The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-03-02
NORTH DAKOTA news

of influenza.
The Blakey drug store at Drake
was robbed of two watches and some
choice candy.
The Anamoose Progress has given
up the ghost, leaving that town with
out newspaper.
Three counties in the state includ-
ing Mclean are to bond to furnish
farmers with seed and feed
w.. E. Harding, forman of the Gran
vile Herald, was called to Vandalia,
III. by the illness of his mother.
The postoffice at Balta was robbed
Thursday morning. The robber was
captured at Silva and taken to Rugby.
r. f. Marshall of Grand Forks, as
sisted by the Pierce County Tribune,
is getting out directory of Pierce
County.
Bert Young, formerly newspaper
man of Towner, has purchased the
Nonpartisan paper at Rugby and will
revive it. d.
John Burns, accused of robbing a
Grenora store Of 5000 worth of silks,
was arrested at Stanley and taken to
Williston.
H. F. Dooley, secretary if the Will
iston Commercial Club, has resigned
to accept similar position at Fari
bault, MINI. H..
Three counties, Renville, Bottineau
and Burleigh, will not be permitted to-
participate in the state farm loans at
this time as they have already secur-
ed their limit.
Edward Simonson, Crosby farm
ooaI . inc and
taken to the asylum. He is married
and has two children. He worried over
financial difficulties. 49,
Jack Hastings, under arrest charged
with embezzling $4,000 from the
Scandinavian American bank at Fargo
says he is innocent, yet he appeared
afraid to come back and face the
music. e. IN rr.e. T.. & .E..-
Granville school district voted
$4,000 bonds to take up outstanding
indebtedness, the vote standing 112 to
L. The bonds were sold the same day
to the Drake-Ballard Bond Co. at
premium of per cent.
Gus Stenseth, sc, manager of the
telephone company at Enderlin for
ten years, was killed when he came
in contact with live wire. He leaves
q wife and five small children. He
was an Elk and an Odd Fellow.
Very few bankers have foreclosed
on mortgages in this part of the state
in the last year. Foreclosures have
only been started where the mort
gagors have abandoned property or
started bankruptcy proceedings
Glenburn Advance.
Has the new administration been
OH the job? Just ask. some hailed
out farmer who has cashed his war
rant at discount Of only three per
cent. Some difference in three per-
cent and anywhere from ten to TWEEN
ty, the amounts charged in the past.
Divide County Journal.
K Two frame store buildings at Bow
bells, one owned by Mrs. Sylvia Glenn
and occupied by the Koch pool hall and
another occupied by Charlie Lord, a
confectionery, were burned a week
ago Saturday morning. Mrs. Glenn's
building was worth 81 800 and was in
sured for 1000.
Robert Todd Lincoln, only surviving
son of President Lincoln, is still living,
making his home in Washington, D.
c., where he lives in quiet retirement.
He is now about eighty years old. He
is unusual in that he has at no time
in his life ever tried to make social or
political capital because he is the son
of the great civil war president.
1t is rumored that the 500 Line is
contemplating putting gasoline pro-
PEELED cars on the Max Bismarck San
ish branch in the near future to meet
the taxi passenger competition. The
cars will be combination passenger
and express cars and the dope is that
twice a day service each way on the
branch will be adopted News.