The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-01-19
NORTH DAKOTA news

1t is figured that the cost of educat-
ing child in North Dakota has in
creased 1907 in the past 80 years.
DeMars, an Indian from near Devils
Lake, was sent to the penitentiary for
18 months for deserving his squaw
and papooses.
1t is getting to be the custom with
the folks in town when inviting their
country cousins in for a visit to ask
them to bring their still along.
The new administration has dug up
twenty new adding machines which
were bought for the Bank of North
Dakota, most of which had never been
unpacked.
Editor Monson's house at Fessen-
den caught fire recently. T. D. leap
ed onto the roof in his night shirt
which so shocked the slumbering citi-
zens that all were soon awake and out
and the fire put out with little dam
age to the building.
The fact that Van Hook is growing
is evidenced by one Of the old resi-
dents having to inquire his way to
the home Of a friend, according to the
Tribune. That's nothing. We've
known Minot men who had to be
shown the way to their own homes.
An Indian from Poplar, Mont, was
sentenced to 20 days in Jail at Willis
ton for registering under an assumed
name. The buck would send checks
for goods to mail order houses under
another name, come to Willston to
get them at the depot and be gone be-
fore tn checks came back mo funds"
B. W. Elder shipped a car of horses
from Darlington Saturday and will
have another car ready this Saturday.
The animals go to New York State.
Mr.: Elder will continue buying in this
vicinity for some time. For the first
two carloads he has paid from $50 to
1925 head for geldings, about twice
the price such animals brought at
public sales the past fall. The new
rate is about $100 car less than a
year ago he says, running around $500
car now by express.
Many merchants over the state are
refusing to sell oleo claiming that to
place same on sale is a detriment to
the dairy industry of the state. What
is the use to boost for more dairy
cows, creameries and higher butter
prices when we buy oleo, the only
competitor that butter has. We have
even noticed farmers who sell their
cream to the local creameries 60 and
buy = few pounds of cleo because
they say it is cheaper. It's case of
cutting off your nose to spite your
face.
Those who have occasion to travel
over the roads towards the hills tell
us that in making rs mile drive one
can see at least 100 prairie chickens.
They are so thick that one is led to
believe that most Of the stories of the
hunters the past season were some
what prevaricated, in telling their
"limit" on each hunt. 1t is said that
chickens have not been so numerous
in the past twenty years as they are
this winter. Indications point to a
crop almost equal to that of grass
hoppers.-Kenmare News.
tas "War Tax Banks" ought to prove
popular in 1922. Uncle Sam has
taken the war tax off ice cream
cones and soft drinks and many
youngsters undoubtedly intend to- put
those extra pennies in the new bank
that Santa left them at Christmas
time. Those who don't think it
would pay to save the amount they
would pay if the tax were still effect
i've are reminded that the government
collected some $87 900 in one year in
North Dakota alone on the war tax
on drinks and cones. How many
ice cream cones did you eat last year?
Check it up this year by saving the
tax every time you buy cone or a
soft dr;nl