The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-12-19
AROUND THE STATE

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Cass county threshed 6,167,977|
buhels Of grain last fall.
American soldiers, though wounded,
never complain, writes Capt. L. B.
Hanna, former governor.
A big horse sale scheduled at Mar
marth, has been called off.
Only Is overseas soldier votes have
been returned to Grand Forks county.
Edgar Hoover, federal prisoner in|
the Richland county Jail at Wahpeton,
sawed his way to liberty.
Winter sports will be featured in|
Fargo at big ice carnival to be held
New Years day.
The open sugar bowl is back on the
tables in North Dakota hotels and res
| taurants.
Fargo has taken steps to secure the
100000 post office planned when war
was declared.
Nine deaths resulted from the flu
epidemic at Beach during the past
week.
The Grand Forks county farm bu-
reau has asked an extra Appropriation
for the furtnerance Of it's work.
County farm agents in North Da-
kota and conducting fight on black
leg.
Jack Page, former Fargo and Grand
Forks baseball player, died in St. Paul
one day last week.
Memorial services were held Sun.
day at Bismarck for Private Ralph
McGarvey, who recently died of
wounds.
M. Albert Roach, Canton, New
York, is seeking trace Of Phinnas
Roach, who lived in the Bismarck dis
trict rs years ago.
The Bismarck Commercial club has
invited l.. B. Hanna, Fargo, former
governor, to address the club at an
early meeting.
Ray Blair, former Sanish boy, is
listed as having lost both Of his legs
in the worlds war.
| The nineteen-nineteen convention of
the North Dakota Sunday school asso-
citation will be held at Mandan.
The Equity Cooperative Packing
Co., of Fargo, will increase it's capital
stock from 81 100000 to $3,00O,OO0.
The annual meeting of the North
Dakota Implement eDalers' associa-
ton will be held at Fargo January o.
1924
A permanent memorial for North
Dakota soldiers, to include a museum
and meeting place for future reunions,
is proposed by H. J. Hagen of Fargo
Governor Frazier, scheduled to at
tend the National Nonpartisan league
convention at St. Paul, was unable to
leave Bismarck because of business.
The Northern Red Cross division,
which includes North Dakota, is the
only division in the United States to
report 100 per cent complete on nurse
questionnaires.
The National Nonpartisan league
convention held in St. Paul last week
raised A. C. Townley's salary from
SO, 600 to $4,000 year.
In a head-on collision between two
freight trains Thanksgiving day a
number of freight cars were thrown
from high em1bankment two miles
| west of Mahto. The cars caught fire
and were destroyed.
Several Van Hook boys have re-
| lIOlH Cilc St1ACOlIAlClNGo, ilENAAu
ing Chas. Grady, an Indian boy Of
Shell village, VINO regrets he didn't
get the chance to scalp the kaiser.
Kenneth Eckel, aged IA years, Of
Valley City, skated into an air hole
on the old mill pond at that place, on
Nov. go He was found the following
day in six feet of water under the ice
After heated argument two 1tal-
ian laborers at Mandan, clashed with
fire arms, in which Thomas Discossi-
mo was shot to death by Domonic
Cursaa. The shooting occurred last
Tuesday, after which Cursaa boarded
train and got as far as Judson,
where he was overtaken and captured.
And Just think how fast we are go
ing. The public got rid of the kaiser,
the flu and the democratic majority in
congress all in seven days. Some
week, boy, some week.-Findley Bea-
son.
Elon Long, prosperous young farm