage. Carpio farmers
have filled their granaries, have
bought many wire bins and are thresh-
ing the rest of the grain on the
ground Similar conditions prevail in
other towns in this section of the
state.
Darlington authorities failed to
identify three suspects, toughs that
are being held at Crookston, Mimi,
as the participants in the murder of
the chief of police some two weeks
ago. The Crookston suspects are be-
ing held on charge of robbing Is