The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-03-14
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North Dakota is so bone-dry that
often the streets on a Saturday after
noon smell like home made active
distillery
Frank Busta, Lidgerwood, writes
home that the American steamer on
which he sailed made 1000 extra
miles to miss the sub zone.
We knew that we had lots of them
in this country but didn't know what
to call them until the bolsheviki hove
to the front.
An exchange says that two ounces
of speech per senator wouldn't be a
bad rule in conservation work And
make that per week.
And while we think about it-con-
serve wheat and beef and pork and
fats and sugar, and in so doing do
your bit for the boys cover there"
The Great Northern trains are now
running SO nearly on time that the
company is considering dispensing
with the service of the call boys.
Falky says there are too many
young fellows at Bottineau carrying
revolvers. He admonishes them to
enlist in the army and tote a gun right
if they are bound to tote one.
Someone broke into Editor Hale's
coal bin at Maxbass the other night
and swiped bunch of coal. The ed
itor says that is the second time his
coal bin has been visited this winter.
One of the beauties of North Dako-
ia is that there are no humming aer-
oplanes to detract ones glances down.
ward while silk stockings are in vogue
and the girls want you to know they
are we'll fed at home.
Lloyd w. Spetz, "a years old, of Bis
marck, was killed in action on March
! in France. A card recently receiv-
ed by his mother ended with the words
eve start on trip tomorrow, but that
is all can tell you here"
For steady weather, March is as ir-
regular, unsteady, wobbly, belar-eyed,
hollow checked, and as indispensable
as a kalsomine blonde coming down
town from the Restricted" districts
at IL a. M, seeing green Lizards,
water snakes and submarines thous-
and miles from the open seas.
Ollie Bostow sent a pair of shoes
to his father in Russia Saturday. The
shoes are to be given to a brother in
the Russian army. Mr.. Bostow stat
ed that he paid Sc for the pair but
in Russia the same pair, if it could be
bought, would cost $50 or more.-Ben-
edict Banner.
The high cost of living has been
materially reduced in some certain
sections and the smoke house located
on the lots back of the Schwartz Mar
ket at New Rockford, which burned
Saturday night assisted in doing it.
The Schwartz Brothers had large
number Of hams in this smoke house
which they were smoking for various
families in the city, and sometime
during Sunday night the smoke house
was broken into by some unregenerate
son-of-a-gun and all the hams taken.
Arthur says he has very strong sus-
picion as to where they are and some
Of these days there is going to be
something bidding" with the high
sheriff at the business end of a search |
warrant. The hams are valued at
something like seventy dollars-a real
lift even if some of the days of the
week are supposed to be meatless.
A scribe for one of our exchanges
has the following: ut SHOWS and
blows and stings your nose, makes all
creation SILVER, it bites your toes, in
creases your woes and freezes up the
river. The frost nips all, both great
and small, this dismal, dreary wea-
Their; it freezes type, it bursts the
pipe and vexes some the printer. |
So let her roll, we mean the coal, it |
takes the cash in winter; now please
be kind, make up your mind to settle
with the printer"
An exchange says it is probable
that if LANCER and some others of the
state officers would preach loyalty and
show their loyalty to the government
in their tours about the state instead
of hustling for votes at every oppor-
tunity there would be less accusa-
tions of them being pro-Germans.
LANCER looks suspicious to good Am
erican in his efforts to stop the war
pictures on Sunday when there are
much bigger violations of the law go
ing on right under his nose all the
time from which he might get the
publicity that he is always longing
for and which is foremost in his mind
in all his efforts.
Charles D. Sloan, prominent farmer
living four miles south of Hazelton,
was shot and instantly killed, R. S.
Piatt, a half brother of Sloan, was
probably fatally wounded by Clar-
ence White when the latter shot down
Sloan as he stepped out of his automo-
bile early today, firing three shots in
rapid succession into Sloan's body be-
fore he fell. A quarrel over family
matters, it is believed, was the cause
of the shooting. Piatt was shot down
by White when after learning of the
murder OF. his half brother he rushed
home for gun and faced White, who
was still in the street. Piatt took
long shot at White but missed, while
White escaped into a store, closely
followed by Piatt. Inside, several
shots were exchanged, and Piatt final
ly fell with bullet through his left
eye and two in his body. White, who