The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-04-10


100 cases. The disease is not as Sc.
we're as it was in the winter. The bill
lard hall and barber shop, shows, etc.,
upon at the doors of the stores.
Mouse river will not go over it's
banks this year, despite the fact that
there is more moisture in the country
than usual The snow has been dis
appearing gradually and the river has
been taking care of the surplus mois-
ture nicely. The river has been quite
high but Monday night went down
fully foot.
C. p. Walker of the Western Canada
Theatre, Ltd, is expected to arrive in
Minot in the near future and he is ex-
pected to take some action that will
be Of interest to theatre goers. Mr..
Walker erected $341, 1000 opera house
at Winnipeg, who is the finest opera
house in Canada. He is cousin Of
Gale Robinson, manager of the Nc
Coy Furniture, Co.
S. J. Rasmussen, who has been in
California for several months, sends
the Independent an interesting post
card from the Mexican border, show
ing himself and wife as a member of
a party of sight-seers. All members
of the party are fitted out with Mex
lean sombreros and blankets and are
displaying wicked looking equipment
of Mexican artillery.
frank j. Spalla, assessor from Lund
township, was in the city Wednesday
attending the assessors meeting. Mr.
| Spalla says that while the new tax
law is complicated, assessors will have
to exercise their best judgment as in
former years in placing values. The
assessors all agree that taxes will be
considerably higher this year by rea-
son of the new law. Mr.. Spalla is
one of the most prosperous farmers
in the county and is planning on put
ting in thousand acres of crop this
year.
Ole Den, who has farmed very sue
cessfully in Ward county for the past
thirty years, says that he has never
seen time when the pot holes were
all filled with water, that we did not
get fair crop and often bumper
crop. The pot holes are all filled to
overlooking this spring and farmers
will have to do lot of work around
them. The prospects are that no work
will be done in the fields until after
Easter, but no one is worrying in the
least. What the farmers have wanted
most the, past three seasons is mois-
ture, and they appear to have sur
plus this spring.
F. w. Woolworth, One of Worlds
Greatest Merchants, is Dead.
F. w. Woolworth, one Of the
worlds greatest merchants, passed
away at his Long Island home at 2
o'clock Tuesday morning after q short
illness. Death was very sudden. Mrs.
Woolworth was the only other men,
Der of the family present when death
came.
The funeral was held today. The
Minot Woolworth store, as we'll as the
1O45 other Wo0lworth stores in the
United States, were closed all day to-
day.
Mr.. Woolworth was born in Jeffer-
son county, N. Y, in 1852, and was the
son of a farmer. AS boy, it was Mr..
Woolworth's ambition to word Il a
store and possibly some day own a
store. When nineteen years old he
took course in commercial college.
He then hunted around for job but
merchants told him he was too green
and he had q hard time finding :
place. He received no salary at first,
the merchant allowing him to work
around the store, so that he could
learn the business. After three months
if lie made good he was to receive