The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-08-02
MINOT And VICINITY

Editor George of the Hillsboro Ban
ner pays his respects to he-gossips.
The eight-months-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam Kostenko of Makoti is dead.
Editor and Mrs. David Carlson of
Towner visited Minot friends Tues
day.
Geo. E. Walker, the florist, returned
from Minneapolis where he spent two
weeks.
The Minot graded schools will open
Sept. i and the Minot high school
early in October.
Considerable acreage which was
seeded to hemp in the eastern part of
the state is reported as doing we'll.
Chas. Muzzy brot in two veal calves
yesterday selling them for $22 each.
Spring chickens brot 38 cents apiece.
At Lakewood, O., cats are licensed
and must wear collar and a bell.
Owners are required to pay license
of so cents.
| W. J. Wellman of Logan was seri-
ously i'll for several hours Saturday
night, but is much better at this writ
ing.
Wadson Patalas, the Mohall water
man, refuses to reduce the cost of
water to his customers. The war has
even affected the cost Of water.
Don't pinch the fruit" says Curley
Helm, the good-natured grocery sales
man at Shirley's. eff you must pinch
something, here is cocoanut."
Des Laos township is grading fif-
teen miles of road, leading in every
direction towards Des Laos. The
work of grading was done by VIM.
Sayers with his big engine.
The VIM. HeaIey and E. G.. McIlroy
residences in Glenburn were struck
by lightning recently, a few shingles
being torn off the roofs. Mrs. McIlroy
was shocked.
Mrs. c. H. Passenger has returned
from CARRIER, Ia, where she was called
by the serious illness of a sister. She
left her sister no better with little
hopes for recovery. Enroute home she
visited her two sons in Minneapolis.
Joe Boucher bought four cars Of
prime cattle at Crane which he will
ship to St. Paul Friday. Two of the
cars were brought from Ed Bryans,
who raised some Of the finest cattle
in the state.
Henry Johnson, young farmer liv-
ing near Roseglen, N. D., died at the
home of his brother, Ingvald, July 10,
from tuberculosis. He was born in
Douglas county, Mimi, in 1891, and
lived for some time at Towner, N. D.,
where the family moved.
Charley Muzzy finished haying Sat
urday and came to town in the after
noon. He reported that haying this
year is light operation. Where he
put up SO loads last year, he was able
to rake and scrape only thirteen loads
together this year.
4 Fl. Benno has the best field of corn
the writer has seen this year, at his
farm southwest of the city. The corn
has been cultivated frequently, which
has stored up the moisture. The corn
is about ready to tassle and will fur
nish an immense lot of feed.
| A number of Golden Valley farmers
| have donated an acre each from their
crops to the Red Cross. There are
several Ward county farmers who
would be willing to give the entire
proceeds from forty acre fields and
they wouldn't miss it.
:. Catherine Fitzgerald, aged II years,
daughter of E. A. Fitzgerald, was
drowned at Detroit Lake, Mimi, Fri
day when she fell off a raft into four
or five feet of water. She graduated
from the Fargo high school in June
and had accompanied some of her
classmates to the lake.
4 Miss Gladys Hanna, a niece of DR..
and Mrs. c. T. Sweet and Miss Helen
!, Beach, will arrive at the Sweet home
} for visit Friday. They have been
visiting relatives at Seattle and are
enroute to their home, Mankato, MINI
Miss Hanna visited in Minot last sum