The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-01-06
CITY news IN Brief

Messrs. Jim McVeety and E. Gale
house Of Donnybrook were in the city
Monday.
"Peg Leg" Baldwin is serving ten
day sentence in the city Jail for being
drunk and disorderly.
A marriage license was issued today
for Ernest j. Lewis, rs and Alice A.
Mann, 10, both of Minot.
j. II. Werner of the American State
Bank of Burlington, was a business
visitor to the city Monday.
l.. l.. Twitchel of Cass county was
chosen speaker of the house of rep
by the Independent forces
Tuesday.
According to reports received from
Grand Forks early this week, the
Grand Forks American has ceased
publication.
Sheriff and Mrs. A. p. Scotied are
expected home from Rochester, MINI,
today or tomorrow, following their
operations in the hospital
0. B. Gorder, auto dealer, Ole Ha-
gen, secretary of the Berthold Farm
Bureau and Geo. Murray, were all
down from Berthold Tuesday.
E. Ellison who has been very ill, fol-
lowing an operation at Rochester,
Mimi, is recovering nicely and expects
to return to Minot within short time.
Simon De Bit, and P. W.. Arnold of
Berthold, were witnesses for their
neighbor, John De Lang, who was here
Tuesday to take out citizenship papers.
U. G. Abbott, G. N. engineer, is
''seein' things" these days, Coming-un
from Knox yesterday he looked out
of his cab window and spied gopher.
Prof. and Mrs. John E. Howard and
son, John Jr, returned Sunday from
their holiday vacation spent in the
Twin Cities, Roberts, Wis, and Wynd-
mere, N. D.
DR.. Householder leaves Saturday for
Fargo where he will meet with the
Executive Board of the State Dental
Association and arrange for the state
meeting in thisAcity next June.
:. c. B. Teach, who was severely in
jured last Thursday night when the
Art Volkman auto went over the via
duct is improving at the hospital.
Pneumonia set in but he is much bet
ter this morning.
Miss Margaret Cassidy OF Uonny-
brook passed thru the city Monday
enroute to Kensal to resume her dat
les in the public schools Of that place.
This is Miss Cassidy's second year in
the kensal schools.
Prof. and Mrs. John H. Cotton and
babe returned Sunday from a two
weeks visit in the east. Mrs. Cotton
visited Oberlin, o., and the family
spent Christmas with Mr.. Colton's
folks at Woodson, Ill., ID.
Bert Plowman, local Delco light
dealer, left Tuesday for Fargo, where
he will confer with the Ashelman
Brothers, state agents for Delco light
ing plants with reference to their
plans for the new year.
90. Gilmore, former Minot printer,
who has been seriously i'll with pneu-
monia at Bismarck, submitted to an
operation Friday for ulcers on one of
his lungs. He has chance to recover
but is in very serious condition.
Roy Cavanaugh, who has been
travelling engineer for the Great Nor
thern, with headquarters at Ihlen,
Mimi, has, returned and will run out
of Minot Many friends welcome
Mr.. and Mrs. Cavanaugh back to Mi
not
A very interesting evening was
spent Tuesday evening at the home of
J. S. Hackett's, on Third street N. W.
when crowd Of young folks gathered
to try their luck at making candy and
afterwards going to Lincoln, Park,
skating.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Robinson left
Tuesday for West Palm Beach, Fla,
where they will spend the remainder
! Of the winter. Mr.. Robinson will
return about March and Mrs. Rob
inson will remain until May with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Arpin.
L. NJ. Due left for Minneapolis
Tuesday for a short business trip af-
ter which he will return to Minot and
within short time will go to Los
Angeles, Calf, to join his wife. Mr..
Due has disposed Of his interests here
and will make his future home in the
west.
Miss Viola Basham has returned
from Bemidji, Minn,. where she was
called by the illness of her sister,
Mrs. John Young, formerly Miss Irene
Basham. Mrs. Young's thirteen-day-
old babe died, the funeral being held
Dec. 80. Mrs. Young was verl i'll but
| is recovering.
! Gertrude, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Mark M. Chatfeld, was painfully in
|'jured while coasting on the slide at
Lincoln Lake recently and was con-
fined to the house for several days
At first it was feared that her hip
might have been seriously injured but
she is recovering nicely now.
Dan Cupid evidently needs new
pair of "specs" or lacks even a modi-
cum Of ability to observe conditions
when he allows young bachelor OIL
the reservation to escape his meshes.
This young man owns fine quarter
section of land and has $500 cash in
the bank and is awaiting the assaults
of Cupid with no little degree of ex-
pectancy. Now girls, don't all speak
at once. Well do the best we can
for you.
L. B. Weatherwax motored down
from Des Laos yesterday. He reports
the roads are-like pavements, the very
best ever known in North Dakota dur
ing the winter season. He caught a
gopher in trap week ago. He no
ticed tracks in the snow around an old
wheat shock and thot he was going