Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-06-22
Saturday.

Saturday.
Bismarck Strauss returned on the
noon train from Chicago.
Mrs. Ellis entertained the C%rittenton
Circle yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. R. c. Dearborn is visiting
friends in Emmons county.
Crops at Slaughter have the benefit
of fine rains, and promise fair.
DR.. and Mrs. Kendrick returned to
st. Paul on the afternoon train yester-
day after a visit in the city.
In the month Of June last year $50
inches of rain fell at Bismarck. The
average for twenty-five years is 3.3S
inches.
G. H. Christianson of Pelican Rap
ids, Mimi, was in the city today en-
route to Wilton where he will open a
butcher shop.
Appraiser Hoisington has returned
from his trip to appraise the Fort Rice
reservation. The lands were appraised
at a lower value than in the first ap-
praisal.
Surveyor Harold left this morning
for a months surveying trip in south
ern Morton county. Walter Shelton
was among the party that accom-
panied him.
Owing to the difficulty of getting
cars and supplies the work on the
Washburn road is being delayed some
what and it is probable that it will
be- impossible to get into Wilton by
July I, in time to give the promised
excursion.
The controversy between the 500
and the railroad commissioners, in re-
gard to inspecting a portion of the line
on Sunday, has been settled in favor
of the commissioners. There will be
no Sunday inspection.
Fred WEIGH: l think Ecklund town
ship will be the banner township of
the county. Families run all the way
from six to twenty children. l found
one family with fourteen children and
all under 20 and no twins or triplets.
A. T. Patterson has leased the w. T.
Best cottage for a term of years and
will occupy it on his return from the
east with his bride, about July 10.
Mrs. Best will spend the summer at
her former home in Albert Lea, MINI.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. At the
Presbyterian parsonage, June Is, 1900,
Bismarck, N. D., by the Rev. A. Dur
rie, August Anderson of Bellfeld,
North Dakota, and Ellen Louise Has
kin of Chicago, Ill. Congratulations
follow bride and groom in their new
home.
Senator Wesley Baker came in from
the south today. He came up as a
witness for J. R. Edick, who proved up
on his claim. Senator Baker says
there was barely any rain in Emmons
county-hardly enough to lay the dust
along the road. He says the range is
poor and grass short.
Dickinson Press: The late William
Ray carried a $4,000 life insurance
policy in the Mutual Life Insurance
Co. Of New York, and on Thursday of
this week H. L. Dickinson, local agent,
handed Catherine Ray a draft for $12,-
ILL., the SPILL being additions that
had accrued on the policy.
The steamer Expansion is freighting
aAong the Missouri river and brought
down 1000 sacks of wheat with the
first load. The new vessel is 122 feet
over all, 2G feet wide and very strongly
built. She will have state rooms for
passengers, new machinery and will
burn native coal. The boat belongs
to the Mercer County Mercantile COM
pany.
Owing to the appointment of the
Bismarck Presbytery, Rev. A. Durrie
left on the noon train for Dickinson for
the third Sunday of the month. Rev.
kratz OF Mandan alternates the months
until a permanent minister AN We Sc
cured. Owing to Mr.. Durrie's alb
sence the regular preaching services
Will be omitted-but the regular SER
vices OF Sunday school, Junior and
Senior Endeavor societies will be held
at the usual hours. The Senior c. E..
melting will be one of conservation and
OF contribution of offerings to the
pledged support Of the church. All
welcomed.