The Dickinson press., 1902-11-29
A. Ferris came down from Medora


for Thanksgiving.
T. l.. Beard came in from Hunter
Thursday evening.
Great reductions in millinery at Miss
Murn's for the rest of the season.
Miss L. Nj. Wood vent to Coal Har.
Dor on Friday to look after a patient.
E. A. Currie left Tuesday evening for
St. Paul, to spend Thanksgiving with his
family.
Friends Of Margaret Flynn will regret
to hear that she is quite i'll with pluerisy
at the St. Charles.
0. P. liner, who was at Williston last
week, says that there are three inches of
snow up north.
The Woodmcn Of the World have a
free lecture at the Dickinson Mercantile
Co. hall Friday evening, Nov. 2S.
Every lady who gets a dress hat from
now until January first at Miss Murn's
will get one dolls hat for a present.
Frank Brennan came down from Glen
dive to attend the Thanksgiving ball
and will visit in the city a few days.
When you need anything in millinery,
please call and look Miss Murn's elegant
stock over before purchasing. lI-2o-tf
Dan Harrington who sold his Timber
Creek ranch to Jack Lally, is putting his
cattle out with Pitts & Shrader OF Cedar
| creek
Mrs. Harry Bcidler has been visiting
her parents in this city this week. Mr..
Beidler, foreman Of the Hughes Elec-
trio Light Co. at Glendive, intended t
join his wife here for Thanksgiving but
was unable to get away.
The first of January c. c. Turner will
go into the office with his father at the
capitol. His wife will accompany him
and they will spend the winter with
| their parents in Bismarck, returning to
Gladstone in the spring.
Jeff Mcdonald recently completed a
new house and stock sheds at his place
northwest of Dickinson and is now busy
with his team uncovering a SHOOT vein
of coal which will be ready for the Dick
inson trade in a few weeks.
Geo. H. Profit, living southwest of
Dickinson, was arrested this week on a
charge of shooting a horse belonging to
Geo. Clark. He was brought before
Justice Folsom on Friday morning and
the hearing was set for Dec. 2.
F.. J. 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 first-class harness shop to be found
in this city. II-I-tf
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Sutherland are
leaving for the east and after visiting a
few weeks in Illinois they will 60 south.
They will visit for some time in Arizona
after which they will 60 to California,
probably spending most of the winter in
a sunny cline.
Special Thanksgiving exercises were
held in nearly all the school Don We'd
nesday afternoon aud a large number Of
parents and friends OF the pupils were in
attendance. Flags, vegetables, flowers
and the busy work Of the children made
the rooms very pretty. The little mes
took their parts we'll and the older also.
The children are contributing money to
buy a new flag for a Christmas present
for the school.
l.. McKisick Of Chicago, electrician
for the Western Union Telegraph Co.,
| spent one day in Dickinson investigating
the working of the quadruplex on the
overland route from Chicago to Seattle.
Mr.. McKisick expressed himself as be-
ing highly pleased with everything in
/ the Dickinson office and in the manner
in which the apparatus was handled.
This route is now the most important
one across the continent and requires
constant expert attendance. Additional
wires are to be strung in the near future.
Congregational church, Rev. H. v.
Kominger, pastor. Morning service at
Io:4s, subject, "Discipleship," preceded
by a short sermon to the children. Sun
day school and Bible class at IL;
Junior Endeavor at $3.50; Young Peo-
pies meeting at 6:3o, evening service
at 1880, when Rev. Z. S. Shaw, field sec
rotary of Fargo college, will preach. The
citizens of Dickinson are invited to hear
and meet Mr.. Shaw. . Midweek service
Wednesday evening at 7:3o. Union
teachers meeting, led by J. H. Dobbyn,
at Congregational church every Tuesday
evening at 8 o'clock.
Last Saturday Chas. Heater, conduc-
tor, and {. E. Hilton, engineer, had a
poor meet with No. : between Dickinson
and Lehigh. They claim to have had "
minutes in which to run to Lehigh, but
for some reason they did not make it and
discovered when out about 3 miles that
No. 3 was then due in Lehigh, and as
they were reversing to return to Dickin-
son the passenger hove in sight. A
light engine was sent out from here to
pull the freight train back and the delay
was but a short time. Had the trains
met in the curve near Lehigh a serious
accident would have resulted.
The N. P. is now completing the per-
manent survey of the cutoff from Bel
field west, which the PRESS mention
ed recently, and it is announced that
work is to m on the grading as
soon as possible-early in the spring at
the latest. 1t is presumed that it will
require somewhat more than a year to
construct the bridge from the top of the
plateau west across the little Missouri
river near Medora and the residents OF