The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-07-03
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H. Chambers, w. w. Smith and
brother and Joe Gadbaw transacted
business in Minot Friday afternoon.
Lou Gadbaw, who is working at the
blacksmithing trade at New Salem,
N. D., spent few days last week Wis
iting with his wife and children.
| Ralph Lane and wife Of White Wat
er, Mont, passed thru this township
last week enroute to Osakis, Mimi,
and remained over Sabbath at the
home of Joe Gadbaw, as both families
were neighbors together in Minnesota
some eleven or twelve years ago. Mr..
Lane was travelling overland in a.
Ford truck.
GREGG Riley and family attempted to
attend the last end Of the carnival at
Minot Saturday evening, but after
driving. a few miles with his Ford, he
found the roads in very slippery con-
dition from our all-day's rain which
fell Saturday, and returned home.
Floyd j. Gadbaw and wife are in
visiting her sister and Floyd is as
sisting his brother Harvey, in the Rob-
inson garage.
Roscie Beighde received his new po-
tato planter from Chicago some two
weeks ago and it is sure a daisy, and
he says now that he will neither lend
nor borrow
Everett Bunker was in Minot Mon
day with load of surplus wheat left
over from seeding.
Mrs. E. E. Diehl and son Tracy M.
Palmer. visited over Sunday at the
home of the Jerome children.
Ola B. Wallace, who has been work.
ing for Carl Swenson on the farm
since early in the spring. received a
message last Monday that his moth
er was in very serious condition
with typhoid fever at New Windsor,
ILL.,, and departed Tuesday evening
from. Minot on No. 80 for that point. ,
Frank Domn and Clarence Bivins
are now managing two crews working
the roads in various parts of this
township. and grading with a tractor
one mile east Of the John Coons farm
has again been resumed from last
seasons unfinished Job.
Sam Reed and Fay H. Gadbaw were
taking in the sights in Sawyer Satur-
day. Fay returned the same evening
but Sam remained until early Mon
day morning with his best girl.
Glen Welding of this county and
his sister, Mrs. Dora Billings of Los
Angeles, California, visited Friday at
the home of E. E. Diehl and talked
over old times of their former ILL
nois school days.
Tuesday and Wednesday of last
week vast amount of grasshopper
poison was mixed in the AL Simpkins
vacant house one mile south of Center
school house and distributed among
the farmers for the hoppers which
seemed to be quite thick, but very lit
tie damage has been noticed on the
grain so far, which has never looked
better: for our various rains of the
past three weeks have put the crops in
very fine condition.
Minot Tuesday for fencoing material.
we'd NJ II. Putney did the plow sharpen
ing and repair work on road plows for
the township last Thursday.
Miss Olive Lund, former teacher of
Center, whose home is at Morris,
Minn,, but now engaged on q 2k
month summer term near Dunseith,
N. D., in the Turtle Mountain country,
writes her friend, Mrs: E. E. Diehl,
that she expects to make her visit
at the end of the term, which will &C.
cur the latter part of July.
We surely should have hay this fall
as every farmer and his brother SOW
ed millet seed.
Guy Bivins is now taking treatments
in Minot for rheumatism, having
been entirely laid up since early in the
spring.
Joe Gadbaw and Fred Book hauled
out the shorts from Minot for the
grashopper dope.
The horse company, which is COM
prised Of q number of prominent farm
ers Of this township, had the misfor-
tune to lose their fine bay Shire stall
lion one day last week. The animal
weighed something over ton and was
sure great loss just in the middle
Of the season.
The rye has greatly changed it's
appearance of some three weeks ago
and will make a pretty decent crop
yet:
While in Minot on Monday we had
the pleasure of inspecting the hide
pendent's new and roomy quarters in j
the basement Of the Jacobson block,
and say but they are nicely located
Guy Putney and family were callers
in Newman township Saturday after
noon.
Walter Klimple purchased an extra
heavy draft team and harness of his
uncle, Bonnie Klimple. Walter is
only II years old and has saved up a
nice little bunch Of money and is go
ing farming in 1920 on his own hook,
and will do water tank hauling on
large steam threshing outfit this fall.
The price of the team, was $340.
Clyde Nelson and wife and Mrs.
Glen Welding were in Minot last
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