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

month for hired help last summer to
raise and put it up for the winter.
| Miss Oracle Louis is boarding at
| the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Gadbaw
and attending the Center school, no
school being held at the Baker school
on account of not sufficient amount
of pupils of school age.
Norville Merrick Aworking for his
brother-in-law Clareffce Mackie, this
winter.
1t has been said that Sabbath day,
Jan. 22nd, was the coolest day Of the
winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Redding are
the proud parents of bouncing baby
W. S. Reed and Elmer P Williams
have reached home again after doing
Jury duty in Minot Mr.. Reed serv-
ed three days and got off with a very
able excuse on account of operating a
coal mine. Elmer stuck it out week
and then he cried to come home.
Bevins Bros. are engaged in haul
ing As loads of pole wood and 600
posts from the timber plot they pur-
chased from Mr.. McDougall in the
Mouse river bottoms near Sawyer,
some l8 months ago.
The neighbors gathered in Friday
evening and surprised Freddie Baker
and family. Mr.. Baker is going to
move to Minot. Mrs. Baker will re-
main a short while at the Sam Baker
home until her husband can locate a
house in Minot and move their furnl-
ture.
John D. Coons came out from Minot
Friday on account OF the illness OF
Bert Stacy, his tenant.
The quarantine on the Peter Aim
home for scarlet fever has been re-
moved and Pete was in Sawyer Friday
with smile on his face, as big
as a slice cut out of a Missouri water
melon.
William Kimple and wife transact
ed legal business in Minot and also
marketed their butter and eggs Friday.
Long distance service was cut of
of Line 5 for couple of days on
account of some of the subscribers not
paying up their delinquent long dis
lance calls. John w. Coons came
out from Minot and managed to get
the matter Strengthened out, and was
pretty angry about it too, on account
of a sick call being turned down at
the Sawyer Central last Thursday
night. Mrs. Stacy being obliged to
call Mrs. R. w. Beighle and have her
place the call over Line 6.
Mrs. Mable Gadbaw and little
daughter, Miss June leave for Fergus
Falls, Mimi, this week, where they
will make their home with Mrs. Har-
ry.
Ole B. Wallace passed Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday with his mother,
Mrs. Charles R. Seney, who. is soon to
L. l1l ,IcS% h0O
daughter, Mrs. Edward Flack of New
Windsor, III.
Elmer Newman was in Sawyer with
four-horse load of coal for Rev.
Spacht Friday.
Tom Hillested has gone to Minot
to remain for the balance Of the WIN
ter and a Mr.. Fox from Minnesota
is taking care of his horses. Il
Henry Oleson sold small span of
work mules to Johnnie McDougall, his
brother-in-law Of Minot, and deliver
ed them some ten days ago.
Henry Louis and Walter Klimple.
were Sawyer visitors Saturday night,
making the trip in Mr.. Klimple's liz.
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We had the pleasure of having a
good heart to heart talk with our
good old democratic friend and mer-
chant j. J. McKinnon Of Sawyer one
day recently. 4
The Ladies aid met at the home of
Mrs. R. w. Beighle last Thursday
afternoon. '... '1'
r. w. Beighle has leased his large
grain and stock farm to his hired man
he has had for the past two years,
Lowell limerick, formerly Of Hankin-
son, N. D. Mr.. and Mrs. Beighle
and son Jack, will move to Canada in
prairie schooner when spring opens
up and will operate the Beighle farm
in Canada. Mr.. limerick will milk
one of the cows Of the Beighle herd
and Sam Reed will take the balance on
the share plan. Mr.. Beighle will fur
nish 40 acres of pasture that joins the
down his wheat acreage-a very wise
plan. sF. ~,
Clyde Nelson made. business trip
to Fargo week before last and stopped
at the Prescott Hotel while in that
city.
Ole Wallace says he is going to buy
Ford of his own, as he is growing
tired of being at the expense Of keep
ing a borrowed one in repair. One
day, recently he damned the radiator
in some unknown thing in Minot,
which cost him SIS or S. to have it
Imended. Cheer up "Red", "those that
dance must pay the fiddler.
The warm spell Of Friday and Sat-
urday caused four inches of water to
rise in the w. S. Reed coal mine, no
damage done, only same was obliged
to invest in four buckle all rubber
overshoe, but then again he said that
is nothing when the thot struck him
of the profit those seven cows would
bring him next June.