The Dickinson press., 1902-12-06

ciety will meet Tuesday afternoon will
Miss Minnie K%linefeltcr.
{. F. Kellogg, linenan for A. D. CLARK
u Co., with headquarters at Glen Ullin
was a guest in the city Thursday.
Every lady who gets a dress hat from
now until January first at Miss Murn's
will get n dolls hat for a present.
When you need anything in millinery
please call and look Miss Murn's ele.
giant stock over before nurhlsing.
If you want to have anv dressmaking,
or children's sewing, or plain sewing
done, Miss Murn will do it for you at
reasonable prices. l2-6-2t
An accident at the electric plant left
the city in darkness for two hours or
more Thursday evening. The Young
people found enough lamps TO light the
dance hall and candles were in good de-
manl.
w. P. Owens Of the 4 + ranch was in
the city this week to meet Mr.. and Mrs.
Nicholson and Miss Nicholson of Clarion,
Iowa, who stopped off Il few days on
their way to California. MIR. Nicholson
has interests in the Owens Land Co.
FL. Easton & Co., the new harness
shop next door to Carroll Bros. livery
stable, carry the largest stock of horse
blankets, plush and fur robes, whips,
bits, spurs. quirts, in fact anything kept
in a iirst-class harness shop to be found
in this city. 11-l-tf6
Members OF the Methodist church and
Epworth Leauge called upon Mr.. and
Mrs. AL. HaIleman Thanksgiving day
evening. They carried Refreshments and
the evening was a very pleasant one des-
pitc the sadness felt that it was a fare.
we'll to MIR. and Mrs. Harleman.
A very pleasant evening was afforded
a large number Thursday-the occasion
being a reception and dance in the opera
house, given by James Converse and the
"boys' in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton
Randall. A delicious supper was served
in the opera house and good music made
the hours pass merrily.
The Christmas National comprises one
hundred and fifty pages of the brightest
and most entertaining text and picture.
Admiral Dewey, Secretary Shaw, John
Mitchell, Ernest McGaffey, and John
Bates Clark contribute pithy Sentiments
for the Christmas season." The Ad-
miral's letter is reproduced in facsimile.
There hire short stories by ten American
writer's.
Considerable uneasiness was felt this
week when it was learned that a German
family in the northern part of the city
had had diphtheria for three weeks.
They had no physician until Sunday
night and of course there was no quaran-
tine until then as the disease was not
suspected and was not reported. A small
child died Monday morning. Such cases
render all efforts to quarantine and
stamp ont the disease of no avail.
In the Review of Reviews for Deem
Der there is a comprehensive editorial
summary of the political situation in all
the states. The results of the November
elections are carefully analysed with
reference to their bearings on national
policies. The editor also discusses the
proposition for the admission of new
states in the Southwest-the first sub
ject of debate at this session OF Congress
and offers cogent reasons insupport of
the plan for the direct election. Of United
State senators.
]. w. Robson Of Rock Springs was
in Dickinson for supplies the past week.
Mr.. Robson has not been in really
good health the past year and owing to
this fast he concluded in October, after
getting UP 200 tons of good hay. not to
winter his sheep. He has a bunch of
horses on the range but they will take
care of themselves and Mr.. Robson be-
lieves that he will fully regain his health
by another season. He took his first
hunt IN the Bad Lands a short time ago
and succeeded in getting three deer.
Jules Walters comic play aside
Tracked" which has enjoyed seven years
of continued prosperity will be presented
at the opera house Dec. 18th. aside
Tracked is described as a pure farce
with preposterous situations said to
be very amusing and cleverly handled,
prefaced and linked together BY dia-
logues of most uncommon brilliancy and
fairly sparkling with the rare humor that
has been relished so heartily by Mr..
Walters followers.
Before Judge Winchester in chambers
in Bismarck last Saturday the county
commissioner election contest of Jopp
VS.. Lee came up. Upon a motion OF Mr..
Lee to dismiss the contest upon the
grounds that it had not been started as
the law directs Mr.. Jopp, after discov-
erlng his error, sought to evade the
responsibility and avoid costs by himself
dismissing the contest. In view of the
fact that Mr.. Lee had been put to the
trouble of answering, however, the judge
gave him costs in the sum Of, s25,and the
contest was then dismissed. The same
day Mr.. Jopp served papers in a new
contest which will come up later.
"The Missouri Girl" which comes tc
Dickinson December II, has a hold-up
on the theatre-going public that is the
envy Of all other amusement promoters
Mr.. Raymond seems to have struck the
popular chord, and year after year thi:
attraction goes over the same territor,
and invariably to crowded houses. Othel
plays come and 60. but the "Missour
Girl" is evidently here to stay. The rca
son of this extraordinary success is due
to the fact that the play contains all the
better elements of the several classes O