The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-02-24

were fully 20 feet high, reaching to
the tops Of the telephone poles. The
snow has been rapidly disappearing
and the drifts are only about ten feet
high at this writing.
VIM. Healey of Glenburn was in the
city Saturday. He brot carload of
hogs and cattle to the stock yards,
shipping them to st. Paul. More than
40 cars of stock were shipped from
Glenburn during the past year.
o. G. Anderson, vice president of
the Dakota Monument Co., writes.
from Fargo, where he is getting along
fine with his business. He sends re-
CARDS to his many old time Minot
friends.
C. o. Lawson from south of the city.
brot load of wheat to Minot Satur-
day. He had hard time getting over
the roads and said the farmers evil
IDENTIFY would have to cut out hauling
for time. Many of them have wheat
left and they need the room in order
to clean their seed.
Knute Christensen, the only Bull
Mooser in Greeley township, attended
the Equity convention in Minot last
week. He is a great big strapping
good looking young farmer, stands
six feet three in his "sock feet" and
is just as good a fellow as he is big.
A farmer named Marshall living
near Deering lost four horses and
some cattle during the winter. His
supply of water became exhausted and
during the severest weather he was
,,-,1,1o %o f,,rp:eI e,,f{S a. r% +o,. for
his stock, it is said.
Wheat took slump of four cents a
bushel Wednesday, selling in the local
markets for $1.1O per bushel. A good
many of the farmers have been hold
ing considerable wheat for a better
market and until the roads were in
better condition for hauling. Just
now they would give good deal to
know what the barket will do.
Gustav Ludtke, from northwest of
the city, was in town today with a
load of dressed hogs which he sold to
local butchers for 9 cents pound. He
has sold 5000 worth of pork, has 46
fine Chester White hogs left to butch
sides he will have his brood sows left.
Gus owns fine automobile. A few
years ago he came to the county with
but 5000 and is worth $4,000 today.
Con Brennan, a prosperous Burling-
ton farmer, was in the city Friday.
He believes that the snow is doomed
to go off early and points to eight or
nine years ago when we had an unus-
ually heavy fall of snow. It melted
early in February and along towards
the latter part of the month many
farmers sowed grain, tho some were
sorry for it as they had to sow it over.
]. w. Sheridan and wife and the
Misses Margaret and Nellie Sheridan
of Mohall attended the K. C. banquet
and ball in Minot Tuesday and remain
ed for visit with their old. Dexter,
Mimi, neighbor, Peter Vandenoever,
and family. The Sheridans located at
Moha1 fourteen years ago, Mr.. Van
denoever3 locating the members of the
family on valuable land which they
still own. J. w. Sheridan controls
something like 1900 acres.
&C. Marks, prosperous Sherwood
farmer, was in the city, Wednesday.
Mr.. Marks has been a reader of the
Independent for many years and that
is perhaps the cause :of his contented
appearance. He says that the winter
was very severe at Sherwood, but the
people got thru without any suffering.
There was no fuel famine, tho the
stock of fuel got pretty short and the
stocks of groceries became so low at
one time that the merchants would
sell but IS cents worth of sugar to one
person.
"A young man of one of our neigh
boring towns called on a young lady
for the evening, and after arriving
could not find words to express him
self. After sitting for an hour he was
given a pencil and paper and these d.
rections: Draw nine ciphers; draw a
line down from the right side of the
first, up from the right side of the
fourth, down from the right side of
the fifth, up from the right side of the
seventh, and down from the right side
of the eighth cipher. What did she
tell him?