The Ward County Independent from Minot, North Dakota • Page 11

nOHOOBAPBR VP OTSB THE TOP A new book ten by an English soldier who was "Over the Top." Mr. Kmpey tells vividly and ately of hia periences. Price of book paid to any address 91.50 This book is ating an intense impression ever read. imBMOl BOITKES 91.50 to 96.00 BRIEF STATE NEWS That the present year so closely sembles 1891, which was followed by North Dakota's greatest of bumper crops, that a wonderfield yield may be predicted for 1918 is the belief of John Gunwall, who has lived in Dunn county 31 years and farms 1,800 acres of land. The fall of 1891, he recalls, was extremely dry, and there was no snow that winter.

The following mer, he declares, the average yield in Stark county was 45 bushels of wheat and 100 bushels of oats, resulting from fine spring rains coming after the seeding, which was done in dry dust. Melvin Seamands of Hettinger, like his dad, is no slacker. Altho only 19 years of age and not reached by the conscription act, he recently enlisted in the aviation section and is now wi'vn The light that says There it isl" Carelessness with ches caused over a sand fires last year. Banish the match habit in your hornet But: don't ask for a flashlight an Eveready DAYLO. 75 cents and up.

BTEUAOT DATIO TiaihlighO 7Sc to 93.50 'JsSSFxi-. tvtREADv KEEP YOUB KODAK BUST Send him pictures of what la coins on around hime. He will appreciate it and look for them. The No. 1A P.

P. Kodak Jr. with R. R. Lens makes a popular, handy size, 913.00 We Do Developing, Finishing and Enlarging training at Jefferson Barracks, souri.

That's practical patriotism. His father tried to get into the vice last spring but was not -accepted so now the son has gone. If every family in the United States had that spirit the Kaiser would be looking for a new job shortly. WILLIS TOWNSHIP. Roscoe Beighle has 235 bushels of potatoes under this snow yet to dig.

S. M. Reed is engaged in opening up a coal mine on his farm. Mr. Reed informs us that his coulee pasture has a great amount of coal at a depth of 18 to 20 feet.

John Coons was in Minot Thursday and brot out a four-horse load of ground feed for his horses and hogs. Fred H. Diekmaw returned to UNION DENTISTS (The Union makes good) Gold Crown, best 22K $5.00 Best White Crown 5.00 Heaviest Bridge Work, per tooth 5.00 Best Silver Filling J.00 Extraction .50 Plates $10.00 up EXAMINATION FREE Phone 809 Opera House Block MEN, WE SAVE YOU MONEY CLEAN SWEEP SALE NOW IN FULL BLAST You will find this one of the nicest, cleanest stocks of merchandise in the city. Buyers even under ordinary conditions can always save money here, and now that the entire stock is offered at prices less than what it would now take to replace it, this Clean Sweep Sale ought to prove the greatest event of the ind Minot has ever seen. IT WILL COST YOU NOTHING TO STEP IN AND HAVE A LOOK.

ON THE OTHER HAND IT WILL MEAN LARS TO YOU. This has been on "off" year iivthe clothing and gents' furnishing business, merchandise is not only hard to buy, but conditions arising from the weather and through other causes has made this one of the most quiet seasons clothing merchants have ever known. To make a long story short, we have decided to INOEBSOX.X. BADIOX.ITBS The new Ingersoll that Is handy for all who are out after dark. diers, farmers and business men can u.se one with equal advantage.

Rndiollte Kadiolite, in tra good case 94.85 Kadiullte Wrist Watch 94.50 Wrist Watch Holders 75o Other Ingersoll Watches, 91.95 to 96.00. SORE MUSCLES JWD STIFF JOINTS. Soreness and stiffness of muscles and joints, weak and lame backs, gout, rheumatism, sciatica, and neuralgia sprains, strains, bruises, swellings and inflammation can all be cured or greatly relieved by I The remarkable curing qualities of this softening and healing liniment Iiave made it a favorite among athletes and others to cure, strengthen nud prevent week, stiff and sore muS' cles. Stimulates a-d cures by ing circulation at the locality applied. Two size boit'es, zee and 50c.

Price 25c and 50c Order ENGRAVED GREETING CARDS, CALLING CARDS, INVITATIONS, now for Holiday use. It takes time to get them and you will have no disappointments. We take orders for ENGRAVING gow, Tuesday, after a week's visit at the home of E. E. Diehl.

Ed Walker and Joseph Gadbow delivered cattle to the Sawyer pers last Friday. They report a very low price. Ole Saastad, who is on the school board, delivered a number of school books and put on the storm windows at Center school on Saturday. John Beldon and helper returned on Thursday with their two teams from McLeod, N. where they had been engaged in hauling baled hay to the Soo railroad for Mose W.

