The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-11-02
BRIEF STATE NEWS

The continued high cost of print
paper causes the Weekly Grand Forks
Herald to cease publication.
Tropical Dickinson is to have an ar
tificial ice plant. The weather can't
be depended upon to produce the
goods.
Norma has paper again. 1t first
appeared two weeks ago and is pub
lished under the cognomen, "The Nor
ma Journal"
Lidgerwood received considerable
the Commercial Club taking over the
livery stable.
Surveyors are at work in Grand
Forks county laying out route for
the Red River Valley railroad that is
to parallel the Red River to Winnipeg.
Bernard Trachtenberg, a former
Anamoose boy, is one Of the officers
on the U. S. S. Rowan, the fastest and
latest type Of destroyer in the United
States navy.
The tongue that never ceases talk
ing will, sooner or later, say some
| thing it ought not to say. No man or
woman has material enough to keep
his or her tongue going all the time
without doing harm.
Halliday, in Dunn county, has the
distinction of furnishing seed potatoes
to the state Of Iowa, at least car
load. Val Stevens recently shipped a
car Of potatoes to Perry, in that state,
where they will be used for seed.
The new coins now being issued
from the Philadelphia mint will be ac-
copied by the editor on old or new
subscriptions. Now is the time of
year that the acceptances will be most
heartily received.
The good citizens of Hillsboro want
to know what has become Of the Relief
Fund subscribed for Company L.
Captain Boyd is asked to stand up
and answer. By the way, what be-
came of Bismarck Dummer's Ambu
lance fund for the N. D. boys on the
border.
The proposed Constitutional amend
ment for Normal school at Dickin-
son will carry by a very large MAORI
ty. That section will need one as soon
as it can be conveniently built and
established, and it being a growing
section that will increase very rapidly
in population, the amendment should
have hearty and certain support, as
it will.
Russell Lee, son Of Rev. George Lee
Of the Methodist church at Langdon,
accidentally fell from ladder in the
loft of the barn and broke his leg be-
tween the knee and hip. Medical at
tention was quickly given and the lit
tie chap is getting along as well as
could be expected.
Denman Schutt, the 12-year-old son
of DR.. and Mrs. A. Schutt of Bis
marck, who has been missing since he
went to Mandan to attend the fair,
has been found in Glendive, Mont, by
his father, working in a furniture
store. He has been taken to his home,
none the worse for his adventures.
Emil Roth, 13-year-old son of Peter
Roth of Hebron, had narrow escape
from death recently. While driving
over the railroad crossing west Of the
station, his team was struck by To-
connective. The two horses were ground
to pieces but the boy escaped uninjur-
| llCy-IllllC CdIlOduS VI 1dIlSC oCOCh,
totalling more than 1,400 head, were
shipped out of Killdeer on October IL.
Three stock trains were required to
take care Of the shipment, which was
made up of the finest bunch of beef
cattle ever shipped from the western
part of the state.
A meeting was held by the citizens
of Edinburg last week for the purpose
of discussing ways and means to get
electric lights for the town. All were
in favor Of installing electric lights and
committee of three was appointed to
ct particulars concerning the cost,
/ etc.
Manufacturing but 100000 out of
the 30,000,000 pounds of Irvine used in
North Dakota, and selling it at an av-
erage price Of one cent under the mar
ket, the state-owned Irvine plant oper-
ated at the North Dakota penitentiary
showed profit of $33,075 in the fiscal
year recently closed. In 1915 the
Irvine plant cleared $40,542.49 At the
same time the state prison is costing
the state $4,000 to $4,000 per an
mum in excess Of income, only one
third of the prisoners are employed in
the Irvine plant, and there were receiv-
ed in 1916 three times as many orders
for Irvine as could be filled.