The Dickinson press., 1906-03-24

Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Kennedy and Miss
Mary were passengers the first of the
week to St. Paul. J. J. BARLEY and
daughter Mary were also in the party,
and they expected to be absent W
weeks or more.
The Pensioners of St. Patrick's
church celebrated the feast of their
patron saint on last Saturday. AT o:3o
solemn High Mass was celebrated by
the pastor. Father Dignam, and the
sermon was preached by Very Rev. FIR.
Egan, vicar general of the diocese OF
Fargo.
A New England supper will be given
by the Ladies of the Methodist church
in the building just south of DR..
Stickney's. Beginning at 5 o'clock
Saturday evening, March "a. Menu
Scalloped corn, Baked beans, Ham,
Veal loaf, Potato salad. Pickles, Rolls.
Jelly, Pie, Cake. Coffee. Price 25c.
Father Dignam went west to Beach
this week for the monthly services. A
meeting OF the Pensioners was held.
when a resolution was passed to COM
mence work Immediately on the church
in Beach. The church at Burkey,
fifteen miles south, has already been
completed and will soon be ready for
service.
E. C.. Tarrant, who last season
purchased the billiard & Merry Black
Butte sheep ranch and later the house
in the northwestern part of the city,
erected by the Abstract Co., is in St.
Paul where he recently underwent a
surgical operation. Meantime his
sister from Minneapolis.i is in Dickinson
with Mrs. Tarrant.
J. NJ. TAFT writes from Halfway.
Missouri, that the recent sleet storm
killed the peach crop. The moving of
South Heart station east, where We
understand the N. P. is to sink a we'll,
makes George Taft's coal bank very
valuable. J. M. Taft expects to visit
) Dickinson and vicinity the coming fall.
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Miss Grace Ntzhugh,, who has made
such an enviable record as a successful
teacher and disciplinarian during her
two years in the Dickinson schools, has
been elected to the seventh and sixth
grades in Bismarck at a salary of $500.
Her many friends will regret her de-
parture from the city while rejoicing in
; her election to the schools of her home
city.
c. b. Hanson of Gladstone seems to
be doing a rushing business. He is
manager Of the North Dakota Realty
Co., and the past week had II land
seekers out in one day. The parties
came to Dickinson, filed on land in the
government office am while here looked
over the city and seemed much pleased
J with the evidences of thrift on every
side.
P. M. Laid, G. w. and F. M. Bel
J KNAPP, who arrived recently from Iowa
! with two cars of goods, are hauling
: lumber south for houses which the last
two gentlemen are erecting on their
homestead in the vicinity of Saltwater.
Mr.. Laid has not located on land yet,
! and thinks that he would like to work
out on some farm OF ranch during the
summer, IN order that he may become
!, more familiar with the ways Of. the
country.
: Cashier L. F. Crawford of Sentinel
Butte was a passenger on Monday to
Bismarck where he was going to file
articles of incorporation for the Billings
County Telephone Co., capitalized at
$4,000, one half paid up. The company
has its headquarters in Sentinel Butte
and will commence the construction of
local and long distance lines at once,
poles for which are already on the
ground. The long distance is to be
pushed south to Yule and from there it
is likely the connection with the Belle
Fourche country will be had during the
coming season tn 1T ranch is
likely to be connected from YuIe.
Il
The first of April there will be plenty
of work in Roadmaster John Dalv's
department OF the Northern Pacific,
arrangements for which are being made
now. The work of ballasting the track
from Sully Springs to this city will be
taken up where it was left last season
when the telegraphers' strike was
ordered. Seven or eight work trains
will be fitted out and the extra gang
will consist Of 225 Italians. The winter
section crews Of two and three men will
be: increased to seven men. The APP
preparation for April is around $4,000
and it is expected that Ave or sir
months will be required for the work
already laid u for Nj. Days depart.