The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-01-27
BRIEF STATE NEWS
The little lamb that Mary had
IT came from Noah's ark)
Is busted now. It seems that dad
Stepped on it in the dark.

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Is busted now. It seems that dad
Stepped on it in the dark.
E. E. Green of Bottineau nassed tn,
state medical examination last week
He will practice with DR.. Mckay a,
Bottineau for the present.
Advertising will be the chief theme
at the annual meeting of the state
press association, which is being helG
in Grand Forks this week.
Chas. P. O'Rourke of Mandan has
started on his twenty-first year as
chairman of the board Of county
county commissioners. He has been a
commissioner for % years.
Two boys left their mops near the
stove after scrubbing the Napoleon
school building floors. The mops evil
IDENTIFY dried out and caught fire, be-
4 cause two holes were burned in the
floor.
Henry Anderson, a young farmer
living near Portland, recently came
into that town with 81 fox skins. all
OF which had been trapped or shot
along the loose river. He sold them
at the top market price.
Floyd Askerooth, young shuman
farmer, saw a big prairie wolf at
tack calf in the pasture, chased the
animal nearly four miles, on foot and
horseback, and finally killed him when
he attempted to escape down a bad
ger hole too small for his body.
G. L. Pelke, of Center, while doing
some excavating work on his farm
Wednesday,, chopped into stick of
dynamite which had previously been
placed at some time, but failed to
explode. The blade of the shovel
missed the percussion cap by just an
inch.
AS an indication of the prosperous
condition of the farmers in that sec
ton Of the state, the automobile
dealers of Mandan have gone on rec
ord with an opinion that if the pres
ent rate of sales is continued, one in
every five farmers in the county will
own machine in the next six months.
John McClandon, colored, is near
death as the result of knife fight
with E. Wilson, also colored. Wilson
walked to nearby coal mine, where
he slept at ngiht. The following day
he went to Hebron, where he was ar
rested. The fight occurred near Dick
inson last week.
The sum of $3.50, secured by pop
ular subscription, has been paid over
to the Billings county commissioners
at Medora for the final payment on
the National Parks Highway bridge
on the Red Trail over the Little Mis-
souri, river at Medora. The bridge is
nearly completed and the formal died.
ication will take place early in the
spring.
The methods now being emploved
by the farmers along the 500 line run
ming from Sanish to Drake are indi
Gated by the shipment of twenty car
loads OF hogs recently to South St.
Paul. The one crop plan has been
relegated in this section of the state,
in favor of cattle and hog raising, as
twelve-month revenue producer.
Mrs. N. c.. Lou is being held at
Devils Lake by the insanity board,
pending an investigation as to her le-
gal residence, which is thot to be at
Kellihur, MINI. Posing as a vaude-
vile performer and former circus rid
er, she put on free shows in the Dew
lis Lake streets.
Five men were hurt, none seriously,
in the derailment of a caboose and
several box cars near Hurdsfield one
day last week. The injured are J. F.
Kennedy, of Jamestown: C. F. Toll
lefson, of Valley City; ]. P. Sheehan,
of Fargo; G. Bellan. of Turtle Lake,
and Walter Brand, of Denhoff, N. D.
Senator Gronna is preparing to in
troduce Senate resolution calling on
the President and POSTMASTER Gener-
al to send in the nomination of ]. H.
Bloom to be postmaster of Devils
Lake. Mr.. Bloom is serving under a
recess appointment and the senator is
seeking an opportunity to have it re-
jected as he is much opposed to the
Bloom appointment.
"Wanted-Some woman to take
care of baby" read an ad in a Mandan
newspaper. But it was published too
late as the baby died the same day of
pneumonia. The advertisement arous-
ed the curiosity of Sheriff Mcdonald,
who investigated and found the adj
vertisers were Frank Gibbon and Mrs.
VIM: Heinz, of Chicago. The former
deserted his wife and two children,
and the latter her husband and two
children. They are in the custody of
the sheriff.
Collector of Customs lack Cobb at |
Ell Paso has reported to the state de-
partment that advices reaching him
indicate Bart Kramer, previousl y re-
ported killed in Mexico, is alive. Bart
Kramer, his brother Roy, Ben Smell
and a cattleman named Wood, the
latter three also previously reported
killed, are enroute to the mountains
north of LaJunta to rescue DR.. r. P.
Kramer, father of the, Kramer boys,
the dispatches have announced. 1t will
be remembered in the mention of the