The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-12-30

neau; treasurer, Selmer Sivertson,
Carbury.
| Noble Rentofro has been returned
to the state from Windsor, Ill. He
forged checks at Eldridge last sum-
mer. He was given one year in the
Bismarck pen. He is 10 years old and
was convicted at Jamestown.
Frank Wurth, of Conway, was ar
rested by Sheriff N. o. Nelson on a
complaint of the county superinten-
dent of schools, charged with the vio-
lation of the compulsory education
law, which compels the attendance of
school children between the ages of
8 and Is years.
| The fourth annual show of the Ran
som county poultry association will be
held at Lisbon January 3 to 8. With
three silver cups in competition, fan
ciers of the county will be out with
splendid strings of birds for the event.
E. G. Roberts of Wisconsin will be the
judge.
| Arthur Stenerson, who was gradu-
ated last spring from the Stout Man.
ual Training school of Menomonie,
Wis, and who has been teaching man
ual training at Hettinger, has broken
down from overwork and has been
committed to the state hospital for
the incurable insane at Mendoza, Wis.
He was taken home from Hettinger
last Sunday.
Two boy bandits who robbed store
at Barlow, near jamestown, in Foster
county, on Dec goth, were recently
sentenced to three years in prison by
Judge J. A. Coffey. The boys secured
$113 from the proprietor, who they
held up at the point of an empty pis-
toll. They were captured three hours
later and gave their names as Joseph
Leary and Frank Benton, refusing to
give their real names because they
did not want relatives in the east to
know they were criminals.
That T. O'Connor, formerly of Far
20, the man who is said to have con-
fessed at Houston, Mimi, to the MUIR
der Of DR.. T. S. Egge, Of Moorhead,
Mimi, on Labor day night, Sept 9Th,
1909, for which Frank II. Kethman is
now serving life sentence at Still
water, was drunk at the time and that
his motive was robbery, is part of
the information contained in the let
ter written by w. NJ Miller of Eres-
bach, Mimi, to Judge C. A. Nye, of
Moorhead. and which is now in the
hands of Attorney General Smith,
who will make an investigation.
Thru it's president, S. G. Fadden,
the Hawkeye Valley Farmers Club of
Mckenzie county is submitting to 9TH
err farmers clubs of the state propo-
sition for a state convention. Mr..
| Fadden suggests that state meeting
of representatives from every farm
club in North Dakota be held at some
centrally located point this winter.
Many matters of Importance to the
farmers Of the state as whole could
be taken up for consideration and
permanent state organization of the
farm clubs of the state could be eff
fected.
! A fatal accident occurred one day
last week near Enderlin when VIM.
Hanson and Joseph Robbideau, who
were riding motor cycle collided
with team of horses and buggy
driven by George Pollock. The vehicle
was going in the opposite direction
and the motorist failed to turn out far
enough to pass the team and avoid
an accident. The machine hit the air,
killing him almost instantly, and Han
son, who owns the motor cycle. was
badly bruised about the head and had
one leg broken. The injured man is
being cared for in the hospital at
| Fargo. Both young men worked in
the vicinity Of Enderlin.
That this years big crop and the
prevailing good prices have lifted the
burden of debt from the shoulders of
| many farmers of Mckenzie county
who have been working against the
| problems that confronted settlers in
new land, is shown by the large
| number of satisfactions of chattel
mortgages which are being recorded.
| For more than a month a deputy in
he register Of deeds office has been
constantly engaged in filing such sat
isfactions. Register of Deeds H. H
Swanson says that more than three
times as many were recorded in No.
vember and December this year than
my other period of time the same
length in the history of the Office
Andrew WOODWARD, a sixteen year
Did lad, claiming his home is in Mich
gan, was recently found by 500 line
,ar repairers in the railway yards at
Enderlin nearly frozen and starved to
death. The boy says that one night
he crawled into box car in Weyer-
haeuser, Wis, to sleep, thinking that
train would pick up the car and
lake it east. Instead the doors were
closed and he was held prisoner, be-
ing unable to let anyone know he was
inside until he reached Enderlin, N.
D., when the car repairers heard his
groans and came to the rescue. With
out food or drink he became famished
and was unable to keep from freez-
ing. He has his hands and feet bad
~ frozen and was taken to the hospi-
tai in Enderlin, where he will recover
after the amputation of several of his
soes.
Notice Of Nortgags Foreclosure Sale.
Notice is hereby given that that cor