The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-10-26
MINOT And VICINITY
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. N. Martin are the
naronfc Of dannhto,. horn Oaf O1

that town having been without a pub
llcation for some time.
The question Of abolishing increased
jurisdiction in Renville will not come
to vote as not enough names were
presented to the county board
There's a three-cornered fight for
states attorney in Renville county
Graham, organs and Ryerson, indie
pendent, are the candidates.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aug. Kruger of
Berthold were in the city Saturday
visiting with their daughters, Mrs
Laura Burrows and Mrs. Elizabeth
Taylor.
Attorney and Mrs. H. E. johnson of
Ryder were in the city Saturday. Mr.
Johnson now has 500 head Of Here.
ford cattle at his ranch at Rice Lake
which he will feed during the winter
Francis J. Murphy, assistant attor-
ney general, came up from Bismarck
to visit old friends and attend to bust
ness. He had been at Williston visit
ing with his brother, Atty. Thos Muir
ply.
Axel Bratsberg returned from Ber-
gen Monday where he hunted for a
short time. He secured a bag of 20
big northern ducks and one immense
goose, the first of the latter birds he
ever killed.
T. C. Huff of Glenburn returned
home from a Minot hospital where he
received treatment for abscess Of the
stomach. He is better but will have
to submit to an operation before he
finally RECEIVERS.
V. A. Asplund, a prosperous Glen
burn farmer, will come to Minot to
engage in the automobile repair bust
ness. He will build large garage
near the White Ice Cream factory. He
is we'll qualified to do this work and is
known as a great hustler.
At the annual banquet of the Meth
cdists Of the state at the general con-
ference at Jamestown, DR.. J. G. Moore,
superintendent of the Bismarck dis
trict, told the ministers to go to the
POLLS this fall and vote for the Dickin-
son Normal.
H. M. Shirley, while at Kalispell,
Mont, on business last week, enjoyed
some excellent trout fishing. At
Havre, Mont, he met Jack Fulton,
formerly employed in the G. N. Offices
here and now in the employ of the
company at Havre.
Auditor Carlson of Renville county
is a candidate for reelection. Losing
the democratic nomination, he is run
ming as an independent candidate but
the Glenburn Advance says he will not
get very far. The other candidates
are Randolph, republican, and Zelting
er, democrat.
Mrs. John Geist, wife of the super
intendent of the Ward county farm,
has gone to Kossuth county, a., to
make an extended visit with relatives.
Mrs. Geist has been attending to her
duties as matron of the farm too close
ly and it is hoped that the vacation
will prove beneficial to her health.
C. E. Dresher, who has been looking
after his farming interests in the vi
entity of Surrey, is preparing to leave
this week for his winter home, Lords
berg, Cal, where he will spend the
coming six months picking oranges
from his fine grove. g
John C. Lowe is no SLOUGH of farm
er. On one quarter section of his farm
near Van Hook he has just threshed
$4,000 worth Of flax. The crop aver
aged IL bushels per acre and brought
S2.49 per bushel. Besides he raised
80 acres of wheat which averaged IL
bushels. ~
L. J. Huber, former county commits
sioner, who represents the Northwest
ern Land company, with headquarters
at Ipswich, S. D., was in Minot Mon
day. He had been looking after his
farming interests at Berthold. He had
$40 acres of crop this year which did
not pan out very well.
Mr.. ad Mrs. J. j. Windrel and Mr..
and Mrs. Otto Langhans of Glenburn
left last week for Minnesota, Iowa,
Texas and California. The Windrels
will return in the spring but the Lam
ghans will be away year. Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Hake accompanied them
as far as Mankato, MINI, where they
will reside.
C. Aurland, one of our most con-
sistent hunters, declares that the
larger number of the northern ducks
have already flown south, although
there will be occasional flights of the
Blue Bills and one or two other va
rieties until the lakes freeze over. He
considers that the best hunting Of the
season is over.
A representative of the St. Paul
Daily News has been looking Fargo
over with the idea of establishing an
other evening npWSnaner The St
Paul Daily News is noted as a cheap
selling newspaper and the majority of
it's stock is controlled by the syndicate
which also operates dailies in Mime
apolis and Omaha.
Atty. Halvor L. Halvorson, who is
doing some good missionary work for
the democratic state and national
tickets, went to Devils Lake Monday
and he will spend the week in that sec
ton of the state delivering addresses.
Mr.. Halvorson is regarded as one of