The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1915-01-21

Edward Nelson, a seven-year odd IT.
oga lad, died Of pneumonia.
The tow mill at Mimic shut down
when the fax separator broke.
Mike Breen says that all that ails
Fargo, it's so far from Wolford.
VIM. Atkinson Of Hannah has a
calf with two heads and two tails.
An exchange heads an obituary,
"Died-(By Request.)" How accom-
! modating.
The Douglas Herald compares the
Plaza flyer to a two-ton load Of hay
going to market.
H. B Valentine of Des Laos was
near death from heart trouble for a
short time recently.
Noonan, the "White City," where
Cal Andrist ably edits the Miner, gets
two more brick blocks.
The Rolette band now comprises "a
members who can play "Down where
the lilies bloom so fair"
A farmers telephone line will ex-
tend south and west of White Earth
and accommodate fifty farmers.
The editor of one of our exchanges
is still out in the woods-in describing
"portly" woman, the printer set the
word "porkly."
Bertholds postmaster, Sweeney, is
said to have acquired his name from
carrying around such loads Of Uncle
Sans money.
John Ford of Hillsboro is looking
for the fellow who fired a rifle thru
one if his windows, narrowly missing
one of the children.
Lisbon had fire la Chicago, when
COW kicked over a lantern in F. H.
Smiths barn, burning the structure.
The COW and an auto were saved.
Editor McDonough of Grano has Sc
cured the position of foreman Of the
Knight Printing Co. at Bismarck dur
ing the printing of the legislative pro-
ceedings.
George Wilkinson, a Fargo news
paper man, is new postmaster for that
city, relieving H. C. Plumley, another
newspaperman, who held that Office
for many years.
Perez Egan, who has been engaged
in the newspaper business at Beach,
has disposed of his interests and will
become connected with some live
newspaper elsewhere in the state.
w. H. Reighart is authority for the
statement that hereafter all Fords in
North Dakota will be painted red be-
cause our statutes require all tin cans
containing gasoline to be of that color.
The feminine members of the asso-
citation became conspicuous for their
absence from the Fargo meeting.
Sisters Doherty, Satterlund, Ericsson,
Page, Dewitt and Haskell were miss
ed.
A quack doctor removed a wart
from ]. J. Vance's hand at White
Earth and blood poisoning set in. The
local doctor refused to take the case
until the quack had been fired with
out pay.
Editor McGarry of Alexander, and
one of the prominent. officers of the
North Dakota Press Association, is an
old time barber, and tits said that
MAC" could WELD the razor with the
best of them yet.
One of our exchanges suggests that
it would not be wise thing to provide
for four year term for officers until
the recall bill is enacted. There is
something in this statement that is
worth a second thought.
The editors who attended the winter
press meeting are saying nice things
about the way they were entertained
and the stay-at-homes are kicking be-
cause they missed one of the biggest
and most enjoyable meetings in the
history of the association.
John Norstog, who lives in a little
shack near Alexander, in Mckenzie
county, overlooking the Bad Lands, is
a Norwegian author of some note. He
has just published book in Norweg-
ian, the title Of which is "Moses." He
writes, prints and binds his books in
his little shack.
The U. S. Supreme court has de-
cided in favor of the Mergenthaler
Linotype Co. against the International
Typesetting Machine Co., for the in