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Take Advantage of the Owner, care of Independent, Minot, N. D. 7-lltf FOR SALE—Blooded stock 1 regis tered Percheron stallion Nogent No. 54042 in good flesh and a good foal getter, weight 1900 lbs, price $400. One purebred Hereford bull Cham pion Cassius, 13 months old, a big fellow with plenty of bone and a good, strong, straight back. The first check of $150 gets him. Would consider young stock in exchange for either. H. J. Yuly, Burlington. 8-8-t3 WANTED—Man to drive binder thru harvest. Will pay harvest wages. Inquire H. J. M., c-o Independent. 8-15-2* FOR SALE OR RENT—Stock and grain farm in high state of cultiva tion, with one section and a quarter of hay and pasture land leased ad joining, all in one block. 240 acres fenced with good 3-wire fence. New stock and hay barn 42x80 with gam brel roof, half concrete basement. Four room cottage and other out buildings. Never failing drilled well with windmill. 12 acres fenced and cross fenced, tame hog pasture. School a stone's throw. H. J. Moll enhauer, Max, N. D., Owner, Sec. 29-152-83. 8-8-t3* FOUND Baby's chrocheted hood, trimmed with white bows. Owner may call at this office, pay for ad and receive property. WANTED—Middle aged man with wife to work on truck farm and take care of small amount of stock Work year round, good place for AVvj-I V-," BRASS TACKS Under present conditions, it is necessary that both, the merchants and the public get right "down to brass tacks" and discuss the various phases of this high cost of living "heart to heart". Now, today, let us take up the question ol CORSETS It is necessary to select the right line of Corsets, manufactured up to standards of style and quality, upon which you can depend. Madame Grace Corsets are designed and manufactured with the wearing possibilities constantly in mind, every model is designed to be worn with the very newest styles in dress. The line is so comprehensive that it enables you to select a model which will best meet your requirements as to fit, style, comfort, and quality. Priced at $1.75, $2.00, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $6.00. That is the reason for the increase in the demand for Madame Grace Corsets a demand which is growing steadily, season after season. We are prepared to serve your wants and urge you to give Madame Grace Corsets a trial. Just a Word as to a Few Grocery Specials We still have a limited quantity of the Cobana Coffee which you liked so well: 3 While it lasts —1_I*L 30c per lb. Economy Special, a coffee which pleases many, and we guarantee there is none better for the money a. 22c 10-lb. Pail Bluebird Coffee $2.90 5-lb. pail Blue Flame Coffee ___$1.50 Fancy New York Apples, 45$ per Gallon Can This is the heighth of the canning season and we always have an exceptionally fine assortment of the best stock of fruits we can secure. Fresh Milk and Cream Daily Economy Department Store Everything to Eat and Wear PHONES 272 and 273 W A N A S For Rent, For Sale, Lost, Found, Taken Up, FOR SALE—On easy terms by the owner. New Lignite mine in the heart of the Burlington mining dis trict between the two main lines of railroad. Title clear and in first class order. Or will lease mine to responsible firm or individual for a number of years. Address Mine right party. Telephone 294 or ad dress Box 547, Minot. 8-22-2t WANTED Place to work for his board by 13 year old boy. Can milk cows and make himself generally useful. Write or inquire at Inde pendent office. WE ARE AGENTS far Wear-U- Well Shoes. $1.98, $2.48, $2.98. Fac tory price. You save a dollar or two. Haskell's Second Hand Store, N. Main St. 1-31-tf WANTED—Separator to run. Had several years experience. Wife and mother work cooking on rig. Both good Norwegian cooks. W. B. Allen, Burlington, c-o Lloyd's Mine. 8-15-2* WANTED—Family, with own help, to rent 800 acre stock and grain farm. Stock and machinery furnished. Ad dress Lock Box 425, Towner, N. D. 8-15-t3* WANTED TO BUY—Second hand clothing and shoes. Haskell's Sec and Store, N. Main St. Phone 154 Black. l-31tf FOR SALE OR TRADE for cattle. One 1917 Maxwell touring car, good order, run 4,000 miles. Write or inquire, E. F. Cline, R. R. No. 3, Minot, N. D. 8-15-2* FOR SALE CHEAP One lumber wagon. H. J. Melos, 909 Valley St., Minot. 8-15-tf FOR SALE—Reeves steam engine, 25 horse power in A,No. 1 condition, used but 3 years. Call at my place and inspect this. Will give you a bargain. Also an Advance Separator and ten bottom Reeves Plow, steaijn lift. Joe Linnertz, Minot, Route No. 2. 8-15-t2* FOR TRADE—New modern six-room dwelling in Eastwodd Park,' for Ward county land.