The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-01-17
AROUND THE STATE

! ANOONO he > ALE
The man who wins is the man who
works,
The man who tolls while the next
man shirks;
The man who stands in his deep dis
tress
With head held high in the deadly
press;
Yes, he is the man who wins.
A Lansford man lost eight cousins
and nephews in the Halifax disaster. =
The Parshall Leader claims to have
Bear, a Rabbit and an Eagle on it's
subscription list, and now wants to
add Wolf.
The British originated the phrase
"doing our bit" An exchange sug-
gests that this be Americanized to
"Do Your Damdest."
Already plans are being made for
the next Liberty Loan campaign in
North Dakota. The date of the next
loan is still indefinite.
Editor Varty of Bantry tells the Ia
dies that Easter comes on March 31st
this year. He wants them to have
plenty of time to get their bonnets.
DR.. Kolb of Granville reports four
cases of diphtheria in farm home
near Karlsruhe. The cases are of
such a nature that it is doubtful if
all will recover.
AS Walt Taylor, the sweet singer
from LaMoure puts it: winter is
here-summer has went; some of us
haven't laid up a cent"
The first sack of flour from the
Deering mill sold for SIS and the five
! spot was turned over to the Red
Cross.
The Nonpartisan League has or
ganized new bank at Fargo and will
put one in at Grand Forks. The more
the merrier
! A two-days farmers institute under
the direction Of the state department
of agriculture and labor will be held
at Velva the first part Of February.
A Lansfo1d lawyer entertained a
bunch of friends at Christmas dinner
and his wife was absent from home.
No deaths or illness from gorging are
reported.
Because she would not pay a bill
which she claimed already paid, Mrs.
Christine Weideman, aged and feeble,
of Charleston, was severely beaten by
A. z. Tveten Of that place.
Mrs. Susan Springer, a former well
known society woman of Devils Lake,
once well-to-do, highly educated and
with plenty Of money, was committed
| to the jamestown hospital last week,
after having been adjudged insane.
Talk about mean disposition;
Listen to this. A Chicago mans di-
vorced wife sent him photograph,
showing him in the Prince Albert coat
| three-quart hat and foolish smile he
/ wore, at his marriage with her.
Money taken in from the sale of
furniture made by the chilren of the
manual training department of the
Gackle city schools, will go toward
purchasing further equipment for this
department.
The Souris Messenger breaks into
the limelight when it remarks that
knitting is proving to be Godsend to
the idle hands Of the country, and
adds: Now if we could find some en-
ployment for the idle tongues, we
would be going some."
Alex schauer, known to the base
ball world as "Rube" Schauer, under
manager Connie Mack, Of the Phila-
delphia Athletics, and who has con-
tract calling for his speed and curves
in the games of the 1918 season, is
visiting his parents at Garrison.
Olaf X. Fjetland, who was in
charge of the Scranton Register at
one time and for the past several
years publisher of the Lennon Trib.
une, is now in Uncle Sans service
having enlisted in the aviation depart
ment several weeks ago.
All glory to the men Of Van Hook
Henry Pfundheller, Pete Shefveland
Otto Ulrich and C. Cottingham have
formed a knitting class and are doing
"their bit" knitting sweaters for ou1
soldier boys.
F. w. Fromke, president of the
Ransom County Trust Co., and one
of Sheldon's best business men, drop.
ped dead at his winter home in Lake