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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-10-04

A damaged auto and bad cuts on a
horse was the result of a head-on col
liSiOn between Car uriven by Hugo
Kutz and team owned by B. j. John
son of Grafton.
The government doesn't care to buy
the farmers grain direct. When it
does, it will charge the farmer COM
mission of l per cent, the same am
cunt he is required to pay regular
commission houses. This advice, Rep
George NJ. Young tells the North Da-
kota railway commission. comes
from julius c. Harness "The govern
ment doesn't care to have any wheat
consigned to it, but if consigned to the
commission a deduction Of / per cent
will be made, so the shipper will not
benefit any by consigning direct to the
government grain corporation" writes
the congressman.
An auto containing six young ladies
Of Des Laos and vicinity turned over
on the Kittleson hill last week and
two OF the occupants were slightly in
jured. There were in the car Miss
Ethel Larson, who was driving, the
Misses Clara Christensen, Nell Arm,
old, teachers in the public school, Ora
Gordon, chief telephone operator, An.
ma Haugen and Nellie Hilbert Clara
Christensen received slight scratches
about her neck and face and Nellie
Filbert suffered a sprained ankle. The
other occupants escaped with severe
shaking-up. Their escape from serious
injury is almost miraculous
JOS. Chesrow who lives north of
Watauga, last week marketed in Chi
cago six steers that averaged 1910
pounds in weight and brought $3.50
per hundred, or $22S.90. This is the
highest price range steers have brot
on the Chicago market from this sec
tion of the country the present season
Three HaZen men are up against
the federal law charged with bringing
booze into the state. They are Adam
Schwartz, hotel man, Gus Schlenden
and J. M. Sailer. They were bound
over to the federal court, and their
cases will be presented to the federal
grand jury in November. Bonds were
fixed at $1,000.
A decision in the famous Kenmare
school case was rendered the first OF
the week by Judge Fisk Of Williams
county in favor of the defendants The
case, now three years pending, in
wolves the payment of $4,000 to the
First National Bank Of Kenmare, by
the county officials, as a balance on a
$17 1000 judgment obtained three years
ago as a reimbursement for warrants
cashed prior to that time. After the
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-10-04

found hanging from a rafter in the
barn with his feet touching the floor.
He had deliberately rested his weight
on the rope until strangulation occur
red. Jewell was native of Wisconsin
where a widow and 17-year-old son
survive.
Leon l.. Brown, well known in Dick
insOn, and nephew of Brooks and j
w. Goodall, has been decorated with
the medal off the legion of honor for
exceptional skill ana bravery on the
French front. He enlisted with a
Canadian regiment and won lieuten.
ancy in three months.
The Presbyterian Synod of North
Dakota will hold its annual session in
Devils Lake, beginning Oct. 10. 1t is
expected that at least 100 ministers
and number of ladies will be in at
tendance. Some representatives of
the national board will attend the SEES
sion from New York.
Mrs. X. A. l.. Reynolds Of Mime
WaukOn was scalded about the face
arms and neck when a cooking utensi
which had been covered too tightly
and placed over a hot stove, exploded
The secretary Of state issued a
charter to the Central Realty Co. OF
New Rockford, capitalized for $4,000
by J. G. DAILY, Anton Haas and c. J
Stickney, all of New Rockford
After inditing a note in which he
bequeathed $40 due him in wages and
his team to couple of pals, Harrie H
Smock. employed by Julius Kleidasch
near Bisbee, blew the top of his heaC
Off with shotgun The deceased haC
been quiet and Industrious workman
and had accumulated some property
No reason for his self-murder il
| known.
Harwell E. West Of Binford, N. D.
| was successful in securing the editor
| ship of the Home Scout Herald, {
monthly magazine for boys and girls
published at Chicago. The new ed
itor is but fourteen years Of age but
| Judging from the copy of his frs
edition, he will make good. He secur
ed his new position through necessary
qualifications and ability as sub
scriptiOn hustler. The position Waf
vigorously contested for and the prize
is the six months editOrship of the
Home Scout Herald. The boy-editol
will be in line for positions higher
up if he makes good and the editor
ship will pass to the boy who scores il
the next contest The publisher o.
the Home Life magazine is giving
this opportunity to country lads tt
make good in journalism and give
them start in their career.
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bank had obtained tsls judgment and
some $1,000 had already ben paid I'M
der it, suit was started by P. NJ Cole
and others on the grounds that the
judgment was obtail.cd illegally, and
that there had been fraud on the part
of the school board IN permitting the
judgment to be taken. Since the suit
was instituted some $4,000 had col
lected in the hands of the county
treasurer under special tax levied
to pay off the judgment, but under a
restraining order granted by Judge
Leighton two years ago, this sum was
tied up pending the final decision.
Judge Fisk, in his decision, rules in
favor of the bank and district and
releases the money
A watch that still ran when wound
up after it had laid out in a cultivated
field for fifteen years, was the find Of
VIM. Kline's boy near Wimbledon the
other day while out narrowing field.
The suns reflection on the crystal
brought the boys attention to the
timepiece. 1t was later learned that
the watch was lost by Kline's hired
man fifteen years ago, before the find
err was born. The watch is a fifteen
jewel Elgin enclosed in crescent
silver case with open face protected
! by an extra heavy crystal.
Colonel M. A. Hildreth gave the
Cass county boys some good advice
when they left Fargo for Camp Dodge.
| He told the men that the first duty
! of the soldier is to keep his body in
perfect condition so that he may be
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BRIEF STATE NEWS

