The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-11-28
AROUND THE STATE

The Joy Rider
He burns up gasoline with glee,
His time and purse bestowing,
And no spot ever seems to be
The place where he was going.
Artesian wells at the state asylum
at jamestown are going dry.
Women will be permitted to take
examination for railway mail clerks
Nov. 80 for the first time.
The Stanley Sun reports the death
of Louis Anderson of Blaisdell, form
er county commissioner of Mountrail
county.
A report is current that State Sup
erintendent of Public Instruction Neil
c. Macdonald will be made state COM
missioner of education after the close
of his term of office December 1.
Two wheat thieves, who recently OPP
Grated in the Mapleton vicinity, were
given years sentence each, in the
state penitentiary, after pleading
guilty before Judge Cole at Fargo.
A wild joy ride of George Paronto,
a Fargo barber, cost him 500 in pol
ice court. He must also settle with
M. l.. Lasson, who he run over, and
for damage to the Gardner Hotel
building.
Forty suits of mems clothes, nine
mems overcoats and five mems cham
ois-lined vests were the loot of rob-
bers who entered the Wolcott Mer-
camille Co.'s store at Wolcott, Cass
county.
Victory Pershing, is the name CIV
en- to a baby boy who made his ap-
pearance at the C. C. Wolfe home at
Raleigh last Monday morning shortly
after word was flashed over the wires
that peace had been declared.
Thomas Isaac Yuder, % years of
Mennonite church, drafted into the vo-
cational army training group at the
A. c., refused to don a Uniform and
said he wouldn't kill fellow man.
He changed his mind in time to es-
cape court-martial.
The lure of the French maidens
proved too much for Ole Peterson,
former car clerk of the Northern Pa
ciic at Dickinson. He has been in
the service of his country overseas
4 for several months and according to
information contained in letters to
relatives his future home in France.
| Fire originating in an empty build
ing destroyed the entire south block
of Forest River. The fire started at
4 o'clock a. m. and within an hour the
block had been swept, every building
in it being RACED. The loss will be
at least $4,000, and is partly covered
by insurance. A little merchandise
was saved. The origin of the fire is
not known.
Attorney and Mrs. P. J. Engeseth
of Wilton left Saturday for Bismarck
where they expect to make their fu-
ture home. Mr.. Engeseth has taken
charge Of the Public Opinion, one
of Bismarck's weeklies. The sheet
is owned by number of farmers of
Burleigh county, among whom is Mr.
Engeseth's father-in-law. The paper
is non-partisan in politics.
The Bismarck committee for the
Fatherless Children of France, of
which Mrs. N. C. Ramsted is chairman
and Mrs. R. Worth Lumy secretary is
asking the capital city to adopt 400
fatherless French children and to sup
ply the funds which will assure a
mothers care for these tots in their
own homes. The amount required for
each child is 10 cents day or $36.50
year. Bismarck already has adopt
ed about 100 French children, sub
scribing for their care more than 49,
| 600.
Under the provision of new time
zone order, promulgated at Washing
ton by the interstate commerce COM
mission, Minot, instead of Willston,
is made the boundary line for chang
ing time. Heretofore on the Great
Northern line the change from Gen.
trail ito Mountain time has been made
just west of Williston, while on the
N. P. line it has been made at Man.
dan, nearly ITS miles east of Willis
ton. The new time changing line
runs from Portal to Minot and Good
all, N. D. and thence along the Mis-
souri, river to Pierre, S. D.
During the meeting of the Short
horn Breeders annual sale last week
at Grand Forks, President Wilde of
the State Live Stock association made
the suggestion that something should
be done to relieve the labor situation
in the state, and this led to the i'm
mediate drawing up by J. D. Bacon
of petition to be signed by farm
ers throughout the state asking Her.
bert C. Hoover, national food admin
istrator, to use his influence to get
releases from the service for as many
1 men as possible, to help with the ne
cessary farm work next spring.
DR.. May Fleming, formerly con-
nected with Bismarck hospital, es-
capped Turkish cruelty in Persia, where
she was connected with the Presbyter-
ian hospital at Tebris, since 1914, ac-
cording to word received. DR.. Flem-
ing and other American members of
the staff were driven from the hos
pital at Tebris early last summer, and
nothing further was learned of her
fate until this week, when Miss Ruby