The Dickinson press., 1904-08-13

Union services Sunday evening at the
M. E. church.
Miss Katie Neil went to Mandan TO
visit on Thursday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. P. c. Hager-
man, Aug. Q, a son.
For Roosevelt or Parker? We have
the Hats. The Hub.
James Campbell returned Friday from
a visit at Gladstone.
Mrs. ]. M. Carroll gave a party the
past week for her children.
Miss Vern Hart has finished her school
in the east end Of the county.
Miss Frances Garter went to st. Paul
on Friday to visit at the Whaleys.
Mrs. ]. F. Davis and son frankie have
gone to Mercer county to visit relatives.
There has been trouble at So. St. Paul
on account of the lack of a dipping tank.
Large gentle driver, 5 years old, new
buggy and harness. for sale. lessen
Bros. 1t
l FRANK OtUuC IClulACu AIu SNdy liOlIl
marketing 10 cars OF sheep. The tops
sold at 1915.
Mrs. John Courtney and daughter
Helen, of Taylor, visited in Dickinson
last week and this week went to St. Paul.
Miss Bessie Nichols OF Mandan arrived
in the city on Thursday to visit a few
days with Misses Mabel and Oracle
Currie.
c. !. Peelan is just back from a trip
| through the Yellowstone Park. He was
accompanied by R. H. billiard, nephew
of A. Hilliazd of this city.
The Congregational ladies will have
an ice cream social at the parsonage on
Tuesday evening, Aug. Is, from 7 to
10 o'clock. Mrs. X. D. Wiley, Sec'y.
The Congregational Sunday school
| picnic was held at Ash coulie on Tues.
day. 1t was an ideal %day-just after the
rain-and all seemed to enjoy the outing.
The ladies of st. Johns church are
preparing for a rummage sale to be
given in the near future. Friends Of the
church are requested to save articles for
this sale.
Miss Cole returned from Minneapolis
| on Thursday and the same evening her
partner in business. Miss Hawkinsen,
lett for the Twin Cities to visit and pur-
| chase the fall stock Of millinery.
The membership of St. Patrick's
| church will have a picnic, probably at
Green river, next Monday. The picnic
ers will start from the residence of Rev.
J. Dignam at 1890 a. m. All members
are invited.
D. b. Zimmerman received a wire from
! Chicago on Thursday to ship his cattle
il he was ready, and he accordingly ar
ranged to load IS cars for Mondays
market and Ia cars to get into Chicago
on Wednesday Of next week.
Mrs. Henry Belcher came down from
| Glendive on Thursday and continued
her journey the following day to Pen.
nsylvania for a visit OF several months.
Later Mrs. Belcher expects to return to
her old home in Dickinson.
The Gun club will shoot Sunday, Aug.
ii, at 2:3o p. NJ. Mr.. Louis Peteriski will
give a fine leather gun case as prize tor
highest score. No entrance fee will be
charged and no charge made for targets.
A. M. Pomroy'
Secretary.
Mrs. DIR. S. +. Smith has made several
trips to Bel6eld the past week to visit
professionally a large German family.
One child in the Family has died and a
half dozen others are seriously i'll, it is
thought from drinking poor water. The
family, recently from Minnesota, is very
poor.
VIM. Holton Dye arrived in the city
on Thursday with two distinguished
Indianapolis gentlemen, John D. HALL
day, a wholesale harness dealer, and DR..
w. N. Wishard, brother of Geo. Wish
ard Of Minneapolis who makes all the
loans in the Northwest for the Aetna
Life Ins. Co.
A happy event at Billings, Montana,
on August grid, was the marriage of Mr..
Chas Sproat and Miss Nellie Harrington,
both of this city. Miss Mary Harring.
ton, a sister of the bride, returning from
an extended visit in Seattle and Tacoma,
witnessed the ceremony and accom-
panied Mr.. and Mrs. Sproat back to
Dickinson. Mr.. Sproat is a popular rail:
road boy who has been in the employ OF
the Northern Pacific at this point for the
past two years, while the bride has grown
up here and for the past year or SO has
i OCSu uuLllUCICu dlIIohS ~ Soo'Ny
teachers. Both of these young people
have many friends in the city who have
been extending congratulations since
their return. For the present Mr.. and
Mrs. Sproat will live at the Harrington
residence on lower Willard street.
Mrs. L. A. Simpson was hostess Fri
day of last week at a charming function
given in honor Of her guest-Mrs. A. B.
Bishop of St. Paul. Pink and white
asters and sweet peas were used with
pleasing effect in decoration. The guests
were given a rare musical treat, Mrs.
Bishop and Miss Jessie Messersmith
rendering vocal selections, and Mrs.
Bishop, Mrs. Davis and Miss Florence
Davis the instrumental numbers. Dainty
programs of the musicale were furnished
each guest and during the latter part of
the afternoon the company resolved itself
into a "thimble bee" and divers thimbles
and bees were evolved. The judges
decided Mrs. Courtney's to be truest to
nature and awarded her the prize-a
gold Unbelievable Miss Johnson re-
ceived the consolation. A dainty and
delicious supper was served on small
tables.
The Fargo Commercial Club, fifty in
number, were here Wednesday forenoon.
Mayor Wall of Fargo and E. Y. Sarles,
republican candidate for governor, were
along, also J. F. Treat and Charles Will
son, the latter gentleman formerly of
Dickinson. The others composing
the party were bankers, insurance men
heads Of wholesaling houses, machine
men and other Fargo people who, d.
rectly or indirectly, expect to get bust
ness from Dickinson, Mayor Manning
was chairman OF a committee which met
the visitors at their special cars in the
morning and invited them to take a
carriage ride about the city. Twenty
teams were in readiness. After the
guests had viewed the city they were
driven to the Dickinson Fire and Pressed
Brick Co. works where they spent some
time looking over the plant and noting