The Ward County Independent from Minot, North Dakota • Page 5

3V was Glaseven- the ovthe on ette's 3 and alted busin to be the the aking ushcs they 1 As Chief of Police Hagen was ing a small dilapidated looking shack in the coulee running south from the G. N. depot Wednesday morning, he chanced to smell the fumes of opium coming from the door and made an vestigation. The three men within, made an effort to bar the door, but the husky chief of police tore it open and arrested the trio. One man was lying on an old bed smoking a regular opium pipe.

The pipe was well filled with the dope and undoubtedly he wa3 dreaming the sweetest of dreams when the chief disturbed him. There Foxtaolm. A ball game has been arranged tween the home team and Carpio for Aug. 11 for 8100. The promises to be a good one as the teams are well matched.

The last game played the score stood six to four in favor of Foxholm. T. L. Simnons was a Carpio caller last Monday. Henry Samberg is very busy these days collecting poll taxes.

Miss Hannah Pudwill of Blaisdell is visiting her sister Mrs. Wm. Gerrity. Mrs. David Lloyd of the Lloyd Mine, visited with W.

Archibald last Sunday, T. W. Harris of Albert Lea, visited with the St. John Bros, last week. Nels Valla is building a large barn on his farm two miles up the river.

A. M. Richie, a well known North Prairie farmer, returned from ta last week with his bride, who was Miss Mary Bock, (a sister to Mrs. M. Stammen), who is also well known here she having resided here for several years.

She made final proof en a able homestead last fall which joins Mr. Richie's. Wishing the young couple a happy voyage thru life. M. W.

Early, AV. A. Starrett, Mrs. Afee and Mrs. Larson, were Minot tors Sunday and Monday.

Our base ball team played the souri Team" at Des Lacs last Saturday, the score beiug 13 to 3 in favor of the home teim. The Poxholm Ladies Aid society held thair annual sale of fancy goods and nic at the Lewis Peterson grove last Saturday. While the attendance was not very large, about 875.00 ized, hich was not so worse. Manager Kinney of the Foxholm base ball team, informs us that they have played nine games this season and won six of them, which is not such a bad record for an amatner team. A.

A. LARSON. Stringtown and Vicinity. Fine haying weather now and we tice some of the neighbors taking vantage of the fact. The dance given at Joe Williamson's granary last Saturday night by Thdrwald Larson was a grand success the crowd being one of the largest and jolliest it has been our pleasure to witness this season.

Therwald certainly takes the cake for managing anything of this kind and we all hope he will give other dance soon. Mrs. Anna Frank and Ham Grow tended the jdance at Joe Williamson's last Saturday right and stayed over to witness the ball game on Larson's Hill. Mr. and Mrs.

Reinholdt, of Tracy, are visiting with their daughter, 31 rs. O. M. Christenson. The ball game between "Olive" and the "Coal Miners" played on Larson's Hill last resulted in a score of eleven to four in favor of Olive.

Thom as Knight umpired the game and gave excellent satisfaction to both teams. Miss Frances Shortridge has pended her educational duties and has gone to Devils Lake to visit her ents for a week after which she will turn to Minot to attend the teacher's institute. Mrs. H. A.

Cormany called on Mrs. M. Witham Monday p. m. Mr.

Brown was out to his farm day. John Swenden visited at Hesnault's Sunday. and ''Vic" have been ing a well for Harry Corwin this week. J. A.

Shea and his grandson's ed the ball game on Larson's Hill last Sunday. Geo. Aird has been in Minot the past week on business. Joints Plenty in Minot Hagau Raids Bad Joint Wednesday ing Three That There's an Opium Joint in a Prominent Pipe and Dope. were no chairs in the shack, but the place had been frequented for some time, evidently by the fiends.

One of the men who was in the shack was a gambler named Jamison from Kenmare, an all around bad character. The trio were sent out of the city. The chief states that opium smoking is not a new thing in Minot, but makes the positive statement within the city of Minot, there is a room in a well known hotel where opium is smoked right along. There are places in not that tend to rival San Francisco's China town. Miss Anna Willman is visiting at Chris tenson's.

Miss Anna Halverson of is iting her sister Mrs. J. H. Witham. Mark Nelson has painted his buggy and it looks rather swell for a farmer.

L. B. Shea has had a very sick horse. Dr. Hopkins of Minot was called to tend it.

Miss Hanna Lagerwell is visiting her cousin, Mrs. C. M. Christenson this week. S.

R. Witham and his mother went to Minot Tuesday. Mrs. F. J.

Tromble has been laid up with a lame back the past week. The Ladies Aid Society met at Mrs. Dr. Renner's last Thursday nine bers and eight visitors being present. An elaborate supper, consisting of tato salad and pickled eggs, es, cake and coffee was servod which was enjoyed by all.

Next meeting will be held at Mrs Foster's, Aug 8th. Observation on R. F. D. No.

4. We are having nice growing weather and crops are looking much belter since the rains. Mr. Bert Barlow and M. Peterson are working on the Grow Farm.