- Describe fully ,n AddresS Box 797, Minot, N. D. AUGUST COAT SALE at the MINOT CLOAK & SUIT CO. 7-11-tf WANTED Position as cook have had three years experience on cook cars in North Dakota. Joe E. Tar bol, Park Falls, Wis., L. Box 185. 8-1-tf WANTED—Work in office, experienc ed in any line. Telephone 249 Red. ti* WANTED—Good renter, half section, near Minot. Good buildings. Ad dress P. O. Box 1301, Minot. 8-15-2t* FOR SALE One nearly new "New Peerless" range and one heater. 417 2nd St. S. E. BODY FOUND IN FIELD. Hankinson, N. D.—The decomposed body of a man whose identity officials have not been able to establish, wad found in a wheat field on the Nels Nelson farm south of Victor. The body was in such bad condition that officials incinerated it where it was found. BRIEF STATE NEWS A young ^cyclone visits Napoleon and does considerable damage. Gov. Frazier has removed H. Betch old, chief of police at Glen Ullin, from office. Cause, frequent intoxication. Oliver county reported one case of infantile paralysis last month, Mer cer county five, and Trail county one death. A new depot 128x24 feet has been started at Scranton. It will be one of the finest between Miles City and Mobridge. Jack Hurley, Fargo, who went abroad with Company last year, has been discharged from overseas duty on account of broken arches, and is now in a hospital in Rahway, N. J. Mrs. J. C. Heath of Granville, has received an account of the marriage of her niece, Miss Zelma Cooper, who became the wife of Sergeant Hamil ton Newman at Miami, Florida, June 26th. McGarry, of the McKenzie County Chronicle, whose pjfint shop was re cently destroyed by fire, has installed new equipment, and now he wants a printer. They're gettin' mighty scarce, Mac. ..• "I.' M,"Wpl ••MPlPMii -W. Almost a million dollars will be ex pended in the completion of the state and federal aid highway projects now under way or contemplated f«r 1918 and 1919, reports State Engineer Jay W. Bliss. Last week the R. B. Loubek Hard ware Co. of Freda purchased the large hotel building and lot on Main I of Mott and announce that they will move their $10,000 stock of hardware I to Selfridge. Elizabeth Frocht, counter girl in a Dickinson cafeteria, tried to fill a cof fee urn with high test gasoline while the fire under it was burning, and was seriously injured. Prompt aid extinguished the flames, and Miss Foeht will recover. Clarence Ilamre was unfortunate enough to break his left leg last Sun day afternoon while playing ball near Colgrove'.s mine north of Mott. It was done running to second base. Both bones are broken below the knee. Adam Horst, farmer, was killed, his wife, daughter and baby were injured, the latter probably fatally, when their automobile, en route from Carson to their farm, was caught in a tornado last week and blown off the road. I Horst was crushed under the car. Half an hour after John Boehm of Tower City received a telegram from Washington that his youngest son, John, Jr., 17, had been wounded ift action, another message from Toledo, Ore., told of the death of his son Frank, 22, of erysipelas, A party of Ma„ndan society dames helped themselves to a mess of ripe I tomatoes from the vines at* the gov- 1 ernment experimental station near the city, and narrowly escaped arrest. The ladies were given a good talking to by a government agent, who con fiscated the tomatoes. Muriel Van Scoik, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Van Scoik, of Jamestown, was burned to death in a fire which gutted the home. The girl, totally blind, was home on a vacation from the school for the blind at Bathgate, and was asleep upstairs when the fire broke out. O. N. Cleven, representative nom inee on the Republican ticket, from this district, was called to Kenyoh, Minn., last week, by the death of one of his sisters. Mr. Cleven is one of, the early settlers in this county and has the heartfelt sympathy of all who know the family. Dr. Coffin deceived a message Sun day evening to hurry to the W. E. Barbre home near Balfour. A few minutes later the doctor called up to ascertain the nature of the trouble in order that he might go prepared for any emergency. He received the re ply that Mr. Barbre had just dropped dead. To be picked up, carried six rods, and set down on her feet by ,a cyclone, was the experience of Mrs. Steve Av ery, wife of a farmer living near Berthold. Mrs. Avery's young baby was thrown from the cradle and found lying in a mud puddle, uninjured. The farmhouse and practically all its fur nishings were destroyed. The cyclone passed in a few minutes. Crops were damaged somewhat. F. E. Ellickson turned over to the Regent Red Cross $85.00 the past week, net proceeds from the Regent chautauqua. The chautauqua collect ed five cents