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Minor Topics Guy Dolittle has sold his prop erty in Minot and will leave for the coast. Mrs. Morrison of Berthold has moved into her new home on south hill. Miss Mamie Olson departed for Minneapolis where she will soon wed Mr. Johnson, the Pal ermo banker. Olaf Ribb of Baden and V. D. Jones of Carpio were in Minot recently. Mr. Ribb was proving up*ona $4000 claim. &. M. Reed, the contractor, has completed a $1,500 resi dence for W. A. W. Culbertson of Surrey, which is considered one of the finest homes in that local ity Williston is to have a National Guard company and the com pany will be sworn in Dec. 8. About sixty will join. The com pany was organized in just four days. Thursday wcs a day of Thanks giving at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Pence for more reasons than one, and principally because of the arrival of a handsome little daughter. Some of the local cafes are serving venison steak'' which takes well witYf'the hungry straggler. More deer have been brot into Minot this season than in many years. M. J. Pearson, of Mutrie, Sask. passed thru Minot last week en route to Elgin, Neb. He is farm ing in Canada, where wheat av eraged from twenty to thirty bushels last season. Erick Smidrud, of Ray, died Nov. 25 of typhoid fever. Un dertaker Weagent went to that place to prepare the remains for shipment to Hatton, N. D. The decedent was 27 years of age. The cold weather man got down to business for the first time this season Friday and gave us a temperature 2 degrees be low zero. A high wind made the air feel forty degrees colder. James Scaife. of Deeriog, brot down eighty turkeys the day be fore Thanksgiving which he dis poaed of at a big price. The farmers are raising more poultry •every year which is a good indi cation. L. P. Weatherwax and wife went to Des Lacs Friday to see their little grand daughter who arrived in this cold bleak world the day before. "Grandpa" Weatherwax was as tickled as a id with a pair of red top boots. ^lark Nelson raised more than eighty turkeys this year and on Wednesday brot several of his friends gam pi*" of tb*1 fhoine Mrtis ttiHt they might l» thank ful the day following. Mark is quite a poultry fancier. C. H. Seaton and wife expect to 'leave this week for southwes tern, Neb., where they will visit Mrs. Seaton's parents a month. Mr. Seaton just sold a car load of stock. He had seventy head and considered this too many to winter. See The RENWALD LAND AGENCY MINOT, N. D., If you want to buy or sell farm lands. Farm Loans made promptly and at lowest rate of interest. Farms for sal© on the crop payment plan. 1 Miss Blanche Dalager enter tained a crowd of her friends at cards at her home on East Fifth street Friday evening. The evening passed away in a very enjoyable manner. John Drummond brot in twen ty-five turkeys to the local meat markets a few days before Thanksgiving. He received a fancy price for the birds. He has one of the nicest homes in the vicinity of Burlington and is dctiig well. ISTHMTES FURNISHED ALL wane Ashberry Stockton and wife of Des Lacs are rejoicing over the birth of a baby boy Thanksgiv ing day. The little fellow arriv ed during a storm when no doc tor could possibly get to the Ashberry home, but mother and son are getting along fine. Let the Independent print your sale bills and insert a notice of your sale in the paper at the •same time. In that way you'll let everybody know about your sale. Try it. W. D. MacFarlane, the well known brick and cement con tractor, leaves this wjek for {Havre Mont, where he has a big ranch. Mac will return in the spring when he expects to build several miles of cement walks— and they will be good ones too. FIRST-CLASS—Repairing done on all kinds of traction engines and boilers, such as retipping, rolling and£replacing flues, etc. F. M. PIERCE, blacksmith. g-23tf Deering, N. D. D. M. Gray, who owns one of the finest farms in the garden spot of Ward county, Des Lacs, made a five year proof on his claim Saturday. One of his witnesses was J. C. Hussey, one of the first Missouri farmers to locate in this portion of the state. BERT'S SANDY STORE* Successor to C. F. Ferber A fine line of Johnathan Apples just received. First-class line of