A good many of the farmers are ing hay. Mr. Walhowe's new barn is painted and makes a fine appearance. L. S.

Glick and I. S. Mast spent day at Baden. D. C.

Plank and family visited at G. L. Swartzel's home on Sunday. L. B.

Yoder and wife are visiting friends at Badei. Marie why did you not take the big letter the mail man wanted to give you. James Foley traded a team of black horses on a fine span of mules day. "Jim's" a hustler. I.

M. Snucker ree'd a carload of coal last Saturday. I. T. Zook, our coal dealer, has an order for another carload of lignite.

Mrs. T. E. Sougstead called at the Pleasant Hill farm on Monday. S.

E. Vanfleet has begun making hay. Edwin Nelson, our road supervisor, has been doing good work on the roads. Mr. Ed Nelson has the finest field of corn we ever saw in N.

D. Some of our young people are taking lessons by mail. Ask "Nellie." Our mail wian had quite an ience with his ponies in Min one day last week. The streets were slippery and one pony fell down and broke loose from the wagon, but they did not get away. OBSERVER.

The Ray Recorder, Bert Young, itor, in an editorial thinks that its harder for a woman to reform than for a man. That may be true, but it's a fact that many a woman would form who does not, if it were not for the devilish men to lure her on. Latest reports from the crops are that the many fine rains are bringing them out nicely. Where farmers didn't expect to get a bushel of wheat to the acre, they will average nearly half. Let the good work continue.

ALMOST HUMAN Miss Field, who spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Chas. Fuller at Des Lacs, brot back a sample of wheat three or four feet tall, grown on the Fuller farm. Mr. Fuller has 150 acres of wheat and the yield promises to be good.

J. L. Skrivseth's photographic art studio, first-class work, all sizes, 303 S. Main St, Minot, D. 7-18tf For swell wedding stationery, all at the Independent office.

A. J. DE LANCE Commissioner Fourth District, Ward County A. D. De Lance, commissioner from the Fourth Commissioner's District, Ward county, was born in Potsdam, N.

in 1863, and was educated at the state normal school at Potsdam, N. Y. He is one of the early settlers of Dakota Territory, coming from the east and settling in that part of the world in 1882, so can be called a pioneer. In January, 1902, he came to Ross, Ward county, N. where he was post master from June 10th, 1902, until April 1, 1906.

As Mr. De Lance says, "he's a farmer by trade and a Republican by inclination." He has an excellent farm south of Ross upon which he resides. He's a good farmer, a good Republican and a mighty gocd fellow. He has taken more or less interest in politics ever since he came to Dakota and has been especially active since coming to Ward county. It is his desire to fill the bill of commissioner from the Fourth District to the satisfaction of everyone, and the manner in which he is taking hold of the work is very gratifying.

Butcher on a Big Scale. Gilroy and Hetherton have an ideal slaughter house, rendering works and cold storage room, at their fifteen acre tract of land just east of the city. An Independent reporter visited the place and was surprised to note the manner in which the work was done. A hundred and fifty hogs are kept in a lot near the slaughter house and are in readiness for the knife when needed. The huge oak and choke cherry trees furnish ample shade and they can get water at the river.

They eat corn at will from the self feeder. When the hogs are ready for butchering, they are driven up a shute and the pen at the top closed. As soon as one is stuck, the animal is rolled over into a vat of boiling water and by means of a lever, is lifted up onto the table, where it is skinned and cleaned. It is hoisted up to a track and when cleaned is sent down the track into the cooling room. Here the meat is kept for several days at almost freezing point until needed.

Two men are able to butcher forty hogs in a day if necessary. Cattle are butchered in equally as convenient a manner. A huge hoist is used to lift the bodies to the steel track, and when the meat is ready, is run down a separate track to the cooling room. The cooling room is kept cold as an ice berg with 150 tons of ice whicfl was put up from the river near by. Several hundred thickens and keys.

a large number of sheep and lambs are kept on the lot in ness. Are You Using Trust Made Twine Twine Manufactured in A I A or Your Own State? The North Dakota prison twine plant by the tiipe it shuts down for the season will have manufactured over three million pounds of twine. The sale of this twine will be the means of saving to the consumers of twine about three cents per pound which will make in round numbers $90,000.00, besides being a check on the market. The prison plant has manufactured three grades of twine this year at the following prices: 600 foot Manila, 12 cents. 550 foot Standard Manila, 10 3-4 c.

500 foot Standard, 9 1-2 cents. Less one-half when ordered in lots of 20,000 or more. All orders for less than 5,000 pounds cash. The Independent has been fortunate in securing a live correspondent for Rural Free Delivery No. 4.

The ers will please overlook the fact that no items were in the paper last week. The writer had them in the office in plenty of time, but in the shuffle were overlooked by the make-up man. mmmmmsmMmm SLOCUM IS A BUSY MAN What Minot's Popular Druggist is ing at His Stock Is a Branching Out in the Business. A. P.

Slocum's team of $2,000 sorrel mares gave birth of stallion colts this week, and Mr. Slocum will not place a price on the little animals. The colts were sired by Pearl Hart, the famous pacing stallion. Mr. Slocum is going into the thoro bred horse business quite extensively on his stock farm north of the city.

