The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-10-31
BRIEF STATE NEWS

II there's still q lining
Through the old clothes shining,
Turn the old suit inside out
Till the boys come homo.
Henry Lambert Of Wilton 10 recov.
ering from wounds received in action
Harvey Arneson of Havana was &C.
cidentally killed in an auto accident
A prairie fire burned over q wide
region near Leonard.
Maj. c. F. Mudgett, Of Valley City,
has been promoted to lieutenant col
onel in France.
Jimmy" O'Brien, former convict in
the North Dakota pen, is now General
Pershing's personal barber in France.
Fifty-eight pure-bred hogs were
sold for $4,000 at county sale held
at Fargo one day last week.
Fifteen persons were indicted at
Linton for participating in the killing
of Mrs. E. Z. Perras.
George Maynard's auto was smash
ed by 500 train when it stalled on
the track near Kensal, Maynard escap-
ing unhurt.
Herman J. Groth, farmer, pleaded
guilty at Enderlin to the charge of
issuing checks on bank in which he
had no account.
Frank r. Lynch, grain buyer at
Ayr, was arrested for docking 30
pounds off each load of grain purchas-
ed.
AS result of experimenting with
shot gun shells, Milton Peterson Of
Po1forr hoI - hic Fooo hon
daged this week.
The promiscuous use of gopher poi
son in many parts of the state is blam-
ed for the shortness of the prair:iG
chicken crop this year.
The Elmwood farm, comprising $50
acres, belonging to former Governor
E. Y. Sarles and brother, has been
sold to Iowa parties at $125 an acre.
Charles Laakso, a tailor, shot and
killed himself in Island Park at Far
go, where he was employed for many
years.
A farmer of Drake sold two hogs
last week which brought him S1O7.l0.
Another farmer sold two which
brought him $1,000.
Gunder Olson, of Grafton, has re-
turned from DEBORAH, Iowa, Where ne
attended the funeral Of his mother,
who died at the age of sc.
Employment bureaus operating un-
der government direction have been
advised to speed up the sending Of la
borers to war munitions centers.
E.. Taylor, former superintendent
of public instruction, as been assign
ed to army reconstruction. work in
Washington.
] The Methodist church at Balfour
has taken on another color. FIRST II
was Rev. White, then Rev. Brown,
and now it is Rev. Green. 3ezi
The federal employment bureau is
4 out with an order directed to men en-
gagged in non-essential occupations,
telling them to get into war work.
Seventeen farmers have paid into
the Balfour Red Cross branch the pro-
ceeds of their acre donations. The
amount was $20405. s
The special stock train of SO cars,
scheduled to leave Killdeer several
days ago, was delayed owing to the
fact that over half Of the shippers and
cowboys were sick with the "fiu."
One dairying company has refused
to deliver milk at Bismarck on the
basis Of 10 cents quart, plus cent
for delivery, permitted by the county
'fair price, committee. It had set IL
cents as it's price.
An automobile with North Dakota
license No. 7949, ran into a team OF
horses near Almont with the result
that one of the horses was killed in
stantly and the other was badly in
iured. The driver of the car did not
stop.
A sad accident happened north of
Gascoyne lately when Harold Dahl
strom, years old, was accidentally
shot by his brother Of II years. The
bows were with their father, Frank
Wahlgren, in the hay field when the
accident occurred
Leo Reynolds, aged 10, and Robert,
aged 6, each lost an arm by the ex-
plosion of stick Of dynamite they
found. They are sons of Charles Rey-
nolds, of Hoople, formerly OF Sheldon.
The home of j. M. Devine, superin-
tendent of the state training school,
was badly damaged by fire while the
family was away. They arrived nome
to find the structure in flames.
A gasoline lamp in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. R. B. Swan of Granville, ex-
ploded last week and they nearly lost
their home as result Both were
burned more or less
Amos smeltzer, wealthy farmer
residing near Cando, Towner county,
! v,s o,.rastad hv e. D. Scott deputy
United States marshal, on a warrant
charging him with disloyal and sedi-
tious utterances.
Gottlieb Mundt, who was arrested
at Minnewaukan on charge Of be-
ing an unregistered German alien en-
envy, was released after a hearing in
federal court before Jude Amidon. The
prisoner was found to be native OF
Russian Poland.
A. J. Billings, for rs years grain,