The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-06-28
AROUND THE STATE

Little beams OF mOOnSn1ne,
Little hugs and kisses,
Make little maiden
Change her name to Mrs.
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Golden Valley is beginning to feel
the effects of an early l. w. w. invas-
ion.
A woman blackmailer is arrested at
Detroit, Mimi, nd is brot back to Dick
inson for trial.
Bad boys at Stanton seem to take
keen delight in destroying trees in the
town park.
A young man with ffty-seven quarts
of booze in his possession is arrested
at Velva.
Glendale city council has the second
time refused to grant. pool hall Ii
censes.
Seven more men have enlisted from
Havana, giving that village patriotic
quota of fourteen.
It is announced that Harold Thorson
of Drake has given $4,000 to the re-
Gently organized Norwegian Lutheran
Church of America.
H. E. Sievert, formerly of the
Wyndmere Pioneer, has purchased the
Lake Crystal Union in Blue Earth
county, MINI.
H. Bartholemu is arrested at Devils
Lake and returned to jamestown,
charged with issuing checks on banks
in which he had no funds.
w. T. Craswell of Valley City heads
the North Dkota Firemen's assocja-
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is reelected secretary.
Fargo is opening it's market place
for two days week and it is believed
that the booths will soon be very gen.
orally in use.
The first verdict for damages in the
new county of Grant was against the
N. P. railroad whose train cut off All
arm and leg of child that had gone
to sleep on the track.
4 Grand Forks cops "copped" two
pickpockets Tuesday within three
hours after H. Coleman of Kentucky,
reported the theft of $500 at the Nor
them Pacific depot.
Bottineau county authorities are on
the trail of the male stripe who jumps
out with Lillian Blair, fourteen year
old girl. Sheriff Mclean is on the
track of Roy Earsley, the man wanted.
While engaged in target practice
with friends on the outskirts of Me-
dina, Sunday, Carl Hoglund was prob
ably fatally wounded when a bullet
from .22-calible rifle glanced from
the target and entered his abdomen.
| Fifty thousand dollars will be dis
tributed from July in sums ranging
from $50 to $50 in pensions to 700
North Dakota national guardsmen who
served on the Mexican border. The
pension is rated at $40 per month
for the period of actual service.
Two men at Garrison were arrested
for breaking into Geo. L. Robinson's
store and stealing a large quantity of
silks, suits and other valuable stock.
They cached the goods and at night
went back after them-and that's how
they got caught.
The Bismarck Palladium advertises
itself to be purveyor of perfect
printing for particular people at pain
less prices. Perspiring poets perhaps
periodically produce precious, pointed,
|pithy photographic pearls; pious
preachers and presumptious peda-
gogues probably presume to predicate
profound platitudes- perhaps the
pretty platter properly is the property
of Friend Knappen, at that.
A trio of accidents at Souris last
week kept the town guessing as to
who's next. Hector Mclean is just
recovering from an injury received
from kick in the face by one of the
old family horses; Lawrence Gumble
was struck on the nose by the startin o
crank of Condit's tractor, and w. c.
Fairweather is carrying "beauty
spot" on his forehead as result of the
old family ak bouncing off the clothes
line unto the fore part of his Uranium.
Angered when youngsters pelted
him with mud balls, tramp plumber
working at the new high school build
ing in Mandan, turned and threw a
wrench into the crowd. the heavy tool
striking Mile Hedtke. 12-year-old
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Hedtke,
just above the eye. The little girl was
rendered unconscious by the blow. one