The Ward County Independent from Minot, North Dakota • Page 10

SAM CLARK AND HIS THANKSGIVING TURKEY They are telling a good joke on Col. Sam Clark, the congenial editor of the Reporter. Sam was down at Grand Forks this week attending the Insurgent tion ana when he returned home, he found a nice fat turkey on his desk. As Sam ib not so forunate as to be able to put his feet under his own Thanksgiving table, he sent the turkey to a Cafe, invited in a few of his friends and they enjoyed a did dinner Sam had not yet got thru thinking how nice that turkey tasted, when he received a letter that evening from one of his farmer readers. It is as follows: Lynch, N.

D. Dear Reporter: One of my best turkeys died, and we could not decide what was the matter. We thought that we would send it in to you and you could let your poultry editor examine it. Please let us know what was the matter with our turkey. We will be greatly obliged.

Asa Benton's Baby Dead The sad news reached Minot this morning of the death of the one year and 18 day old baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. Asa W. ton, formerly of this city. The little one died last Sunday ing at 1:20 o'clock after an ness of four weeks of celbro meningitits The little one was conscious two weeks before claimed by the grim reaDer.

The funeral of little Warren worth Benton, was held from the Presbyterian church at Primeville Oregon, Nov. 25. The ton family have numerous friends in Minot who extend sympathy to them in this great ment. Fine Trip For Duvall's Mrs. R.

W. Duvall has gone to Grand Forks for a short visit, In three weeks she will be joined by her husband and together they will go to Port Deposit, Maryland, where their son, Bruce, is attending Jacob's Home school, and later will go to da to spend two months. Mr. Duvall will return about March but Mrs- Duvall will not return to Minot until July. The Ladies' Aid Society of the M.

E. Church will hold their nual, household bazaar and hot dinner in the basement of the church. Thursday afternoon and evening. Dec. Useful articles suitable for Christmas will be sold.

Hot dinner will be served from 0 to 8 o'clock. E. Gilbert, an employe of the new mill, was batily injured ly, Ota Renning has ben appointed postmaster at Columbus, vice W. H. Graham who resigned.

A Devils Lake man was leaning against a telegraph pole when he was arrdMttd' for impersonating an officer. Claus Pranzen, a Rugby farmer, has been arrested charged with stealing a Load of wheat from Geo. Hanover. splendid forty acre ftyua two mites west of Sawyer only $1-8 acre. Inquire at dent.

M. MITCHELL A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Scofteld Thursday.

Arrangements are being completed for the erection of a Jewish ogue, the work on which will start early in the spring. Earl Stredwick of Heeker raised 700 bushels of potatoes this year which he sold at prices ranging from 50 to 65 cents a bushel. One North Dakota paper "As for us, we have always gotten along without money anyway, and we pose we can continue to the end." Mrs. John Monson from Ryder, who submitted to an operation at Mrs. Crane's Scandinavian hospital, has recovered sufficiently to return home.

Carl Christapheitiori from stone, N. as operated upon for pendicitis at Mrs. Crane's avian hospital Wednesday. Hs is getting along fine. The Plaza Pioneer rightly marks: "If you have any No.

1 flax, keep it for seed, as it will be worth $2.00 a bushel in the spring and hard to get at any price." Many farmers who are selling a poor grade of grain, getting docked extensively, could save a lot of ey by cleaning the grain themselves, and feeding the dockage to the hogs. Mr. Clark, the old soldier, who lives north of Burlington, recently returned from Minnesota where he had his hand amputated. That ber was affected with a cancer. He is enjoying better health than he has experienced for years.

The N. D. farmers can do a good deal towards relieving the present financial stringency by trading at home. A dollar sent out of the try means that the Chicago banks will get some of the money that ought to remain at home for general use. The Great Northern started a fire on the Andrew Jacobson farm west of the city burning over a quarter of land and destroying six tons of hay.

The neighbors got busy and confined the fire to the one quarter. Clerk of Court .1. E. Smith is now setting final profs to be taken at his office. He will take five or six a day and guarantee to do the work right.

The land office is so crowded with work of this kind, that it was deemed advisable to hurry the proofs along by letting Mr. Smith handle a portion of the work A man riding on a train near Minot recently asked the porter if he wouldn't turn up the lights so that he could se to read the evening paper. "No, sah," replied the "we's runnin' two and a half cent trains in North Dakota now, and kain't afford to burn much light." MITCHELL'S values in Underwear and Ladies' Invest Your Savings at Home You CanjStart This company offers the small investor the most liberal interest and the safest security. FOR SAVING ACCOUNTS IN ITS £yO One Year Treasury Certificates This form of investment apveals to. the small orofwISm The United Statu Land and JuivejMnjtpretty things that will make a nice Christmas present.

Our prices cover the widest range and, in all cases, simply express the value. We buy the smartest made in new styles, everything in perfect taste and can be relied upon fully. We find the best is none too good for Minot and vicinity. We have bought the best goods that money will buy and am selling them at the lowest prices possible. We will give free one pair of shoes to any born baby.

Come in and pay us a visit. You are welcome whether you buy or not. The fact that corn bread is being made in some parts of the country frond meal manufactured from Alfalfa, will have no effect in spoiling the petite of our Missouri friends for the good old fashioned corn bread. Geo. Pritchet, Mary Schiler were united iln marriage Tuesday at St.

Mary's church up the river near Foxholm. We will deavor to secure more ing this event, which was one of the most important functions of that neighborhood. Henry Auslander, the baker, is ing considerable more business than last year. He bakes 2,000 loaves of bread dally, besides hundreds of pies and cakes, etc. Mr.

