The Ward County independent., 1921-04-07
NORTH Dakota news

| ACCORDING 10 Cne henmare news
Kenmare has Rotary club.
Kinney Bros, near Glenburn, re-
port 100 chicks hatched his spring.
Mrs. D. j. DeTienne, trained
nurse, will. remodel her home in Var
Hook for hospital.
j. C. Randall, of Glenburn who
served on the jury at Mohall, is now
suffering from smallpox.
If your business isn't worth ad
vertising, advertise it for sale" per-
tinently suggests an exchange.
The Plaza Pioneer, which was start.
ed Is years ago by the late Geo. j
Smith, has suspended publication.
The Velva Journal seems to think
that teachers wages which were toe
low for time are now so high they
will have to come down little.
The cash register and contents were
stolen from the City Drug Store al
Drake. The proprietor is thankful
the thieves didn't lug his building
of.
The Cash store at Temple, N. D.
was robbed Of 500 in securities and
about $75 worth Of merchandise.
Thieves unlocked the door. The place
is owned by John Orser.
Kenmare will have good strong
baseball team this year which is anxi-
Gus to secure dates with other clubs.
The News thinks theirs will be Win
ming team if new suits are provided.
Lyman Bridges, who homesteaded
on a quarter of land south of Glen
burn in 1902, died recently at his
home in Michigan. He was we'll
known to the early settlers of Minot.
The Glenburn Advance wonders if
the $2,000,O00 loan made by the gov
ernment to several western states,
won't do more harm than good in the
unfavorable advertising they will get.
The family of Editor johnson of
the Donnybrook Courier is quarantin-
ed to their home with scarlet fever.
The editor is short of help in his shop
and he seems to be undergoing the
usual trials and tribulations Of
newspaperman.
The remains of Mrs. H. G. Kamp
who died at Poplar, Mont, March 2S,
were inferred in the Trinity cemetery
north Of Kenmare. The Ramps re-
sided on farm near Kenmare for
five years, selling their place and mov-
ing to Montana year ago.
The funeral of Mrs. Albert Fox,
wife of farmer living east of Sur
rey, who died from lock jaw, was held
from the Old Order Brethren church
north of Surrey Sunday morning at
II o'clock. Elder Addie Miller Off
ciated. The remains were inferred
in the cemetery near the church.
According to the Ryder News, A. E.
Uchner, former depot agent at Ma
koti, who was reported to have been
charged with embezzling 500 funds,
is not guilty at all, and the News
apologies for publishing the report
which appears to have been erroneous.
The young man is now living at Mich
olson, N. D.
Glenburn Advance: The "proof
of the pudding is the eating thereof"
is familiar old saying. And when
you are thinking along political lines
just write down in what particular in
stances the present state government
has made farming any more profitable
than any other state government we
have had in> the last ten years.
Co. Supt. Hitler of the Williams
county schools has caused notices to
be posted in all school houses in that
county forbidding dancing. The
county superintendent at their an
nual meeting at Bismarck decided on
this feature. Supt. Hitler states,
"The public dance as conducted to-
day has no educational value and is
immoral and debasing in it's tenden.
cies.'
herman Nelson has sold his "Bon-
anza Farm, consisting Of 1000 acres,
south of Ray to Richard NJ. Grove Of
Kansas for $90,O0O.00 and will give
possession April 10. The farm has
fine buildings and several years ago
Nelson was awarded the J. j. Hill
prize of $4,000 for having the model
farm along the Great Northern. Nell
son has lived on the. place for 33
years.
The Devils Lake libel case, wherein
y. P. Mann, H. G. Walker, Prentiss
II. Case, E. F. Flynn and A. B. Jack
son are suing F. S. Austin, editor of
the Devils Lake World, Jacob Canter,
print shop foreman and Leonard
Scharf, manager of the Devils Lake
Cooperative laundry, will be tried in
Cando in June. Judge Burr has ap-
pointed Francis j. Murphy of Minot
as special prosecutor. The case is
the result of the printing of alleged
iibelous circulars during the Novem-
ber campaign.
The editor of the Barber County
hansas) Index recently received the
following letter from a subscriber:
pleas stop the paper. It is q rood
paper. ! like it and 80 does the
old woman and the kids. We don't
like no other paper so good as the
Index, but we are taking a lot Of
them that amt no worse than the In
dex. Well stop some of them may
be and then take the Index. We don't
know what we would do without the
Index. It's good paper. Pleas
stop the paper.
- sHow your rervs-
Car Stolen From Garage Returned
The Buick Six, car seized by the
federal authorities and which was
stolen from the warehouse of the Mi
not Motor Sales Co. recently. was
returned by Walter Dinger. the own
er, who claims that he found the car
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