The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-11-30

ing his wife. She alleges Bonnie has
been little too abusive. The Off
GERS have not been able to locate him.
With everything going up and
nothing coming down, we may soon
all be with the angels.
DR.. Stone of Balfour will erect a
modern hospital this fall, according to
The Messenger.
The roundup twenty-five years ago
showed that there were about 1000
head of cattle in the Towner territory.
Towner is now blessed with pure
water and the editor Of the Tribune
swears by it.
Archie Wells, farmer near Mohall,
lost two horses last week as a result
of feeding them poisoned oats. Two
others were poisoned but recovered.
Drake held special election Nov.
81 to elect mayor to fill the unex-
pired term of Former Editor Sperry,
who recently moved to Montana.
The bonded debt of the state has
been reduced from $937,200 in 1912
to $472,OOO, and there is still small
UdldIlCc Ill Clle SCdCc DO1lu shining Aoliu'
Postmasters of North Dakota have
new burdens added to their response
BILE duties and are now made recruit
ing officers.
A Methodist preacher over at Max
bass uses a half page display adver-
tisement to invite the people of that
community to come to church.
A travelling dentist, billed for Up
ham, failed to show up and it was
learned that he had been arrested for
practicing without license.
The New Rockford Transcript says:
"The democrats are not only in the
saddle, but they are standing up in
the stirrups."
While hunting west of Pisek, Jos. J.
Kolar had dog with him that ranged
through clump of bushes and chased
out a lynx, which was freed and shot,
The lynx measured five feet.
The life of the average North Da-
kota schoolma am is only four years.
School teaching, for instructors of
the fair sex, is one of the most haz
ardous occupations listed in the state.
The steel tower and tank material
arrived last week to erect the stand
pipe and water pressure tank for the
Killdeer waterworks. Work is expect
ed to begin at once and be rushed to
completion.
The Grafton curling rink was being
flooded last week and arrangements
for the seasons run in this line of
sport were progressing with an idea
of increasing the membership and the
number to participate in the events to
be scheduled for the season.
Rev. Listman of Dunn Center has
started band and already fourteen
pieces have been added. 1t is the in
tention to furnish band music for spe-
cial services in the church, for the city
and theaters.
w. E. Hewitt, representing the
Great Northern Bridge Co. Of Mime
apolis, was in Bowman last week sup
erintending the erection Of thirty-four
bridges in Slope county. The bridges
are being shipped to New England,
Bowman and Rhame, and hauled out
from those towns.
Work has commenced at Scranton
on the installation of briquetting
plant which, in the near future, will
be turning out Ignite briquettes for
the market. The present intention is
to install one unit of system which
will be increased to IA units next
spring.
William Gordon returned Sunday
morning from South st. Paul where
he went last week with four double
deck cars of Eddy county fed lambs
for the market. These lambs were
half blood Ramboulle and were fed in