The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-06-13
Farmers and MinOt Citizens Clear the
Rock From Linha 32O-acre Farm
in Short Order-Greatest "Bee''
the State Has Ever Seen.

the State Has Ever Seen.
Fully thousand farmers and citi-
zens of Minot worked like Trojans at
the Frank Linha Red Cros farm
four miles northeast of the city last
Monday afternoon and in less than
four hours they had dug and hauled
practically every rock from the land
This is the farm where the state trac.
tor demonstration will be held next
week and which has kindly been given
to the Ward County Red Cross Chap.
ter by Mr.. Linha for use for a season
or two.
When Secretary Holbein, of the Mi
not Association Of Commerce, sent out
his S. o. S. call for 500 men to dig
rock, he didn't imagine that thous-
and would answer, but they did. The
city took half holiday. The lawyers,
merchants office men, draymen,
clerks-in fact about everybody able
to bear down on a crow bar, donned
working clothes and despite the fact
that the thermometer stood 1O2 de-
grees in the shade and about 12O in
the sun, went out to the farm. The
Minot Musicians band played concert
on the street at one o'clock to remind
everybody of what was going on and
scores of autos lined up on the pave
ment to carry the willing workers out
to the farm. The land which is a
mile long by half mile wide, was
dotted with men armed with spades,
shovels, picks and crow bars, in no
time, and by two-thirty o'clock, prac-
tlcally all of the rock had been dug.
Many farmers kindly came in with
their teams and wagons and lent val
liable assistance in hauling off the
rock which were dumped in great
piles where they would be out Of the
Way~pFifteen men could often be seen
throwing the rock onto one wagon and
j. H. Cover, one of the farmers, was
so anxious to see the work proceed,
that he permitted his wagon to be
loaded until it was partially wrecked.
Several auto trucks were used in haul
ing off the rock.
One woman, Mrs. Alice Lewis, drove
one Of the wagons and assisted in
throwing off the rock, some good sized
ones too. By four o'clock all of the
rock with the exception of very few
large ones, which could not be load
ed on wagons, had been removed from
the field, and these are being taken
off on stone boats.
The men worked hard. Soft handed
business and professional men DEM
onstrated that they were not so very
tender after all. Work in their war
gardens undoubtedly accounted for
much of their vigor. There We're real
ly too many men to work all of the
time, but the writer didn't hear any,
body making any complaint. The
work was all done up in good time and
the immense crowd gathered and en-
joyed Red Cross Bevo and ice cream,
served by the Red Cross ladies of
Minot.
A welcome luncheon consisting of
coffee and sandwiches furnished by the
women Of Minot was enjoyed and be-
fore the crowd left for town, an ef-
fort was made to get everyone to reg
lister. Undoubtedly a good many
failed, but we herewith publish the
of some seven or eight hum
dred who assisted in the work:
A. J. Eddy, Minneapolis; Alfred
Peterson, Theo. Meyer, Grover Wheel
er, A. N Wysong, Cost Krosbos, T. A.
Callahan, Hirschel Hadler, Melvin
Estlick, E. Fowler, C. A. Cox, VIM. H.
Hadler, L. Gikling, E. J. Isliefson,
George Truman, J. A. French, Fred J.
Veth, H. M. Gay, L. G. Theurer, H.
T oipo III D Eo1, Co1 w., N,oJo VIZ
A. Anderson, E. B. Ronning, ]. E.
Devereaux, H. S. Cole, Chas. Hchnes,
J. j. Nedreloe, C. E. Colcord, Jerry
O'Leary, Ray Anderson, John Busse,
G. D. Colcord, Jack Parker, Mervin
Steele, G. w. Larson, Gordon Chris
tenson, Raymond O'Leary, Jay Har-
becan, F. B. Lambert, Arnold Longe-
van, Floyd Bush, Robert Strosdin, D.
P. Pierce, B. j. Benson, T. 0. Cum
w. J. McAllen, A. A. Quack-
enbush, o. M. De La, j. e. Harmon,
J. A. Novak, Orville w. Chaplin, Ar
bury Abel, Ralph Van Fleet, L. L. Lo-
gan, w. R. Bond, Louie Smith, H. j.
Davidson, J. Hodgman, D. R. Brey,
o. Kvalstad, w. T. Farior, r. E. Bar
ron, H. E. Byorum, John H. Nelson,
T.. 1ouHS, CllHCOu IOCCeT, Will T.. hui
bein, o. M. Champlin, H. Gordon, Bill
Vandersluis, Mrs. G. w. Twiford,
Fred Hines, S. E. Van Fleet, Chas. A.
Almy, Mrs. A.. A. Robinson, Lou Hall,
Hazel Crabbe, Mrs. T. j. Power, Mrs.
G. E. Almy, Mrs., Newell Olson, Orlyn
Marie Kelley, Mrs. Nc
Hugh, Mrs. Fichtenau, Mrs. G. r.
Bierly, Mrs. H. M: Wilson, B. W. o.
son, Miss Green, Miss Mary Mulick,
J. M. Young, E. H. Laurence, Tossie
Young, Mrs. Frettem, Mrs. j. R. Mill
er, Miss Vivian Miller, Miss Evalyn
Frettem, R. Rasmussen, J. T. Wilson,
J. H. Cover, Rix R. Hathaway, Or
lando Brown, Stewart Dougall, Bert
Bacon, Bert Todd, Catherine Ehr, ALI
Ostby, Paul St. Germain, Clint Dier-
dorff, DR.. Householder, A "A. Robin
son, j. H. Scofield, H. j. Halvorson, F.
w. Youngman, Geo. Cummings, Ray
Moore, Mrs. G. D. Colcord, Mrs. ]. ].
Coyle, Mrs. ]. L. Devine, Mrs. Lee H.
Feehan, Mary E. Feehan, Alice Purdy,