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

Manager Clapp of the Golden Rule
store writes from New York that
there is great excitement in the me-
tropolis owing to the German war
scare. He says that he left Salt Lake
City, Utah, the latter part of Janu-
airy and his train was tied up for two
days by heavy SHOWS in Wyoming.
For one whole day the passengers
were without food until finally relief
train came to their assistance, and the
way the hungry passengers devoured
| the supplies of provender furnished
was a caution. Miss Peggy" Clapp,
who was on her way to New York,
received telegram from her father
urging her to return home owing to
the imminence of conflict with Ger
many and the possible danger of re-
siding near the Atlantic seaboard.
Miss Clapp decided to return home and
will arrive here the latter part of the
week.
E. c. Carney, prominent real estate
and loan dealer from Williston, ar
rived in the city today and will meet
Mrs. Carney here Friday. The latter,
who is vice president of the Women s
Federated Clubs of North Dakota,
third district, will return from Fargo,
where she has been attending state
meeting. Mrs. Carney is very
charming woman and popular with
| the club women of Minot.
J. w. Buettner, the Norwich black
smith, is attending the big convention
Of Mechanics in Minot this week. Mr..
Buettner informs the Independent that
his wife, who has been seriously i'll
with a cancer, has been receiving
| treatment from a specialist in Mime
apolis for several weeks. She is some
better and expects to be able to re-
turn home soon.
| S. O. Soper, manager Of the st.
Hiliare lumber yard at Crystal, N. D.,
visited with his old friend T. A. Col
ter in this city this week, enroute
home from a thirty days visit in the
west. Mr.. Soper is Canadian by
birth and attended the same little old
country school house at Guelph, Ont,
which James j. Hill attended as boy.
| synagogue, conducted the funeral SER
vices of Mrs. Rachel Lea Sgutt of Dog
den, whose, remains We're brot to this
fty IN the e e%sh he
pressive rituaiistic services Of the Jew
| ish faith were observed in the inter-
ment, the custom having been in use
since the days of Moses. the Great Law
| Giver.
Clint Dierdorf, of the Champln Imp
lement and Motor Co.; Fay N. Fuller Of
the Mckinney-Fuller Motor Co; L. c:
1lby, of Eby & Young; A. M. Jensen, Of
the Dakota Motor Sales Co., and l.. G:
Stearns, of the Minot Auto Co., are all
in Minneapolis. this week taking in the
| sights of the big auto show and picking
up pointers for the Minot show, which
starts here Feb. q.
| Mrs. KATRINA Christensen, living
| eight miles southeast Of Barton, small
town on the Rugby branch of the G. n,
lost her life in a fire which totally de-
stroyed her home last Saturday. Mrs.
| Christensen was eighty-twO years OF
age and lived alone, her nearest neigh
bors living over half mile away.
| George w. Walton, of Velva, breeder
of choice Partridge Wyandottes, was in
the city today, having just returned
from the Bismarck poultry show, where
he pulled down the lions share of the
prizes and came within a quarter of a
! point of securing first prize for the finest
bird at the exhibit.
! The board of county commissioners
awarded the contract for the construc-
ton of the county bridge east of Saw
yer to George w. kemper Of this city:
| The cost will be about $4,000 and will
be shared equally by Ward and McHenry
| counties.
| The funeral Of Merrill Welcome, s.
Welcome, was held at st. Leos Catholic
church this morning at o'clock. In
terment was in St. Leo,s cemetery I'M
der the direction of Undertaken Rowan
Money to loan on farm land, improv-
ed and unimproved. Mrs. Carrie
Kulaas, Minot, N. D. 1-25-tf