A bottle of ammonia exploded in
the kitchen of the Lake View hotel at
Hettinger. The cook received burns.
Only one plain drunk has been jail
ed at Devils Lake during the past
month and John Bloom has been out
of town most Of that time.
Over at Wahpeton the businessmen
got their noodles" together and Of
fered for sale a number of merchan-
disc accounts that are marked poor
pay
Senator Gronna is giving the state
of North Dakota much advertising
along his particular line. Eastern
dailies now speak Of North Dakota as
the one pro-German state in the union.
Fred Rub, of Napoleon, pleaded
guilty to the charge of rape, and was
given thirty years in the state peni-
Tertiary The charge was preferred
by his two daughters.
The Public Opinion at Bismarck is
re-incorporated and will launch daily
newspaper at the Capital city. This
will fill long needed want at Bis
marck.
Editors Hales Of Maxbass and Pitt
man of Kramer went for a joy ride
one night last week in the formers
car and when something went wrong
with the car they remained out all
night in the rain.
Gotlieb Krieger, living near Krem,
was arrested on complaint of two of
his neighbors, charged with wheat
stealing He was released on $1,000
bonds, and will have his trial at the
November term Of district court.
With his face badly cut and smear
ed with blood, John Anderson, farm.
er near Schafer, appeared before the
states attorney and swore out war
rant for the arrest of Knute Gustaf
son and Carl Sundstrom, charging
them with assaulting him.
J. S. Kearney Of Fordville, driven
up tree and kept there for two hours
by a mad bull which had been allowed
to range at will on the public high
way, was liberated only when neigh
bors went to the rescue with pitch
forks.
The body of Andrew Jewell, aged
49. was found swinging from raftel
in a schol house barn about IA miles
south of Belfield. The deceased had
been overseer Of crew engaged In
roadbuilding during the summer. The
morning he suicided he left for work
as usual and at 8 o'clock he was
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ablaze and this was also reduced to
ashes before the fire was under con-
troll. The origin of the fire is not
known. While there are rumors of
incendiarism, due to the report that
German spies had planned system
attic destruction Of grain elevators,
these are merely rumors and, as we
go to press, no definite information is
available.
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WILL ORGANIZE WILTON MINERS

w. }. Verzatt left Saturday, for Will
ton, N. D., where he is endeavOring to
organize the miners of the Washburn
Ignite coal mines. He was recently
appointed delegate to do organiza-
ton worl, thruout the entire state
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Assistant Secretary of U. c. r.
A ten pound son was born Sunday
to Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Tyler Mr..
Tyler is secretary Of the Minot Coun-
Gil, U. c.. r.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
OMAHA NEWS.

Weather has been extremely cool.
but is warmer now. A rain would be
a benefit to crops and gardens now.
Albert Simpkins has moved into the
Dennis MatlOck house in Omaha, from
Wolf Springs neighborhood
Rowena Aston, who visited at John
Scotts some two or three weeks, left
there lately, taking the train at Crick.
ct to go to her sister, Mrs. Cord My.
singer, in Idaho.
There are some grapes and peaches
and other fruits in spite of the hail
storm that came some time ago.
One Of Sam Frances girls was quite
sick last week. There seems to be
considerable sickness now.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
Woman's Book Club.

