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ftlM w. ^Vv pj. u. I «M'J fJSffWf? ®*%T JVSf "1 -f ,**•* 3TJ i' AH.Work Guaranteed First Class. John Lynch. 1 Drink 20th Century Sanitary Soda Water With the installation of our new fountain, which we be lieve to be the best in the state, we are able to dispense all of the latest and finest drinks known to modern soda waterism. The syrups are bottled in plain sight, and the water is all kept at close to the freez ing point. NO MICROBES. NO METALLIC POISONS. NO UNCLEANLINESS. HOT AND COLD SODAS A SPECIALTY! A. S. BLAKEY, -The Druggist,- MINOT, NO. DAK. PAINTING, PAPER-HANGING, CALSOMINING AND ALL KINDS OF S»GN-WRITING. A A E S Wall Paper at Lowest Prices. iWinot, No. Dak. SQUARE DEALING! That's what it means to you to trade with us* Others may tell you that they sell lower, but they do not tell you that they are giving you inferior goods. But we believe our-prices and the quality of goods we put cut cannot help but satisfy you. SEASONA BLE GOODS: We are closing out our broken lines of winter goods at prices remarkably low. Our departments are all well-stocked. Remember that we pay the highest prices for butter and eggs. Yours for good, honest dealing, GLEVEN & HANSON, MINOT, N. D. THE VALLEY MEAT MARKET. 4 I TeleplMie orders dslliere* proaptlf. OILROY HETHERTON. jt Minot, N. Mouse River Valley Land Co. Real Estate Bought and Sold. Farm Loans at lowest rate of interest Fire and Life Insurance. Office 6D Main Str., No. 115. Goo. W. Burks. MINOT, N. D. mtiKS •, *£, *«^,.fc. NEWS OF THE STATE Ward county's valuation is placed at f6,100,280. $ Thie Blaisdell-Bird Co. lias clos edits offices at Balfour./- t.: Stanley needs a dentist—and a hundred more marriageable young ladies. During the past five years, the population of North Dakota,in creased 37 per cent. Many farmers are using printed stationery^ with the names of their fartns on it. That's busi ness. There is at report that the G. N. will build a road from Max bass, west, and through Mohall to Flaxton. A North Dakota rum mer gives as definition of hotel: "A place where a mau gives up good doll ars for bad quarters. Editor Hall of the Mohall News, who is ill of diabetes, does not grow better, and has returned to St. Paul for treatment. The governor of South Dakota and his wife reently celebrated their golden wedding. The gov ernor is an old time newspaper man. Superstitious Velva people are pointing out an instance of a young man who a year ago counted the vehicles in a funeral procession, now he's married. The people of Bowbells are josh ing a yoiing merchant who ad vertised the following: Its time for heavy underwear. Come in, and let me show you mine." Jimmie Wilson, a plucky Saw yer lad, put two burglars to flight one night recently, by dis playing a big gun when the man attempted to entfer the house. Mayor Roach says that the Optic will not suspend publica tion after Jan. 1, but will run as long as he lives. The Mayor and the Optic are very closely allied. TJieo. Brunning, the Questad man, who was nearly killed by a blow from a pitchfork in the hands of Joseph Huff, Jr., has re covered so far as to be able to walk out. He converses, but does not read and write. Mrs. Peter Olson, of Hurley township. Ward county, has a blind husband, ayd for three years has farmed very success fully, doing all of the work her self. She is counted the best farmer f®r miles around, men not excepted. She not only works her own quarter, but rents land from the neighbors. It is said of a certain Minne waukan mau that in putting on his good clothes last Sunday, he stepped into the kitchchen and asked the hired girl for a pin Her hands were covered with dough, so she just swelled out the bosom of her dress and told him to take one and this poor awkward man would have been fumbling around for the pin vet, if his wife hadn't happened in and bounced the rolling pin over his head. The editor of a Kansas paper states that he picked up a Win Chester rifle one day recently and started' tfp the street to deliver the weapon to its owner. The delinquent subscribers got it in their heads that he was on the warpath, and everyone he met insisted on paying what they owed him. One man wiped out a dept of ten years standing. On his return to his office he found a load of hay, fifteen bushels of potatoes, a load of wood and a barrel of turnips that had been brought in. Will some one please lend us a Winchester and twenty rounds of ammunition- for a day or so? i..'-Ji: .. *. *y y* If? :?i ,rtem a In the Minot land office during the past year, 6173 claims were filed on. The Mouse river is referred to as the Chicago river of Ward county.- Kv.& $..• Five hundred Minot dogs have been li eased. -Two thousand have not. It is said that the farmers in the sandier part of the state are planning to grow sugar cane as stock feed. It is claimed to be the cheapest fodder obtained, but requires sandy soty. There is a man in one of'the villages of Pembina county who persists in splitting wood when the rest of the inhabitants go to church, and to all remonstrances replies that there is no harm in splitting wood on Sunday if one, does not raise the ax higher than his head.'