The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-02-02
NORTH DAKOTA news

robbed of $500 worth of silks, mems
suits and trousers Monday night.
The eight-year-old son of A. T. Hol-
stenson of Epworth, suffered a broken
collar bone while playing at school.
The Beach Advance says: Cali the
boil weevils are in the South; but all
the humbugs are not" What do you
mean, Walt?
Bert Young, a pioneer North Da-
kota neWspaperman, is dickering in
plant of the former League organ.
W. M. Clark, Granville farmer,
has invented a shocker attachment for
self binder that is said to work.
He has made plans to put it on the
market.
An exchange remarks that it was
pitiful the way the Courier News had
to "crawl on it's belly to Bill LANCER"
in order to get that $5O,000.00 libel
suit dismissed.
The farmers of Mountrail county in
the vicinity of Stanley have agreed
to grow 300 acres of potatoes this
year providing they can be assured
of fair market.
w. F. Cushing, Beach editor, was
taken suddenly i'll and is writing for
the columns of the Advance from a
sick bed. An editor can usually do
his "lying" as we'll in bed as out of it..
The Douglas electric light plant, de-
stroyed by fire recently, is being re-
placed by a new plant located in the
fire hall. 1t will cost $4,000 complete
and is being installed by the Fair
banks Morse Co.
Usher L. Burdick, director of the
United States Grain Growers Inc, has
formed a partnership with C. L. Daw-
son, former states attorney of Golden
Valley county, for the practice Of law.
They will have offices in Williston
and Fargo, Mr. Burdick being in
charge of the Fargo office.
Records found in the Bank of North
Dakota, show that the former regime
spent large funds in spreading politi-
cal propaganda in North Dakota and
other states. The Bank of North
Dakota aided the radical element by
subscribing for the press service of an
organization serving socialist and
other radical newspapers.
M. F. Ogden, one of the prominent
farmers Of Alger township Mountrail
county, has invested in a crane which
he has erected on his barn near his
silo and will use it in carrying out the
silage to feed his cattle. Mr.. Ogden
has one of the largest herd Of cattle
in that county and is perhaps milking
more COWS than the average two farm
ers in the county. He is always on
the lookout for labor saving machin-
cry in order to eliminate as much as
possible the expensive hired help.
Early Sunday morning of last week
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Grow northwest of Makoti, was de-
stroyed by fire. The occupants had a
narrow escape with their lives. Mrs.
Grow grabbed one of the children,
and with the thermometer 80 below,
ran twenty rods barefooted through
the snow, freezing her feet so badly
that she will be unable to walk on
them for the rest of the winter. An
overheated stove was the cause.
A. w. Hagerott, secretary of a rur-
al telephone exchange near Mandan,
was arrested in Fargo after he had
entered the home Of Leigh H. Thomp-
son and terrified members of the fam
lily. 1t is believed the man is de-
ranged. He entered the home and
went into the basement where he dis
robed and put on an old pair of over
ais ana nat. he Cnen went up
stairs where he frightened Mrs.
Thompson. He hid in a closet and
fought with a neighbor who tried to
eject him.
Lansford Journal: C. F. Guss pur-
chased a full-blood Plymouth Rock
Rooster last week-a real humdinger.
Wednesday Mrs. Guss presented him
with a new son and heir. Frank was
walking down town the next morning
when ne met one Of the deacons of
the church, who had heard about the
arrival of the baby but who did not
know about the bird, Said the deacon,
81 hear you have an addition to the
flock" Frank thot he meant the zoos
ter and said, 81 sure have\ and he's
a dandy too. His father took first
prize at the New York Chicken Show
last year. Of course, he's young yet
but he is certainly we'll marked. Talk
about feathers, he sure has the right
shade. He froze his comb a little,
and that may hurt him for exhibition
purposes but not otherwise" "Comb ?
Feathers ?" said the deacon, "You
calk like a loon. What kind of a
baby have you got anyway?" "Baby!"
said Frank, Oh =, thot you were