The Ward County independent., 1922-12-14

have been residing at Bottineau for
eighteen years, have moved to Minot.
Mrs. J. C. Juleson of Plaza died
from pneumonia. She was Al years
old and leaves husband and nine
children.
Virginia, the two year old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Blonde, has
been seriously i'll with pneumonia, but
is reported better.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle "A. Corey left
Monday for Santa Barbara, Calf,
where they will spend the winter with
Mr.. Corey's aged father.
E. d. Skinner, pioneer resident of
Sawyer, is spending the winter in
Minot, with his daughter, Mrs. Fannie
Burrills, deputy county treasurer.
Mrs. j. H. Loucks, pioneer resident
of Kermit, Divide county, passed
away after long illness. She leaves
husband and eight sons and daugh-
ters.
Mrs. Glenn Hecht is recovering
from a serious operation performed
in St. Joseph's hospital and is expect.
ed to be able to return to her home in
about week.
Mrs. J. W. Buettner Of Norwich,
who submitted to serious operation
in St. Joseph's hospital nearly eight
weeks ago, is improving steadily and
! expects to return home in few days.
A daughter weighing 1/2 pounds
was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Thorwald
Larson Of Gassman township Sunday
evening. Mother and babe are at the
A. M. Britton home, 4th Avenue NV.
! A Minneapolis man has been award
ed 100000 damages against the Bell
Telephone Co. for loss of time, due to
poor phone service. Instead of cuss-
ing the Hello girls, dissatisfied pa
irons may now seek redress in the
courts.
A. j. Bridges, who recently return
ed to Bedford, Ia, from Des Lacs,
where he owns a fine farm, writes
that there is no snow in Iowa yet.
Corn sells at 65 and 70 cents a bushel
and says it will be worth $1.00 before
spring.
Twin brothers, Peter J. and Frank
Girodat Of Mt. Carmel, N. D., married
sisters, the Misses Hedwig and Loret-
ia Bernard Of Mooreton. The twin
brothers look so nearly alike that the
minister had difficult time in identi-
flying them.
Fred Schmerer, New Rockford
section hand, walked into his neigh
boris house for visit, opened the
doorleading to the basement by mis-
take and plunged to the bottom Of
the stairs. He passed away as a re-
suit of a fractured skull.
The residence on the Andrew Mel
sen farm, five miles southeast Of Flax
ton, burned to the ground one night
recently when Carl Nelson and Alvin
Amundson, who occupied the place,
were in Flaxton attending picture
show. An overheated stove was the
cause.
Inmates of the state penitentiary
to the number of 100, are asking for
pardons. The board will not be able
to grant all Of these pardons, as War
den Stair and some Of his deputies
might find themselves out of joIs
There are usually about 200 prisoners
in the penitentiary.
The Bowbells State bank closed its
doors last week and is now in charge
of J. A. Stone Of Minot and B. B.
Bair of Bowbells. The bank was pur-
chased by twenty farmers year ago
and J. G. johnson has been the cash
ier Financial stringency is given as
the cause for closing the bank.
An elderly man from Sherwood
came near losing his life in Granville
one day last week. His wife had
boarded No. 80 and the old gentleman
waited too long. He grabbed the
hand rail after the train had started
and was thrown to the ground with
his legs on the track Paul Allen, a
mail man, drew him out just in time.
C. E. Danielson, president of the
Association of Commerce, returned
Sunday from weeks visit in Duluth,
the Twin Cities and Fargo. In the
, latter city, he attended the hearing
on discriminatory freight rates, be-
commerce commission. Twin City
and Duluth jobbers can ship freight
to. Montana points as cheaply as
North Dakota jobbers.
Oscar Johnson of Roseglen has
built a turkey shed from poles and
wire for frame work. 1t is about
ten feet high and straw has been
threshed on top and three sides. Part
granary. His poultry house is cover
\
straw which keeps out the frost and
makes it possible to have muslin
in one window all winter long.
A candle Of chemically treated
bees wax, feet in circumference, 1G
feet high and weighing ton has just
been completed in New York by five
men who spent four months making
it. The cost was $3,700.O0 and it
will be shipped to Pompeii, Italy,
where it will be burned for "a hours
en- the End of each November, All
Souls day. It is known as the Enrico
Caruso memorial and will last for Is
centuries.
The Bismarck Tribune, defeated in
Burleigh county for the official paper
has started contest on the grounds
that in several Of the precincts, the
election clerks and judges were stock.