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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
Ball Games, Parades, Speeches, Fire.
works, Contests, Calithumpian
Parade, Band Concerts

It would take an entire page of the
Independent to describe in detail all
of the plans that the various commit
tees have made for Minot's big Fourth
of July celebration.
Minot wants you to be her guest
during the day. Leave your pocket
books at home if you don't want to be
bothered with carrying them, for most
of the attractions will be free.
The main celebration will take place
in beautiful Riverside park. Minot has
more than hundred acres of beautiful
wooded parks and these will be thrown
open to the public. Bring your lunches
and spread them under the leafy elms
on the well-kept lawns of our parks,
Committees have provided places for
your teams and autoes.
Minot has raised a fund Of $4,000,
all of which will be spent in entertain
ing you. There will be big parade in
the morning, prizes to be given for the
best decorated autos. The Minot Met
ropolitan band will give concerts thru
out the day. The program will take
place at the park. President A. G.
Crane and Hon. R. A. Nestos will de-
liver addresses and there will be a
number Of high class musical numbers
The program has been arranged SO
that something will be going on near
ly every minute during the day. In the
afternoon there will be a red-hot ball
game between the two best farmers
teams. Aspirants for these honors
should confer with Ben Lesk, chair
man Of the sports and amusement COM
mittee, at once. Liberal purses will
be offered the teams. Last year the
north and south prairie crossed bats,
this contest being one of the best of
the day.
The Minot and Darlington teams
will play at the regular baseball park
in the evening. This will be one of the
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
SETTLERS THREATEN TO
GET GOV. HANNA'S GOAT
Especial to Independent

Especial 10 independently
Van Hook, June Ex-Governor Han
ma in his fight for U. S. senator will
lose a large number of votes around
Parshall and Van Hook and other
points on the Fort Berthold reserva-
tion, by reason of the strong prohibi-
tion work he did while a member OF
congress. It appears to have been
discovered that the reason intoxicat-
ing liquor cannot be taken upon the
reservation, is that it was specifically
forbidden in the Act of Congress
which opened the reservation, which
states that no Intoxicating liquor can
be taken upon the reservation without
permission of the United States gov
ernment, which would require spe-
cial act of congress-a thing not east
ly secured.
Governor Hanna while congressman
made vigorous and successful fight
for this provision, which does not meet
the approval of the thirsty man, or the
man who wishes to make little easy
money by the illegal sale of intoxi-
cants. AS consequence this vote is
being solicited away from the govern
or and for other candidates. 1t begins
to look as if this wise provision was
the only real effective prohibition law
in the state, and made so by the ef-
forts of Mr.. Hanna and which entrusts
to Uncle Sam the enforcement of
the same.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
SUCCESSFUL YEAR
FOR N|N0T AUTO CO.
Big Minot Concern Has Sold 2,200
Overland and Willis-knight
Cars In Past Year

Mr.. P. W. Miller, president, and Mr.
L. C. Stearns, secretary of the Minot
Auto Company, left today for Toledo,
O., to arrange for the closing of their
1917 contract with the Willys-Over-
land company.
The 1916 contract, which will close
July /, has been an unusually success
full and satisfactory one. The Minot
Auto company have sold on their pres
ent contract, in the neighborhood Of
1900 Overland and WillysKnight au-
tomobiles This is record that
speaks for the progressive and enter
prising spirit of the Minot Auto con-
pany and also proves that Minot is one
of the principal distributing centers of
the Northwest, as the Minot Auto COM
pany is the third largest distributor of
Overland and Willys-Knight cars in
the United States.
The WHY'S s-Overland company have
conceded that the Minot Auto company
have the best dealers organization
throughout the territory they are
handling, of any distributor of Over
land cars in the entire United States.
They also have under their 1916 con-
tract, the largest territory in square
miles, of any distributor in the central
western states, with the exception of
the distributor on the Pacific coast.
Mr.. Miller and Mr.. Stearns consider
that the prospects for the 1917 season
are for even better business and a
larger number of sales than during the
season that is just ending.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
COMMENCEMENT WEEK
At N|K0T NORMAL
Baccalaureate Services June 18-Other
Events for the Week-Summer
School Begins June %

