The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-01-03
ian battle and is natural beauty

of the nice, easy indoor sports for
Christmas is that of counting the
change you have left. 1t can general
ly be done with one hand.
While cleaning up refuse which re-
suited from the fire that destroyed the
Whiteway garage at Marmath John
McGonagil sustained broken leg
when large trip hammer fell over on
him.
A man passing the kim hotel in
Dickinson the other day was hit by q
falling window; the building lost four
panes from it's front and now the mar
Is N bed with about that many in his
back.
In the late unpleasant GOODNESS the
women of New York city cleaned the
walks and streets of snow, reports the
daily press. Good work. Let them
do it. In North Dakota the women cut
the ice.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. CRUDE of Sanish
are the happy parents of girl. A
little CRUDE now and then is relished
by the best of men. They will prob
ably be blessed with more Grubes
later on.
Rudolph Gjelsness of Adams, who is
in the aviation corps at Jefferson Bar
racks, Mo-, is reported to be seriously
i'll with spinal meningitis. He vas
formerly superintendent of schools at
Adams.
J. II. Jones and Roy Jones of Town
err were arrested last week on a chare,
of threatening to commit an offense
against Felix Thomas. The case was
dismissed against Roy but J. H. Jones
was held under a peace bond.
The three children of Henry Henke
of Center narrowly escaped serious
damage last week when they threw
loaded shot gun. shell on a stove. Fly
ing particles of the exploded shell
struck the children but no bad hurts
resulted.
The depot at Dogden was robbed on
Saturday night. The thief crawed
through the same window, robbed the
same till and got away with the same
amount Of money, $50, that was pulled
off last summer when Paul Brose was
agent.
The Rough Rider hotel at Medora
has been sold to Fred Alternately, a
former St. Paul man. Mr.. and Mrs.
T. E. Johnson will give possession of
the hotel and retire from business on
May /. They have property interests
in St. Paul but have no definite plans
for the future.
Longfellow taught us only half the
lesson when he said: Lives of great
men all remind us, we can make our
lives sublime; and departing, leave
behind US footprints on the sands of
time Leigh Burr, a North Dakota
boy, teaches US the other half in the
following parody:
''Lives of great men must remind us
We should live life sublime,
Or departing, we will find us
With them, in hotter cline"
1t will be interesting to the older
residents of this community to learn
that Dr. A. E. Hills. who was the first
doctor to locate in Berthold but who
has been practicing at LaMoure, has
gone to Tacoma, WASH, where he has
formed a partnership with a surgeon
who is widely known on the western
coast. Mrs Hills was formerly Miss
Lorraine Walther of Berthold.
In horrible accident Robert Nc
Kay, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Mckay, and manager of the Mckay
| farm in Grand Harbor township, had
his right arm caught in the shaft of
the feed mill and torn off, about four
inches below the shoulder. Mr.. Mckay
is now in the General hospital and is
getting along as we'll as might be ex-
pected.
P. H. Marquart of the Slope Center
vicinity, suffered badly frozen hands
and feet when in his haste to put out
fire that started in his shack in the
night. He failed to dress for cold
weather. He went to the we'll to car
ry water with which to put out the fire
and in his hurry did not put on his
shoes. After he carried sufficient
water to put out the fire he realized
that his hands and feet were badly
frozen as we'll as being burnt by step
ping on live Goals.
Ralph Shafer and D. w. Enyart,
who about a year ago happened on an
Indian reservation with a quantity of
liquor in their possession, pleaded
guilty in federal court at Bismarck.
Each was fined 500 and sentenced to
GO days in Jail. Thirty days of the
sentence was suspended, they to ap-
pear before Federal Judge Amidon at
the expiration of the first thirty days,
then to commence serving time or re-
ceive further communication, as the
judge may see fit.
The newspaper boys generally and
the many other friends Throughout
this section of the state will be sorry
to learn that Editor Knutson of the
Ray Pioneer is in the Williston hospi-
tai suffering from an attack of appen-
dicitis. He was suffering for several
days with what he thought was only
stomachache until it got so severe
that he called in the doctor. He told
him to go to the hospital at once. He
was operated on and it was found that
the appendix had burst At the pres
ent writing he is getting along very
nicely and we trust that he will be
able to attend to business again in
few weeks.