The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-08-23

w. G. Davis, about 300 acres.
Eph. Seaman, about 125 acres.
Richard Clough, Is acres, of which
l5 acres of oats are estimated to Weld
IS bushels per acreN
c. r. Cook, 125 acfNs.
Cuskelly Bros, $50 acres.
Besides a great number of smaller
farmers. All the wheat will grade
No. hard, and the season of 1884
will go down into history as the most
bountiful one ever heard of.
Besides the agricultural resources
Dickinson certainly is entitled to
recognition as a valuable stock center.
This season eighteen to twenty thous.
and head will be shipped from here,
and the Northern Pacific officials ad.
nit, that more stock will be shipped
from this point than fro IN any other
along its line.
10 the settler the fact that excel
lent Ignite coal abounds, and that
good water can be obtained at a
depth of only twelve to fifteen feet
is also of great Importance.
Recently a new artery of trade has
sprung up in the Identification of
Dickinson with the Black Hills trade.
freight route having been estab.
lished between the two points, which
promises to become of great import
and and become of incalculable bene-
fit in the near future.
BUSINESS MEN.
| Dickinson is certainly fortunate i'm
possessing business men we'll calcu-
lated to build up town. The Jour.
nal can only enumerate a few to-day.
though.
N. G. Lawrence, N. p. land agent,
and also agent for w. S. Dickinson.
A most enterprising, affable gentle
man, of shrewd judgment, and one of
the most popular and successful busi-
ness men west of the Missouri.
B. F. Fowler & Co., Druggists, keep
store that would be credit to any
town of five times the population of
Dickinson.
Cuskelly Bros, Grocers, have built
up a most enviable trade, and enjoy
the greatest confidence of all who
pltronize them.
Chas. II. Klinefelter keeps good
hotel: and understands how to make
people feel thoroughly at home.
=. F. Smith, wholesale liquors, docs
a fine business by virtue of selling
superior goods at very low prices.
Jas. Fennell presides over fine
dry goods and grocery store, and ell
joys q very good trade.
John Vinton, grocery, has very
neat store we'll kept. Few men have
more and better friends than Mr.. V.
hence his success.
Beckett & Foote, grocery, also own
ers of the livery stable. Thoroughly
wide-awake, pushing men, and very
popular.
DR.. j. B. Mcdonald, an excellent
physician, and the self-made capitalist
of Dickinson. The doctors keen
sagacity prompted early investments
which have turned into gold, and are
fast making the genial doctor the
Vanderbilt of this region.
VIM. Gibson, attorney, strictly hon.
est, discreet and enterprising. A
gentleman it affords any one pleas
ure to do business with.
Geo. Aud, postmaster and justice
of the peace. just the right man in
the right place, and leader in every
thing the name implies.
Merrill & Smith, Eagle hotel, set an
excellent table, and make life pleas
ure to all who come.
| d. 1. Bailey, hardware, highly sue
cessful and popular. Keeps a very
large stock, and sells at bottom prices
Merry g. Pearl, grocery, meat, ETC.,
sell nothing but the best, and have
acquired a large trade along the line.
James Collister keeps the lumber
yard, and does land-otlice business.
VIM. Moore is now engaged in the
lumber business, and pleasing all who
call on him.
JOS. T. Scott, last, but by no means
least, the versatile editor of the Dick
inson PRESS, a journal that always
tells the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth, for $3.50 a
year. 1t is bright exponent of
Dickinson's claims, and deserving of
it's liberal patronage.
COUNTY AFFAIRS.
| These also are in a most excellent
condition. The county of Stark was
organized in June. 1883, with Messrs
II. L. Dickinson. James Collister and
Jas. G. Campbell, as the first board
of commissioners. Dickinson was
named as the county seat, an honor
it will certainly retain in the future.
The first officers were:
Sheriff-Wm. Cuskelly.
Register of Decds-N. G. Lawrence.
Treasurer-R. Z. Lamoreux.
Judge of Probate-Wm. Gibson.
Justice of the Peace-Geo. Auld.
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