The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-07-15
CITY news IN Brief

Postmaster Volkman of Burlington,
was business visitor to the city
Friday.
Values of Canadian farm lands,
have risen 1868 per cent in the last
Dr.. and Mrs. r. C. Lang have err
turned from three weeks tour thru
the Yellowstone Park.
George State of the ,Scofeld Imple-
ment Co. is in Fargo this week at
tending the State fair.
o. N. Elliott of the Independent
force in this city, Sundayed in Rugby,
where he visited friends.
Ed Elsie who has beemvisiting rela-
tiyes in Illinois and Wisconsin Tor
two weeks returned home Wednes-
day.
Attorney Clarke Of Kenmare was
in the city the first of the week at
tending to several cases which come
up at this term of court.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christian OF Aneta
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Eidell, Anderson block Wednesday en-
route to Plaza to visit their son:
An ice cream social will be held on
Friday evening, July q, at No. 435
Second Street N. w. Everyone in
vited. Ice cream and cake Is cents. !,
Mrs. ]. Hofto returned from Grand
Forks Thursday where she had been
the guest of her brother M. G. Olson
and family since the close of school
here. -,
The Clapps and Mrs. Collins will
leave in a few DAYS for an auto trip
which will include many of the Mime
sofa towns and cities, as well as points
in Minnesota and Iowa.
Mrs. Iona Walker of Macon Mo-,
passed thru the city on Monday OF this
week on her way to Mohall, N. D.,
where she will visit at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Conklin.
Mrs. Whitehead of California, is
visiting the Patterson and Dev0re
families of Ivanhoe' township, Renvllle
county. Mrs. Whitehead is sister
of the deceased wives of both gentle
men.
Roy Jones of Douglas returned
from two weeks trip through the
western part of Canada, and reports
crop conditions on this side of the line
in much better condition than over
there.
Russell Doebler, Of the Doebler In
surance agency accompanied by his
family returned Tuesday from fort
night, spent with old friends at Can
non Falls, Hastings and other Mime
sofa points.
Miss Ennie Selton, local representa-
tive of the Curtis publications left
today for her homestead near Raub
where she will assist in the farming
operations for few days while &C
cumulating a fresh coat of tan.
Every member of the Salem County
Cow Testing association, New Jersey,
owns a good 'pure-bred bull. Six
members are doing official testing, and
and nine more will do so next year.
Of the 800 cows in the association,
432 are purebreds.
jim Wilson of the Wilson Coal Co.
who has been visiting relatives and
old time friends in Ohio and Illinois
for the past two weeks returned home
Monday. He was accompanied upon
his return by Mrs. Wilson who was
visiting at her old home in Ohio.
E. A. Shirley of the Shirley Grocery
Co., returned from brief visit with
his brother, Oscar at Albuquerque, N.
NJ. The mother, Mrs. c. Shirley,
who accompanied him on the trip will
remain in New Mexico for the sum-
mer. Oscars health is steadily i'm
proving.
City Marshal Herzog, Banker Mel
son, Harry Sylvester and George Shu-
bart of Palermo, were in the city Fri
day as witnesses in the action of Rose
VS.. Ed. King of Donnybrook: The
jury in this case acquitted King of
the charge in a verdict rendered Sat-
urday morning.
quarters in connection with the Ko-
paid Electric Co., corner First street
S. E. and Central avenue and INSTALL
ed their stock Of tires and accessories.
Their salesrooms were formerly in
connection with the ]. B. Reed Trans
fer Co. in the Sons of Norway build
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gay and Mrs.
John Stoudt are home from an outing
at Cass Lake Mimi, where the time
was spent in fishing and recreation.
Mrs. Stourt told us that she landed
me pike that measured-we think she
aid inches in length-and the pesky
thing didn't pull her into the water
either.
Mrs. John Cinninger and son, Mrs.
Ernest Schultz, Mrs. Peter Tehelka,
Miss Emma Munson and Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry faster of Donnybrook, were in
he city Wednesday shopping and see
ing the sights. The Ladies Auxiliary
of White Ash township will hold a
nicnic at the Ed Judd grove on the
Joe Gieselman farm in White Ash,
next Sunday.
Clarence o. johnson Of the RUSSELL
Miller Milling Co., has resigned his
position with the firm and is NOV.
ing his family to the home Of his
father-in-law, Oscar Solberg, farmer
residing near Granville, where he will
assist in the farm operations and
endeavor to regain his health, which
has been seriously impaired by the
dust inhaled in his work at the mill.
Mrs. peggy" Collins, nee Clapp,
wife of DR.. Homer Collins, of Topeka,
Kansas, is spending a month or SO
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. A.
Clapp of the j. C. Penney store while
the Doctor is getting his office set