The Ward County independent., 1922-04-20
WILLIS TOWNSHIP

WILLIS TOWNSHIP d.
Mrs. E. E. Diehl took her son Tracy
NJ. Palmer back to Sawyer for his
school work, and attended Easter SER
vices at one of the Sawyer churches.
Lowell limerick was in Minot We'd
nesday with four horse load of po-
tatoes and brot home a load of shelled
corn for feed.
Wm Klimpel was the first man to
finish sowing wheat, beginning April
Sth and finishing on the 18th.
e. Bevins and sons are making pre-
parations toward the planting of 80
Iacres of corn, they intend digging a
pit of 10 it. under their silo, and add
ing 10 feet on the top, as they al
ready have the material on hand. They
have ensilage now on hand to run
them until May Is, besides 8 or 10
loads of fodder left over.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester Brown and
Forest Hunsley of Minot took supper
at the E. f. Diehl home Tuesday ev-
ening on their way home from Mrs.
Browns school in Newman township.
Harvey Fl. Gadbaw and family mo-
tored to Minot last Friday.
Claude Irwin has moved back to the
farm from MlnOt.
Guy Bevins and Douglas Beighle
attended the teachers institute in Mi
not going down Wednesday and re-
turning Saturday via the Minot Max
taxi to the South Prairie store, and
then walking the remaining three
miles.
Frank Long was in Minot with
wheat Wednesday and exchanging it
for his summer supply Of -four.
The rye crop is certainly looking
fine for this time of the year.
Mr.: SWenson of Minot along with
his family took Sunday dinner at the
A. w. Louis home.
Andrew hampstead moved from the
Everett Bunker farm, back onto his
own farm last week.
Leonard McNoll, who has been tax
ing treatments with Wood and Wood
of Minot for appendicitis since April
lst returned home April Is, feeling
very much improved.
Eugene Williams of Minneapolis,
Mimi, spent few days visiting his
brother, Elmer P. Williams and fam
lily, and then departed for Burlington,
where he will take charge of road
grading outfit, after visiting friends at
Norwich for a few days. -.
+, Cecil Walker found it impossible
to find job as a farm hand, so he
leased quarter of land just at the
edge of the city limits Of Sawyer and
will resume farming again.
Logan Lowe and chum of Minot
were in this township the week end
skinning horses that had died on the
prairies during the winter. Friday
morning they had taken off Is hides
and had IL more in sight for that day.
They receive $3.50 for the large size,
and $1.50 for the smaller ones.
Homer Chambers transacted busi-
ness in Minot Friday.
Sylvester Brown and his brother
in-law Forest Hunsley of Minot, took
Mrs. Brown back to her school Sab
bath afternoon, in Mr.. Browns Ford.
Carl Swenson, wife and daughters,
were in Minot Wednesday with farm
produce: Clyde Nelson and M. H.
Putney were also in the city the same
day.
Gregg Riley says this late and wet
spring is very dead sure sign of a
bountlful crop, as he is an old timer
and knows, calling at his farm Sat-
urday afternoon we saw him right up
in the bits like three year old, try
ing to do three or four odd jobs at
once, but mostly trying to keep warm
from that cold northeast wind which
was sure blowing thru whiskers.
Joe Gadbaw was obliged to take and
burn 100 acres of summer fallow land
on the AZ Simpson quarter, which con-
tanned thistles and pigeon grass to
such an extent that he could not oper-
ate his tractor and Tandem Disc Mr..
Gadbaw vows corn cultivating is far
superior to summer fallow as farm.
er has some heart to work, when he
knows he is sure to get from 35 to SOL
bushels Of corn to the acre, besides
tons Of fodder.
Anton E. Roseback, the Raleigh
man OF Sawyer was out with his Ford |
Thursday selling extracts to his many
old customers as well as many new
ones. Mr.. Roseback says the Sawyer
writer hasn't very warm spot in t
his heart for him any more, just be-
cuse he used to belong to the Nonpar-
tisan League, he should overlook such
little things as that.
Wheat sowing is now in full blast,
but the acreage is being cut down
this season, farmers that
sowed 275 acres last year are only
putting out from 60 to 90 acres and
say that is too much. Chas. Taylor
and sons have one-half section in rye,
and we dare say there is not farmer
in this township but has from so to
one and two full quarters in rye, but
what are we going to with it since