Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-01-05
The 8ismarek Tribnne.
| T AND COUNTY.

Capt. Moorhouse has been on the sick
list for a few days, but 10 out again.
Capt. Voolfolk is improving steadily,
and the news is pleasing to his friends.
Frank Wilcox returned from a hunt
out west the other day with nine deer.
The date for the Baptist entertain
ment has been fixed for Friday, January
18th.
Miss. Lizzie Cunningham will open
school at Danbury, Emmons county,
January 9Th.
Dick Penwarden has been under the
weather with grip for the past few days,
but is improving.
John Conway has taken a position in
the old Hollembaek drug store, now
owned by j. J. Freeman.
The young people of the Baptist
church are busy again with rehearsals
for their operatta. Jan. II.
The state department has received the
resignation of Walter Fraser, as second
lieutenant of Co. A., N. D. N. G.
The pen harness company are getting
out some neat catalogues, setting forth
the merits of their productions in the
harness line. VI
There are seventeen cases on the CAL
endar of supreme court to be heard ut
Fargo on the 9th. The term will last
about four days.
Mrs. Smith, the insane woman in Gus
tody at st. Paul, is improving and her
husband has te~legraphed that he will
come and care for her.
Clerk of Supreme Court Hoskins is
preparing for a term at Fargo, which
convenesJ January 9th. Several import
ant cases will be heard.
Governor Shortridge has not acted
upon the petition for the pardon of
Fawcett, and is waiting for the presenta-
tion Of the other side of the cass.
Tuesday, January 9th, has been fixed
as the date for the reading room enter
tainment. Rehearsals begin January Sd,
and continue until the day of the per-
Torrance.
Four carloads of stock from Billings,
Mont, went east yesterday, and one COW
was frozen to death on the trip. The
cars are now covered with tar paper to
keep out wind and cold.
A movement is on foot among some
of the young people to secure signers
enough to an agreement to warrant the
opening of the roller rink one mig 1t a
week for skating and dancing.
The bondsmen of Postmaster Hunt to-
day took possession Of the office, in
accordance with the postal laws, and
settled upon Miss Mabel Hunt as acting
postmaster until a successor to the late
postmaster be appointed.
Pretty music and pretty scenes abound
in the operatta to be gwen by the young
people of the Baptist church on Friday,
January 18th. The participants have
resumed rehearsal again, and are pre-
pairing to give a superior entertainment.
1t may be said with safety that every
person who had a sleigh, or who could
buy a sleigh, rent a sleigh, borrow a
sleigh, or procure a sleigh with horse at
tachment, in any possible manner, en-
joyed himself in that wise yesterday af-
ternoon.
From DR.. Coe out in Portland, the
TRIBUNE receives New Years greetings
of himself, and the Medical Sentinel. of
which he is editor. The Seninel is a live
medical journal, and under DR.. Goes
management promises to be eminently
successful.
J. B. Kelley, recently appointed on one
district of this division, has resigned to
accept the position of general roadmaster
on the Great Northern between Havre
and Minot, a distance of about 800 miles,
With SUPPLEMENTARY over some five or
six roadmasters.
Owing to the illness of some of the
participants, the reading room entertain
ment which was to have been given to.
morrow evening, has been postponed,
and will occur either the second Tues
day or second Thursday in January.
The Ladies Charitable Aid society of
the M. E. church distributed ffty-one
offerings on Christmas, and desire to
thank all who were donors. The presents
included $50. pounds Of -four from the
Mill company, wood, coal and other USE
full articles. .
Second Lieut.. Odon Gurovits, 18th
Infantry, of San Carlos, Arlz., has been
promoted 10 first lieutenant of Co. A,
18th Infantry, at Fort Yates, to fill the
vacancy made by the promotion of Lieut..
D.. E. Mccarthy to be regimental quar-
termaster at Fort L~eavenworth, Kan.
The railroad company have made
another cut in the local depot force, and
now Henry Reade, for a long time the
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