The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-11-11
NORTH DAKOTA news

A splke-hOrned buck was recently
seen south of Antler.
Fay Shuttleworth Of Surrey has
been commissioned postmaster.
James Lucas, aged 70, a pioneer Of
Ray, died from paralysis, Oct. 80.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Bert Hartman of Glenburn Nov. 8.
Mrs. Lydia Moon, 70 years old, cast
her first. ballot at Glenburn last week.
Editor Farrell of Granville has gone
to Minneapolis for a weeks vacation.
| Editor and Mrs. w. H. Francis of
Velva We're visitors in the city Mon
day.
| H. f. Johnson, publisher of the
Donnybrook Courier, transacted bust
ness in Minot Monday.
| C. l.. Harmon Of Deering suffered
dislocated knee cap from the kick
of hog and is walking on crutches.
Emil Peterson of Sherwood lay for
two hours pinned under his car which
turned turtle, untiE assistance came.
The fact that the mail order houses
have cut their prices is the best evid-
ence of all that people are trading at
home.
The eighteenth amendment covers
wine, the nineteenth women, and we
hope the twentieth will abolish jazz
songs.
If the truth were known it is prob
able that a good many men have been
voting for years as their wives told
them to.
The Globe-Gazette defeated the
Townley paper, the Richland County
Farmer for official paper with 100
majority.
Dr.. and Mrs. Knudson Of Glenburn
left last week for the sunny south to
spend the winter They are making
the trip by auto.
The Bowbells Tribune, nonpartisan,
was reelected official paper of Burke
county, defeating the Flaxton Times
by about 1900 votes.
"Grandma" Flynn, aged ga years,
was the Oldest woman in Dickinson to
vote. AS her name would indicte,
she voted for O'Connor.
The Dickinson Press, independent
newspaper, won from the Recorder
Post, league organ, for official paper
with about 600 majority.
The Foster County Independent de-
feated the league paper, the Caring
ton Record, for official paper Of Fos-
. ter county with big majority.
Alfred Billey of Wahpeton, aged
SO, Respondent over financial matters,
drank carbolic acid and died. He
leaves wife and four children.
Sam Bad Gun, an Indian lad, has en-
rolled in school at Shell Village on
the Berthold reservation. The teach
err will probably learn that he is.
! Fred Dreus, prosperous Beach
farmer, shot out his heart with shot
gun. He secured hack saw, went to
the cow shed and sawed off the gun
barrel, then did the deed.
: Lloyd, 12-year-old son of Fred Allen
. of Deering, suffered broken arm
when he jumped from barn to hay
stack, rolling to the ground. He
was brot to Minot for attention.
The four-year-old son of F. G. Rob-
inson of Garrison suffered painful
burns about the legs when his mother
spilled boiling water on him while
; moving a tea kettle on the stove.
The nonpartisans of McHenry coun-
i. ty made good their threat to "clean
house" on Nov. 2, defeating every one
Of the old county officials from sher-
if down to constable. They surely
did stick.
After a weeks illness and an oper-
alton for appendicitis, Esther, 13-year-
old daughter OF: Mr.. and Mrs. J. H.
Copeland, Van Buren, township, Rem
vile county passed away in Minot
hospital.
Rev. M. B. Osmond, pastor of the
; NJ. E. church in Bottineau ten years
ago, passed away recently at Shelley,
Ida. The Osmonds went west on ac-
NJ, n,,,o,,JSe meow hno1%b
she dying in Idaho ten years ago.
Alfred Haldi and family from south
!. of Glenburn have moved to Minot in
order that the children may attend
school, Mr. Haldi was elected coun-
4 ty commissioner from the Second dis
trict and will be able to look after
/. his duties from Minot.
An auto owned by Tom Wilson of
Glenburn caught fire and both auto
and garage were damaged. Wilson
pushed the auto out of the garage,
put out the blaze and then ran back
into the garage and put that fire out.
His hands were painfully burned.
A Ford truck drawing a load of
hay caused considerable damage to
a car owned by Peter Pearson of
Glenburn. Pearson was blinded by
the light of the truck and turned back
into the road too quickly, striking the
wagon loaded with hay. The lights
and tenders were broken.
Carl Strand, 30, travelling salesman
for the Fergus Falls Wooden Mills was
instantly killed at Wahpeton when his
Ford was struck by train at the
: grade crossing. The crossing, which
is without gates, has claimed about
one victim a year and the city coun-
Gil is contemplating taking action to
compel the railway company to install
gates.
A. NJ. Fruits green Paige car went
i al o<k