The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-09-23
CITY news IN Brief

Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Shaft are at
tending the national G. A. r. encamp-
ment at Indianapolis.
! Tosten Nelson will hold sale two
miles east of the county farm Sept.
20. He will move to Saskatchewan.
Jasper Baker who has been serious
ly i'll for weeks at his apartments in
this city, has shown no improvement.
F. L. Rogers, manager of the Grand
Forks branch of the Fuller Motor
Co., is transacting business in Minot
this week.
liver L. Flom who has been looking
after his farm west of brady, re-
turned to his home at Dennison, MINI.
Wednesday.
Miss Marion Goss has returned to
Evanston, Ill.,, to resume her work as
a senior in the college of liberal arts
At the Northwestern university.
A. H. Kurth, E. L. Hellign, DR..
Leatherwood, Hugh Valley, L. and
Grin Kvam, bagged "a fine grouse
near Denbigh the first of the week.
Windel Bell returned from Grand
Forks where he has registered for the
year in the medical department of the
university. He returns to school Oct.
1st.
The fire department was called out
Tuesday morning to fight prairie
fire which threatened to do some dam
age in the northwestern outskirts of
the city.
Mrs. P. w. Myers and little son,
Philip, and Miss Edith Winters will
leave this week by auto for Los An
geles, Calf, where they will spend
the winter.
Bert Kochell, prominent Glenturn
farmer, passed thru Minot Tuesday
morning enroute to Lemon, S. d., ac-
companied by his mother. who has
been visiting with him.
Mrs. H. E. Foss and Mrs. w. j. La
Victoire went to Bismarck Monday to
visit with the Newlyweds, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Peters. Mrs. Peters is
the daughter of Mrs. Foss.
Thieves entered the J. J. Ward pool
hall at Veiva and not content with
stealing some small change and to-
bacco, stole the books in which the
owner had posted several large ac-
w. H. Reighart declares that duck
hunting has lost practically all it's fun.
He went out one morning recently,
got the limit in an hour, took the
shells out of his gun, ate his lunch
Miss Olive Logan, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. l.. L. Logan, 815 Third street
S. E., has returned home from an ex-
tended trip thru the eastern and CEN
trail states in the interests of an oil
company for whom she has acted in
the capacity of travelling saleslady.
DR.. F. E. Wheelon makes the fol-
lowing suggestion which is a good
one. He suggests that during the
winter, sand be hauled on the ice at
the swimming pool in Lincoln park.
When spring comes, the ice will melt
and the lake will have dandy sand
bottom. &
The Mrs. H. S. Wolfe lot on Third
St. S. E. has been sold to Mr.. Myers
of the Minot Steam Laundry, who is
excavating for the ten room dwell
ing house which will be moved at
once from the lot purchased by the
laundry on First St. s. w. Mr.. Myers
paid $500 for the Wolf lot.
E. o. Dickinson picked wash tub
full of plums in about an hour in
Mulvihill coulee near Lone Tree, Sat-
urday morning. Mr.. Dickinson brot
a branch Of plums to the Independent
office and never have we seen more
plums to the cubic inch. The plums
were actually so numerous that sew
eral Of them had grown together. They
were the biggest and finest wild plums
we have ever seen growing here.
When the season is right, North Da-
kota beats the world for wild plums.
Mr.. Dickinson says that many BUSH
els Of the plums will 60 to waste this
year, altho never before have our resi-
1ents canned so much Of this fruit.
Two mail sacks, unloaded at Car
rington Friday night from the 10:42
500 train, were stolen and riaed. One
sack was destined for Courtenay and
the other for Sanish. Both contain
I'd packages and the thief went thru
the contents. The first known Of
The theft was on Saturday when M. F.
Walsh found the sacks under the
Farmers elevator. An inspector was
here Monday Investigating. 1t is not
established how the sacks were left
1nguarded but it is possible the mail
,lerk threw them of here after the
regular mail had been taken away.
rhe government agent has no clue to
The robber but is working on fixing