Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-06-22
PHOENIX

MUklSaX
Sheriff Welsh and Auditor Healy
We're through here Thursday, dis
tributing ballot boxes and reading the
handwriting on the wall.
VIII Hazelgrove came N on the
stage line Friday from a trip to Bis
marck, in the interest of school mat
tiers and other business not included
in the capacity of Phoenix.
g. George Spang and Chas. Bartlett
made trip to Denhoff last week,
much to the delight of the mosquitoes.
Matt and Howard Gambs took two
loads of fax to Goodrich Saturday as
they went to the ball game.
H W. Mackey assisted and directed
by one of his neighbors, built new
pasture in one day. Nc, is from Ohio,
and when hitched up with Kentucky
makes whole team.
Charley May returned Friday from
Painted Woods Lake with a string of
fish stories. g.,
I. f. Lytle, another Onion, who took
Horace GreeIy's advice to Ego west"
has finished his farming operations
and contracted to tear down Mrs.
Gillett's house.
Fred Nichols, one of our sub
tantial farmers, is building a COM
modious residence, the main part of
which is to be of lumber with a wing
addition built of native stone. This
is actions speaking louder than words
in expressing faith in our country.
Mrs. Rev. Burhans is suffering from
rheumatic troubles affecting the heart
at times to the extent that her life is
almost despaired of. The weather
conditions seem to aggravate her all
ments beyond the relief of medicine.
@ The Phoenix and Delaney Sunday
schools will hold union exercises at
the Phoenix school house next Sunday
to be designated as children's day.
The regular day having been unaveid-
ably unobserved. A good program is
being arranged and everyone invited
to attend. ,
Emil SEeltgen, the sheepman from
near Arena postofice, was in Phoenix
last week for a load of supplies. He
don't believe in putting all of his eggs
In one backet, and has broken up
y about seventy-fve acres for flax.
The business portion of the town of
II Stark was closed and the flag on the
town hall hauled down to half mast
Saturday evening in Difference to the
Stark ball men after the game at
{ Goodrich. They might get some com.
fort by referring to the thought that a
poor beginning sometimes results in a
good ending The next tragedy will
4 be when they meet the butcher
4 boys of Slaughter next Sunday near
Ong's ranch. Il Ss .ss S.. 4. .... n +
4 Postmaster Feldhausen of ong was
in Phoenix one day long enough tt
notice the difference between a towr
4 and postof1ce. George is one O.
\ the pioneers here and recalls thu
time when Bismarck was our post
Office and the principal business poin
of the county and feels encouraged tt
hope for Phoenix conditions at Ong il
due time. 49,
The report that our postmaster hat
transferred his pig to Tom Wilkinson
and decamped for Denhoff in tn,
nighttime was the source of no littl'
confusion among the credulous peopl
of our vicinity until investigation re
stored order by finding that our VI
right and sincere stamp defacer hal
sold and conveyed unto Tom his on
and only specimen Of the swine genu
81 with it's optical senses In good work
ing order and the demands of his bus
ness was the occasion for his sudde
departure for the railway in the retil
a ing end Of the day. The question
who started the alarm or did the pi
squeal on them. e
Last week Arena dug up Joe Bling.
This week he gives us the same Of
thing ..5.s.3; RI
lis sad yet true that he's not a Dor
poet, 5s45 s.55Is
But sadder yet that he don't know i
He may live IN hope and die in despail
For d poets head contains NOR
than just long hair.
AN APOLOGY
Dedicated to the Phoenix News We,
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