The Dickinson press., 1905-05-13

Inc Ala Society OF the Con
greeational church, will have a supper
in the church parlors on Friday even.
ing May l9; hours from & to $50; price
IS cents.
Gov. Sarles is about to issue he pro,
clamation recognizing the new county Of
Mckenzie. The county seat, it is I'M.
derstood, is to be located in the center
of the county. At present there is not
even a house there.
AL. Parsons, of Mayer and Parsons,
real estate men Of Freeport, ILL.,. arrived
in the city on Thursday. MI. Parsons
is accompanied by his wife on the trip,
also by Mr.. and Mrs. H. Brockmier of
Freeport. III. They are making some
long drives south.
Miss Nellie Dinsdale entertained
about twenty of her friends Thursday
evening. Games were played until 10
o'clock when dainty refreshments were
served, after which the games were
resumed and enjoyed until midnight.
when the guests departed voting Miss
Dinsdale a charming hostess.
1t looks as though Foreman White
had something good in his compound
for keeping water from foaming in the
boilers of engines. The management of
the Rock Island road have ordered a
quantity Of it sent to their system for
trial. 1t is being very successfully used
here by the Northern Pacific.
Married, May 10, in the St. Charles
parlors, by Rev. H. v. Rominger, Robert
L. Barnet and Miss Margaret Billyer, OF
Sentinel Butte. The groom is the pro-
prietor of the Butte hotel in Sentinel
Butte and is n Of the progressive
citizens Of the place. The bride is a
capable young lady and will ably assist
her husband in the care OF his hotel.
Over half a million acres between
ranges ninety.one to one hundred ipclu.
sive and fifty miles either north or south
of the Northern Pacific railway are
owned by Dakota.Manitob Land Co.
Call at, or write their Office in Senour
& Lanely building, Dickinson, N. D.,
and get map and prices. The land you
want to buy or lease may be owned by
them. soft
c. R. Lillibridge. Mr.. Newell and son
Ed. and o. L Helgerson have been here
the past week, and in company with E.
A. Lillibridge have inspected the Nc.
Kenzie Land 4 Cattle Co. properties
north. Mr.. Helgerson is likely to buy
the INTEREST of R. A. Fox in the COM
pany. The men were all pleased with
the land and with the way stock win
tered.
Knud Knudson of Taylor, who repre-.
scented the Stark county Modern Wood.
men at the state camp meeting in Devils
Lake last week, reports a pleasant and
profitable time. The next state meeting
will be held in Mandan. Among the
alternates as national delegates is noted
the name OF Knud Knudson, one of the
best posted Woodmen in this county.
In the Twenty Years Ago column of
the Fargo Forum of May s, was an item
&c the effect that Captain L. M. Hutchin-
son. Judge A.. p. Folsom and others
from the east we're in the CITY az guests
OF the Northern Pacific Co. looking for
Il location for a Vermont colony. The
colony was finally located in Edmunds
county. S. d., as several of the people
in this locality will remember.
Berringer Brothers are nothing if not
enterprising. The past week they
shipped two carloads Of live hogs from
Minnesota and placed them on feed at
their slaughter house near this city.
This enables them to kill as they need
and gives them fresh pork at all times,
In the past they have had much trouble
in getting pork as they needed, there
being a scarcity of it at this season of the
year among the farmers of this locality,
and when they shipped dressed pork in
they often had tainted pieces.
A Montana paper tells how the late
Dickinson Mexican vas found guilty Of
forgery and sentenced to a term of three
years. He is the fellow who forged
Eben Dunlap's name to a check in this
state, but the Jury, in court. did not
seem to think it worth while to send him
to the pen. The Mexican did not even
have to 60 through the preliminaries of
a trial in Montana. He confessed to
save himself all he could and then got
a pretty good dose.
Adam Lefor, Jr., received a telegram
on Thursday while in Dickinson that his
father and mother, who have spent the
past winter in Hungary, were in Chica-
20 and would arrive home at Gladstone
Saturday afternoon. They are accom-
panied by a number of families who
desire to get ONE Of the free lands in
this country. Adam went to Mandan to
meet the party, and informed the PRESS
before leaving that there would be a big
dance at the Lefor homestead south Of
Gladstone on Sunday.
Samuel Bobbs is postmaster at Still
water, the town southwest of New Eng.
land, where so many people have been
settling the past year. Kern Rrothers
are running a weekly stage from Dick
inson to the new town, leaving here
Immediately after the arrival of the
train from the east on Thursdays, going
as far as New England the same night
They reach Saltwater about noon or
Friday. This gives the peQple of the
settlement weekly mail service and vii
do them very nicely until they can ge'
the government to establish a semi
weekly route.