The Dickinson press., 1885-01-31

The Sykeston Comet, alias Glad.
stone Express, reaches this Office
every two or three weeks. The En-
press declines to join the procession
of the rustlers who ''get there"
J. II. Brown, special agent for the
Insurance Company of Dakota, 10.
Gated ut Sioux Falls, was here this
week looking after the interests of
the company for which VIM. Gibson
is agent.
Read our club-list in another col
umn. We can give good clubbing
rates with any leading paper and are
prepared to receive and forward sub.
scriptions for any newspaper or peri
odical in the world.
The land contest of Farrell Reilly
against Miss Emmons has been de-
cided by the department at Washing
ton in favor of contestant and Mr..
Reilley will now perfect title to his
claim, which is Il valuable one.
SO far only about one-half of the
taxes of the county have been paid
and as they become delinquent next
Monday penalty of five per cent
will he added with one per cent per
month until paid. Persons should
settle at once.
The Vannier Bros, of Taylor. will
seed over 100 acres the coming sea-
son, twenty-five of which will lie put
in flax. The Vannier boys believe
this will be a paying crop. as q flax
mill to be built at Mandan will fur.
nish a market for the seed.
The first child horn at Kildeer
mountains was hoy to Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Brennan OH Wednesday, Janu-
airy 81. The distance from here to
the mountains being about forty
miles no physician was in attendance.
but mother and child are doing well.
We have added to the PRESS Office
a very fine large blank case and will
fill it with all the different forms of
blanks which we propose to sell at
bottom figures. The case was built
Ivy Charles Green and proves him to
he a workman of more than ordinary
ability.
The one-story building on Willard
street, owned by DR.. Mcdonald and
occupied by Mrs. J. w. Anderson as
a residence. took fire Thursday morn
ing from a stove pipe which extends
through the roof, but was discovered
and pllt out before much damage had
been done.
The roller rink is now the main at.
traction with our fun-loving citizens
and has been crowded every night
since the new addition was com.
pleted and the hard wood floor put in.
The floor is quite an improvement
over the old one and it's smoothness
causes a great many stars to be seen
when one Of the skaters takes a
tumble.
Thomas II. Ryan. who had his heel
so badly frozen at the wreck of a
freight train four miles east of here
about four weeks ago, was able to be
out this week for the first time al.
though it will be several weeks yet
before he will be able to return to
work. Mr.. Ryan seems to he unlucky
as he was severely injured by fall
short time before.
The Gladstone Express of January
%, says that "the Express is a few
hours behind time. Our readers will
please bear with lis. Although
dated January 90 it was printed the
26tll OF 9th, five or six days behind
of reading matter which appeared in
the previous issue. Days are short
ened into hours by the Express.
County Superintendent of Schools
Evans has apportioned part of the
school funds to the districts as fol-
lows: Dickinson, 1924; Gladstone,
1929; 1929; Taylor, 500; Richardton, $40.
The apportionment is made. or should
be. upon the last school census which
was taken in June. 1884. and it seems
to us that Dickinson has much
larger proportion of school children
than the other towns and that the
apportionment for Taylor is too
small: but we do not say whether
the fault lies with the superintendent
or the officers who took the census.
Some time since Rev. Ballentine,
in letter to II religious monthly jour-
nal of the Baptist church. mentioned
the fact that no bell yet rang the peo.
pie to church in Dickinson. His let
ter was read by young man in Mas
sacliusetts who generously contrib
uted $3.50 for the purchase of Il bell
to he presented to the church, and in
accordance with his request 400
pound bell has been ordered from the
Troy foundry with freight charges
prepaid to Dickinson. The gift is
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