^'"''^"''.^^ Joe and Sophia jBudde of Devils Lake were married, Tues day (evening. They were the adopted children of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Biidde, and had jbeen brought up together. A home in the city aud a couple of farms were left them as lega heirs, and they concluded not to devideit. The Independent would be pleased to have its readers drop around and tell us the news. There's always something doing outyour way and the residents of other parts of the county would, no doubt, be pleased to learn of it. Don't be afraid to tell the newspaper man your troubles and your joys. The Independent is able to turn out just a little bit the best job work in the Northwest now, and we want to prove our asser tion. If you need envelopes, let ter-heads, bill-heads, statements, cards, circulars, calling cards, blanks, menu cards, weddine: in vitations and announcements, or. in fact, anything in the printing line, we will fix you up in the very latest style, and at prices which are reasonable. We buy new styles of type every month, and can surely suit you. The Independent always gets 3Tour jobs out when you want them. A quack doctor whose treat ment had evidently led to the death of his patient wad exam ined sternly by the coroner. What did you give the poor fellow?" asked the coroner. "Ipecacuanha, sir." "You might as well have given him the auro ra borealis," said the coroner. "Well, sir, that's just what I was going to give him when hedied." Parents, teachers, school offi cers and all taxpayers are, or should be, interested in seeing that children of school age at tend school at least sixty days during the year. The census will be made up in July from the ac tual attendance of children of school age whether in school or not. This places a premium upon attendance, and should stimulate everjrone interested in our schools to do his utmost to secure the desired record. This is how Wm. Nichel, a Morton county farmer, did his threshing: He has his own ma chine which has a self-feeder at tached. It is placed on a hill with the granary directly under neath it.. The straw falls over the hill-side. One child stands on the horse-power and keeps the horse going. Mr. Nichel hauls the grain from the fields with the help of two other chil dren and threshes twelve loads a day. He claims he can thresh it in less time than he could stack it. Can anyone beat this? It took him eleven days to thresh 2,800 bushels of wheat and 1,000 of oats. The citizens of the state are warned against a well-dressed young man who gives his name as Mitchell and claims to be a deputy sheriff from Knox coun ty, Tennessee. He claims to be in hot pursuit of a criminal but is short of money and begins to. borrow from acq uaintances. He is an lm poster and when appre hended should be placed under arrest. Prof. Wajdron has demonstrat ed that as flue grapes as can be found anywhere can be raised right here in North Dakota. In size and quality they rival any thing to be found in the market. THE and the multitude of other little accesso ries that the For Schootl Days CHILDREN must be ji a SUPPLIED with BOY and GIRL MUST HAVE in.order to be most success ful at school. TABLETS, PENCILS, PENS, INK, WE HAVE THEM ALL AT PRICES AS LOW AS YOU EXPECT. Yours to please, W. B. HAWLEY, Druggist, Minot, IVortH Dakota. Successors to the Vanderwarker Coal Co. Miners and Shippers of DRY UEHITE CIIHL We are now in a position to fur nish you coal cheaper than ever before* Get our figures/ Capacity: 500 TONS DAILY. GEO. McCLURE, Gen'l M'g'r, TASKER, N. D. Great Northern Gash Store Invites you to call at their place of business and inspect their goods in the in the enlarged quarters. Stock in every department has been in creased. Good bargains in all lines. We pay particular attention to farm pro duce ana always give the best prices for same. Oslie & Peterson, Piops., Minot, N. 0. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooeooooooooooooooooooooo THE GREAT NORTHER LUMBER CO. 1 6 MINOT, NORTHDAKOTA. THE UNION HOUSE SAM ARNTZ, 9 We have on hand a complete line of all kinds of BUILDING 2 MATERIAL at prices that are right. Don't fail 5 to fiet our figures before buying elsewhere. 2 "he independent Dealers. The Great Northern Lumber Company. ooooooooooooooooooooooxoo*oooooooooOoooooooooooooooo Prap. ixi PHONE NO. 64. Best room* in the heart of the city, 50c and $1.00 per day. Steam heated SAMPLE ROOM IN CONNECTION. MINOT, N. Jh GONFECTIONER%AND FRUITS. I take especial pride in handling a'first class line of fruits, which are fresh every morning. I cater only to the best trade. I always have the beat line of canned goods obtainable, such as peaches, raspberries, peas, corn, etc. Try a pound of Perfection Coffee, 40 cents and Gold Coin Coffee, 30 cents. If you are out of work see me. I cai? get you a good paying position. If If you need any help, lei me know. MJ 11^ PA*DINO, »«utli Main Strsot, MINOT, N. iJ* ks:: *v Dfff/' •i 'c •v „s. '•K4Lrn A •r v"! r-'.- is