The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-11-04
BRIEF STATE NEWS

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A new Seventh Day Adventist
church was recently dedicated eight
miles south of Bowden.
Out door entertainments are about
closed for the season and it is coming
time to plan for the indoor winter
sports.
The nineteen-months- old son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Hertle of Calvin, fell
into five gallon jar of water one day
last week and was drowned.
A special election to vote on the
question of issuing bonds for $4,000
to build new court house for Burke
county, has been called for December
l4th.
The Wyndmere creamery was re-
Gently burned to the ground at total
loss. The buttermakers figure that
spontaneous combustion was the cause
Of the confagration.
A butcher shop and hardware store
at Lansford were entered and robbed
one night last week. Some revolvers,
flashlights and batteries were all that
was missing from the store and 38
calibre revolver was missed from the
meat market.
John Caroline, living north of Rolla,
stumbled and fell with his pipe in his
mouth and received injuries that prov
ed fatal. The stem Of the pipe was
driven thru the roof of the mans
mouth an inch and half in depth.
Caroline was carrying two pals of milk
oooSIov,& roo,,ysrod
Auto robbers operating out of East
Grand Forks are reaping good har-
vest in North Dakota. The latest vic
tins are Isaac Blooming and j. AL
bert, of Maddox, who were invited to
take a ride and were carried several
miles from the city and then beaten
and robbed of all their money.
The big prairie fire which swept the
country between Donnybrook and Ba-
den last week caused no little damage
when it consumed thousands Of dollars
worth Of hay, grain and pasture. A
large number Of men from different
threshing crews fought the flames I'M
til they were extinguished.
E. M. Sitter, former Minot barber
who is now located at Bergen, was
ago. He has received a letter from the
hold-up artist from New Rockford, in
which he encloses some checks which
he states that he had been unable to
dispose of.
At Beach, threshing separator
owned by three farmers was blown to
pieces in an explosion, which it is be-
lieved, was caused by an excessive
amount of smut in the grain threshed.
When the machine was running empty
the explosion occurred and the front
of the separator was wrecked beyond
repair. 1922 --.
The prairie fire which swept Bur
leigh county last week during high
wind played havoc, burning wheat
stacks, oat fields, hay stacks, wagons
and threshing rigs. The fire started
in straw stack on Sunday, the wind
scattering the burning straw to the
four corners of the township.
Many cities in North Dakota will
adopt the old Scotch game of curling
for the winter sport. The big rink ut
Grand Forks is being enlarged and The
Grafton sports are building. Besides
Minot, Portal, St. Thomas, Drayton,
f1AMllCOu, DOWeSI1lOuC, arc 0HOIS VhS
cities that have formed large clubs
in the state.
Freight traffic over the Great Nor
thern is 200 per cent better than it
was last year at this time. The esti-
mate If the improved transportation
business was made by a prominent
business and railroad man who is on
the inside with the business handled.
Large grain shipments are said to be
the cause Of the increases. There has
been very little complaint Of car
shortage this year.
A thumb print on the sealing wax
Of the package from which $4,000 was
stolen between the time it left the
bank at Grand Forks, and the time it
arrived at Antler, may lead to the
capture Of the mysterious thief. Fed
eral officials have recently investigat-
ed the case and found that the robber
had evidently left his thumb print on
the envelope when resealing it. A
copy of a Twin City paper was insert
ed in the package as substitute for
the money.
Fire originating in the basement
from an un1earned cause imperiled the
lives Of several Of the patrons Of the
Columbia hotel in Grand Forks and
damaged the building to the extent of
$4,000. Fire Chief John Fitzgerald