The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-10-11
WANTE
CITY IN BRIEF
E. d. Skinner of Sawyer is VISITING
friends in Minot today.

E. d. Skinner of Sawyer is visiting
friends in Minot today.
Mrs. Lawson letters, wife of prom
inent Sherwood farmer, visited Minot
friends Tuesday.
Frank letters of Coon Rapids, Iowa,
stopped for visit with his brother,
W. S. letters, enroute to Canada.
Editor Gilbertsen of Glenburn was
transacting business in the city on
Tuesday.
A dance was held at the Logan hall
Monday night, Christi's orchestra of
Larimore furnishing the music.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Truax of Mime
apolis, motored to Minot and visited
relatives, enroute to White Earth,
where they are visiting with Mrs.
Truax's mother
Mrs. Parmely, mother of Mrs. En-
NETT Hileman, submitted to an opera
ton at a local hospital Monday for
abscess of the bone back of the eye
She is getting along nicely.
Miss Sarah Hecker of Kildeer, N.
D., is visiting old friends in this vicin-
ity. Miss Hecker expects to go to
Arkansas soon where she will spend
the winter.
Miss Evangeline Mcconnell, talent
ed daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Mcconnell, left Sunday for the Uni
versity of Minnesota, where she enter
ed the Home Economics department.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig Paulson of
Plaza arrived by auto Tuesday. They
brot their son to this city, enroute to
Minneapolis, where he has secured a
position in large garage.
Sylvester Ward, from near Sawyer,
was in the city Tuesday. He spoke
discouragingly of his crops this year,
his wheat and oats averaging about
four bushels each. He's game and will
try again.
The Bismarck Tribune has been
purchased by Geo. D. Mann and E..
A. Weir from Ed Hughes. The new
owners propose to publish an "inde-
pendent American newspaper"
Mrs. Fred Lessard of Crosby is the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Passen-
ger. Judge and Mrs. Koenig Of
Grand Forks will arrive this evening
to spend week at the Passenger
home.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Marsh who
have been living on their homestead
at Glentenna, Mont, arrived recently
| and will spend the winter in this city.
Mr.. Marsh says the Montana crops
were fair, the flax averaging six bush
els, which will about pay the farming
expenses.
Ideas are constantly changing. So
also must men change. The methods
of yesterday are not those of today
nor will those of the present be in
vogue tomorrow. The man who will
not change is a check on progress
he retards the onward march of
others.
Word was received in this city re-
| Gently that Joel N. Blomquist, a form
| er resident of Velva, had taken his life
at his home in Minneapolis. For some
time Mr.. Blomquist had been in poor
| health and it is thought that his afflic-
ton and the illness of his wife had
weighed upon his mind until he be-
came Respondent. On this day Mr..
and Mrs. Blomquist had arisen at the
usual time and after breakfast Mr..
! Blomquist insisted that his wife, who
was not feeling well, go back to bed
and he would go on down to his work
in the city. Some time later Mrs.
| Blomquist, not having heard her hus-
band leave the house, got up and after
looking through the house to see if he
had departed, went out into the yard
and upon entering a building on the
back of the lot found his body. He
had committed suicide by shooting.