The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-09-05

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North Dakota men who gave up
their lives in France were Cook Mar
tin A. Jacobson, Litchville; Private
Gordon NJ. Lindgren, Cooperstown;
Private Andrew Olson, Hastings; and
Private Phillip M. Paulson, Beach.
Elmer. the 14-year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. S. C. Madsen, was accident
| ally drowned two miles east of Mo-
hall. He and another boy we're bathing
and went down in about seven feet OF
water. Life was extinct when help
arrived.
Miss LaRocque, a nurse of the Ken
mare hospital, was severely bruised
up when an auto in which she and
other nurses were enjoying an even
ing spin. blew out front tire, swerv-
ed to the rocky roadside and collided
with wire fence so as to be over
turned.
Sergeant Clyde A. Neer, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Neer of Alexander,
was crushed to death under the
wheels of a troop train on which he
had just returned from New York to
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in the first draft last fall
Mrs. William Mcdonald of Fort
! Clark is in the Mandan hospital suf-
fering from fractured skull as re-
suit of blow which she received on
the head when the wind blew down
a cellar door just as she started up
the cellar stairs from the basement
Of err home:
Drawing into her lungs flames of
fire communicated to her clothing by
the flare-up of a fire in the kitchen
stove which she was attempting to
hasten with kerosene, Mrs. Nellie Mel
son, SO, wife of Oscar Nelson of Hills
boro, ran into the bedroom where Mr..
Nelson was sleeping and fell across
his bed, dead.
While driving the binder home af-
ter completing the seasons grain cut
ting, Miss Vera Petrich of Enderlin
had one of her fingers badly crushed
in the gears Of the machine. The
Young lady has operated binder on
her fathers farm throughout the past
harvest season.
Lieutenant John A. Forseth of
Grand Forks fell 1000 feet while fly
ing in France and is recovering IN a
French hospital He writes his par
ents that he was leading three other
Americans toward the German lines
when his machine was struck by
shrapnel. 1t fell. He was bruised
and internally injured but said his re-
coyerv was assured. Before the war
Forseth made exhibition flights.
Within few weeks Mott will have
federal labor bureau. At present
there are eight federal labor bureaus
in the state and twelve more are to be
established as soon as possible, name
" at Wahpeton, Williston, Valley
City, Dickinson, Beacs, Cakes, Het-
finger, Schafer, Crosby, Rugby, Man
dan and Mott.
With the death in action in France
of Samuel Kartenson of Gardar, N.
D., member Of company c, First
North Dakota infantry, the Kartenson
family is wiped out. Just few
months ago his brother, Barnard,
died at Camp Dodge Of pneumonia.
Their parents died several years ago
A Grand Forks, county wheat raiser
has had all his fields raked after the
shocks were removed and CLEANED
grain amounting to about bushel to
the acre. One man with a team gath
cred in $50 worth of wheat in a days
work. The $50 possibly cut no great
figure in this case. The main idea
was that this is bad time to allow
good wheat to go to waste. 1t is the
principal ingredient you see in the
preparation of "hard tack" for the
haversacks of the soldier boys. f,-