The last meeting of the summer of
the Womans Book Club was held at
the Library Wednesday afternoon
with Mesdames Ben McMahan and
Donna Baker as hostesses. The build.
ing was beautifully decorated in flags
from many lands" with our own Stars
and Stripes prominent. 1t was a meet.
ing Of good things, and the club voted
to donate their Liberty Bond to the
Red Cross Fund. A rising vote Of
thanks was given Mrs. Jeffery Dixon
for very generous donation. A nice
ice course was served, after a short
program Of What | Consider the Best
Meeting Of the Year" and rs the
Club Worth While?" then a number
of poetic aCrostics on Arkansas. Mrs.
Sarasin and Mrs, j. e, Andrews were
welcome guests, We reluctantly said
good bye, hoping that the future holds
as much pleasure and profit for us
as the past.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
COUNTY NEWS.
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kLPENA NEWS ITEMS.

ar ENA NEWS ] EMS,
The harvest time is here.
Farmers are too busy even to come
10 town.
J. NJ Shirley, of Wichita, Kansas,
was a business visitor at Alpena
Tuesday.
Mr.. Shotwell. wife and daughter
are here from Texas visiting at the
home of II. X. Bell.
S. D. Jones has purchased the VII
lie Jones farm out on the Green For.
est road.
The big oil tractor and road build
ing machinery is tearing up the earth
and making a veritable pike between
here and Batavia.
Mrs. Nettie Lee White and Miss
Ona Mattox are Harrison visitors this
week.
Prof. Ira NJ. Gurley, of Green Forest,
has been employed as principal of our
school which signifies that this will
be banner school year for Alpena,
No better teacher anywhere than
Gurley.
Holland Gurley, Miss Mary Dell and
Master John Ira McCollum, of Dallas,
Texas, who have been visiting rela
tives here for three weeks, returned
home Saturday They were accom-
panied by John Gurley who is to visit
there for some time and incidentally
look over the location with a view to
locating there.
A splendid program for the Chill
drens' Day exercises here Sunday is
receiving the finishing touches this
week.
Alpena is to celebrate the Fourth
with an Old-fashiOned picnic
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
BElLEFONTE BUDGET.

Harvest is on and all hands are
busy. The grain is fine and promises
a good yield.
A. NJ. Gustin, wife and children left
for Anderson, Indiana, Sunday, where
he has employment.
The recently organized w. C. T. U
held its first meeting Tuesday with
Mrs. w. T. Nicholson
The Ladies Home Missionary So
ciety met with Mrs. James Helm on
Thursday
There will be an ice cream social at
Mrs. Harrell's residence next Friday
night given under the auspices of the
Methodist church. Proceeds will &c
to the piano fund.
Mrs. Will Rogers visited with her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. 10y Rogers
Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Clara Watson, of Elmwood
passed away Monday and was buried
Tuesday afternoon in the Klepper
cemetery.
George Mckinney made flying trip
home from Little Rock last week. He
says the crops on his farm look better
than any he has SEEN We also see
the tinge of home sickness.
Mrs. Biggs is visiting her children
who are in school at Batesville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Lowery and fam.
lily, with Earl Sharpenstein, took sup.
per Sunday night with Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Using,
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
U. D. c. Meeting.

No more enthusiasm or patriotism
has been shown by any organization
in town than by the Fannie Scott
Chapter of the United Daughters Of
the Confederacy. The meeting on
Tuesday afternoon was an unusually
good one, with Mrs. Roy Milum, as
hostess, Her pretty home was made
prettier by the patriotic decorations.
A good program was given and unani-
mously it was voted to give $500 to
the Red Cross Fund The chapter is
glad to help in this good work. Little
Miss Mary Milum served punch from
a cozy corner and Master Roy, Jr.,
assisted his mother in serving a re-
freshing ice course to the members
and the following guests, Mesdames
Newt. Milum John p Davis, Sam B,
Cecil and Jack Halter.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
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PERSONAL MENTION
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. viii COxey, of Green Forest,
is a guest of Mrs. Marvin Wagley.
Mrs. Charles NJ. Routh and Mrs.
Hugh Robert ROuth left yesterday for
visit in Kansas.
Misses Bartie and Beulah Morris
ard Mayme and Fayme Holt have
gone to Nashville to attend the Pea.
body Institute
Mrs. Lou Watkins and two chill.
dren, of Muskogee Oklahoma, are Wis.
iting her parents, Judge and Mrs. S.
N. Alexander.
Remember the Chautauqua opens
in Harrison this afternoon and to-
night, and this is the last day to buy
your season ticket.
Mr. Oakley and two daughters,
Margaret and Helen, of Fayetteville,
are here visiting at the home of her
brother, w. P. Ellis.
Ladies Summer Dresses have
come in today. They are direct from
the best New York manufacturers,
and we are anxious to show them.
Lynn-Welch Mercantile Company.
No one can afford to miss the
great lecture Of Hon. ALI Taylor at
the Chautauqua tomorrow evening.
The papers say it is the finest plat.
form effort of the age.
Sunday, July 1st, is to be Food
Saving Day" and the preachers of the
nation are being asked to build their
sermons on the motto: Save the
Waste and Win the War"
Boone county was but 45 short of
the census estimate in her registra-
tion for military service AS we have
a state guard company of 175 this
puts us more than hundred men
ahead of the count.
Banker F. E. Patrick was a Har-
rison visitor Tuesday.
DIR. Henry Pace, of Eureka
Springs, has been commissioned ma
jor in the medical department of the
Third Arkansas Regiment.
Attorney j. B. Hawkes., of Chi
cago, is looking after business mat
ters and enjoying vacation with
Harrison friends.
Mrs. James Taylor, of Coffeyville,
Kansas, made short visit with Har.
risOn friends this week
The Boone County Teachers In
stitute closed a ten days session
YThursday. One hundred and twenty
seven teachers attended.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
GATHER GLEANlNGS.

