The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-12-13

The Congregationalists at Dickin-
son are making plans for a $4,000
church edifice. The actual building
will not start until conditions are
more settled.
Columbus Gnd.) Republican: "The
first fall meeting of the Ladies' Matt
nee MUSCLE will be hell in the Cen
trail Christian church Saturday after
moo nat 2:30 o'clock"
A troop train consisting CT engi-
neers from Michigan, passed thru
Kindred Friday afternoon, bound for
the west coast. This passing 0 troop
trains is becoming an every day oc-
| currence.
Lowell Wharton of Parshall suffer-
ed severe accident last Saturday by
winch ne lost most of the thumb and
the tips of all the fingers of his left
hand, other than the small finger 1t
happened in the feed mill, that is of
the roller variety.
School was resumed at Drake Mon
day, the board having rented the two
floors of the opera house building and
the Evangelical church. The fire
which destroyed the old school build
lngs also damaged the new building
which is in course of construction. Be-
tween forty and fifty windows on the
south side will have to be replaced,
entailing heavy loss.
State and federal officials are
searching for two foreigners, said to
G Germans who recently stole
large quantity of dynamite, some fuse
| hnvnc IF
from a mine at Medora, N. D. The
empty boxes from which the dyna-
mite was taken were found three
miles west Of Medora.
After suffering for years from
trouble with one of his limbs, Ben
Glbon, principal of the consolidated
school in Hart township in Bowman
county, has just discovered that his
hip is dislocated The injury was
sustained in a baseball game at Bis
marck several years ago.
Governor Lynn J. Frazier's auto
mobile will carry the first license
number in the state next season. The
chief executive was the first to make
application for a 1918 license in the
automobile registration department,
and he was allotted license number
one. Applications are already COM
ing into the automobile department
from all parts of the state for spec
ial numbers. These requests will be
granted as far as possible.
J. H. Willard, editor of the Fair
view Times and Charbonneau Herald,
was in Williston Wednesday. He is
on a sad Journey. His wife dropped
dead at Charbonneau Saturday morn
ing and he was accompanying the re-
mains to the old home at Harrisburg,
Ark. Death was due to heart failure.
Mr.. Willard has the sympathy of the
people here as we'll as at Charbon-
neau and Fairview in his sudden be-
| reavement.
A check for 1921, probably the
largest sum ever paid in the world
for a single load of clover seed, was
paid by Magill & Co., of Fargo, to
w. H. Askew, a farmer residing near
Casselton. The Casselton man plant
ed IS acres to medium red clover last
/ spring and it yielded three and one
half bushels of bright, choice seed an
acre. On the basis of gross income,
the clover seed crop was worth s5o
an acre to Mr.. Askew, in addition to
The value of the crop for feeding pur-
| poses.
All public officials requiring surety
bonds will soon be bonded by the state
bonding department. Besides all the
officials in the courthouse there are
school district treasurers and all the
constables and justices Of the peace.
The state bonding law was passed by
the 1916 legislature but it's operation
has been held up by court action
testing it's constitutionality. The
United States supreme court a few
weeks ago refused to assume jurisdic
ton in the case and the state supreme
courts decision upholding the act be-
came final.
That the task of supplying farmers
in North Dakota with pure seed for
spring planting is one which must be
largely borne by the county commits
sioners seemed the concensus of opin-
ion of members of the North Dakota
pure seed commission, who gathered
for conference in Commissioner n.
Hagans office last Saturday. Reports
were presented covering unusual con-
ditions in North Dakota. An ahund-
ance of pure seed was indicated in
some regions, while others, due to an
almost complete crop failure this sea-
son, are said to have no seed at all.
On Monday afternoon the buggy in
which Mrs. Oscar Ahlgren and her
daughter of Cando were driving home
from town was struck by the engine
of the incoming passenger train at
the south cross; sing. Mrs. Anluten,
while watching the movements of the
freight engine at the north crossing,
failed to see the passenger coming
from the south. The engine caught
the right rear wheel of the buggy and
whirled it about, throwing both occu-
pants out. The fact that the horse
| Jumped suddenly forward just as the
engine struck them was all that pre-
vented fatal results. Mrs. !Ahlgren
was badly bruised on her side, and
has since been attended by a physic-
ian. The horse broke loose from the
damaged buggy and was caught by Mr..
D. H. Ingle, who was coming into