The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-11-14
MINOT and VICINITY


Mrs. Louie Smith is reported very
seriously i'll with the influenza.
Marius Erickson is out after cou-
pie of weeks illness with the flu.
j. Fl. Burns, the Surrey "smithy'
was in the city on business Monday.
Miss Hazel Pinkerton was taken to
the hospital today suffering from the
influenza.
J. L. McKinnon, prominent Sawyer
merchant was business visitor to the
city Wednesday.
Leonard Williams, of Froid, Mont,
is receiving treatment at St. Joseph's
hospital for heart trouble.
A little hard coal has arrived in
Minot and is being doled out to those
who use hard coal burners.
De Molay Commandery No. 10,
Knights Templar, resumed meetings
for the season Monday night.
Dan Conan, who had gone to Sanish
to move his household goods to Bur-
lington, was taken ill with the flu.
"Billy" Olson, of the Dakota Motor
Sales Co., is out after an illness of
six weeks with the flu and compli-
cations.
J. E. O'Hara returned Saturday
from Havre Montana. He reports
quite a heavy fall of snow all the way
from that city to Minot.
The snow which fell recently in this
section has all disappeared. Autos
are making cross country trips tho
the roads are slushy and travel is slow.
Mrs. Stoll and little grandson
Lewis Stoll of Sanish were among the
visitors to the city Wednesday. w.
G. Stoll, also of Sanish, was in the city
the first of the week.
Cotton took a sudden drop of $40 a
bale the day after the armistice was
signed Perhaps we can afford to
buy cotton patches for our old trous-
ers after all. -,
H. L. Glazer, the hide man, is i'll
with the flu, and so is his bookkeep-
er, Joe Harris. L. Harris, Joe's faith
err, arrived from Williston to see his
son, who is improving. .
Richard Drinski and family will
leave for Crown Point, Ind, next week
to spend the winter with Mrs. Drin-
skis parents. Mr.. Drinski expects to
return in the spring.
Edwin Reighart, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. W. H. Reighart, who has been in
the navy for some time, has made a
round trip across the Atlantic and is
now on his way across again.
H. A. Kluver, the Burlington bank
er, was a visitor to the city Tuesday.
Henry has just recovered from a SER
ious tussle with the flu, which reduc-
ed his weight quite appreciably.
Clarence Ferry, prominent rancher
and farmer at Towner, died Monday
Of influenza. Mr. Ferry was one Of
the pioneers of the Mouse River loop,
having settled in the vicinity Of Town.
er 80 years ago.
Fritz Reishus of this city who has
been in France training for months,
said in his last letter that he was all
ready to proceed to the front and I'M
dotibtedly he got his chance to 60 over
the top before the fighting ceased.
Harry Watson, Ray and Milo Bax-
ter, and two other Sanish residents,
arrived in the city Wednesday,, They
were two days on the road and report
enc roads in terrible condition as a
CONSCIENCE of the snow. fall and the
thaw which followed. yIe ps n .
20 Mrs. C. F. Truax returned today
from Sanish, where she was called to
nurse Mrs, Douglas Glib, who has
been very ill. Mrs. Truax became i'll
herself and upon her return home
found her son Charles suffering from
very severe attack of influenza.
T. R. Burke, clerk of Passport town.
ship, was in the city Friday He re-
ports that Frazier beat Doyle 16 to 5.
Scofield and Anderson got 8 each.
Herigstad 10; Eide 6; Spicher IS,
Hennessy 4; Wendt 8, Waller 13;
Macdonald 18, Nelson 3; Bronson IA,
| Fisk 6. Amendments carried II to
2.
When the false United Press report
was flashed over the wire last Thurs
day that the armistice had been sign
ed, Chicago, Minneapolis, and many
of the larger cities started great Vic
tory celebrations. The report reach
ed North Dakota, but for once Minot
didn't bite. Towner and some of the
other towns celebrated, however.
1gnatz Hauser, prominent Foxholm
farmer, was in the city today coming
down for the purpose of filling out his
QUESTIONABLE, but was able to return
home by the next train upon learning
that Uncle Sam will not require the
services of men in his class, now that
there is every probability of an early
termination of the European conflict.
c. E. Smith arrived recently from
Bentley, Alta, and will spend the win
ter with his daughters, Mrs. VIM. Est
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