The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-02-09
WILLIS TOWNSHIP

Sam Reed is on the sick list and
Walter Klimple has taken his place
as miner in the w. S. Reed mine,
Mr.. klimple having resigned his pos
ition at the Hillestead ranch.
Tracy Palmer attended the basket
ball game in Minot Friday night and
came out Saturday and remained over
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. E. E:
Dehl. -
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Put
ney Sunday, Jan. 81, 7 h. baby girl.
Mother and daughter are doing fine.
NJ. II. was out blowing himself over
the event and was out and bot fine
COW of Chas. Taylor and Sons. .....
William klimple was bedfast cou-
pie of days last week, with his old
complaint, rheumatism.
Mrs. John Klinesauser has returned
home from Sawyer, where she had
been taking care Of her grandmother,
Mrs. Jerome, who has been on the
sick list.
Joe Smith is doing chores at the
Frank Long home this winter for the
board of himself and team.
Donald Beyins attended band prac-
tice at the Community club hall at
the South Prairie store Sunday.
Our faithful and obliging mail man,
Joe Streeper, of Route l, was obliged
to lay off one day last week on ac-
count Of the snowstorm.
William Klimple and wife were in
Minot Saturday marking $50 lbs. of
butter, and 80 dozen case of fresh
eggs. Mr.. Klimple reported the roads
very heavy.
Thomas Doughtery resigned his pos
ltion as chore boy, on the Charles R.
Seney farm and returned to his home
stead six miles north of Minot. o.
Wallace spent two days in Minot,
looking for another man for Mr.. Seney
but failed to find man that cared
to go to the country.
A. Louis transacted business in Mi
not Friday and Saturday.
Ed. A. Jerden purchased 100 bushels
of shelled corn in Velva at SIS cents
per bushel and made two trips in
hauling it out to his farm.
Clarence Mackie is on the sick list
and has been staying in Minot the
past several days taking treatments
with Wood & Wood.
Peter Aim and little daughter, Oline
went to Northwood, N. D., last week,
the daughter having to undergo an
operation for appendicitis. Richard
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Louis and Rueben Redding were
business visitors in Minot Saturday.
Albert Stueber and Willie Busch,
spent Sunday with their best girls in
Sawyer.
NJ. H. Putney delivered fat COW
to a Minot butcher Saturday.
On account of 50 much snow and
bad roads Mrs. Mable Gadbaw and
little daughter, Miss June, did not
get in to Minot to take the train for
Fergus Falls, Mimi, last week, but
will 20 this present week.
Await Klimple was in Logan with
l 1s tons of coal Friday and had to
do piles of work shoveling snow in
places to get thru. He was unfor-
tunate enough to get his team down
in huge drift near the Clarence
Mackie home.
; Mrs. C. V. Thomas of Cedar Falls,
Iowa, wrote her sister, Mrs. Edna
Diehl last week, that Cedar Falls had
a very heavy rain and the land re-
sembled a huge lake.
Hugh Woodiwiis transacted bust
ness in Sawyer Tuesday.
Ole Wallace said he sure had
time getting to Minot with a team
and sled the next day after last
weeks snow storm leaving home at
day break and reaching Minot at 8
p. M; in the Groty Coulee he got
stuck in a monster drift and had
to borrow log chain of Mr.. Groty