The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-02-12


Mrs. Gus Hassel of Bismarck Is Wis
ting Wit. old friends in Minot. Mr..
Hassel intends to come to Minot Fri
day to visit friends and to attend the
Grotto ball Friday night.
{. NJ. Mitchell, the tailor, who has
baen very ill with the Iiu, IL recover
inc alcwly. The disease developed
into erysipelas which made his case
extremely critical at one time.
o. X Spires, prominent Burlington
dairyman, left Wednesday for Madi-
son, Wis, where he expects to pur-
chase several head CT registered
Guern5ays forThis big farm on North
Prairie.
Mrs. I. r. Renwald has returned
from Fort Madison, Ia, where she
spcnt some time with her mother, Mrs
!stoevener, who Is rrecariously i'll with
diabetes, and whose death may be ex-
pccted AT any time.
Messrs. Pete Fugelso and D. R.
Jacobson of the Jacobsen, & Fugelso
harware are in Grand Forks this week
in attendance at the state convention
of the Retail Hardware Dealers in
session there this week.
w. f.. Borena Of the M. G. Olson Co.,
left Monday for Montevideo, Mime
scta,E where he viii visit relatives for
a few days. Bills old home was
at Montevideo and naturally he is al
ways in high spirits whenever he has
an opportunity to pay the old town a
visit.
The National Cleaners and Dyers
have now moved into their new quar-
tiers in the Blaisdell block opposite
the Elks home where they have placed
considerable additional machinery and
equipment and are better able than
ever to give prompt service to their
customers.
John Nedreloe of the Nedreloe- Nor
gan Motor Co., is at Roundup, Mon
tana, where he is looking after his in
terests in the oil wells of that dis
trict. He writes that the Great
American Gas and Oil Co. have three
rigs in operation in that field and
that stockholders may expect word Of
gusher now at any time.
Henry Olson, formerly a farmer on
North Prairie, but for the past year
in charge Of one Of the j. j. Lee
farms in the vicinity of Velva, was a
Minot visitor Tuesday. Henry is MAX
ing arrangements to hold an auction
sale soon, as he has purchased an
irrigated tract in Washington and will
engage in fruit raising and alfalfa
farming in that state.
F. L. Blume of the Toggery Shop,
returned Tuesday evening from an
extended business trip thru South Da-
kota. Mr.. Blume says that he every
where observed preparations being
made for an early spring and learns
that conditions were never better not
alone from the standpoint Of weather
conditions but from a financial one as
we'll.
Guy Frank returned last week from
Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he had
spent several weeks taking the baths
and enjoying the balmy southern
'breezes. Guy states that he met one
party who had spent 80 seasons at
the Springs and makes his annual pill
grimages there with unfailing regu-
larity. He says that the climate is
delightful, generally speaking, yet
have some mighty unpleasant weather
there and anyhow North Dakota is not
so bad after all.
Dan Smith, who has been connected
with the Scofield Implement Co. Of
this city for the past five years has
resigned his position with the firm
and accepted the superintendency Of
the Bovey 1Shute jackson lumber yard
at Parshall. At the Parshall ware
house line of farming machinery is
handled in connection with lumber and
it was on account of his intimate
knowledge of this line that Dan was
picked for this important place. Dan
is one of the most genial whole-souled
fellows in the northwest and the Par
shallites are to be congratulated in
having the Smith family in their
midst.
Rev. Earl Pounds, pastor of the
church of the Nazarenes at Van Hook,
was Minot visitor today. Rev.
Pounds was on his way to Kansas
City where he will meet the General
Board of Missions of the Church of
the Nazarenes and confer with them
in reference to dividing this district
which now comprises the states of
North Dakota, Minnesota and Mon
tana. He says that the work has
grown too extensive to be handled as
a whole and that more effective work
can be done if the conference decides
to arrange for two or three separate
headquarters for those in charge of
the mission work of this enormous
district.