The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-02-21

| ter IMAM keeping CHe company luCdcC,
for should the company, as it left Mi
not have gone into action and suffer-
ed heavy losses, those losses would
have come as a heavy blow upon To-
cal community.
At Cando, N. D., town of less than
recently Melted more than $1400. Ev-
erything from jars Of jelly to straw
stacks were auctioned.
Mrs. w. J. Steer Of Mott received
word recently that her brother, Frank
Armstrong had been accidentally killed
in fall down an elevator shaft in an
automobile factory in Seattle, Wash!
Mrs. Steer left Immediately to attend
the funeral.
! The organization of an Order of
Eastern Star was launched at Killdeer
last week with charter membership
of seventeen. Mrs. R. S. Davidson
was elected worthy matron; Mrs. T.
! G. Johnson, associate matron, and R.
l.. Wilcox, worthy patron.
With a majority of SIG out of to-
tai of 2,198 votes cast, the citizens Of
/ Fargo last week authorized bond is
sue of $240,000 to partly pay for the
combination grade and high school
building that the board of education
will erect on the site of the present
f, Central high school.
! Antelope are increasing in large
numbers near the state line between
North and South Dakota. A herd of
I 1876 animals made their appearance in
the country north Of Bualo, S. D., re-
Gently Strict enforcement of the
game law is helping the increase.
Hugo Speier, North Dakota sales
man for Barnhart Bros. & Spindler,
type founders, of St. Paul, left for the
Minnesota capital to join Uncle Sans
forces. Hugo will be missed by the
newspaper fraternity Of the state, and
we hope he may return safe and with
honors.
i The gun club at Sanish pulled a
turkey shoot for the benefit Of the
Red Cross, and neat sum was raised.
The fat men Of Stanley have staged
basket ball game for Red Cross
benefit which will be played in the
near future
Awakened by smoke, members of
the Abel Bellmore family near Par
shall escaped from their burning home
into the sub-zero weather clad only in
their night clothes. In their bare feet
they went 300 yards to neighbours
place, suffering from the extreme cold.
Mr.. Bellmore's feet were frozen.
John Zeigler, 2O-year-old farm
hand, said to have confessed to Chief
Martinson and Deputy Sheriff WEIGH
of Bismarck that he twice assaulted a
] 12-year-old school girl, living south Of
/, the tracks, was bound over by Judge
Blackreid on Thursday on charge Of
rape in the first degree
The Dickey County Leader, printed
at Glendale for thirty-fve years, and
brim full of good news, starts its
readers to going in the following man.
ner:
Dear readers Of the Leader,
Just turn your eye this way;
And note what Western Dickey"
Of interest has to say.
DR.. C. ]. McGurren, superintendent
! of the state board Of health, is chal-
lenged by Mrs. Lora G. Little, lecturer
for the Medical Freedom Education
committee, and who Is now touring
North Dakota, to joint debate on the
subject: Resolved, that vaccination
is benefit to mankind" Mrs. Little
is making tour of this state with the
4 object of arousing the public to what
4 she regards as the enormity of the
outrage, vaccination.
/ The price of a good quarter section
Of land loaded onto two sleighs was
hauled to town last Saturday when Fl
i A. Nelson of Ray hauled in two loads
of alfalfa seed to be shipped to out
side markets. Mr.. Nelson has beer