He will also raise thorobred hogs. He has at the present time forty pigs which are doing nicely. As he has a cream separator, he has many lons of milk each day that he can turn into the porkers and thus they cost him practically nAhing. The thorobred Jerseys are doing extra well and a number of fine calves have been secured this season. The cream from the Jerseys is all used in Slocum's soda fountain business, one of the things which has caused his fountain business to more than Sir Clothing Bargains.

We've got our order in for a biff line of fall and winter goods. Must close out the line we have on hand. We are giving- off ON and Boy's suits. I) you realize what this means? Do you realize that it means that you have an nity to secure the best line of clothing that is tured to-day at less than the wholesalers price? We don't make boasts that we cannot back up. You will have to come in and see the goods to appreciate our fering.

Why We Sell So Cheap. We are big buyers. We pay cash for every dollar's worth of goods that come iuto this store and take our counts. We don't have to pay a high rate of interest on the money invested ju this store. Our business is run on an economical basis.

Of course, our customers get the advantage of our business methods. We don't want to "hog" anyone. We want to live and let line, and always give our ers the advantage. Think this over. ana THE LELAND DEPARTMENT STORE.

double this season. Mr. Slocum has purchased a number of fine barred rock chickens from the east and will also raise them on the farm. He has twenty acres of com that stands knee high or better and gives much promise. He will secure plenty of seed from the field, he believes.

His millet is looking fine and he expects to raise plenty of feed for his stock. He will soon erect a large barn on the farm. Mr. Slocum spends siderable of his time at the farm ery day, and will see that he makes a big success of the undertaking or he will know the reason why. While not professing to be a race horse man, Mr.

Slocum can boast of a mighty good two year old colt that stepped an eighth of a mile recently, jshowing a 2:08 clip. The wholesale liquor houses will not have agents working in this state. I The dealers will depend largely upon the mails and will do more ing than the papers will cept the advertising. School Time is Nigh! Get your Boy one of those Fine Suits that are going at off. We have an extra large line and can give you great bargains in the above SHOES AT A BIG REDUCTION, We have a big lot of Shoes that we want to close out and will make it an object to you if you buy right away.

These also go at less than cost. Lay in a supply for a couple of years. You teldom get such an nity. Remember us when you want Shoes. Wealways carry a big line.

WE HAVE THE ADVANTAGE If we were running an exclusive clothing store, we would have to ask more for our than we do now. We have other lines and if we don't make verjr much on one line, we have a number of lines to draw from and can afford to be satisfied with small profits. This is worth considering. For instance, we have just as large a line of Men's ana Youth's Wothiog- as any in Minot. We handle Men's Shirts, Men's, Ladies'and Misses' Shoes, a full line of lTaderwear and, in fact, anything that is When you price the goods you'll agree with us that our store sells the cheapest of any in the city.

Don't think for a minute that you can't get what Donald Wilder, a Williston lad twenty years of age, was burned to death at St. Paul. He was a wiper in a round house and was under the engine in a pit at work. Someone had poured a quantity of gasoline into the pit, thinking it was water, when someone else dropped fire into the pit. Soon the flames had enveloped the young man and he jumped from the pit.

His clothing was soon burned from his body and his body roasted. He was taken to a hospital where he died. The supreme court has decided that express companies are not compelled to carry booze, even if it is sent C. O. D.

Get a frne sample of Dr. "Health Coffee" at our store. If real coffee disturbs your stomach, your heart or kidneys, then try this clever coffee imitation. Dr. Shoop has closoly matched old Java and Mocha coffee in flavor and taste, yet it has not a era in of coffee in it.

Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee Imitation is made from pure toasted grains or cereals, with malt, nats, etc. Made in a minute. No tedious wait. will purely like it.

Sold by UNIQUE GROCERY. Why We Can Sell Right. You cannot expect a store to always sell below cost, and we do not always do it. We've got to have a fair profit generally. There are times, however, when we are anxious to close out goods that will soon become seasonable and, if the ers will take advantage of such sales, it will pay them.

ust now we are offering our mammoth line of Summer Wash Goods at 25 per cent off. This is less than cost. The stock, remember is all new, purchased last Spring. We didn't have an old piece of goods left in the store last Spring. If you're wise, you'll not forget this store.

Grocery There's no store in Minot that can boast of abetter grocery department than ours has True, we don't have a lot of old goods on our shelves growing staler every day. but we buy often, get goo'l fresh stuff, turn it over frequently and for that reason our customers are always satisfied. We buv in just large enough ties to get the g')nd price and mark the goods accordingly. Remember, we don't take a Ht-k seat for any store in Minot considering quality, quantity and price. you want in Carpets and Rugs in Minot.

This is a mistake. We have an extra large line and can quote you some mighty nice prices on them. Visit our Hug Department before you buy. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. WE'LL TREAT YOU RIGHT.

COME IN AND LOOK OVER THE BARGAINS. FRANK PRESCOTT CO. J. MINOT, N. D.

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