The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1916-06-09

mis-; farm IN South Dakota'
B. NJ, Halseth, the Bowden black
smith, came nearly losing his life
Tuesday evening when the oxy-
acetylene plant which he was OPP
Grating blew up. His pelvis bone
was broken and his limbs were bad
ly burned. His condition is ser
ious, although If Infection does not
set in. it is thought he will recoV-
er. Two other men in the shop
at the time of the accident were
violently thrown against the wall
OF the shop but were not injured.
A neighboring paper commented
upon the resignation of a certain
young lady school teacher with
many kind words for "the excellent
reputation for teaching she BEARS"
When last seen the editor was do
ing mile minute clip, just two
jumps ahead of the irate young
l sdy, who screamingly informed
him that she had never taught a
she bear in her life and if she ever
caught him she'd teach him some.
thing about writing news.
Warwick Sentinel: Several OF
our farmer boys had to SOW their
grain over again and they have the
sympathy of the editor of this pa
Fer from the depths below the
deepest sympathy that ever was
recorded. The farmer works hard
for what he gets; he IS up early III
The morning, works hard all day
and is at big expense all the
Time. We hope t.iat they come
out all right in the end this year
and the chances are that they will
Buffalo Express: What some
tarmed as a 'baby cyclone" last
Thursday morning, was not 80 di-
minutive as it might have been.
Quite few of our good farmers
sustained heavy loss. North OF
Buffalo the wind demolished q few
silos, barns, sheds and granaries.
Wm,, Rose who lives near Ayr, had
but3 his house left after the wind
coofed down. Buffalo passed thru
H. llrckfly. considering the rural
+ damage 81 ~ ~ -, li,r y - ~ :.
The iron safe which has been in
he office of the secretary of state
1T Bismarck since the earliest ter
:itorial days at Yankton. S. D., is to
sake another journey and enter Il
new service. The safe was brought
o Bismarck from \ankton in 1884.
1t has been in the secretary's ofIics:
4 fn,x. tho
lock went wrong and it had to be
,lynamited in order to get it open
This has now been repaired, and
lay 10 it was shipped to Dunseith
where it will do service at the state
tuberculosis sanitarium.
Glenburn Advance: Miss Celia
Shatuck about three weeks ago fel,
% the ground from an upstairs
window at her home ana as a re-
';ult is now in the hospital at Mi
not At first she did not suffer
much from her fall but she gradu-
ally grew worse and it was found
when she was operated upon thai
;he had suffered severe internal
injuries. Wednesday evening she
vas getting better and chances for
permanent recovery are now good.
The Williams County Mutual
Telephone company established con-
nections with Wildrose north of
Ray, the Ray company building the
line about 12 miles north to meet
IN extension of the line which was
erected by the Wildrose company.
This was a long needed connection
with that town as heretofore it
was a roundabout way to go over
The other lines through Crosby and
the price was almost prohibitive.
Considerable business has always
been transacted by telephone be-
tween the two towns and in the fu-
ture it will be greatly increased
with the new connections.
Newark Is. d. State Line News:
The Foreman Independent-NeWs WIS
advises those who may be peeved
at weeds springing up on everv
hand that many of those weeds
make good eating. It says there
the ten weeds that make good food
and names "dock, nettle, purslane,
milkweed,. dandelion. pig weed,
lambs quarter, marsh marigold,
and brake fern The Forman
editor should extend his investiga-
tions or consult some frugile house
wife as there is- just suspicion
that he has missed number OF
edibles such as pepper grass, wild
lettuce, plantain. wild mustard. and
even the despised Russian thistle.
And say, can it be possible that the
boyhood days of Bro. Maltby never
knew the, joyful hour when ne
pestered mother or the hired girl
to. make him sorrel pie?
Last weeks storm did some dam
age to the. !. cottages at Spiritwood
lake and exhibited some of the vas"
aries Of the; wind storm. The
Wallace cottage was selected for an
example and smashed to smither-
eens. The.building was picked up
rolled over once and then crushed
40 feet away from its original site
Foundation blocks and all were
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