The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-09-09

Sheriff and Mrs. A. p. ScOfiedl.
Rev. P. w. Erickson spoke on sub
ject pertaining to Labor Day at thu
Normal school Assembly Monday
morning.
Minot grain men inform the hide
pendent that the wheat in this vicin
ity was reduced two grades by the
rains of last week.
G. H. Walhowe, prosperous farme,
from east of the city, was in Minot
Friday. He has finished harvesting
$50 acres Of grain, much of which is
very good.
Miss Mildred Hurd left Thursday 70,
Chicago, where she will live with hel
uncle and attend the Ellington High
School. She is visiting with Miss Olive
Nash in Minneapolis, enroute.
Miss Kittie Judd arrived from Min
neapolis Sunday for short visit at
the home of her uncle, J. B. Reed,
leaving for Ray to spend week with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Judd.
Earl Hoorn. one Of the publishers
of the Divide County journal at Cros-
by, was in Minot Saturday enroute
home from a months vacation spent
with relatives at Fergus Falls, MINI.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Wilson and son Dick,
who spent two months at Ten Mile
Lake, near Dalton, Mimi, returned
Saturday, accompanied by Mr.. Wilson,
who went there to accompany them
home.
The Minot Automobile Club have re-
ceived large number of metal signs
which will be put up along all the
highways leading into this city, from
considerable distance around. The
signs are black with aluminium letters
cut in.
John Wynn raised 345 acres of Min
nesota Is corn at his place west Of
Minot and has many fine large mature
ears. He brot couple of them to the
Independent office Tuesday, one meas
uring 10 inches long and containing
800 large kernels.
The potato harvest will soon begin.
Growers do not intend to get caught
as they were last fall by the early
freeze. Potatoes are selling in Minot
at $2.40 bushel and some growers
believe next springs prices will be
equal to those of last spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Kochel from
north of Glenburn were visitors in Mi
not Saturday. Mr.. Kochel is one Of
the early GlenbVrn homesteaders and
has done we'll. He lived in Minot for
several years during the early days,
and was connected with Henry Hurd,
a contractor.
Henry Marshall experimental with
scattering little agricultural gyp-
sum over his potato ground last
spring. He planted ten rows of pota-
toes on this land and compared with
other potatoes adjoining, the ten rows
netted him $500 more per row than
the others. The gypsum sells for $50 |
a ton and 500 pounds is enough for |
one acre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Newman, Mrs.
G. Aurland and daughter, Miss Mar
yaret Avrland, left Saturday for Be-
midi, MINI, to visit few days with
Mrs. Newman's mother and sister.
They will return via Grand Forks,
Fargo and jamestown, where Mr..
Newman, who is the Minot manager
'or the Woolworth Co., will inspect
he stores at those points.
Rev. W. w. Gunter, pastor of the
Methodist church at Kensal, N. d.,
vas in Minot Tuesday. He had been
It Des Laos on business connected
With the estate of his father, H. w.
1unter, for which he is administrator.
The 48O acre farm had been sold to
South Dakota parties, but it is possi-
,le that the deal will fall thru, in
which case the farm will again be sold.