The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-06-30
CITY News IN Brief

Herman Mechler, old time G. N.
engineer, reports the excessive hot
weather of Tuesday as very damag-
ing to the crop along the G. N. east
of Minot.
Supt. A. M. Waller and Asst. Supt.
F. j. Steffick attended the rural school
graduating exercises in the consolidat-
ed school near Max, Friday night.
Miss Page and Miss Deneen were the
teachers during the past year and
there was class of ten graduates.
Henry Thomson and family from
Makoti motored to this city Tuesday
to visit with Mr.. Tronson's sister,
Miss Clara Thomson and mother and
to attend the circus. Mr.. Thomson IS
a successful farmer and painter. He
reports splendid crops in his district.
A very heavy rain fell in Waterford
township Monday afternoon according
to report brot in by Herb Yuly
Tuesday. The water stood deep in
the road and in the low spots in the
fields. The same storm visited Nc
Kinley township, the rainfall being
heavy. The shower missed Minot by
several miles.
N. C. Macdonald, former superinten-
dent of public instruction of North
Dakota, received the degree Of doctor
of education from Harvard university.
He has been a student at Harvard
during the last year. The subject
of his thesis was "Rural Schools and
Rural School Consolidation in the
United States.
Mrs. H. J. Strand, wife of the
manager of the Bergseth Fish Co.,
returned Sunday from Poplar, Mont,
where she spent a month with her
parents. She reports heavy rains
thruout that district and farmers are
hopeful Of good crops which look
well at present. She states that a
heavy rain fell from Williston east
to the vicinity of Berthold Saturday
night.
An aviator accompanying Jack Will
liams, the Human Fly, gave an exhi-
bition over the city Tuesday evening,
driving his plane uncomfortably close
to the taller buildings. At the golf
links, the aviator and the Human Fly
gave an exhibition, the latter riding
on the wings and hanging from the
wheels beneath the plane. He had
planned dropping from the plane to
the Chef jacobson plane, but the lat
ter was called to Minneapolis on bust
ness.
The four-year-old son of B. Solberg
well known Mckinley township farm
er, is recovering from severe attack
of pneumonia following the lodging
of some corn in his windpipe during
the latter part of May. Mr.. Solberg
was planting corn and the little fell
low picked up handful Of the corn
and placed it in his mouth. He was
brot to Minot where a specialist re-
moved one kernel which lodged in his
windpipe. Two days later pneumonia
set in.
Miss Evalina Farrell, daughter of
Editor Farrell of the Granville Herald,
was in Minot Friday, enroute home
from q months visit in the west. She
visited friends in Spokane and 1t her
old home, Poplar, Mont. She reports
good crops in Montana, but says the
grasshoppers are doing much damage.
Her father, when went to Minneapolis
for an operation recently, is improv-
ing and will soon return to Granville:
During the absence of Mr.. Farrell and
daughter, the Herald was ably edited
by Mr.. Hardy, an old time printer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Frank and daugh-
ter Katherine, and Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Filaris left June l, in Mr.. Filaris' new
Cadillac for Minneapolis, where they
visited two days and then motored to
Waterloo, Iowa. Mr.. Frank went to
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and visited his
only sister and from there went to
Oil City, Pa, to visit his father and
two brothers, returning to Minneapo-
lis to meet Mr.. and Mrs. Filaris, re-
turning with them early this week.
Mrs. Frank remained for a visit at
her old home, Caledonia, MINI.
Peter Christensen, who had charge
Of the refreshment stand at the Rice
Lake picnic Saturday, states that in
four hours he disposed of $4,000
worth of refreshments and could have
sold 100000 worth more, but ran out
of stock. Governor Frazier was at
the picnic and the Boy Scouts in camp
at the lake, marched to the speak
er's stand and saluted the governor.
Senator Baker was also present and
spoke for. two hours. Later a dance
was held in the brady hall, but the
crowd was tired out and the dance
was not very well attended.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Miller of Gran
vile, accompanied their son, Robert
and family to Minot, Wednesday, to
visit friends and to see the elephants.
The Millers not. long ago returned
from an extended visit in Missouri.
Mr.. Miller going to his boyhood home
near Charlottesville, Va, where he
Spent six weeks. Mr.. Miller had ia6t
been back for over forty years and
had not seen his sister during that
time. He would not have known her,
due to the change the years had
wrought. Out Of IS young men who
enlisted in the Southern army, there
are but three living and Mr.. Miller
is one Of them. He spent several
days with one Of the others, now q
man Of nearly eighty. Mr.: Miller
visited the battle ground Of the Bat.
tie Of the Seven Pines, but did not
find any old familiar scenes. This
was one Of the hardest fought battles
Of the war, the armies facing each
other all day long knee deep In Z
swamp, and neither would give IN
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