per ticket as war tax un der the impression that it was neces sary and found out that there would be no tax as the institution was not for the purpose of making money and the proceeds go to a charitable insti tution. A new rule has just gone into effect governing the distribution of motion pictures sent out by Northern Divis ion headquarters. In accordance with this ruling, films will be sent without charge to chapters, branches and aux iliarieSj. These organizations may rent the films to their local motion picture managers and the money re ceived will be retained by the chap ter, branch or auxiliary. Construction crews are already at work on a "Y" from the Northern Pacific to the Milwaukee line tracks at New Leipzig, which will afford the physical connection between these arwrggremagssz: tAre two systems which North Dakota shippers long have sought. The re sult will be a saving of many thous ands annually to shippers and consum ers. Heretofore carload lots have been transferred at this point by team at a cost ranging from $3 to $15 per car. All soldiers who have dependent wives are required to make out of their government pay an allotment of $15 per month. They may make more but they must make $15. To this the government adds an allowance of $15 more, so that a wife's income while her husband is in military service is at least $30 per month. If there are dependent children the government allows in addition $10 per month for one child, $7.50 for the second, and $5 for each additional child. Instructions to discontinue all ac ceptances of voluntary applications for military service were received last week at the Bismarck recruiting office of the United States army. "This means the end of the volunteer sys tem of recruiting in this country," said a draft official. It means that in the future we will have only one army, instead of three—the regulars, the guard and the national army—as we have had. And this army will be created on the selective service prin ciple." The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthon Hoerner of the Rhein country, near Hazen,-\vas accidentally shot in the head one day last week when a loaded shot gun in the hands of his brother was discharged. One of the members of the family loaded the gun the day previous with the inten tion of shooting a hawk and .left t^e gun near the barn. Several of the children while playing the next day sighted the gun which accidentally was discharged when he attempted to shouldered it, Paul Kittelson, an employee of the Dickinson Vulcanizing company, was placed under arrest one day last ewek on a charge of abduction brought against him by Mrs. Pendergast of Dickinson. He was released when bail of $1000 was furnished. Mrs. Pender7 gast claims that Mr. Kittleson knows of the whereabouts of her daughters who left Dickinson, without her knowledge. He admits having heard ftbejKsrtated they were leaving soon for a larger city. As the prosecution had no witnesses the trial was postponed. A man goingl)j,the name of John Sandel, who was'a transient, purchas Until further notice we will make a SPECIAL PRICE on Beef Roasts and Boiling Meats Every SATURDAY Our meats are the finest obtainable and pre pared under absolutely sanitary conditions GIVE US A TRIAL INDEPENDENT MEAT MARKET A. F. NITCH, Prop. TELEPHONE 707 FRANK A. VANDERL1P says: "To be good Americans, we mmt analyze our expenditures" He's talking to us individually-, and he's right, because—we must know what we have done with our money in order to spend to better advantage in the future, and save more.7] .j,.,,.. A Checking Account will enable you to keep accurate account of your expenditures on better business principles. We appreciate your account, be it large or small. CITIZEN'S BANK OF MINOT you ketp)pf your War Saviags Stamp pledge? The boys over there are making theirs good! LL inl yV [t ... uHui'tu°A5 •=..k'-Ivic-v.v^i•»,, $*,' .': If you need a new Coat this fall, now is the time to buy it—you can save from $5.00 to $10.00 oh a garment. 200 styles to pick from ed a bill of goods at the Page Farm ers Mercantile Co., last Friday, giv- 'Si AND BE SURE 1 ing a check supposed to be endorsed and drawn by John Morton of the Page country, in settlement for same. Mr. Morton's name was mispelled on the check and the lady clerk became I* suspicious and called up over the phone to learn whether or not the check was alright and when she men tioned Mr. Morton's name, the man dropped the goods and ran, making good his escape. The check was a. forgery. Be Fully Covered Don* be satisfied with only partial insurance—carry a complete line have us quote *you rates. 1 Minot Insurance Agency INVESTIGATE OUR PRICES ON MEATS 1