Putney Co. They report much more snow down there than we have In ward county, with bad roads and cold ther, and the company's gas engine that runs the baler gave them so much trouble that they were obliged to buy a new one and had very much delay and it will be a week or ten days l- KEEr THE PORTRAITS OF YOUR HEROES Give them the care they deserve, securely held in a substantial photo album along with pictures of your other friends. You wjll be receiving from feim pictures that will have lifelong interest. Leather Bound Albums, 3 styles, 3 sizes $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.25 Imitation Leather to $1.50 Cloth Bound Albums, Three sizes fiOc, 90c, $1.25 All of the above are loose leaf and extra leaves are in stock. Flexible Leather Albums, 0 sizes, Black, Tail or Gray 35c to $1.95 MARK CBOSS SAFETY BAZOB A triple plate Safety Razor that Is being troduced at 25o There Is nothing about this Ksissor except the case that would lead you to believe that It is less than a to $5.00 razor.

Razor and Blade 25c Murk Cross Razors, blades, black er case -Mark Crows Safety Razor tan leather Mark Cross Case Razor in Ivory case, 91.75 to $2.50. Murk Cross Razor wltli 3 blades and strop.SOo Mark Cross Corn Razor, best razor for corns each 25o These make line fiifts for soldiers: send him a SI.00 Mark Cross. Vou will lind iri our stock every style safety razor and blades. Shumate Razors, $2 up DTOHAM DUPLEX DEMONSTRATOR RAZOR This cut shows Durham Duplex Demonstrator Razor with one blade, which is being Sold for 15c This is the price of one shave and you can m-1 blades at 6 for 50c to use in Demonstrator Durham Duplex Domino Leather Case Razor and fi blades, together with kit for holding brush, soap, tooth brush and other arttieles, $1.00 Mailed anywhere upon receipt of 20o for Demonstrator and $1.00 for Domino. Benno Drug Co.

Mail Orders filled promptly and carefully. Your trade is appreciated. Our stock tains everything you may need for Home, Sickness, Stock and Other Purposes. Kreso Dip, Peroxide, Chicken and Stock Remedies, Etc. Clocks, Dolls, Pipes, Pocket Books, Music, Stationery, Thermos Bottles, Magazines, Candies, Tobaccos and Cigars.

Visit the Benno Drug Co. 011 your next shopping trip. more yet before the company can turn to their homes. They now have a car on track at Logan which is selling tit $15 per ton. Louis Gadbow has moved his ily to the Chas.

Prine homestead, now owned by Mr. Chambers. Several of the farmers in this neighborhood got a nice supply of cabbage from the two cars that the Sawyer Cash Store had in last day and Monday. Uncle Joe Gadbow sold all his chickens but a rooster and two hens. He says he don't believe in keeping live stock around him without any feed.

Wm. Wielding was looking for well drillers last Wednesday to put him down a well, without much success. He found two different men that would do the job in the spring, but on account of the snow and cold nasty weather they did not carte to undertake such a task this fall. Mr. Wielding has lots of stock and is depending on three shallow surface wells for his supply and needs a deep well quite badly.

Sam Reed went to Minot Sunday and returned on Monday. William Klimple says the deep snow has vetoed the 200 loads of manure that he had intended to haul out this fall. Carl Swenson and his two men hauled three loads of coal from the Russian mine Saturday a week. They broke a tongue out of one of their sleds, got lost and did not get to Mr. Swenson's home until 2:30 Sunday a.

m. and on Tuesday Mr. Swenson return a borrowed lantern to a farmer over in the hills where he had his mishap. Smith Bros, transacted business in Minot Thursday last. Adolph and Paul Klimgple rigged 19 a hay baler and went to the hills on Monday to bale 100 tons of hay which they have to haul.

Paul says no loose hay hauling for him in these snow drifts. Harvey Gadbow cleaned up $119.50 mining coal in the Beighle mine the first month. Harvey says that beats loafing all to pieces. Mr. Williams of the Hills borhood was 24 hours moving 50 els of wheat from his house to Minot, everything MORRIS BANK and then was hung- up four miles from town on the valley road until his brother came with another team and helped him on in.

Both returned on Friday. He was using sleds. Ed Jerden says he beat the weather man for once. He says he just got moved before he dished out all this snow. The north cut on the hill in the Putney coulee is entirely filled with snow, one day last week.

Mr. bard on Route 1 got his team down and the youngsters from Center school went over and helped him out. Teams can go over the hill around this cut and the road is passable. Richard Klimple and family and Mr. Klimple's mother of Sawyer ited over Sunday at the home of liam Klimple.

East Highland Jackson eBighle visited Dr. Lang last- Saturday and Monday and had some dental work done. Samuel Shuss was a Minot vistor Saturday. Miss Amundson spent the week end with the Chas. Taylor family.