Xmas Candies. Strictly home made afn'd pure. 50 varieties or more. Everything nfee and clean. Give me a call. E. A. HOLDERMAN, Prop. A. P. Slocum, the druggist* entertained a number of friends with a big Thanksgiving dinner. Instend of turkey, a fine young pig was served. The following were present at the feast Dr. and Mrs. Sweet, John Allen and wife, Mr. Vinkle and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hancock. SKRIVSETH'S PHOTOGRAPHIC ART STUDIO The finest StudkIin the West 303 S. MAIN ST. MlNOT, N. D. Was an attempt made to gain entrance into the Second Nat ional bank? The officers believe that there was for a key was found broken off in the padlock whick locks the iron gates lead ing to the front door. It was necessary to file off the lock be fore entrance could be gained in to the bank. UP-TO-DATE JEWELRY. WATCHES. CLOCKS and SILVERWARE. J. J. SKAUC, Jeweler, C. A. Johnson Bill. COMMTUO A. WILLETT, Contractor PAPER HANGER and DECORATOR fleaMeace lMfc St, MINOT, N. D. MINOT. N. D. Wm. Thomas of Towner went south of Ray and after tramp ing for several days shot two deer. When he attempted to ship them from Ray to Towner Wednesday evening the station agent refused him permission before Thomas could show permit from the game warden. Thomas was compelled to leave his deer at Ray and come to Mi not for legal advice. There is an opening of the new townsite of Blaisdell on the Great Northern Railway, forty miles west of Minot FOR A PHYSICIAN, FOR A DRUG ST UE, FOR POOL ROOAfS. For further information in quire of The Blaisdell-Bira Co., at Minot, N. I)., or H. R. Bates, Townsite Agent 8*~ Blaisdell N. D. 27tf-9 "Pete Peterson" is the name of a very inferior company that tried to entertain the people at the Jacobson Thanksgivingjnight. We won't waste much space in roasting this worthless company but think that the actresses ought to resign and accept jobs as dish washers in some of our hotels. The male members of the flim-flam concern might de velop into snow shovelers, but even then they would be in dan ger of mixing their "lines." Attv. LeSueur went to Towner on Friday on legal business. For chapped and cracked bands noth ing is quite as good as an application of De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. Put it on before going to bed, use an old pair of gloves and see what a difference the morning will bring. Sold by MCCOY-& Co., Druggists. Atty. Bradford spent several days in Minneapolis last week on business. W. J. Evans of Maxbass, Wm. Maloney and sister Miss Nora Maloney ot- Granville, were the guests of G. D. Colcord and wife on Thanksgiving day. The big Muskellunge which D. W. McCanna caught at Fish Lake last summer, has been mounted and is attracting a good deal of attention atCando. G. W. Favset spent ten days in Minneapolis, and returns with the information that he now has plenty of money to loan on city property. He has been doing a nice business with farm loans, but is branching out. Syver Hoff from Trondhjem, Norway, arrived last week for a visit with his brother John C. Hoff and sister Helen, of Paler mo. If he likes this part of the world, he will locate here. It had been fourteen years since the brothers met. There was a merry gathering at the Grill Cafe Thanksgiving evening when a crowd of several hundred of Minot's hungry hun gry gathered and partook of the good things prepared for them by Mr. Skeocn and his able corps of assistants. Rudd's orchestra furnished the music for the even ing. It would no doubt be a wise move on the part of our city authorities to see that the hy drants are tested regularly dur ing the winter months. We will have fires during the course of the winter, and its not pleasant to stand by and see a building burning, while the water is thawing.out pf frozen hydrants. We have a well equipped fire de partment now, and a lot of good willing firemen who will do their part if given half a chance. It is noticeable a cold seldom comes I on when the bowels are freely open. Neither can it stay if they are open. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrnp tastes as pleasant as maple sugar. Free from all opiates. Contains Honey and Tar. Conforms to the National Pure Food and Drug Law. Sold by MCCOY & Co., Druggists. GAPT. 0. A. KRAMAR Auctioneer and Salesman 0000 20 years' experience. Satisfaction guaranteed. Will cry anything from a needle to a farm, any place in America. Telephone the post master at Velva for dates, or ad dress me at same place. 