On Saturday evening in the Associa-
ton room, the Junior class with their
advisor, Mr.. Corzine, was at home to
the faculty and the candidates for
graduation, entertaining about 60 per-
sons in all.
The musical program generously
provided through city talent, was most
enjoyable. Numbers were given by
Professor Field, Mrs. Hallman, Miss
Sesby, Miss Ellison and Miss Strains
rud. Miss Florence Miller gave two
delightful readings. .....-.. ..
After refreshments the company
were invited to the gymnasium where
Lieburg's orchestra furnished splendid
music for an hours dancing.
President Crane gives the high
school commencement address at Will
low City tonight.
Miss May Kennedy has accepted a
teaching position for the coming year
at Armenia. She will have charge of
the seventh and eighth grades.
Events for Commencement Week
Sunday, June 18, $3.50 p. m.-Bacca-
laureate services. Rev. Bruce =. Jack
son of Bismarck gives the address.
Monday, June 10, 800 p. m.-Class
play matinee, "Lost, Chaperone," for
children only. Admission rs cents.
Tuesday, June 20, $3.50 p. m.-Class
Night-Final performance of the class
play, "Lost, Chaperone." Also the
presentation of class memorial to the
school, with class songs, yells and 9th
er manifestations of school spirit.
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STATE sunday
SCHOOL C0NyEN-
ton THIS WEEK
Big Meeting at Devils Lake This Week
Attended by Number from
MinOt-StrOng Program

Mrs. w. D. Wilson, Miss Louise Yoe-
mans, Miss Iva Brundage, Miss Mar
garet Dickinson, Mrs. Kara Dickinson,
A. F. Bacon, Miss Helen Thompson,
Miss Mona Martin, Mrs. Belle Erick-
son, Mrs. Roam and Mrs. C. Fowler are
at Devils Lake this week attending the
state Sunday school convention which,
opened Tuesday, ending today.
The program is unusually strong
this year. The following specialists
appear:
John L. Alexander, Chicago, Teen
Age.
E. w. Thornton, Cincinnati, o., Psy-
chology and Pedagogy.
Prof. T. w. Shannon, Delaware, O.,
Purity.
Rev. Jas O. BUSHNELL, Minneapolis,
Bible.
Prof, Rudolph Archer, Valley City,
Psychology.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
SONS Of NORWAY
Will convene
ANNUAL MEETING OF FOURTH
DISTRICT IN MINOT JUNE 1918
BIG PICNIC AT THE OLE OEN
FARM.

The Fourth district of the Sons Of
Norway will hold their annual conven-
ton in Minot June 16, II and 18. Six
ty delegates from North and South
Dakota and Canada will attend the
meeting. The business sessions will
be held at the Sons of Norway hall on
Friday anG Saturday when the dele
gates to the head lodge which meets
at Duluth July Ia and IS will be Sc
lected. A banquet will be given at the
hall Saturday night for the delegates
and the contributors to the entertain
ment fund, and a charge of $1.O0 a
plate will be made for those outside of
the Scandinavian race who desire to
attend.
A big picnic will be held Sunday.
Fifty automobiles will be needed and
those who will carry the delegates
should report at the hall at l o'clock,
A drive will be made past the Scofield
and Benno farms, to the Ole Oen farm
where a program VIII be rendered and
refreshments served.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
BIG ATTRACTIONS FOR
THE FOURTH Of JULY

best games of the season. Darlington
will play here July 3, and 5. Admis-
sion will be charged for this game, but
no admission will be charged to the
game between the country teams,
which will be played at the new athlet-
ic grounds at Riverside park.
Of course there will be purse hung
up for climbing the old-fashioned
creased pole Old-fashioned boys will
contest for the honor and after a score
of them have scraped off the largest
part of the old-fashioned grease, the
wise lad who has been hanging back
will climb the pole and take the money
Then there will be foot races, tug-of-
war, boat and swimming races and
several contests for the ladies.
Early in the evening the Calithum-
plan parade will take place, prizes be-
ing awarded for the most grotesque
and original costumes. Following this
parade several blocks of Main street
will be roped off and hundreds will en-
joy dancing carnival to music fur
nished by number Of little German
bands
All forms of grating will be elm
mated The parks will be properly po-
Iced. The committee will see that
autos charging but ten cents fare to
the parks will carry proper signs. The
parks are all within walking distance
of the business district and it will not
be necessary to ride unless one cares
to do. so.
Committees are now busy putting
up advertising matter over the north
western portion Of the state. Several
advertising cars will go out next week.
Last year Minot entertained 10000
people at our celebration and if the
weather permits, the crowd will be
even larger this year.
Many who come to the city that day
will be interested in the Zoo at River
side park. The three elk secured from
the Yellowstone park last winter are
in splendid condition and the bear is
peri forming his very best. There are
several other interesting animals, in
cluding coyotes, squirrels, etc.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
FULLER & M'K|NNEY
PURCHASE Grand
FORKS AGENCY
Minot Dodge Dealers Now Operate
Agencies at WilIistOn, Plenty
wood, Minot, Grand Forks

