The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-02-17
BRIEF STATE NEWS

| A farmers INSTITUTE Will De Nelu III
Dickinson March and 8.
Wimbledon claims that it's popula-
ton has doubled in the past ten years.
Baseball enthusiasts at Mott are
agitating the organization of a team
for 1916.
A woman's idea of a perfectly love-
ly time is telephone conversation
lasting all day.
In many of the towns over the state
local fire departments are staging
their annual dances.
Max wants larger opera house.
Stove peddlers are operating in the
territory adjacent to Max.
Robert A. Yeater, postmaster at
Wing, has been adjudged insane and
has been taken to the asylum at
Jamestown. -E..
Chas. Stanley, a Lorraine farmer,
lost team of horses by their getting
caught in the storm last week and be-
coming SO chilled that they died.
Hot Goals left in ashes banked
against the building were responsible
for a fire which destroyed the resi-
dence of J. chatham at Beach.
Bismarck expects to have a $685.
900 Carnegie library if the present
plans 20 through. A special election
on the proposition will be held Feb.
21..
Laziness, extravaganza and incom-
potency as a housewife were the
grounds for the divorce granted Har-
ry King. The people are we'll known
in Towner county.
The appendix is removed because it
is useless. If all useless parts of the
human anatomy were to be removed
some folks would have nothing but
mouth and a gall bladder.
The Towner News Tribune had a
list last week showing the deposits Of
the twenty-seven banks in McHenry
county. They had on deposit at the
time of the last call for a statement,
December 81, 1915, $685. 7762.
Martin Johnson, a farmer residing
three and half miles northwest of
Blanchard, was severely injured last
| Saturday when tree he was cutting
down fell on him, breaking his right
shoulder nd his leg between the knee
and ankle. DR.. Haagenson, of Hills
| boro, was called and set the fractures.
He is reported to be doing as we'll as
could be expected under the circum-
stances.
DR.. Nelson and driver, Lloyd Wade,
of Adams, were lost in the storm on
Friday night Of last week when re-
turning from call in the country.
Both parties and the horses were COM
pletely exhausted when they finally
got to the old A. M. Johnson farm,
where the renter, John Gustafson,
made them comfortable and rode horse
back to the nearest farm to telephone
their relatives they were safe.
The Dunseith News can lay claim
to having the highest, or deepest,
snow drift in the state, right in front
Of the office. 1t is ten feet five and
three-sixteenths inches deep and re-
sembles a snow covered peak of the
Rocky Mountains, in fact, the Office is
virtually showed in, huge drifts Of
snow surrounding the building. The
editor says he is thinking seriously Of
1 building a snow palace to add to the
attractiveness of the scene. Who can
beat it?
| The high school building at Bowman
was totally destroyed by fire last
week. The fire was discovered early
in the evening and the entire inside Of
the building was in flames and efforts
to extinguish them were in vain. The
building was valued at $4,000 and
I was insured for $4,000. With fixtures
| this will make the loss to the Bowman
| district between $4,000 and $4,000.
School has been resumed in the sew
eraI churches and other public build
ings in the city. The fire is supposed
to have originated from a defect in
the heating system.
This is not exactly the land of the
woody west, but Brakeman Shaw Of
the 500 freight thought it was the
other evening when ten coyotes at
tackled him and tore his clothes He
had been sent out to put torpedoes
on the track ahead Of the freight.
When he was mile and a half from
Baldwin the coyotes started toward
] him. He kept them off for while