The Ward County independent., 1922-07-27
CITY news IN BRIEF

A nine-pound son was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Solomon Zook of Surrey,
Sunday night.
w. Fl. Wagner arrived last week
from Corinth, Ia, to look after the
harvesting of his crops at Norwich.
Alfred Shirley, Of the Eastwood
Park Grocery, left Friday for a visit
with friends in Seattle, Portland and
Vancouver.
Chas. Zehringer, vice president of
the Union National bank, accompan-
led by his family, left for Lake Lizzie,
near Detroit, Mimi, for an outing af-
ter which they will motor to Mr..
Zehringer's old home, Ortonville,
Mimi, for visit.
Harry Winters, local jeweler, left
Tuesday for New York City to buy a
stock Of jewelry. He will join Mrs.
Winters who has been visiting rela-
tives at her old home in Wabash, Ind,
who will accompany her husband east.
They will return by Philadelphia and
Washington, D. C.
Clarence A. Ronning, aged 81, a
prominent Columbus merchant, died
in hospital in Minot July IA, follow
ing an operation for gall and bladder
trouble. A wife and two children
survive. The remains were buried
in Columbus, where the deceased had
lived for many years.
David Phillips was called to his old
home, Ulster county, N. Y, recently
by the death of his step-father, Mr..
Gullixson. He is spending month
there settling up the estate and will
bring his mother to Minot where she
will make her home with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. VIM. Rauthausen. +.
Mrs. H. G. Detlaff of Tatman town.
ship only recently returned home
from Minot hospital where she has
been the last three months. 1t will
be remembered that about three
months ago she was attacked by vi
cious heifer calf, receiving a bad
wound in the leg which was followed
| by blood poison.
f. O. Anderson, we'll known farmer
| from the South prairie, visited Minot
Friday. He started cutting his rye
little green but says it is necessary
to do this in order to keep it from
shelling out. He fears that if a
heavy rain comes, the rye will 60
down, making it difficult to cut. AS
it is, he is having a hard time to
make good job Of the cutting.
A heavy rain fell in this vicinity
Sunday afternoon, beneftting the late
grain but interfering with the har-
vest temporarily. Many Of the farm
ers, unable to secure harvest hands
without paying exorbitant wages, had
many acres Of rye cut, intending to
shock it as soon as they had finished
cutting. The rain is not apt to do
any particular damage to the rye un-
less it should continue.
Robert F. Evans drove in from
forming township Friday in hopes of
securing hand for haying and har-
vest. He interviewed a number of
very able bodied men standing on the
street and they declared they were
holding out for $40O a day for haying
and $500 a day for harvest. Altho
Mr.. Evans is an old soldier and 7s
years of age, he was compelled to re-
turn without a man and will prob
Eably be compelled to do much of the
work himself if he desires to save his
crop, which is an especially good one
Edw. Nelson, pioneer farmer from
east of the city visited the Independ-
ent office Monday. He stated that
Sundays rain at his place amounted
to more than an inch and some of the
oats were so heavy that the water
flattened them to the ground. The
rain did more or less damage to fields
of rye in the vicinity, causing them
to fall, in places, which will make it
difficult to cut the fields. Mr.. Nelson
says his millet crop is the heaviest
in years. It stands two feet high and
has not yet headed. In the early days
he grew patch Of German millet
which he threshed, and it averaged IS
bushels of seed to the acre. This is as
good a millet year as at that time, he
believes.