F. N. Fuller, manager Of the North
west Motor company of this city, in
company with c. A. Mckinney of Will
liston, returned from Grand Forks on
Wednesday where they purchased the
Grand Forks agency of the Dodge
Brothers cars and will at once begin
the erection of a fine business block
at that point to house their offices and
salesroom, on a site purchased this
week. This firm will now have agen-
cies in this city, Williston, Grand
Forks and Plentywood, Mont, giving
them by far the largest selling agency
for the sale of Dodge Brothers cars
west of the Mississippi. They have al
ready contracted for 1900 cars for de-
livery during the coming fiscal year
and this number will undoubtedly be
increased as conditions make addition
al purchases necessary.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
FIRST annual STOCK
SHOW IN JULY
FIRST ANNUAL EVENT TO BE
HELD AT MAMMOTH CURLING
RINK FIRST WEEK OF NEXT
MONTH.

For some time it has been apparent
that the Northwestern part of the
state Of North Dakota was lacking in
one thing-the proper recognition Of
the stock raising industry. Since the
earliest days Of settlement this por-
tion of the state has been paying par
ticular attention to the raising Of
grain, but during the past few years
many of the progressive farmers have
been turning to livestock more and
more through the propaganda of di-
versifed farming, until today there are
hundreds of our best husbandmen en-
gagged in at least small way in the
improving of their herds. These men
need not only recognition but encour-
agement, and to that end the Minot
Association of Commerce has thought
it wise to start a series of livestock
shows, and hold the first one this year
during the first week in July.
For number of years the Associa-
tion of Commerce has provided a Mid
winter Fair. At first the exhibits in
cluded, besides grains and grasses,
some livestock. This year it was seen
that February was the wrong time of
the year to exhibit livestock, but de-
spite this fact there were large num-
ber of inquiries for stall space for the
Midwinter Fair. The secretary wrote
a number of the livestock men not to
bring their stock to the Fair but wait
until midsummer and altogether like
ly Livestock Show would be held to
accommodate them.
Therefore, at a recent meeting of
the Board of Directors of the Associa-
tion of Commerce it was unanimously
decided to have the first Livestock
Show the first week in July of this
year-1916.
The success of this first show will
largely determine whether there will
be annual shows. So all stock rails
ers in this part of the state are urged
to take advantage of this opportunity
of showing their results in the stock
raising line. Every courtesy and ac-
commodation, within reason, will be
extended, and we believe that this
Stock Show will prove an eyeopener
to the most optimistic resident of this
great inland empire.
The Show will be held in the man.
moth curling rink, adjacent to River
side Park, where the farmers may
eat their dinners and view the results
of the efforts of the Minot Park Board
in providing a clean place Of amuse-
ment for all the people who come to
Minot.
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ready has been argued. All delays are
eliminated. In few months from the
time an appeal is taken final decis-
ion can be had here, instead of waiting
for years on account of accumulation
Of undecided cases, as was the fact a
few years back. Within the last five
years this court has done as much
work measured by the volumes of its
reports as in the fifteen years immedi-
ately preceding. From 1889 to 1911,
when l took office, twenty volumes of
state reports held all the decisions of
this court. Our decisions since Janu-
ary, 1911, fill thirteen large volumes
This increase is partly from the vast
increase in business, but principally
from the fact that the work has been
cleaned up. And decisions can be
speedily obtained and the court is do
ing what it was constituted to do, be
an efficient arm of the government
When was your district judge push
ed that work. Have done the same
here.
All the present members are men in
their prime and able to work. The
three judges of this court seeking re-
election have all had district bench
experience, and are the only candidates
for nomination who have had it.
Because Of experience, of results
achieved, as well as efficiency and sane
law in the light Of business expert
ence and practical common sense, my
progressiveness administration Of the
self and associates Judges Burke and
Fisk seek denomination and re-elec-
ton
You may signify your approval Of
my candidacy at the primaries.
Z. B. GOSS.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15