Marvel Baker is now at home after spending the past few weeks at the J. S. Welty home. Mrs. E.

R. Walker entertained the Highland Ladies Aid last Thursday. Alhto the day was somewhat cool there was a goodly number in ance. The Aid will soon take up the Red Cross work. The next meeting will be with Mrs.

E. B. Bivins. Miss Hildah Bunker went to Velva Saturday to be under the doctor's care. Mrs.

Sam Irwin transacted business in Minot and visited her son Neil the first of the week. Miss Vera Trapp and her sister Edith visited 'at E. R. Walker's last Wednesday, and Thursday. Miss Trapp was unable to attend to her school duties these two days on account of getting poisoned from canned milk.

Mr. and Mrs. Everett shopped in Sawyer Saturday. While in town they learned that C. S.

Beighle is rying a black eye as the result of too great haste in getting down cellar. S. W. Irwin visited Minot Monday. BUY NOW WHILE OUR STOCK IS YET UNBROKEN.

GREAT BARGAINS OFFERED IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. sell our entire stock of men's and young men's Clothing, Overcoats, Sheep Lined Coats, Fur Lined Coats, Furnishings, Shoes, Trunks, Suit Cases and Valises, regardless of the prices we will have to accept. We'd fer to wait until later to inaugurate this sale, for right now we ought to be ing at a fair profit, but creditors insist on being paid, and we are going to vert our entire stock into cash. Our merchandise was bought at prices much lower than it would now take to duplicate it, but we must make a clean sweep of at prices based on last year's cost. Buy now, at the very time you need the merchandise, and get the comfort out of this fall's and winter's wear.

YOU WON'T SAVE A PENNY BY WAITING UNTIL LATER Slocum's Old Building, Across the Street i' WM llllHI mm. ulii WM Win: 1 mm uaranteed Griffon Special $1.25 qcli pish Vou can now et t.iold Fish at liennu uCo. Any size and kind. I'lain RcKiiiar Cold Fish, Small, Medium, Large, Kxtra 10c to 600 Fancy Ribljontail, Fringetail, Fantail, Comets, Japanese scopes and others, From 40c, 73c to 91.50 Moss, bunch (Best Grade Only) Nets, each 150 Food, per 15, 25, 50, 91, 1.50 Castles 35c to 91.00 lG-oz. Row! with pedestal and two tlsh 350 i-gal.

Bowl and 2 25c fish with moss 7go l-tfnl. Howl and 3 25c fish with moss SlJIfi Other Outfits, Fro 111.92.50, $3.25 to 98.50 Come and see our beautiful display of fish whether you wish to buy or not. The youngsters are always terested in Gold Fish SCISSOBS 25c to $1.50 Mrs. E. B.

Bivins returned last week from her visit in Minnesota. She ports a good time and the apples that she ordered for some of the Highland people are surely much appreciated by them. Donald Bivins left for nesota Tuesday to work for his uncle as help is hard to get there. F. M.

Long took the Red Cross men to Minot last Monday. They wish to get instructions so as to gin work. Repairing While Vou Wait. Honest Work at Honest Prices. SHOE LACES, POLISH and OILS for Sale.

THE WORKMAN'S QUICK SHOE REPAIR SHOP. A. KREAtViER, Prop. Shop in Gordon Clothing Store, Central Ave. near Main St.

MINOT, D. I A Green Salted Sides No. l's No. 2's G. S.

Hides, 25 lbs. and .19 G. S. Kips, 15 to 25 lbs 21 G. S.

Calf, 8 to 15 lbs 25 G. S. Bulls, Stags or .15 Qreen Hides Green Hides, 25 lbs. and .18 Green Kips, 15 to 25 lbs .20 Green Calf, 8 to 15 lbs 24 Green Bulls, Stags or .14 Prices For Tanning1 for Bobea, Bto Horse or Cattle, any size 15.25 Colt or Kip, not over 25 lbs 3.60 Colt or Caff, not over 15 lbs 1.75 Tanning Pelts, any size, wool on 1.S0 Dogs, any size l.H Wolf or Coyote, any size 1.60 Deer Skin (hair on) 1.60 Deer Skin (for buck) 1.50 Harness Leather, finished product, per square foot .17 Lace Leather, per square foot .18 Shoe Leather, per square foot .18 Price on Alalnr Bobra Horse or Cattle, any size 16.75 Colt or Kip, not over 25 lbs 4.25 Colt or Calr, not over 15 lbs 3.00 Tanning and Lining Robes, plete, black plush 10.60 Tanning and Lining Robes, plete, figured plush 12.00 425 Front St. 110 Minot Hide Tanning Company 425 Front St.

Phone 110, Minot, N. D. From the Soo Passenger Depot NORTH MAIN STREET JM I STEHNO STOVES 50c to $2.25 4 UA.