Farmers are very busy getting ready
for harvest
Rev. Thomas Brown preached here
last Sunday.
Miss Blanche Parker visited her sis
ter, Mrs. VIII Davidson, last Satur
day and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Hastings visited
at the home of Mrs. FOn Hastings
last Saturday and Sunday
Several of our young men have gone
to the harvest fields.
Sunday school is doing nicely with
Brother Tom Brown superintendent
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
PORTER-PRI
LADIES STORE
COLUMN

The goods most in demand now are.
wash skirts, silk and wash waists.
white silk hose and canvas pumps and
shoes. We have a splendid stock OF
these garments and they are all new
fresh goods
Economy is a virtue or vice accord.
ing to where and when il is applied
You will like the styles and colors
in the wash dresses shown here be.
cause they are from one of New
York's largest makers OF high grade
garments. We do not buy from job.
bers-thats the reason our goods are
better styles and better made.
Whenever you get something for
nothing you find that its worth just
about what you paid for ii.
We carry narrow widths in shoes
and pumps. You can get your size in
well made, good style white canvas
pumps or shoes here.
Our stock of Brassiers and Cami.
soles is now complete. You can buy
these little dress accessories just as
cheap as you can make them.
No one as yet has been able to think
one way and live another
We still have left about eight spring
pattern hats that are really good for
summer wear that we are offering
very cheap
We have two or three beautiful
white party dresses and if you are con
sidering a dress of this character we
would be pleased to show them to you.
They are dresses you don't usually
find in stock in a town of this size.
We have been unable to supply the
demand for the excellent quality white
silk hose we have been carrying, but
we expect a supply in by express this
week and will have all sizes.
Doing is the great thing. For, if res
olutely, people do what is right, in
time they come to like doing it.
A customer of Ours-a lady from a
very prominent family in Harrison,
said she liked to buy goods from us
because the garments always showed
they were new and fresh. Expressions
from customers like this are certainly
| an inspiration, as it's our aim to al
ways give as much in quality and ser
vice as possible for the least amount
of money.
On Friday June 22nd 1Ue aUjIl
donate JfUe per cent Of oil oar
cash sales to the Red Cross .SOci
ety. All oar goods are marked
IN plain figures. # y0u are IN
need Of anything IN our line you
can help the Red Cross Without
1t costing you anything
POrter-Price Ladies Store.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
HILL TOP HAPPENINGS.

VIII Davidson and Dick Hastings
Of Gather, mad business on the noun
tain Monday.
The Erwin boys took their Case
traction engine to Harrison Wednes.
day and are assembling their ma.
chinery for the 1917 threshing season.
John A. Bell Of Sayre, Oklahoma,
has been here several days visiting
with his relatives and old friends of
thirty years ago. John looks older,
but is the same whoe.souled John as
Of yore,
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23

