The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-04-29
NORTH DAKOTA news

WHICH was FORMALLY opened laSC S8C-
urday.
Different towns and cities thru the
state announce the fact that the base
ball diamonds are being scraped.
Play Ball!
A local union of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor was formed last week
at Harvey with a charter membership
Of sixteen.
The Portal international has an
nounced the raising of the subscription
price of that paper from $3.50 to
$500 per year.
Bismarck may get the new $3.50, 900
Lutheran college planned to b. erected
somewhere in the state during the
coming summer.
Tolley business men and enterpris-
ing citizens have voted bonds for the
erection of new town hall to be
built this spring.
Reports from north OF Granville
come to use that the water in Buffalo
Lodge Lake is so high this year that
it is OVERLOOKING the banks.
Mrs. Fred C. Quinn, wife of the
Rev. F. C. Quinn, of Tolley, died sud-
denly last week. The remains were
shipped to Bussey, Ia, for burial.
Ole Tangburg of Ambrose. while
trying to mount a horse, fell and broke
one Of his legs in two places. Tang
burg was former resident of Donny-
brook.
The contract for the new Balfour
school was let last week and work
will commence at once. The build
ing is to be completed for the next
winter term.
After l.. J. Wehe, member of the
Workman's Compensation bureau had
been fired by an order supposed to
have been issued from Gov. Frazier,
he refuses to quit and insists on stay
ing on the job until legally removed.
At Fessenden last week So much
correspondence passed thru the local
postoffice that the postmaster ran
Short of stamps. Changing of ac-
counting office from Harvey to Fargo
caused some delay in supplies also.
Because they broke open the Velva
Jail and released prisoner, N. kohn-
jer and j. Kloss drew fine of one
hundred dollars each and one hundred
days in the McHenry county bastile.
The fine was imposed by Judge Burr.
Merial Gill, former Flaxton boy,
was recently electrocuted accidental
ly while at work for the Kansas Gas
and Electric Co., of Towasda, Kan.
Before leaving North Dakota he was
married to Miss Irene Berg, of Flax
ton.
The fellow who writes the missouri
Slope Notes" in the Dickinson Free
Press is back on the job in the good
old fashioned way after short lapse
Of time His notes are always good
and interesting to everyone who reads
them.
The editor of the Van Hook Tribune
has found glaring difference be-
tween the taxes on the elevators sit
uated on the 500 right of way and the
ground occupied by the tanks and sta
tions of the Standard Oil Company
all along the line we presume.
The Merchants National Bank of
Mandan has sent out notice that they
will give away two thousand standard
bred white Plymouth Rock chickens
to the farmers wives of their territory
starting on May 18th. Applications
outside of Morton county will not
be considered.
The State of North Dakota has pur-
chased the Werner Cooperative
Creamery and will take over and oper-
ate the same as an experimental
Creamery. Satisfactory arrangements
have been made so all are satisfied
and it is expected that the state will
begin installing equipment immediate
ly.
Katherine and Rebecca Medium,
aged sisters, found living in a cave
near Dickinson and trusting in the
Lord to provide food and clothing were
adjudged insane and taken to the hos.
pital at jamestown, until brother
arrived from Iowa and took them to
his home where they will be cared
for.
While welding gasoline barrel,
Wa.tr Burt of Munich received sur
prise when the barrel exploded, burn
ing his face and smuggling his hair,
he also received severe cuts and
bruises and several pieces of steel in
one of his eyes. He is reported to be
in the hospital at Grand Forks re-
covering.
After thirty-three years of continual
good service to the patrons, in the city
If Langdon and vicinity, the Courier
Democrat, one of the leading organs
IF the state, has been sold to the Nom
partisan League for political purposes,
The transfer was completed last week
and with the sale of the paper the
name expires.
Clerk of the District court of Nc
Kenzie county recently drove his car
% Watford city, loaded a horse into
he tonneau and returned to his home
With the load at Schaffer. The horse
vas pony for the children, but a
lorse, nevertheless says the Dickin-
ION Free Press. That beats the one
Ibout the fellow who drove twenty
Tx miles thru a recent blizzard with
setting hen roosting on the brake
DDS Of his ford. This is reported to
ave happened in different county.
Gunder Jordet, a well to do bache-
Or farmer, residing near Grano, was
ound dead last week in his farm home
v neighbors who had missed him for
everal days. The supposition is that
was a case of suicide by 20 calibre
arget rifle which was found near the
ody, hole thru the temple reveal
d the fact that bullet was the d.
pcf ca11se If his death In tho oor1v|