The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-02-04
STATE NEWS

county.
Tommy Ryan, who was employed at
the Grand View hotel at Portal, died
of heart trouble.
The Portal International refuses to
run an article on dancing unless the
writer signs his name to it.
The Bottineau county papers agree
that it will prove bad blow to North
Dakota if the school Of forestry is
closed.
A bigger in the county Jail at Rug
by took change of venue by dying
the day before he was to stand trial.
A kleptomaniac connected with AL
Miller's Minstrels, stole $13 muff
from Wolford store, which proved
unlucky for him. The muff was re-
covered and he was fired.
About 10000 bushels of grain were
burned when the Martin Lee elevator
at Aneta caught fire. The elevator
was an independent house and the
grain was insured. This is the second
elevator Lee has lost by fire.
Records were kept of IA cows that
were dehorned at the North Dakota
Experimental Station. They fell off
Is pounds a day for the first two
days, or about a quart each On the
third day they were back to normal.
The Scobey, Mont, Sentinel, recent
ly started the report that the Inter
national boundary line had been shift
cd 25 miles to the north and scores of
state papers fell for the "dope."
Miss Minnie Unback of Benedict
was married to Edw. Mitchell at the
home of the groom's mother in Chi
cago. Owing to the accidental shoot
ing of the groom's brother recently,
the wedding was quiet affair.
Westhope Standards: Guy Hileman,
who has been at the city hospital ever
since he was shot three weeks ago, ex-
poets to be able to go home tomorrow.
He was operated on this week, his LETT
eye ball being removed.
Ryder Journal: Deputy Sheriff Bill
lion under Sheriff Kelley succeeds him
self as deputy sheriff under Sheriff
Nedreloe. A deputy sheriff in town
ofttimes saves one the expense of
travelling expenses here, and Ryder
felt entitled to one at Sheriff Nedre-
loe's hands.
Donnyrook Courier: Several quar-
tiers of land have been sold recently
near Aurelia. Geo. Weber sold one OF
his quarter sections to Will Workman
for $4,000 and Geo. Johnson turned his
quarter over to Herman Schwede for
the same price.
Towner News-Tribune: We learn
that Miss Tess Calvin, sister of Mrs,
Oliver Erickson and who has many
friends in Towner where she has fire.
quently visited, was married recently
to Harry Woodmansee, mail clerk on
the 500 between Minot and Bismarck
They will make their home in the cap
ital city.
Owing to the similarity of names,
shipments of merchandise for Wat
ford merchants, out in Mckenzie coun-
ty, are often unloaded at Wolford
The G. N. wants Watford to change its
name but the citizens are not agree
able. The Shafer Record suggests
that the name of Wolford be changed
to Mikebreen.
Van Hook Tribune: After dress
ing a young rooster last week, jim
Wilson found two small nuggets OF
gold, weighing about a grain and a
quarter, in the gizzard. 1t is his IN
tention to dose some of the other
chickens with castor oil, and get any
pold thew have stored away, without
the formality of taking their heads
off first. His farm is not for sale, yet.
A movement is on foot throughout
the state to get farmers to use the
wide, standard guage sleds, so that
wagons, buggies or automobiles can
he used in the winter time. Wlscon,
sin has already adopted the standard
puage sleigh, and as result most OF
; the farmers are using autos to make
quick trips to town.
Some mathematician has figured out
! that one cent bushel on al! corn:
oats, barley and wheat raised in TINS
part of the county would build ten
miles of permanent roads in one year.
| or one hundred miles in ten years,
thus giving the farmers a network OF
highways passable at all seasons OF
the year, and at an outlay that would
hardly be noticed at all.
/ Douglas Herald: Conductor Enoch-
son reports having seen wild DUCK luz
out near Van Hook last Sunday. Inc
bird was making its winter home at
one of the open springs along the
creek and Just to show 1oS , that at, 1T was
cord and not because it had to, it gave
an exhibition flight, returning IN a
short time to settle down in its 1T
tie spot of open water.
! Governor Hanna has extended cor
dial invitation to Woodrow Wilson to
visit North Dakota on his trip to the
west in the spring. The president re-
piled that he would be pleased to &c
so and may include North Dakota IN
his itinerary. In that event ne may
visit Minot. The last time that Wood
row was here was when he was COVER
nor of New Jersey. He was travelling
east at that time and the onlv citizen
who knew that Mr.. Wilson was com
ing and who greeted him at the tran
was Elias H. Stenvick, that wide
awake Democratic politician, now MI
not's postmaster.
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