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

and Mouse rivers are now on the
leakage" program at Bismarck.
Two cases of juvenile forgery hap
pened at Larimore.
Some of the hot ones of Caring
ton erect an icehouse, making ready
for the coming ice cream season.
w. F. Anderson will spend $4,000
for the construction Of new ice man.
ufacturing plant at Mandan.
A disastrous fire visits Buttzville.
One of the heaviest losers was Mr..
Buttz, the man who named the town.
Even unto Grant county has the
Sunday lid been extended. First time
in history.
Many eagles of various sizes have
been killed in different parts Of Het-
finger county during the past three
months.
Another bar for booze. Representa-
tive Everson wants the United States
to bar it from getting orders by mail
advertising.
Flasher has an auctioneer named
Snoopy. He sleeps but six hours
day and is far from being in the
''snOoZers" class.
The newly organized Dickinson
Symphony orchestra made it's ap-
pearance at dance on the evening of
January 30th.
The more broad-minded preachers
Of the state are Offering to split the
difference in the enforcing of the
"Blue Laws" on a fifty-ffty basis.
The fourth biennial report of the
North Dakota Game and Fish board
is now out, showing a decided increase
in true craftsmanship prevailing over
the state.
A Kidder county farmer, living
south of Dawson, is credited with
passing to the happy hunting grounds
while loaded with too much Mime
sofa booze.
The Bowman Citizen editor sug-
gests law compelling the male sex
tc shave at least once each day. Judge
Robinson ought to fine this editor for
contempt.
the Missouri river valley, Mandan and
Bismarck fear that there will be un-
usually severe floods in the spring.
Plans are being made by the friends
of ~. C. r." the man Of mystery
for the financing of an appeal Of the
case to the supreme court.
The lid has been clamped down
tight at Beach and Killdeer. No pool
halls, theatres, bowling alley or places
of business with the exception of drug
stores and restaurants will open on
| Sundays in the future.
William Wildish, rural mail carrier
out of Sherwood, travels over his
route warm and comfortable, as he
has installed small soft coal heater
1 in his covered sleigh which keeps the
temperature of the interior just right
George F. Remission, the man who
made the Yellow and Red Trails IA
nous; the man who put over the Dick
inson Normal school and the Medora
bridge, now has charge of the Bis
marck commercial club, which is an
assurance that the Capital city will
now come alive.
About o'clock Monday morning,
Mrs. Michael Westernhausen Of Car
rington, mother of twelve children, re-
ceived injuries from which she died
43 hours later, when a dynamite cap
which had fallen into the coal pile
was put in the stove. Her entire left
side was perforated with the flying
pieces Of iron, the wounds being es-
pecially severe about the abdomen.
The house was wrecked by the ex-
plosion, one side Of the room being
torn out. The dynamite cap had been
on shelf in the coal shed for sew
eral years. It is thought that during
the high wind Sunday the cap was
shaken off the shelf and fell onto the
coal pile. It was brought into the
house in the coal pail Sunday evening.
Mrs. Westernhausen arose early Mon
day morning to replenish the fire in
the heating stove and a short time