The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-04-21
Cl1Y NEWS IN BRIEF

gardens this week.
McHenry county ilremploy a coun-
ty agricultural agent.
Cook Robinson, Ford dealer from
Velva, was in Minot on business We'd
nesday.' :,
A 1918 Dodge car owned by Mark
Chatfield was stolen from his rear
lot Tuesday night. -
Atty. V. f. Stenersen will 60 to
Devils Lake Monday where he will or
ganize a Town Criers Club.
Geo. Cysewski, Sanish farmer, lost
his Maxwell car and garage by fire
which started when his car back-flred:
The Grand lodge Of the knights OF
Pythias of North Dakota, will hold
sheir annual session in Minot June 10
and 16.
Rev. C. f. Robin, pioneer minis
ter of Sanish, now residing at Minor,
N. d., has taken unto himself bride,
young woman from Iowa.
Guy Frank has been putting in
some good ticks out at his farm. doing
considerable work himself. He has
200 acres of wheat seeded up until
Monday.
DIR. and Mrs. j. K. Pence are par
ents of fine II IA pound son, born
Sunday. This is their first son but
the genial doctor is gradually regain
ing his composure.
+, Galehouse Of Kenmare has been
appointed permanent receiver of the
Renville Telephone Co., which owns
the Donnybrook exchange and rural
lines out Of that place.
w. L. Tollefson, former Ken
mare printer, passed away at Monroe,
Wis, recently, from pneumonia. He
leaves a wife and three small chill
dren. He was al years old.
Atty. c. D. Aaker, who was called
to DEBORAH, Iowa, by the serious ILL
ness of his mother, has returned. His
mother was feeling much better at
the time he left DEBORAH.
John J. O'Neill, writing from ETH
kom, Alta. reports that up to the first
of April, that district has not had as
much moisture since 1916 and the
early prospects for the crops are ex-
cellent.
The Roosevelt Highway from Minot
to Grand Forks will be- newly mark
ed soon. The fellow Who painted
the marks year ago must have mix
ed his colors with buttermilk for the
colors ran.
c. l.. Holt of the Holt Motor Co., is
spending few days in Minot con-
ferring with H. WEIGH, local manager,
and getting in touch more intimately
with conditions here and northwest
ern North Dakota.
George State, manger Of the SEQ
field Implement Co., left Monday on
business trip thru the eastern sec
ton of the state, in the interests Of
the Townsend tractor. George is
expected back today.
Arthur Leslie, Kenmare farmer has
Investigated and says he believes
grasshoppers will do little or no dam
age this year. He found large num-
bers Of eggs in the ground, but they
appear to have rotted.
Peter Schammel, rural mail carrier
at Kenmare, has completed Is years
service. He still owns the same horse
with which he started and would have
used the animal on the last trip, had
it not suffered lame shoulder.
Chas. Olson, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Olaf Olson, sent a cablegram to his
parents friday stating that himself
and family had left Lima, Peru, for
Minot, on visit. Mr.. Olson is en-
gagged in the banking business in Peru.
r. p. Barron, president Of the Sec
ond National Bank, accompanied by
Mrs. Barron, left Thursday for Pine
hurst, N. c., to attend meeting of
the executives of the American Bank
ers' Association, to be held there Nav
Capt. Larry Byrne, court reporter,
from Napoleon, N. D., and w. E..
Grantham, court reporter from Valley
City, are spending the week in Mi
not where they formerly resided. They
are interested in the Magic City Pool
and Billiard Parlors.
Supt. Doolittle of the City Parks,
has a big pile Of frewood cut up into
stove length and piled up at the Tour
lists Camp in Riverside Park. This is
the most beautiful Tourists Camp in
North Dakota and will be appreciated
by those who pass thru the city this
season.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. J. Nuremberg of
Drake have presented the American
Legion post at Drake the flag in which
was draped the casket of their son,
brought back to Drake for burial last
week. David Nehrenberg was the
first Drake boy to lose his life in the
world war. He was killed in action
in May, 1917.
Mrs. H. 6. Otto of Upham, can
qualify as the champion poultry wom-
an of McHenry county. She expects
to raise 1000 chickens this year. She
has already contracted all the eggs
her 500 White Leghorns can produce
this year to a party in Providence r.
l., at $500 per hundred. She expects
to ship 400 per day.
An auto owned by Paul Ives of
Balfour, which was stolen from in
front Of St. Joseph's hospital in Mi
not, by two boys now awaiting trial
in juvenile court, was found in Velva.
Mr.. Ives had driven to Minot to see
his wife, a patient in the hospital.
The boys had also stolen a bicycle
which they sold for $500 to buy gaso-
line.
A "clean up" committee is at work
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