0000 REFERENCES GIVfcrx AT THE INDEPENDENT OFFICE. Floods the body with warm, glowing vitality, makes the nerves strong, quick ens circulation, restores natural vigor, makes you feel like one born again. Hollister's Rocky Mountain lea. 35 cents. MCCOY & Co., Druggists. A small shack west of the Great Northern Hotel caught firfc Wednesday night and the inside was gutted. The firemen re sponded to a call and put out the flames before the building com pletely burned. There are number of ill looking shacks in that part of the town that should be removed, and while the Inde pendent does not wish anyone any ill luck, we would like to see them gotten out of the way in some manner or other. The shacks are inhabited mostly by disreputable negroes, who are not credit to the town. We care not ituw you euffeteu, t.or what failed to cure you, Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea makes the puniest, weakest specimen of man or woman hood strong and healthy. 35 cents. MCCOY & Co.. Druggists. John I. Moore, the well known land man, has recovered suffi cientlv from his recent illness, to be about on the streets again. John pulled thru a terrible seige of sickness, in fact one foot was pretty close to the grave, but he's here yet, and is going to sell a hundred thousand or so acres of land the coming season. When Mr. Moore can't show up the good qualities of land, the other fellows might just as well quit business. E. C. DeWitt & Co., of Chicago, at whose laboratory Kodol is prepared, as sure us that this remarkable digeslant and corrective for the stomach conforms fully to all provisions of the National Pure Food and Drug Law. The Kodol laboratory is a very large one, but if all the sufferers from indigestion and stom ach troubles could know the virtues of Kodol it would bo impossible for the manufacturers to keep up with the de maud. Kodol is sold here by MoCov & Co., Druggists. «f i.-ii WW"*.-11 4*?WA*1 e«$t*vrr ViV. .'Sfc W»ft 1. Because it is guar anteed to separate Succotash better than any machine in the world. 2. Because you can rid your field of Wild Oats. 3. Because it will take Oats and Wheat out of "Flax. Can you do it with your mill? 4. Because it is fur nished with a large number of Sieves for doing all kinds of cleaning. BOB SLEDS WHY SHOULD YOU BUY A HERO FANNING MILL? The advantage of the Hero lies in the fact that it has the power to clean any and all grain. Try it on Flax—it's great. It took years of experiments to perfect this machine, but now it is more nearly perfect than any Fanning Mill on the market. It will separate Wheat from Oats, and take out your Wild Oats, too. Don't try to get along without one of these mills. You might get along in some fashion without one, but considering the small cost of the mill, you will pay for it several times over the first year. SCOFIELD IMPLEMENT CO MINOT, N. D. SHEET MUSIC SACRIFICE SALE E N A S O E We have sold many sheets of music the past 10 days for 10 cents. We still have many selections left—many of them the latest. We have offered them now at this unheard of price I E E N S for another ten days to make room for new music arriving daily. This is your last opportunity, take advantage of it. This is'regu lar 25 and 50 cent sheet music. A. P. SLOCUM Wi haidle a Ml line light SMghs and raising attachments A MMIWn 1UITT We carry the "New Victory" and the "Cleland", any rAlNlNIliVJ 1Y11L(LJ gize you desire. We will guarantee these to be the best mills on the market. If you should not be satisfied with them, your money *will be refunded. W E I E E N O Minot, North Dakota 5. One machine to handle all kinds of grain. 6. Oats from Barley. 7. Zinc Sieves which do not rust. £. Screens are 36 inches long and made of hard wood which insures the tack hold ing and keeping wire screens tight. Two car loads to arrive soon. The factories have been unable to secure material, consequently are away be hind on their orders, but we were fortunate in securing a lot of sleds, so leave your order and you will not be disappointed.