The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-04-01
NORTH DAKOTA news

Prof. Wallen of the Willow City
schools has accepted similar posi-
ton at Granville for the coming school
year.
Many of the old bands are being
reorganized thruout different towns
and cities in the state, preparatory to
July 4th.
Citizens, together with the school
directors Of Glenburn, are hot after
new school building for that en-
terprising town.
Fire of an unknown origin destroy
ed the Bovey-Shute lumber yards at
Parshall last week, only one small
shed being saved.
The state industrial commission an
nounces that bids for state owned
mill and elevator will be opened at
Bismarck on April 9Th.
Rev. Fjelsgard, of the jeanette dis
trict, near Ryder was caught in the
recent blizzard, but made his way
home on pair of skis.
Ted Hartung, who is making a
grand stand play to land the job of
state sheriff, threatens to move back
to Australia if he fails to get it.
Wabek is to have telephone connec-
tions with the outside world. The
railway commissioners held a session
in that town to settle the question.
The Northwestern Grain Company
at Finley is reported to have lost their
license because the management re-
fused to pay farmers for dockage.
Henry Gilbertson, well known and
highly esteemed resident of Ryder,
died last week in the hospital at Bis
marck from the effects of severe at
tack of pneumonia.
Christ Wagner, prominent farm
er near Willow City fed his mich
cows, six in number, too much flax
screenings and as result the whole
number are dead from the effects.
The body of the Chink laundryman,
who died at Enderlin last week is be-
ing taken back to China for burial.
The body was accompanied by his son,
Cue Jee, who is left quite wealthy.
Work on the new state highway be-
tween Stanley and Minot will COM
mence as soon as the frost is out Of
the ground. It is estimated that the
work can be completed in about three
months.
A compact but complete ticket SELL
ing booth on wheels which can be
moved to any point where it is needed
is the invention of resident of Oak
land, Calf. Minot should buy two
or three.
From the accidental mixing of ar
senic with flour, eight members Of
the Segmiller family, living in the vi
entity of Regent, lowered several days
between life and death. The eight
are now on the road to recovery.
Numerous reports have come into
the Bottineau county agricultural
agents office relative to a new dis
ease said to be killing large numbers
of sheep in that locality. This dis
ease is called hemorrhagic septicemia.
Farmers in the different localities
throughout the state who have taken
the pains to feed prairie chickens dur
ing the winter months will object to
hunters killing the birds and to pre-
vent it will not>allOw hunting on their
land.
Well, the Darlington Independent
comes out this week with the an
nouncement that robins, larks, crows
and gophers have arrived in that vi
entity, and that the happy lark was
fully ten days ahead Of her schedule
of last year.
Word reached Minot last Friday
that the business men of the town Of
Drake have purchased the Drake News
and are making arrangements to print
all the news for all the people all the
time. The paper was formerly own
ed by the Brinton trust.
After investigating the death Of
Conrad Weber, a Grand Forks county
farmer, who was found dead in his
barn one day last week, with charge
of shot in his breast, the county cor
oner pronounced it case of suicide
and an inquest was deemed unneces-
sary.
The North and South Dakota Wool
Growers Association have plans out
for the erection of fre-proof ware
house at Hettinger, N. D., with a
capacity of 100000 pounds of wool.
After the wool is removed from stor-
age the warehouse will be utilized for
other storage purposes.
E. H. Wahl, a Denhoff bank cash
Ter, recently received an anonymous
letter directing him to leave $4,000
at certain point on the road near
McClusky !. Explicit directions were
given in the message as to where the
money should be left and in case of
failure death was threatened. An
investigation is being made.
North Dakota farmers in the neigh
borhood of Casselton held meeting
in that city recently and adopted the
following scale Of wages for the COM
| ing season: First half of season.