The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-06-05
MINOT and VICINITY

VIM. Healey Of Glenburn was bus
mess visitor in Minot Saturday.
Invest a Dollar in BOyhOOd to build
Manhood-BOy Scout Week June 8-14.
Editor Pickering of the Sanish Sen
tinel, was a business visitor to the
city Decoration day. +
Einar Madison, Burlington merchant |
and chicken fancier, was a business
visitor to the city Monday.
Andrew Heggen, Fred White and /
Banker Flynn of Donnybrook were
Wonder City visitors Monday
Do not sell your wool without
consulting the Northwestern Hide
4 Fur Co.
A very complete showing of Mems
Summer Suits, Hats, and Furnishings
on display at Huyck 4 MahOney.
Will Stoll, former Minot mer-
chant now demonstrating near Sanish
was in the city the first of the week.
Men who insist on style and quality
in ready -to-wear clothes, will find
what they tlesrc at Huyck & Mahon-
ey's.
John Hojem, assessor of Makoti,
was in the city Monday, bringing his
reports in for filing with the county
auditor.
Huyck & Mahoney have answered
the Seasons call by putting in very
complete stock of Mems Panama,
Straw and "Featherweight" Felt hats.
Attorney c. D. Kelso who is now
in the government service as an ex-
pert tax accountant with headquarters
/ in Minneapolis, was in the city Sat
urday locking after some business
matters.
Halvor J. Halvorson has returned
| from an extended stay in California
Halvor is delighted with the Califor
MIA climate but says that he can't
resist the call back to the prairie
/ when spring time comes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Atkinson and
/ Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Vollmer and son,
I will leave next Thursday for Star
! Lake, near Dent, Mimi, where they
will camp and fish until July 8. They
will make the trip by auto.
! Judge Bagley of Towner was in the
| city aSturday. He says that in var
4 ious parts of McHenry county, partic-
uIar!y around Upham and Bantry, the
i 9rasshoppers are doing much damage
and the farmers arc worried.
! Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Wal
/ lace Of Burlington, Wednesday, May
i %. a seven and one-half pound girl.
4 The mother is recovering nicely and
Alvin says he has been bankrupted
4 purchasing so many Perfectos.
i F. J. Shurr of Glenburn accompan-
led by his mother and sister, Mrs.
Mark Chatfield, who has been visit
! ing at the Shurr home motored to the
CITY Saturday. Mrs Shurr will re-
main with her daughter for a few
weeks.
i! w. A. Nixon who has secured the
appointment as district deputy for the
Brotherhood of American Woman
with district comprising two of the
counties of western Montana and two
counties in eastern Idaho leaves the
last of the week for his headquarters
at Trego, Montana.
Corporal C. J. Worley, who has
been with the A. E. F. in France
during the past year has returned to
the states and will be mustered from
service at Camp Upton, N. Y. He
will proceed at once to his old home
at Hawarden, Ia, where Mrs. Morley
has been staying during her husbands
absence abroad.
Roy Brier, nephew of Fay Fuller
of the Fuller Motor Co., now resid-
ing in Seattle, has gained consider
able prominence in literary circles,
from his many short stories running
in many Of the leading magazines. A
short story entitled Found" in the
May "a Argosy, has been read with
considerable interest by his many
fr;opdc in tho cifv This NAL aS the
third of his stories which have run
in this periodical Mr. Brier was at
!, one time employed by the Fuller Mot
or company in this city.
G. w. Ward, wife and three children
ARRIVED from Plenty, Sask., for visit
at the home of Mrs. Wards parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Nicodemus. Mrs.
Ward, father is quite i'll and she was
called here on this account. Mr..
Ward has been in charge Of the c:
P. R. station at Plenty for several
years. He recently invested in a
dairy farm and is building up nice
dairy herd. He was connected with
the 500 in Minot until seven years
ago. Mr.. Ward now has family
Of four boys and four girls and is
proud of them.
I. M. Yoder, from near Surrey, was
in Minot yesterday. Mr.. Yoder is
most emphatic in stating that we
need rain badly. The rye crop, ne
says, is going to be mighty slim. 1t
ills only eight or nine inches high and
: lis heading out. 1t will not make
decent bundle, no matter how much
rain we get and it is thin on the
ground. The early sown wheat will
not be extra good but he has hopes
that the later sown wheat will be good
lif we get the moisture. He is plow-
ing for corn and to prove that the
ground is dry, he struck a match
lin the bottom of fresh six-inch fur
row.
H. H. Templeman, well known
farmer from southeast of the city
sustained an injury to one of his leg:
Friday while at work with $3.50 en-
:. CINE doing some blowing. The en-
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