The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-03-02
OBSERVATIONS In AND AROUND
BISMARCK POLITICAL RUM0RS

OF the Board OF Administration ap-
pears to be in the balance. Totten
has resigned and will be looking for
new job in April. Cahill is think
ing of quitting in order to save him
self the trouble Of defending himself
from the action started by the Gov
ernor. Muir is about in the same
beat. The board is said to have TAX
en- so much rope that they got their
feet tangled in it, one way and an
Tother.
John Steen appears to be wearing
about as we'll as any man around the
Capitol. ,. uf.%
We called on "Bill'' Holbein, secre-
tary of the North Dakota Good Roads
association, and found him as busy as
FEVER Give Bill the chance and we'll
have the finest roads in United States
inside Of ten years. Its a big pro-
gram and will cost some money but
will be worth it.
Gus Hassel, former Minot mer-
chant, is interested in the Lucas store,
one of the largest department stores
in North Dakota. He is doing well.
ice Belanger, who was agent for the
SEQ in Minot for many years, is oper-
ating a taxi line in Bismarck. He
is doing we'll.
Sam Clark, publisher of Jim Jam
.Jems, was in Minneapolis. Report
around Bismarck that his magazine is
going stronger than ever.
Came home on the feeble Minded
Limited" which had not been running
for about a week. John j. Lee, who
had spent week in Bismarck, advis-
ed US to take the short line as it
would save $500 car fare and the
road was reported open to Drake.
At Wilton it was learned that the
rotary snow ploW was at work open
ing the cuts between Washburn and
Wilton and the train was delayed five
hours. The rotary travelled about
four miles an hour, and cut thru
drifts some of which were ten or if
teen feet high. The accommodate
ing" 500 failed to hold their main
line train at Drake half an hour so
all the passengers were compelled to
sojourn in the "Mill City" until Sun
day afternoon. We ate breakfast
with our old friend, Major Blakey and
visited his drug store which is neat
and complete in every way. His son,
Stan, is associated with him and they
are doing we'll.
There is a great deal more snow
around Valley City and Bismarck
than in this vicinity. Reports show
that there is heavy snowfall thru
out every portion Of the state and
the soil at least will be in good con-
dition for seeding.
At Bismarck, we saw cattle buyers
from South St. Paul, sent out to buy
stock on the Missouri slope. Farm
ers in that vicinity are very short
of feed and hay which costs from
SIG to $40 ton is being shipped in.
The storm cut off shipments of feed
and resulted in much suffering to the
stock. One farmer ground up willow
branches to feed his cattle. Several
farmers unable to buy feed, drove
their cattle into town and turned them
over to the bankers, who had a mort
gage on them.
There is considerable sickness in
Wilton. Forty miners from the
Washburn mine are in bed with the
Flu. John Enright, who is connected
with the company was sick in bed, and
his wife had been i'll.
The writer has concluded that ne
doesn't want to be a travelling sales
man in the winter time. These
Knights Of the Grip are royal bunch
of good fellows, who are forever BRAY
ing the elements and trying hard tx
make a good record for their re-
spective houses. The managers sit
ting at their mahogany top desks
smoking 25-cent cigars "panning" the
boys for not bringing in more ant
larger orders, ought to trade place:
with them for few weeks in thu
winter.
One travelling man told the write,
of an experience he had in littl,
country hotel near Minot. The pro
prietor was so economical with hi
4 fuel supply that he kept an old wasl
boiler, a tub and some tin cans tie
together in the basement. When tn
travelling men would complain of tn
cold, he'd go down, drag the can
,, across the cement floor to make be
lieve he was shaking down the fur
pace, then he'd pump air into tn
pipes with bicycle pump whic
+ would cause them to sizzle, so every
body would think he had on goo
: head of steam.