The Ward County independent., 1922-11-30
CITY news IN BRIEF
(Crowded out of last weeks issue.)

(CrOWOeQ OUT OIL laSC week 5 lSSue.}
The Masonic lodge at Berthold held
reception for the teachers.
Herb Yuly, prominent Hereford
breeder from Waterford township was
in the city Saturday.
Youngsters are skating on the
reservoir at Ray this week. The ice
in Mouse river is not yet safe.
Mrs. Ernest Schultz and daughter
of Donnybreok were in the city Sat
urday on shopping expedition.
Mike Greitl of Barlow celebrated
his 68th birthday Saturday and at this
age he is cutting third set of teeth.
A jamestown man drove to Cali
fornia at an expense Of $46!54 for up
keep, gas and oil for his car, cover
ing $3.50 miles.
Thos. Fox, one of the early receiv-
ers of the Minot land office, is report
ed seriously i'll at the home Of his
brother, Robert, at Towner.
George Olaf Holm, an American
member of the Lutheran mission, has
been kidnapped by bandits in Honan
province, China. His home is at
Mooreton, N. D.
Hadley Graves, prominent Burling
ton mining man, was in the city to-
day, enroute to Zap where his COM
pany operate one of the largest open
pit mines in the state.
Mrs. George Woods of Donnybrook
whose husband, George Woods, su-
pervises the destinies of the 500 Line
in that enterprising city, was visi-
tor to the Wonder City Saturday.
P. C. Hamre, who visited Willisten
recently, states that the Williston po-
tato growers are shipping many z,ota
toes and are offered 80 cents a hu-
shell for the red variety, F. o. B. Viii
liston. These potatoes are wanted for
seed in the south.
Ira Wilcox, farmer from Ayr, N. D.,
who disappeared several weeks ago,
has written his wife from California.
He says he could not face his credi-
tors, so he drove his car to Valley City
where he boarded train for the west.
Wilcox contemplates returning home.
l.. r. Colvert of Berthold transact
ed business in Minot Tuesday. He
potatoes has had 4 tendency to en-
courage many Of The growers to open
their pits and as result the ship
ments from Berthold are quite heavy.
A number of ducks were frozen in
when ice formed on Mouse river in
the city Saturday night. Tom Plais-
ance from the hills southwest of Mi
not, reports that some Of the larger
lakes are not completely frozen over
and there are still few ducks in the
country.
A town in Iowa advertises that it
manufacturers enough cream into
butter each year to "spread 800 acres
Of bread. Ward county will be
rich old community when it produces
enough butter to spread on all the
bread made from the worlds finest
wheat which it also produces.
G. w. Casteel, from up in Alberta,
is the guest of his brothers Jim and
Fred of Burlington. Speaking of con-
ditions in the Canadian northwest Mr..
Casteel says that the depression
which has checked business since the
war is gradually disappearing and if
crops are good next season Canada
will be to the fore again.
Miss Annabelle Morris of the Nor
ris Millinery, spent Sunday as the
guest of friends at Velva, where the
Morris sisters formerly resided. The
menu for dinner at the home where
Miss Morris was entertained included
ripe strawberries freshly picked from
the garden of C. v. Swanson, pro-
prietor Of the Berry hotel of Velva,
and fresh spinach, grown by I. A..
Beebe. Evidently Velva is in the
banana belt.
Granville Herald.-Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Miller and children. arrived
Sunday from their trip to Arkansas.
After driving in mud from Leaven-
worth, Kans., to Fessenden, N. D.,
they abandoned their Ford and con-
tinued their journey by train, arriv-
ing here on train No. 80 from Minot.
All their Saline friends are glad to
welcome their return. Mr.. Miller
went to Fessenden Monday to drive
the car home.
Potato growers Of Hoople, N. D.,
are short 500 cars and barns, sheds,
garages, straw stacks and pits dug in
fields are being used to house pota-
toes, according to letter from Geo.
Hoop1e, potato shipper of that town,
to H. B. Fuller, state secretary of the
Farm Bureau federation. Hoople is
the largest potato shipping point in
North Dakota and conditions there
| are representative of those at other
North Dakota points.
A new meat market now supplies
the needs of the people residing in the
vicinity of the Riverside grocery.
Messrs. Martin Lund, Martin Jorgen-
son and Chris Bjorkman have 1eaesd
the market at the rear Of the River
side grocery and have stocked COM
plete line Of fresh and salt meats and
| al L~1s 1I ~ L.
that line. Mr.. Bjorkman is from
South Dakota while the frsh mention
ed gentlemen are the sons Of we'll
known farmers residing in the vicinity
Of the city.
Rev. Hafer, pastor of the Nazarene
church, has purchased the j. C.
Smallwood residence in Eastwood
park and is moving his family here
from Toledo, Ohio, where he has been
Connected with one of the largest con-
l propations in 0hio for covara1 uoors