The Dickinson press., 1900-08-18
Mr.. and Mrs. McGillivray and niece

Mr.. and Mrs. McGillivray and niece
have been at Detroit this week.
Willis Norred, who took up the lost
Converse herd, was in town this week.
Dossky house for sale at a reasonable
price. Apply to John Courtney. S-lS-2p
Miss Rose Mcdowell, sister of Mrs. DIR.
Perkins, returned this week to Mime
apolis.
Lost-end gate to wagon Finder
please leave word at postofice. Daniel
Heidi.
Nineteen cars of cattle were loaded for
market at the Dickinson stock yards ON
Friday.
The Episcopal people had a Sunday
school picnic in the McGillivray grove
on Thursday.
A. H. Arnett sold i trainload of cattle
in So. St. Paul on Monday at S3.S5 and
s4.4o per w.t..
Tickets for the 20 Round Glove con-
test for sale at Baisch & Young's drug
store. Aug. 81.
Mrs ]. G. Campbell is 500 to return
from Michigan whittier she has been to
see her sick mother.
W. J. Steele 4 Son have moved their
ranch to Elk creek across the Little Mis-
souri,, near the P. X. ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Currie very pleasantly
entertained 4 small party of friends at
7 o'clock dinner last evening.
f. S. Clongh was up from New Eng
land last week and made timber culture
proof on 100 acres of Cannon Ball land.
MIR. and Mrs. L. A. Simpson enter
tanned a small company at dinner Satur-
day evening in honor OF Attorney Daniel
Holt OF Fargo.
ii. w. Smith accompanied his cattle
shipment to Chicago and proceeded to
Massachusetts where Mrs. Smith is re-
ported as being quite i'll.
Senator Hansbrough and Judge Nor
gan were en- route Wednesday for Hunt
crs Hot Springs. They shook hands
with a number of their Dickinson friends
at the station.
A. L. Martin was in Chicago this week
with three cars of muttons. He visited
his brother, the station agent at Royal.
ton, Mimi, during the trip and returned
to Sentinel Butte on Friday.
Brennan & Whetham were fortunate
in saving sutficicn, winter range for their
sheep. BY the way, their band averaged
9 lbs. of good wool this season, which is
about the best report Of the year.
The date Of the Sunday school institute
comes a little earlier than was first an.
nounccd and will take place at the Con,
gregational church next Tuesday. The
PRESS publishes the program elsewhere,
This week a crew OF 5odagos that were
going in to St. Paul were stopped a,
Dickinson and IS of the number taker
off for Roadmaster Murn, making him
upwards of 100 men for surfacing and
other extra work on the division.
Dunlap McAdams, who gives his age
as IS, was in Dickinson Thursday and
Friday and was helped by popular sub.
scription on his way to Walla Walla
where he claims to have Il mother. He
had a fit while here which he stated was
a daily occurrence with him and was due
to an injury received in the Hoboken
disaster. He claims to have crossed the
Atlantic many times during the past two
years. When questioned by DR.. Mile,
about the use OF cigarettes the boy
seemed reluctant about answering, bu,
finally admitted that he had used them
far a year.
ABOUT 20 of Dickinson's young people
formed a bicycle party Monday evening
and enjoyed a moonl light ride out tc
Taylor butte. After arriving at theil
destination, they climbed the hill, and in
the glare of the moonlight, near a nice
spring Of water, partook of refreshments
sandwiches, bologna, olives, baked
beans, fruit, etc. Mrs. Goodhuc acted a:
chaperon, and in her usual pleasing man
ner, won the admiration of all. Songs
and cake-walks were INDUCED in to the
satisfaction of the crowd, after which the,
wendell their way ~homeward. 1t was ;
merry gathering and joy reigncd supreme
throughout the evening.
Probably the best COWS that we're cve'
shipped from Dickinson were marketed
by C.. c. Mead in Chicago on Monday
Their average weight vas 1856 pounds
and they sold at $40 per cwt, or s55.2{
each. This means about $50 net pei
head. Mr.. Mead also had 30 3-year ole
native steers on the same market which
sold at $40 per cwt, OF: soI.43. Thi'
means SIS net per head for Swear ole
steers, and what better does a man want
Mr.. Mead always has good cattle ant
consequently gets about the best average
prices of any cattleman shipping from
this section.
The delay in traffic on the N. P. thi
week is said to be the most prolonged il
the history of the road. Heavy rain
Friday and Saturday nights which
amounted to cloud bursts in places ives
of Dickinson caused the sudden rise 0
the streams. There we're some wash
outs between Dickinson and Glendiv'
but the serious trouble occurred between
Glendive and Billings, where telegraph
wires were down and a steel bridge ant
ten or more flled-in bridges washed out
One cast-bound train was caught between
wash:outs west of Glendivc a few miles
Sunday transfers were begun but tn
trains turned cast at Glendive carriet
very few people Sunday and Monday
Tuesday through passenger and freigh
traffic was resumed.
Rev. and Mrs. w. Cooke have bcel