The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-02-15
AROUND THE STATE

Sunday baseball is threatened.

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Sunday baseball is threatened.
Frank S. Henry, state land COM
missioner, was married at Jamestown
recently.
Three thousand five hundred auto
mobiles have been licensed in North
Dakota for 1917 to date.
The retail merchants of the state
have selected New Rockford for their
annual meeting place for the coming
summer. The meeting will be held in
June.
Thursday Of last week, while C. A.
Dunbar, of Cando, was loading ice,
the ice tongs slipped and let cake
of ice fall which broke his arm and
crushed the flesh badly.
James Holzemer, farming two miles
east of Amidon, raised flax enough
this past season to pay for his quarter
in cash, the price being $4,000.
A blind pig discovered in one of
North Dakota's state institutions It's
fact, for one of the pure. bred pork
ers at the State Normal school farm
at Valley City has been found to be
sightless.
The fact that the Lord loveth
cheerful giver doesn't deter many of
the dealers from asking war prices.
They probably are working on the
proposition that they want the other
fellow to be loved.
Residents of the state will be par
doned if they look upon the Indian,
the muskrat and Father McBeede
with suspicion the next time they join
in predicting "an open winter" And
yet-they didn't specify what they
meant by the word "open."
A bill has been introduced before
the legislature to set aside 100000
for building a state-owned elevator at
Fargo. 1t was recommended that the
elevator be under the supervision of
the state railroad and warehouse COM
mission.
L. I. Cory and w. J. Regain, farm
hands employed at the Burt Thomas
farm near Hansbrough, were frozen to
death while homeward bound from a
neighboring farm, where they had at
tended a drinking party. The bodies
were not discovered until two days
later.
Alex Mckenzie, veteran republican
leader and railroad contractor of the
Northwest. is i'll at St. Joseph's hos
pital in St. Paul from a nervous
breakdown. His condition made nee
essary postponement Of trip to the
South to seek health.
Field Orich was shot in the eye at
his home south Of Rhame, by Verne
Ostrander, after a dispute between
the two. A discharge from shotgun
caught Orich full in the face at close
range, and the chances of recovery are
said to be doubtful, and if recovery
does come, Orich will bear disfigure-
ment for life. Ostrander has not yet
been arrested
G. Anstenson Of Sherwood has about
completed a small gasoline engine Of
a unique design, which he expects will
develop better than a quarter-horse
power. The cylinder is made of an
old wagon hub with piston Of alum
mum, and fly wheels cast from babbit.
He has also rewound little old gen.
orator which he will connect with the
engine, and plans to light his resi-
dence. The engine is little wonder
and is the product of the owners in
ventive genius.
A Washington dispatch recently
stated that North Dakota will get
$152,286 out Of the $1O,OOO,0OO to aid
the states in the construction Of rural
post roads, the second annual distri-
button in accordance with the federal
aid road law. The announcement was
made by secretary Houston. The funds
are the apportionment for the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1915 South Da-
kota will get $161,892.
Recently Sigurd Carlson, who drives
one of the Upham school wagons, had
an experience he will not soon forget.
While he was driving into town, and
just as he reached the railroad cross
ing, the whistle Of the engine of the
train sounded. This sound frightened
one Of the horses he was driving,
causing it to become unmanageable,
and it jumped upon the track. The
train struck the horse, throwing it
into the ditch, skinning it's head and
side. Otherwise it was unhurt.
| Last week Sheriff French of Bis
marck seized 200 .pints Of whiskey
consigned by the Dietrich Kennedy
Co., Of St. Paul, to eight Bismarck
people. The shipments in lots. of rs
pints were Communicated by the
sheriff under the Webb-Kenyon law,
being taken from the freight office of
the Northern Pacific. They will be
4 held subject to proof in court Of own
ership and that the 25-pint lots were
designed for personal use by the par
ties to whom they were consigned.