The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-08-09

from the soil. We will bet it would
mean a lot of competition alright.
A 9-gallon can of cream was market
ed at Shields that brought in $15.33.
This is said to be the Slope record.
The people Of Bismarck are so en-
thusiastic over ball games that they
close their stores and offices during the
game.
| Bert Backman is held in jail at Far
! go, charged with impersonating an Of
fcer, during the hold-up of farmer.
Bowman furnished considerable ad-
vertising for North Dakota as result
of charges made against the local post
mistress.
"A Bad Lands ranchers pinto disap-
peared and the owner chased the range
louise dow and brought him back in
the tonneau Of his flivver.
The contract for the new Slope coun-
| ty court house at Amidon was let last
week and work has already begun on
the foundation.
A nonpartisan paper is being organ
lied at Rugby to oppose Editor Brat
tons Pierce County Tribune, which
opposes the league.
c.. p. Burnstad, the cattle king, has
sent his two sons to Texas after 1000
Hereford yearlings that he will place
on his ranch near Burnstad, the town
named after the G. X.
A young lad of Westhope, at Sum-
day school picnic the other day, start
ed to climb tree. He fell out and
broke his arm. Moral: Don't hold pic
MICS for the kids among the trees with
weak limbs.
The railroad companies will hereaf-
diers at Valley City, jamestown and
Bismarck were returned to Fort Lin
coin the first of the month.
The 1917 wheat crop in Mckenzie
county will exceed the 1916 crop in
quality in the opinion of many local
business men who have sampled the
crop in every section of the county the
past week.
7. d. Fischer Of Portal, bookkeeper
and stenographer at the First Interna-
tional bank and former resident of
Olivia, Mimi, was drowned while bath
ing in Sport creek, near Portal, last
week.
The children of Olaf Larvick of
Braddock, while playing with matches
in the loft of his barn kindled the hay
and while two escaped the third was
burned to death and it's charred re-
mains found in the debris of the barn.
A near-cyclone injured seven people
in Lisbon last Sunday evening. The
rail and wind storm swept over a ter
ritory six miles wide and 80 miles in
length Many farmers lost their barns
and some stock.
The editor of the Mayville Tribune
remarks that there is going to be muir
der in Mayville unless something is
done at once to curb the racing of au-
tos on the streets of that city. Forty
miles an hour is too fast clip thru
a street crowded with young children
but such capers are quite often wit
messed.
Jawn T. Charmley, the talented and
versatile editor Of the Mott Spotlight
returned to Mott Tuesday afternoon,
after very enjoyable overs Sunday
visit with Mrs. Charmley and Miss
Helen Kathryn Charmley, who are yet
domiciled at the St. Alexis hospital.
Both Mrs. Charmley and the young la
dy are getting along nicely and expect
to leave for Mott on Saturday.-Bis-
marck Palladium.
Fred Herman of Wildrose received
letter last week from his brother, IS,
who for the past six months has beer
in the Russian army. When he became
eighteen he was given the choice of
joining the army or going into exile
in Siberia, and he took the former. At
the last writing he had been wounded
three times and was pulled from the