The Dickinson press., 1901-02-16

Joe.Gaunt has been helping at the
Currie & Co. store.
Nh. Summers, the genial clerk at Free.
mans, has been iltthe past week.
You are all invited to attend the grand
masquerade at TAYLOR Feb. ~. The.
Davis orchestra will furnish music.
You will miss a treat it you don't at
tend the TAYLOR masquerade on the 22nd.
J.J. freeman is enjoying the balmy
southern atmosphere of Floridath week.
This week things took a turn that evil
IDENTIFY Alexander McKenzie's friends
were not expecting. He was found
guilty Of contempt and sentenced to inn
prisonment for one year.
The Hughes Electric Co. have or
dered a carload of 4%o-foot Idaho cedar
telephone poles. They find that it will be
necessary to replace the most Of the 80
foot poles with 4o's.
Mrs. Hughes wishes to meet all who
are to assist in the minstrel entertain
ment at the Congregational church par
lors next Thursday evening at eight
o'clock to plan the entertainment.
Senate bill No. l6l, published else
where, is intended to cure some defects
in the old law and will be the means of
getting about $1,000 of delinquent taxes
into the Stark county treasury at nj
The wolf bounty bill came up Monday
on the report of the committed on appro.
priations reducing the levy from FIVE to
three-tenths OF a mill. On the roll call
the vote stood ID to 10 for the adoption
Of the eoort and it was adopted.
Mandan boasts of having one of the
best school buildings in the state. Con.
ductor H. D. Stephenson is a member of
the school board there, and Miss Adella
Hanley teaches the End grade, both
former residents Of Dickinson.
Postmaster &c. Thompson has been
seriously ill the past week with pneu-
monia. There was a slight change for
the better Thursday morning and it is
hoped that he will contine to improve.
Attorney Frank Thompson came up
from Fargo Thursday morning.
Plats of the following described town.
ships have been filed in the U. S. Land
Office at Bismarck and the same will be
open to entry on April 18th, 1901, viz:
Township l47, north Of range o6 west,
9Th p. M; townships I45 and I45, north
of ranges % and 90 west, 4th p. m.
The children enjoyed their Lincoln
holiday to the utmost-as did also the
older people. 1t was a perfect day-no
snow, the streets dry, the air soft and
balmy as in spring. Everybody who
could spent the day in the open air, and
we even heard mention of picnics.
]. E. Phelan came in from his Knife
river ranches last Saturday and reported
the condition of stock as being very
satisfactory. Mr. and Mrs. Phelan ex-
pect to go to Florida the last of the
month, but MI. Phelan thinks that it is
no use to hurry south while we are
having such fine winter weather as at
present.
This week b. b. Larson of Holstad.
MINI has been in Dickinson and is
talking of buying several ranches. He
has made an offer of $4,000 for one
ranch and stock. He has several men
of means who wish to go in with him and
together they will probably make an in.
vestment of 100000. They want 1000
cattle and ranches suitable for that MANY
cattle.
"A meeting of the citiz of Dickinson
is called at the city hall for next Mon
day night at 8 o'clock to see what the
people want to do with reference to the
fire tournament and the proposed street
show for next June. Every business
man in the city is interested in this mat
ter, n way or the other, and there
should be a large attendance.
The twelve years old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. ~ Rozell OF Sentinel Butte
died in Dickinson Tuesday evening OF
diphtheria. Mr.. Rozell had been in the
city to be treated for rheumatism and
when the girl became so i'll Mrs. Rozell
brought her here. The family.was quar-.
antined in one of the brick plant cottages
when it was known the girl had diph-
iberia and all possible was done to save
her life; but the disease had progressed
too far for medical aid to avail. The
parents have the sympathy of all and tneil
bereavement seems especially sad a,
Mr.. Rozell is still ill and they are o.
necessity away from home and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mulholland vent tc
Fargo from here, got their goods of thu
Stacks and returned west the first of tn,
week.
A Most Oeftate Apparatus.
One of the most delicate pieces of ap
paratns is that used for counting the mum
Der of cells in the blood. Medical schol
ars tells us that in a minute drop O
blood no larger than the head of a phi
there are from three TO four million o