The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-12-27
CITY In BRIEF

! f. G. Sell is at Rochester, MINI
where he will submit to an operation
Chief of Police Dan Dougherty j
spending the holidays with relatives a
Dougherty, Iowa.
D. A. Dinnie spent Christmas wit
James Dinnie and family in Gram
Forks.
w. N Timroth of Neville, N. D
spent Christmas in this city at tn
home of his son, J. A. Timroth.
The McGregor livery barn is offer
ing some good hay for sale at from
SIT to $40 ton.
Mrs. w. B. Markellie of Glenburn
has been receiving medical Treatment
in local hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. |. G. Bunker are
spending the holidays with the form.
er's parents at Roberts, Ill.
w. A. Peck is visiting in the Twin
Cities and at his old home in Wis
consin.
Clete Mulick of Minneapolis spent
Christmas with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. P. Mulick.
C. j. and Vern DeVore of Danny
brook were among the business visit
ors to the city Monday.
Mrs. O. B. Herigstad and daughter
Jean will leave Friday for California
where they will visit relatives for sew
eral weeks.
Miss Dodds, office deputy at the
county superintendent Office, is Wis
iting at her old home in Illinois.
Elder A. H. Blocher of York, filled
the pulpit at the church Of the Breth
rem at Surrey Sunday.
.45iep7 Dearnin, we'll known build
lNme at Austin, Mimi, to spend the
winter.
Ellsworth George, employed on one
Of the Humphreys linotype machines,
is spending the holidays at his old
home, at Mitchell, S. D.
B. T. Rinde, deputy county superin-
! tendent Of schools, is spending the hol-
idays with the home folks at Hoople,
| N. D.
Frank Kirkelie, Ernest Maynard
and Christie Barke of Donnybrook
have enlisted in the Minot govern
ment school of biography.
The state council of defense propos-
es to make the editors who charge the
North Dakota farmers with disloyalty
prove such charges.
Mrs NJ E. Dwire, who was called to
the bedside of her brother, Major
Murphy in Minneapolis recently, has
returned, leaving him some better.
Father Joseph Raith was called to
Velva Wednesday by the death of his
old friend, G. P. Severtson, who was
killed by a fall.
w. J. Norbeck, who represents Fo-
ley Bros. & Kelley in the Minot terri
tory, has gone to Minneapolis to spend
the holidays with his parents.
VIM. Grinnell has gone to Minneap-
oils to join his wife and daughter,
Fannie, the latter attending school in
the city.
Walter Tooley. assistant cashier of
the Second National Bank, has gone
to spend the holidays.
County Superintendent Of Schools
w. D. Wendt and family are visiting
with the formers parents at Preston,
la. They will return shortly after the
new year.
Mrs. Emmett Hileman, who has been
visiting her sister at Dunseith, arrived
for a short visit with Minot friends
before leaving for Cuba to join her
husband.
Jay Morrow, who enlisted in the
Canadian army some time ago, is
spending a couple of weeks furlough
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Morrow.
DR.. and Mrs. Livingston Of the
Union Dental Parlors following their
annual custom have closed their den
tai offices in the Union National bank
block and are spending the week with
relatives in Minneapolis.
Karl H. Stoudt and Glenn Moon,
both from this city, who spent some
time at the officers training camp n
Fort Smelling, are now Sergeants rI
the Intelligence department of ~:
164th Reg. al Div. VI
Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Hicks enterta'jn-
ed at dinner on Christmas day in hon
or of Mrs. Hicks father, August Eng
strand of Westby, Mont. Mr.. and
Mrs. Leo P. Golisch and Mr.. and Mrs.
G. A. Lambrecht were invited guests.
Major j. S. Murphy, who has been
precariously i'll in a Minneapolis hos
pital, is reported some better and is
able to sit up a part of the time.
The Majors many friends trust that
his improvement will be steady.
Mrs. George Hecker and Miss Sarah
Hecker will leave shortly for Camp
Lewis, near Tacoma, Wash, where
they will visit with Mrs. Hecker's son,
George, who is in training there. They
expect to be away most of the win
ter.
B. E. Morstad, former Minot har-
nessmaker, writes from Outram, Sask.
where he is farming that his wheat
was poor, averaging 8 bushels to the
acre. Speltz averaged 20 bushels.
Oats were good, but the October snow