The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-03-25
NORTH DAKOTA news

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Mrs. Grace Smith, late widow O
Editor George j. Smith Of PlaSa, Il
advertising her string Of papers TO
sale.
The fans in the City Of Flaxton ar,
working hard on proposition to or
ganize q very fast ball team for th,
coming season. :
The editor of The Tolley Journa
recently had one of his hands injured
in press. Editors should not med
die with the machinery.
The city commission at Dickinson
have let contract for installing cleo.
trio lights in some Of the principal
alleyways Of that city.
The Catholics at Dickinson burned
the mortgage on their church prop.
erty on March II, St. Patrick's day
Rev. John Dignam acted as fireman
A Masonic Association at Caring
ton has incorporated and plans are
under way for the erection of . beau
tiful Masonic Temple in that city the
coming year.
The Pembina Pioneer Express wants
to know if the 1916 slogan Of "He kept
us out war" will be brot up to date
by a revision in the form Of "He kept
us out of sugar"
The city council Of Harvey called q
special meeting to devise ways and
means for the erection of commune
ity building for their city. Every
live town should have one.
Water trouble at Yarmouth caused
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
road to route many of its trains over
the Northern Pacific during the re-
cent floods in the southwestern part of
the state.
Because he issued certificates Of de-
post to J. A. Nelson of Minneapolis,
for $4,000 when he had no funds in
the bank, J. w. Sitter, former cash
Ter of the Farmers National Bank at
Lidgerwood is under arrest.
Fifty bushels of perfectly good
wheat stolen from bin on the Adolph
Laiske farm near Sherwood some
time during the past month seems
like pretty good evidence that wheat
thieves are located in that vicinity.
At the special election at Flaxton
last week, the question as to whether
Flaxton should become incorporated
as a city carried by vote Of AZ to IL
and now it is the City of Flaxton.
Anything to the contrary may make
trouble.
"Doc" E. M. Dawson, for many
years a resident of Wahpeton, and one
Of the oldest electrical workers in the
state was accidentally electrocuted
while at work for the Otter Tail Pow
er Co. at Fergus Falls, MIMI, last
Sunday. Mr.. Dawson was SO years
Of age.
Rumors are again current that the
Great Northern will resume work on
the new line running across the state
and crossing the Missouri at point
some miles north Of Washburn. The
line was surveyed some years ago but
was abandoned on account Of the war.
Brinton, of the North Dakota news
paper trust, regardless of the rules of
the N. p. L. has come out and an
nounced himself as a candidate for
congress. Some of the papers claim
him resident of Minnesota and 9TH
ers say his home is in Florida, Cuba,
and Hawaii, but his political home
seems to be wherever he happens to
hang his hat.
The Hettinger Electric Light and
Power company, located four miles
north of the city was burned to the
ground last Sunday morning. The
entire plant and machinery were total
ly destroyed and the city is still and
will remain in darkness until new
equipment can be procured. The es-
timated loss is about $4,000 with
insurance placed at $4,000.
John Stupard, the Mountrail coun-
ty convict, who recently escaped from
the penitentiary at Bismarck, stopped
at Wilton and paid his respects to
the coroner, where he secured enough
clothing to keep himself warm and
Marlin rife and from there he travel
ed to Baldwin where he rifed an
other store The prison authorities
traced him to both places, later he
was caught near Mandan.
A. NJ. Cleland, general passenger
agent Of the Northern Pacific rail
road, was in Fargo Saturday with a
corps of the company's engineers, pre-
liminary to the commencement of
building operations on a subway I'M
der the company's lines in the heart of
the city. The work involves expen-
diture of 100000 and the subway
tunnel will be 500 feet long and drive
way being 10 feet lower than the
tracks.
Mohall Tribunes- News: X. r. Elem
drove down from Sherwood today in
his self snow plane bringing
Miss Sarah Sand, Red Cross nurse,
The snow plane being about the only
kind of conveyance that could travel
The roads in their present drifted con-
dition. Mr.. Elem gave demonstra-
lions of the workings Of his SNOWFLAKE
which rode the snow drift on Main
street and about town in fine shape,
and proved interesting to large num-
Der Of spectators watching the ma
chine in operation.
Staale Hendrickson insurance man
from. Coteau, was in the city on bust
ness Monday.