The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-06-14
MINOT And VICINITY

MlNOl And VlClNll I
H. J. Melos is visiting friends in
Minneapolis.
r. A. Ennis, one of the leading
boosters from the Tagus district, was
in town today.
S. G. Baxter, well known Ryder
farmer, was in the city Sunday and
Monday.
D. C. Greenleaf and his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Lockman, are spending the
week in Bismarck.
Judge Goss went to Bismarck Mon
day to argue case before the SUI
preme court.
Amund Albertson and Peter Arne-
son, prominent Douglas farmers, are
in the city today.
L. M. Smith, editor Of the Crosby
Review, was caller at the Indepen-
dent office on Friday of last week.
Colonel Hecht remarked Saturday
that the loss to his rye crop at present
prices was fully $4,000 up to that
time.
H. J. Click returned Friday from an
auto trip to Glendive and other points
in Montana, where he found plenty of
rain.
D. G.. Dorman, of Great Falls, Mont,
arrived to visit with his mother, Mrs.
Holcomb, and old time friends. He
is engaged in organizing for the nom
partisan league in Montana.
J. J. Beeghly arrived from Rock
Lake, N. D., today to transact bust
ness. He reports an inch of rainfall
Sunday night Rock Lake is located
100 miles northeast of Mnot.
The old board of directors of the
Minot Commercial club will meet at
$3.50 o'clock Friday afternoon and at
S o'clock the new board will meet to
elect officers.
Good local showers fell in this vi
cinity Sunday afternoon. Unfortu-
nately the rain was not general. The
country directly north and south of
Minot has had but little rain.
L. R. Kughn of Surrey informed the
Independent Saturday that he has
given up the idea of getting good
crop Of rye and he is now pasturing
the rye field
Mrs. Alta Hecht of Ida Grove, Ia.
arrived in the city Wednesday and
will make an extended visit at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. w. F..
Borene of 704 First avenue southeast.
D. F. Miller, from 7 miles northeast
of Minot, was in the city Saturday.
He is very optimistic over the outlook
farm and has nut in 700 acres of crop
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we are going to get plenty Of rain to
give us fair crop.
A terrific wind storm visited this
section of the state Wednesday, doing
some damage. A large number Of
globes were blown from the white way
posts thruout the city and many
branches were blown from the trees,
The air was full of dust which had
been picked up in Montana to be de-
posted in North Dakota homes.
The following left for Casselton
Monday to attend the annual conven-
| ton of the w. R. C. of North Dakota
State Pres. Mrs. Truax; State Secre-
tary, Mrs. Otto Gross; Mrs. Hendrix,
Mrs. j. E. McKoane, Mrs. Walker, Miss
Margaret Gross and Jasper Baker.
Mrs. Hunter, the state treasurer, and
Mrs. Stenersen, who have been visit
ing in the east, arrived in Casselton
and are also attending the convention
Lieut.. Otto Gross of Co. D will leave
for Fargo Saturday to join his wife
and daughter, and after visiting
friends there they will make an ex-
tended visit with relatives at Fergus
Falls and Dalton, MINI. They will
visit Otto's brother Paul at Aberdeen
S. D., and his parents at Lemon, S. D.,
returning via Bismarck and Mandan
Herluf Hansen of Maryland town
ship and Ole Furuli of Carpio town
ship, were Minot visitors Saturday.
The formers brother, Jack Hansen,
left last week for Rochester, Mimi, to
have a serious operation performed.
A long time ago he met with an acct
| dent in Montana, his pelvis bone being
broken. This has never healed and the
young man is an invalid.
C. L. Turner Of Paris, ILL.,, arrived
Friday to look after his farming in
terests near brady and his houses and
lots in Minot. 1t had been three years
since he visited North Dakota. III
think more of my brady farm that
ever did," he told an Independent re-
porter. 81 am holding my land for a
hundred dollars an acre." He comes
from a state where land not as good
as ours sells for $3.50 an acre.
Mrs. Charles Scribner of Fifth St.
N. E. left today for Augusta, Me-.
where she goes to adjust an estate in
which the Scribners are interested
Mrs. Scribner will proceed to St. Louis
Mo-, where she will be joined by her
brother, Phil King, a former Minot
boy, who will accompany Mrs. Serb
ner on this trip east.
| Louise, the bright fourteen-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Cath
erman Of Tatman township, brot to
the Independent Office Saturday sew
eral specimens of her work as an ar
fist in water colors. The young lady
copies scenes from postal cards re-
markedly well and has shown such
an aptitude for the work that her
| parents will send her to Iowa, where
she will stay with her grandmother
taking lessons in oil painting.
Mrs. Charlie Hagan and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Julia Knox, of Kittam, Alta.
are visiting old neighbors in Ward