General admission SO cents. please
note that all proceeds above actual ex-
penses in these two performances re-
vert again to the community, through
application Of such net return on class
memorial to the school.)
Wednesday, June 21, $3.50 p. M
Model School commencement exercises.
The seventh and eighth grades will
present an operetta, "The Smuggle-
man," about 60 taking part.
Thursday, June %, $3.50 p. m.--Nor-
NAL school commencement. Address by
Mr.. Henry Southwick, president of the
Emerson School Of Oratory. (Do not
know his subject YETI
Friday, June %, Class Day. Closing
assembly of the Normal at 9 o'clock.
Athletic class contests at II o'clock.
Alumni banquet at $3.50 in the dormi-
tory dining hall.
These programs are open to all, with
the exception of the Alumni banquet.
There is no admission fee with the ex-
ception Of the two performances of the
Glass play. All programs will be given
in the Normal school gymnasium. 1t
is hoped it may be capacity filled.
All programs will have good music,
both vocal and instrumental solos and
full choruses.
The music for Monday matinee will
consist of piano selections, solos and
duets, vocal selections from the Snug
gleman operetta by the eighth grade
pupils, and selections from "The Pow
er Party" an operetta by the second
and third grades of the Model school,
directed by Miss Rud.
On Glass Play night Miss Beulah
Walker will sing two numbers. There
will also be orchestral music.
There are At candidates for gradu-
alton, eight in the advanced two-year
course, and 80 in the one-year element
ary course. They will take their final
examinations this week. The other
classes take their final exams next
week.
Summer school begins June %. The
Model school will be in session again
this year, during the forenoon. 1t will
accommodate as many of the appli-
cants as seating capacity, and teach
ing force will allow. The superintend-
ents of the Northwest district especi-
ally endorsed this department of the
summer school as meeting a distinct
need, while the large attendance the
past two years plainly showed the at
titude of it's patrons. For these rea-
sons mainly the Model School is con-
tinued.
The Normal School Information Of
flee has received but few notices as yet
regarding rooms for rent to Summer
school students. AS the dormitory
rooms are at present all reserved for
those six weeks, there will undoubted-
ly be- numerous applicants for rooms
in the city, as also boarding accommo-
dations. Those listing their rooms at
the Normal school will receive first
attention.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15

John Henry, colored convict, one
time slave and friend of Abraham Lin
coin, died at the penitentiary at Bis
marck recently. Henry had passed his
hundredtF birthday. The cause of his
death was old age. Following the close
of the Civil war, Henry moved to
Grand Forks where he was known as
an Industrious, hard working man. He
accumulated property and had bank
account. 1nfamed by liquor he came
home one day and in a quarrel killed
his wife. For this crime he was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life. His
money and his home went for attorney
fees. Henry has been favorite of
various wardens and inmates Of the
institution on account of his quaint
stories. Long after he had passed his
four score years and ten, he could and
did unload car Of coal day. Usually
Henry would finish up by four o'clock
and nothing pleased the old man bet
ter than to sit and watch the tender
feet who had been assigned to work
with him, struggling to finish unload
ing half car.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
GOOD MAN ASKS
FOR REELECTION

ing passed upon. The decisions and
precedents touch your rights as close
ly as the statutes enacted by your leg
islature. This court must construe
the statutes as we'll as pass upon prop
erty rights. 1t is your court of last
resort; it is no place for ineXperience,
inefficiency, or unframed men. There
should be no experimenting by the
choosing of men Of doubtful qualifica-
tions, or too old to do effectivt work,
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15

Gated in North Dakota. Although he
is resident of the largest city on the
continent, he was born on a farm and
he is delighted with North Dakota as
a farming state.
II have seen many beautiful sights,
but never have I seen one that appeal
ed to me more than when / walked up
to the top Of your south hill this morn
ing and looked down over the wonder
full Mouse river valley" he said.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
PROMINENT NEW YORK
BANKER VISITS MINOT

Frank D. Brundage, assistant man
ager of the Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne
foreign exchange department of New
York city, is here attending the bank
ers' state convention. Mr.. Brundage
represents a concern that deals with
eleven thousand banks in the United
States, a good many of them being To-
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
SAYS FRAMES CHANCES GOoOD
NJ. J. George, Campaign Manager, De-
clares Real Fight IS Between
Frame and Nonpartisan

NJ. J. George, campaign manager for
candidate for governor, was in Minot
Monday. He had invaded Burdick's
strongholds in the northwestern part
of the state and declares that he learn
ed definitely what he has believed all
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as every member Of this court must do
his full share of the work or retard its
progress and the discharge of its du-
ties toward you. :,
Every member is performing his full
share Of labor and the courts work is
up to date, and every case that is now
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15

time. I believe that you are satisfied
with my work since. You knew what
it was before l was elected. My dis
trict bench experience is constantly of
value here, where property rights by
the thousands Of dollars and the liber-
ties of the people are constantly be-
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-06-15
E. B. GOSS WHO HAS MADE
SPLENDID RECORD AS MEMBER
OF STATE SUPREME COURT
STANDS WELL WITH PEOPLE.

Was elected supreme judge from Mi
not six years ago. You gave me your
almost unanimous support at that
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Medora ladies gave a dance and in
vested the proceeds in gasoline street
lights for the city.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1916-03-09

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