The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-10-12
BRIEF STATE NEWS

She talked and talked and talked,
Till he said to himself with a groan;
aye gods; have I married woman,
Or is it gramaphone?"
w. J. Emery Of Wilton is displaying
67-pound pumpkin.
A Norwegian Baptist church has re-
Gently been organized at Roseglen.
Over ninety head of horses were
shipped out Of CAM do recently.
The dentists of Wahpeton will ex-
anime the teeth of the school children
Of that town free of charge.
Mr.. Polsey of Millarton was acct
dentally shot through the stomach
while out hunting.
Joe Warner of Dickinson fell off a
hay rack a few days ago and broke
both bones in one Of his arms.
Yeggmen who operated at. Page
fired a church to detract attention
while they were robbing bank.
A red-headed yeggman operates sue
cessfully at Hebron, getting away
with $500 in currency.
Work has been started on the new
bridge to be built over the James river
at jamestown.
The Emmons County Record makes
sad mistake in it's brief opposition to
the establishing of normal school
west of the Missouri river.
Work on the school house at Sanish
is being rushed to completion so as to
be ready for occupancy as soon as is
possible.
The Brookbank postoffice will be
discontinued Oct. IA and the patrons
will get their mail from Sanish. All
patrons should get their mail changed.
John Shea, Jim O'Sheap and his
lady friend, Amanda Burt, became
mixed up in some trouble at Munich
and after paying fines of $25 each de-
cided to leave the scene of their trials
and tribulations.
She's a grand old county division
fight over in Morton county and as the
days grow shorter the fight grows
longer; but no county division fight
will ever equal the famous contest of
the "Gooseneck" in old Ward county.
James Corum, the Deering lad who
is wireless telegraph shark, has en-
larged the scope of his station by
erecting new One-Wlre aerial for re-
ceiving messages from a distance OF
5000 miles and more.
Mrs. Jacob Wagner, who lives two
miles north of Medina, now has but
one thumb. She was running binder
when a chain got out of order and in
attempting to right it her hand be-
came caught and the thumb was COM
p]etely severed from the hand.
John Matthews of Buffalo received
three broken ribs and other injuries
and his son, Bud, sustained severe
cut on the forehead when they were
thrown from carriage when an auto
mobile ran into the rear of the rig.
The accident happened near Buffalo.
George Graham of Sanish is firm
believer in the value Of cows. He has
one cow that has made him a good
thing. Since Oct. l, 1914, he has got
ten 1886 from this one cow alone, be-
sides two good calves For six months
a year this COW has furnished twenty
one pounds of butter a week.
Ed Carroll, farm laborer near Nor
tonville, LaMoure county, was found
| UNCONSCIOUS llctt1 CIlC oCPoAoCOA ~
members of a threshing crew. One OF
his sleeves had caught on a pulley, and
pulled his arm into the cylinder shaft.
He sustained fractured right arm
and tainted from the pain.
Carelessness in the operation of
gasoline stove caused the death of
Mrs. T. Bjornson Of Hamilton. After
lighting the stove Mrs. Bjornson left
without regulating the flow Of oil and
upon returning found the blaze reach
ing to the ceiling. In her attempt to
extinguish the flames her clothing be-
came ignited and she was burned to
death.
Some individual with grossly over
developed criminal instinct, has stolen
the bell belonging to St. Olaf's Luth-
eran church at Walum. The church
was destroyed in the storm last spring
and since then the bell has been lying
on the ground among the wreckage.
The bell itself was not damaged. Last
week the bell was missed and an in
vestigation was started. The missing
| bell has not yet been located.
For holding up party of men on
500 freight, short distance east OF
Darlington last week, getting in ag-
gregate only 1921, and then forcing
the men to leap from the train, Chas.
Nichols, 10 years old, was sentenced
by Judge Coffey to two years in the
state penitentiary, H. D. Kruger, al
years old, to three years, and Albert
Hauenschein, 81 years old, to three
years. The holdup was one of the
most daring in the state this fall.