The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-03-02

| Two girls were talking on street
corner in Bottineau. The subject was
hats. One of them said: "Do you
know, Claudia, l have the cutest
shape" A business man was stand
ing within ear shot and as he walked
away, was heard to mutter something
about, ~ wonder where they get that
stuff"
When Carl Kiebert, of Center,
stopped over to pick u a snow ball,
a pencil in his pocket entered his
breast above the heart and broke off.
! Another inch and he would have been
killed, physicians say. The broken
part of the pencil was removed by the
doctor, who says that the patient will
recover.
Wholesale delivery of prisoners was
prevented when it was found by
chance that w. E. Novels, a prisoner,
made wooden key from a wagon
spoke which had been left in the jail
at Jamestown. He also had a saw
which he had made from piece of
iron taken from his bed. There were
Fl prisoners in the Jail, and some are
confined on serious charges.
Two more North Dakota elevators
were added last Tuesday to the list Of
those that will ship to the St. Paul
Cooperative Grain Exchange. One is
located at Spiritwood and the other at
Gwinner. Fred E. Osborne of the
Equity Cooperative Exchange, has
arranged number of additional meet
ings to be addressed by President An
derson and others in the interest of
the st. Paul market. Those in North
Dakota were held in Aylmer, Feb. %,
Plaza March 1 and Lakota March 8.
Last Thursday number of farmers
living south of Benedict met to talk
on the possibilities and need Of a tel
ephone line running south and follow
ing as nearly as possible the Benedict
mail route. Some Of the business
men of the village were asked in and
prospects, plans and route to be fol-
lowed were discussed. The proposition
is to build Farmers Telephone Line
and to incorporate it as such. The
proposition is to connect with the line
to be built from Coal Harbor. This
would give those on the line direct
connection with Benedict, Velva, Saw
yer, Minot, Coal Harbor, Washburn
and Bismarck.
Frank Freeman, president of the
Northern Savings Bank, former head
of the Park Grant Mercantile CON-
pany of Grand Forks, Park, Grant &
Morris of Fargo, and Park, Grant and
Morris Grocery company Of Water
town, and for twenty-three years a
resident Of Grand Forks, died Feb. "a,
following an illness Of three months.
He is survived by widow, daugh-
ter, Mrs. Finley Cameron, of Grand
Forks, and two sons, James G. of |!
Fargo and Richard F., of Cleveland,
Ohio.
The decision of the supreme court of |
he state holding as constitutional the
aw passed by the last legislature Gre
ating state bonding fund and de-
,artment and authorizing the commits
;ioner of insurance to issue bonds to
county, village, city and school district
ulcers in the state, will be appealed
o the United States supreme court
or final decision. This is announced
" counsel for bonding companies that
re testing the question of constitu-
ionality. Counsel for the companies
ssert, as do also officers of the COM
'anies, that they are in favor Of a
onding law that will regulate rates,
ut they do not believe that it is with
n the province of the state to go into
he private business of bonding offic-
RS Of the state, county, village, city,
r school district. They also contend
hat the law is not operative inasmuch
s the bill only carried with it an ap-
reputation Of $1,5OO year for carry
lg on the work, which it is asserted,
J not sufficient for more than the pur-
base of postage stamps. ii