The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-04-08
NORTH DAKOTA news

A fellow at Anamoose, has invent
ed whistle that is said TO make
more noise than the village fire bell.
Presbyterians and Methodists thru
out the state have adopted plan of
holding services annually on Good Fri
day.
Grafton is to have forty-five blocks
of new sewer and water main this
summer at an estimated cost of $780,
900.
The Commercial Club at Mandan
has reorganized under the budget sys-
tenn and hereafter will employ a Sec
rotary.
The Pioneer store at Glenburn will
close out and L. Goldburg, the pro-
prietor, will enter the business field
in Minot.
The Deering school closed for a
week because the roads were SO bad
that it was impossible for the school
bus to navigate.
Rural mail drivers in different parts
Of the state are having their trou-
bles because the roads in places along
some of the routes are mostly snow,
mud and slush.
Word has reached us that Alfred
Peterson, one Of the best known and
Oldest ranchers living in the White
Earth vicinity, died last week.
Rev. Ericsson, of the Presbyterian
church in this city, is making tour
of the western part of the state in
the interest of the Inter-church move
ment.
Political announcements are be-
coming numerous in many of the
state papers and there will be an
abundant crop of candidates for the
June primaries.
Claude LaBar, wife and two small
children, living south of White Earth
on a farm are reported to have died
recently from the effects of severe
attack of the flu.
The same fellow who kicks on pay
ing eighteen cents for a quart Of
milk will fall all over himself to plank
down eighteen bones for short
quart of Rye whisky.
The village board at Douglas has
decided to install electric street lights
regardless of the fact that the light
ing company has advanced the rates
twenty five per cent.
Joe Lenore, the missing Beach SOL
der boy, has been located at Dillon,
Mont, and has been informed that
81 900 awaits him if he will report
to the authorities at Washington.
Because the election board closed
the polls at 5 p. m, instead of 81
p. M, on March 18th, in Bantry town.
ship, the election was declared lille
gal and the election was had on March
Goth.
Mike Merkes, a resident of Bow
bells, while carrying a heavy pail full
of something, slipped and fell, break
ing two ribs. The accident happen
ed last week. Mike is still in bed so
it is said.
The Ignite Coal Mine owners and
dealers of the State have been called
to Bismarck for conference with
the railroad commissioners on Ignite
shipping rates. Here's hoping for
lower rates.
A gang of horse thieves have been
rounded up at Williston and lodged in
Jail. When the stolen animals were
found they had been loaded into box
cars and were ready to ship to the
eastern market.
Independent newspapers are waiting
patiently for the supreme court to de-
eide on the legality of the Brinton
newspaper law which is giving the
league monopoly all the legal print
ing in the state.
< The Occident elevator which burn
ed at Lansford last week is said to
have contained about eight thousand
bushels of grain which is estimated
to be%worth $25 100000, partially COW
cred by insurance.
Two carloads of potatoes we're
shipped out of Berthold one day last
week and were marketed in Kansas
City. Bob Becker of the above city
has purchased 800 bushels and will
seed them this season.
A Williston man lodging at one of
the local hotels went to bed with a
cigarette in his mouth and when the
landlord got into his room the fire
had made such Roadway that he had
to arouse the occupant from his
peaceful ~slumber to aid in putting
out the flames.
A letter received by Mrs. George
Fowlds, of Hankenson from her son
late, last week states that both her
father and mother, who were living in
Austria, were dead, and her son, was
in poor, health as result of the scar
city of the necessities of life. Mrs.
Fowlds parents were in comfortable
circumstances before the war started.
Efforts are being made to have her
sons brot home.
A transient, by the name of Dan
German, was recently arrested by a
Falsen merchant, charged with grand
larceny. German has been in the
neighborhood about year and goods
We're found in his possession having
cost marks indicating that they were
goods which had been stolen from Fall
sen and Simcoe. German has served
"a six year sentence in the Nevada pen
for safe blowing.
The Kenmare News tells us that
there are couple of farmers in that
neck Of the country who WELD con-
siderable influence with the. N. p. l..
due to the fact that the league men,
lbers thot they were voicing their own
honest opinion and the fact has just
leaked out that these two ginks have
been on the League payroll all the
time for doing apparently nothing,
but talk to their fellow farmers.
BY recent decision Of the United
States Supreme Court it was held