The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-22

when struck by a special eastbound
stock train, as he was driving across
the tracks.
The nine Bantry boys in the service
each received present of $40 in cash
from the soldiers reserve fund raised
by the home folks. There is bal
ance Of s178.2S in the fund.
School children attending the pub
lie schools at Sheldon can now pur-
chase their noon day soup and hot
drinks, prepared by the Domestic
class each day.
The school ma'ams of Bottineau
indignantly deny the report that one
of their number dressed in mans
clothes. was captured by the chief of
police Halloween.
Down at Wahpeton the Globe Ga
zette Printing establishment has
grown to such an extent that the
natives for miles and miles around are
invited to an "Open-House" day, all
business to be suspended on the oc-
casion.
The Grand Forks independent has
suspended publication, Editor Page
having joined the army. He is the
son of the late Alice Nelson Page.
The Independent was reported as hav-
ing been sold to the Townley faction
some time ago, but the deal didn't go
through.
Gottlieb Rausenberger stole forty
bushels Of wheat from the granary of
Henry Eichorn. near Drake, and sold
it at the Meinhardt elevator at Bal
four. He was arrested at Anamoose
and entered plea Of guilty before
Justice W. F. Senechal of Drake.
Friends paid the costs, amounting to
1921. and he was released.
The following are the legal WEIGHTS
ner bushel for North Dakota: Alfal-
ia seed 60: barley, 48: bran. 20; clo-
yer seed. 60: corn shelled 70. in ear,
Sc; millet. so: oats, 80: potatoes, 60:
rye, Sc: timothy seed. As: and wheat,
60. The weight per bushel for coal is
usually given as 80 pounds.
Lifted in the air. his car turned
completely around and left right side
up was the experience Of Herman lick
Of Leonard. Cass county, when struck
by a freipht train. In the machine
with Mr.. lick. was his wife. who suf-
| fered a severe nervous shock. Mr..
Kick escaped with slight bruises.
At the annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Rottinean Co-operative
Publishing Company, which publishes
the Rottineau Courant, resolution
was unanimously passed directing
the board Of directors to instruct the
incoming editor and manager that it
was their desire that the Courant's
nolicy Of LOYALTY to our country and
the president be steadfas silly main
tanned. The stockholders evidently
/ had doubt or two about the incom-
ing editor-hence the instructions.
Harry Briggs of Grenora, who
wounded Harry Brown in shooting
brawl at Grenora in August plead
guilty to the charge before judge
Frank E. Fisk and was sentenced to
four years in the penitentiary. Mr..
Brown, the victim of the shooting, is
still in the Williams county jail where
he is being held on charge OF con-
ducting public nuisance and gam
bling joint,
Because. he claims, his car was in
iured in bucking snow drifts which
would not have been there had the
hoard of county commissioners en-
forced the statute requiring weeds
along the roadside to be cut, Albert
Bierle. Beaver Creek commercial
traveller. is suing Steele county for
damages.
The wife of Methodist minister in
North Dakota has been married three
times. Her maiden name was Part.
ridge, her first husband was named
Robbins, her second husband Sparrow,
and the present husband is named
Quayle. There are two young Rob-
bins, one Sparrow and three Quayles
in the family. One grandfather was
Swan and another Jay, but he's