The Dickinson press., 1884-05-17

j. M. Glunt has succeeded +. a
kenyon as yard master at this point.
Walter Sterland has rented the
Eades building on Willard street and
will open up a first class butcher shop
and fruit and vegetable store.
Lieut.. Varnum has received orders
to complete the survey from Fort
Meade to Dickinson before entering
upon the Fort Meade and Medora
survey.
Methodist service until further no.
tice. Sabbath school at 3 O'Clock p.
M. Children and young people invit-
ed to attend. Sermon at p. M.
w. Cooke.
Attention is called to the adver-
tisement of G.. H. Herring. He has
opened up his restaurant and hopes
to entertain his old patrons and many
new ones. His place will he con-
Quoted in first class style.
DR.. NJ. R. McCrory, of Osakis,
Minn., arrived here last Sunday. He
is looking over the country and will
very likely decide to become a resi-
dence of this section and go into the
stock business.
Medora is clamoring for a county
organization in Billings county. We
hope they will get it. If there is any
place along the line that needs a
criminal court and a Jail it is Medora.
Four-tifths of the business before our
justice of the peace comes from Bill.
lings county.
Notices are out for school town.
ship meeting, to be held at the school
house at Dickinson on the 7th day of
June, for the purpose of voting upon
the question of issuing bonds in the
sum of twenty-five hundred dollars,
for the purpose of building and fur
nishing a school house for the Dick.
inson school township. This is
right step in the right direction.
The Democratic convention at
Pierre, last Wednesday, elected f. NJ.
Ziebach, of Bon Homme county and
NJ. L. Mccormack, of Grand Forks,
delegates to Chicago, with f. E.
stearns, of Rapid City and Dana A.
Watson, Of Clark county, as alter.
mates.
A car, loaded with stock and farm
ing implements was ditched, a few
rods east of the station, Sunday morn
ing. One COW and four calves were
killed and the car badly smashed.
An open switch was the cause OF
the accident. The N. p. r. r. Co.,
promptly paid for all the damage.
Two Of our enterprising s.kids'
made break for the west last Thurs.
day. They intended to go to Oregon
and catch salmon. Their transport;l-
ton was to have been furnished free
by the n. p, at the s'blind ends'' OF
baggage cars. The scheme fell
through at Belfeld and the BOYS re-
turned with nary fish.
The United States surveying outfit I
under Lieut.. Varnum, hauled into
town Monday morning. The party
struck the railroad three miles east
of Gladstone. Lieut.. Varnum re-
ports Dickinson to be 100 miles from
Fort Meade and thinks that by care
full survey this distance can be short
ened somewhat. He says good road
bed can be found nearly all the way
and that the route is far superior to
the one from the Hills to Pierre.
Instantly is none too quick to re-
lieve Group. Many children have
died while fire was making. john
sons Anodyne Liniment gives ill.,
stant relief and is sure cure. Half
teaspoonful on sugar. Every family
should keep it in the house
A car, loaded with stock and emi-
grant goods on train No. IL, took fire
between Gladstone and Dickinson.
early yesterday morning, destroying
five head of stock and some household
goods. The property belonged to
Joseph e. Clifford and was appraised
as follows: four mules $1,000, one
mare and colt $3.50 and household
goods and farming implements $50.
At the time the fire broke out there
were three men sleeping in the car,
all of whom luckily escaped without
being seriously burned. The fire is
supposed to have caught from spark
from the locomotive.
F. w. Lawrence, of Malone, N. Y,
arrived in town last Saturday. Mr..
Lawrence is cousin of n. G. Law
renee, of this place, and a partner of
Hon. w. S. Dickinson. He informs
us that the senator is rapidly recover
ing from the severe attack of nervous
prostration, with which he has been
suffering for some months past.
This will be cheering news to Mr..
Dickinson's many friends in this vi
cinity. Mr.. Lawrence will erect
building, in block 4, on Willard street.
He is very much pleased with the
progress the town has made in the
last year, and shows his faith in the
future prosperity of Dickinson by