The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-11-04
The county fathers will meet next

The county fathers will meet next
Monday.
Atty Combs of Donnybrook was in
town on legal business Wednesday.
A meeting of the Ward County Edi-
torial association will be held in this
city Friday evening of this week.
Mrs. A. Mumford, of Kimball,
Mimi, is visiting at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. A. M. Waller, 4th Ave.
N. E.
A. V. Mccormack and family came
in from Des Laos today to have
a family group picture taken. There
are four children, half of them twins,
born year ago today
Major Person invested in three of
Chester Phifer's registered Duroc Jer-
sey sows, to place on his Elmwood
farm.
Henry Loechel arrived from Glen
burn today on his way to his old home,
Chadwick, Ill.,, to spend the winter.
Mr.. Loechel is one Of the crack shots
of North Dakota, winning honors in
the Minot shooting tournament last
summer.
F. j. Steffeck, county superinten-
dent of schools of Mckenzie county,
was in the city Monday on his way
to attend the meeting of the State
Educational Association at Grand
Forks.
The marriage of Horace r. Walton
and Miss Helen Hyatt occurred at the
Presbyterian manse Monday evening,
Rev. P. w. Erickson officiating. They
were accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
H. M. Payne. The groom is employed
at the postoffice.
H. r. Wood, clerk of the Peebler
school district, came down from Deer
ing today on business. He owns q
threshing machine and has just finish
ed threshing $4,000 bushels of grain,
netting him nice sum.
w. S. Groninger is in from his Des
Laos farm today on business. w. S.
owns nice lot of land, something like
1000 acres, has flowing well and is
prospecting nightly.
w. R. Summers from near Deering
brot in nine cow hides yesterday which
he sold for 16 cents pound, getting
$59.11 for the lot. He remembers
about eight years ago when he brot
hides to this city, getting but three
cents pound.
P.J. McKone of Wolf Point, Mont,
is spending the week in Minot on bus
mess. He reports all the shock thresh-
ing around Wolf Point finished. Many
of the farmers stacked their grain.
The yield is large.
Mrs. H. St. Clair, of the St. Clair
Stock Co., left Wednesday for St.
Joseph, Mich, to attend the golden
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. F. Jones. The assemblage will en-
brace the continent from coast to
coast.
Grant s. Youmans left Monday to i
attend a meeting of the directors Of
the Farmers Rural Credit Associa-
ton. Mr.. Y6un,afs reports the af-
fairs Of his eofipafy as being in ex-
cellent condition. hssh"' ~ esq.,.
Mrs. B. il Anderson, who has been
lying at death's door for ten weeks
from typhoid fever, is growing better
and will be able to leave her bed this
week. She has had terrible. seige
and her many friends rej kd .S cze her her
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Flattand tdotored |
to the Sever Severson farm near Glen
burn Sunday, where they spent the
day. Mr.. Severson is d prosperous
farmer, having grown $500 bushels Of
wheat this year. .. u. ."s .@.2
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,o,a Commits Suicide. -''.'
James Hill, 'ex-legislator from Cass
county, aged So years, committed sui
eide az his hoinksat Erie, N. D., by
|rrooywninp IhimseN ina cistern. J.