Auslander is stalling another labor saving machine, a cake mixer, which will do the work of a dozen persons. James Holes, president of the state organization of the A. S. of is the oldest farmer in the state ing farmed here since 1871. His farm joins the city of Fargo.

He owns 20,000 acres of land and is very wealthy. This year he raised 14,000 bushels of potatoes for which he cured 50 cents a bushel. Here is a rule that evidently Edi tor Sam Clark, and he's a "right" good fellow, has used for some time for punctuation: Hold' your breath as long as you can, and then put in a comma when you have to spit, then put in a period when you want a chew of tobafcco, put iii a colon." A good many farmers have lost wheat by reason of piling it in their granaries when it was' too green. Wm. Sayers of Des lost 500 bushels in that way and H.

W. Gunther 150 bushels. There are a good many others. Of course the loss is not total, but the elevators will not buy it and about the only thing the farmer can use such grain is for feed. A fire built in the range of the Morrill hotel early Sunday morning created a smoke that made the night clerk believe that the new hotel was being consumed by angry flames.

He turned in the alarm, aroused the fire laddies from their early morning slumber, only to learn that the only fire there was was where it ought to be, in the stove. Twenty-five teachers are now ployed in the Minot schools, and the attendance from Williston to Rugby and clear across the Canadian line. When Professor Wolfe took hold of the work several years ago, the 1900, we believe, there were but five ers and 175 pupils. Three new school buildings have been erected- since that time. CAPITAL $100,000.00 IM GRANT S.

YOUMANS. President E. S. and Tiew. Home Offices, MINOT, North Dakota Investments Based on a Business Limited to First Mortgage Farm'Loans Fashion Center We have nothing but new goods direct from the Factory to offer you.

This is the place to buy anything that men wear in FURNISHINGS. We offer some special and Girls shoes. We New Masonic Temple, Minot, N. D. SAWYER MAN ATTEMPTS SU1 CIDE.

Ole Germanson Cuts His Throat and Wrists With a Jack Knife 8unday Morning. Despondent Because of Illness Did Not Awaken Man With Whom he Was Ole Germanson, a wealthy wegian farmer, residing a short tance north of Sawyer, cut his throat from ear to ear with a dull knife and fearfully cut both wrists, severing the cords, in an attempt to take his life about 2 o'clock Sunday morning. The man did the fearful act in his bed in the Sawyer hotel, and so quietly did he go about his work, that Ole Dalager who was sleeping with him, did not know that anything was wrong until some of the hotel employes ran into the room occupied by the two men. A surgeon was called at once and the wounds of the man attended to. The fact that the knife hatl not severed the jugular alone is the reason that he is alive and on a fair way to covery Germanson had been about the hotel all day and did not seem to be in gloomy spirits.

True he had been ill for some time of rheumatism, but was growing better. He had ire-r turned from Minnesota recently where he was operated upon for' dppendicitus, and it is thot that on account of his illness he ijecatne mented. The man was removed, to the county hospital in Minot where it is said that he will recover. Germanson is unmarried. A minute after Germanson.

cut, his throat, he was sorry of the act 'arid tried in vain to wake Delager, who is a sound sleeper. The noise which he made aroused the vants. who entered the room. Germanson does not like to talk of the subject and in referring to says only, "It's a bad mess." He is not a drinking man. It is lieved that Germanson will attempt the deed again if he gets well, and he will be closely watched.

COMPULSORY EDUCATION WILL BE ENFORCED. At a special meeting of the Board of Education held recently the pulsory education law was ly discussed and the board decided to have the law strictly enforced to the letter. Supt. Wolfe reported that there were a number of families in the city who have children of school age, who are not In school. Their names were presented to the board and unless such parents take heed and send their children to school at once, the law provided for such delinquents, will be invoked in no uncertain terms.

The board has instructs the intendent to notify all parents to comply with the law immediately or arrests will follow. The statutes are very plain and no family can afford to ignore them. They are as follows: Sec. 759. "Every parent, guardian or other person who resides in any district or city who has control of any child or children of or between the ages of eight or fourteen years, shall send such child or children to a public school in each year during the entire time the public schools of such district or city are in session." Sec.

"Any sucn parent, guardian or other person ing to comply with the retirements of the foregoing section, shall upon conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in a sum not less than five nor more1 than twenty dollars for the first offense and not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for the second and every subsequent offense, with costs in each case." St. Mary's. Mr. Steve Schindler has sold his farm to M. Smith of Red Wing, Minn.

Mr. G. R. Dingmann has purchased a horse from John Stahler of Foxholm. Mrs.

C. B. Tibbetts was very ill of pleurisy Monday. Daniel Armstrong from Questad was a visitor with Mr. and Mrs.

J. L. Keough Sunday and Monday. Mr. Wm.

Clark has returned from Minnesota where he had his hand amputated. J. L. Keough's four horse team made a sweep across the prairie Thursday with his wagon. The team started while Mr.

Keough went back several rods to pick up a clevis pin which he lost. No serious age was done to the horses. Mike Stamens went to Minot day with his' wife for a visit with hl9 parents. Emil Schwartze is building a big' new barn on his farm near Foxholm, Mr. Steve Schindler was a caller on the school teacher, Miss Hinlien, Sunday evening.

St. Mary's township is putting a new team road to Foxholm east of town. Mr. W. Archbald is -managing the work..