Hon T. ". Neal, a banker and
prominent citizen OF RusseuyHle. is
here for a visit OF a few days during
which he will look after mineral inter
ests he has i'm this section.
An army recruiting officer from
Little Rock is in Harrison today as
we'll as one from the navy, and the
state guards company still has its
doors open. It is no trouble for our
young men to get almost any sort Of
service they wish.
-Messrs. John p. Davis and Sam
Cecil have purchased the Berryville
Wholesale Grocery Company and Mr..
Davis has gone to take charge this
week. Harrison regrets TO lose the
Davis family, but Berryville will find
that he knows the business thorough
ly, and that he is an all around good
citizen.
After an absence of several
months J. Sam Jones arrived for a
summer visit with his parents and
friends here Tuesday. He has been
preaching the doctrine of Christian
Socialism in Kentucky and Tennessee,
and thinks, in spite of the dark clouds
which hang over the world just now,
that we are on the eve of a great ref
OrmatiOn economically.
DR. Carl Finch, of Bellefonte, who
was in town on business Thursday,
reports the best crop conditions in
many years throughout southeast
Boone. There is good reason to hope
that not only will our home market
for grains of all kinds be amply sup
piled, but that reasonable surplus
will be available for shipment.
Boone cOunty's assessor has been
spending this week in Ewing, Elm
wood, Gather, Crooked Greek and
Summit townships and is making a
pretty clean sweep with his work !;
there are few, however, who will
have to pay the penalty for their
carelessness or ignorance of the law
Read the synopsis of Act No. 234 in
this issue Of the Times. Next week
the assessment continues in Sugar
Loaf. Zinc and Elixir townships.
Miss Elizabeth Hancock, an eff
cient little lady from Kansas City. ar.
rived here Tuesday and has been
spending the week preparing the way
for the Chautauqua commencing to.
day. Her ability for dispatching busi.
ness of all kinds is a tribute to the
good judgment of the Chautauqua
Company for sending her out. and a
demonstration of the fact that women
are just as efficient in many lines of
work heretofore mOnopOlized by the
men. a.
There is only one sort of man
who can justify himself for not con.
tributing something to the Red Cross
That is man who has already ex-
hausted all self-denial, who can make
no further sacrifice, who has nothing
and is unable to earn anything. Any
other sort of man may refuse to give
anything, but he cannot possibly Of
fer any excuse that will convince his
fellow-men or satisfy his own con-
science.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED.

A very charming party was given
last Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Carl
Feuchtinger, announcing the engage
ment of her sister, Miss Gladys Me
Call, to Mr. W. T, Harrington, OF
Harrison, Ark,-Times. Echo Eureka
Springs.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23

WANTED-A used five-passenger
Ford. Please state how long run, and
condition of the car in first letter;
also price Call or address the Times
office, Harrison, Arkansas.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23

Harrison is preparing to have a
real patriotic demonstration on the
coming Fourth of July.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23
tHE HARRISON TINES
si5O PER YEAR,
NJ. & N. A. TIME TABLE.


North Bound.
No. 4 leaves 6:2O a. m. for Selig-
man, Joplin, Fayetteville, Fort Smith,
Springfield No, and st. Louis.
No. leaves $50 D. m. for joplin.
Connection for Springfield, No, St.
Louis, Mo, Tulsa, Okla, Oklahoma
City, Okla, and Kansas City, Mo.
South Bound.
No. arrives from JOpinl0:4O p. m.
No. l leaves las p. m, all points
south, Little Rock, Ark, Hoxie, Ark,
Memphis, Tenn.
W. T. HARRINGTON, Ticket Agent.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-23

Remember the Chautauqua opens
this afternoon at 3 o'clock
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-02-08
DEATH CLAIMS WELL KNOWN
NEW MEXICO RAILROAD MAN

Santa Fe, n NJ. Feb. S--Friends in
Santa Fe have received telephone and
telegraph advices reporting the death
OF Chas. H. wiggett, at his home in
Alamogordo. Death was due to pneu-
monia. following an Illness Of only a
few days.
Wiggett removed 10 Alamogordo
about three years ago, TO become super
intendent O the tie anc timber treating
plant of the FL Paso q Southwestern
system. He went to the little southern
city from Albuquerque, where he had
held a similar position with the Santa
Fe lines. Accompanied by his wife
and their two children. students in the
public school Wiggett bought home
and soon became actively identified
with the interests OF AlamogOrdo. He
was the guiding spirit of the biggest
ban that was ever given in the town
This was the bah given on New Years
night. 1916. to dedicate the opening
Of the AlamogordC assembly hall and
amusement pavilion. He was elected
president Of the AlamOgordO CONNER
cial club at the last election OF that
organization and was doing all in his
power 10 assist in the growth and de-
velopment OF the town.