The Ward County independent., 1921-09-15
CITY news IN BRIEF

o,1a. The fall fall term s7 Of the Minot Normal
H. A. Kluver, Burlington banker,
was in the city Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eldon White have re-
turned from three weeks auto tour
to points in Minnesota.
On Tuesday Mrs. Ed. Bettin gave
dinner in honor Of Mrs. Fred Nor
tensen who is leaving for Ontario,
Cal, to make her home. Covers were
laid for 10 guests.
Anthony Walton, president Of the
Savings Loan & Trust Co., returned
Saturday from an auto trip thru
Pierce and Benson counties. He re-
ports frightful roads, due to the heavy
rains of late.
Mrs. Ed. Butler of Glendive, Mon
tana, is guest at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. Palmer Larson, Valley st.
Mrs. Butler is a former resident of
years in the vicinity Of Tasker.
urday for short visit at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Erickson. His
granddaughter, Alberta Erickson,
who spent the summer at Tioga, re-
turned with him to enter school.
Mrs. Jos. Roach and Mrs. Axel
Roise have returned from Minnesota
where they spent the summer at
Birchaven, their summer home on
Long Lake, at Park Rapids. They
visited the Twin Cities enroute home.
Mrs. Mae West, matron of the Rim
60 apartments, returned Tuesday
from Brainard, Minn., where she was
called by the illness Of her mother
in-law. Mrs. West was accompanied
on her return by her daughter, Miss
Wyma.
The families of A. L. Ellingson
prominent lumberman, and Elmer M.
Hovey, druggist of Parshall have
moved to the city and taken apart
ments in the Bowker Flats, in order
to afford their children the benefit
of the city schools.
]. F. Chisholm of ,Paynesville, MINI.
formerly merchant at Carpio, later
moving his store to Donnybrook was
in the city Tuesday enroute to DON
nybrook. Mr.. Chisholm is now pro-
prietor> of dray line and bus line
at Payhesville and doing well.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Geer Of Grand
Forks, spent few days in Minot this
week. Mr.. Geer who for years was
at the head of the collection depart
ment of the I. H. Co., in this city
was recently transferred to the Grand
Forks office of that corporation.
Fire damaged the building Of the
Western Improvement Co., to the ex-
tent Of $1,5OO.O0 on the G. N. right
of-way Sunday afternoon. Two fire
alarms were turned in. The fire
started in a garage in which the pro
prietor, L. T. Stromswold kept his
car.
Atty. E. B. Goss is in Bismarck
arguing before the Supreme court
the case of Pearson VS.. Ellithorpe.
PearJon leased coal mine at Willis
ton to Ellithorpe and attempted to
in the district court before Judge
Fisk.
The parents of Paula Running, o.
year-o1d girl living in the hills near
Souris, are trying to locate her and
Erwin Swearington who departed for
parts unknown. Accompanying them
was the Running girls two-year-old
child. A check, made out for Miss
Running was cashed in Minot.
Miss Florence Colclough, 1921
High school graduate, from the Minot
High, left for her home near Par
shall. She will spend week at home
and then begin her duties as teacher
in one of the schools near her home,
in Banner Township. Miss Col
clough has been attending the sum-
mer Normal.
Friends in the city have received
word that Mrs. Nellie A. Mccall, rep
resentative of the Curtis publications,
who has made this territory for years
in the interest Of her publications,
stating that her husband recently
passed away and that she will be un-
able to cover this territory as usual
this season.
\ j. ]. O'Leary, Foxholm banker is
in the city today. He says the Fox
holm potato growers will soon start
harvesting their crop, which is esti-
mated at Is bushels per acre. About
500 acres Of potatoes were grown in
the Foxholm district. The potatoes
are fine and large, the Green Noun
tain variety being especially fine.
F. S. Woodiwiss, Norwich farmer
is in Minot today. He says the rains
have soaked the earth in good shape.
He is doing some fall plowing and
the moisture is way down below the
plowing; He notes that q wet fall
practically insures good crop the
following year. This country must
60 into the winter with plenty of
moisture in the ground. The rains
have done much good to the groves
as WELL
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