Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-06-20
PHOENIX

Sheriff Welsh and Auditor Healy
were through here Thursday, dis
tributing ballot boxes and reading the
handwriting on the wall.
Will 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.
George Spang and Chas. Bartlett
made trip to Denhoff last week,
much to the delight of the mosquitoes.
Matt and Howard Gambs took two
lads 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 "a whole team
Charley May returned Friday from
Painted Woods Lake with string of
fish stories.
I. F. Lyle, another Onion, who took
Horace Greely's advice to "go west,'
has finished his farming operations
and contracted to tear down Mrs
Gillett's house.
Fred Nichols, one of our SUBJ
tantial farmers, is building 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 unavoid-
ably unobserved. A good program is
being arranged and everyone invited
to attend.
Emil Skeltgen, the sheepman from
near Arena postoffice, 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
about seventy-fve acres for fax.
The business portion of the town of
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
be when they meet the butcher
boys" of Slaughter next Sunday near
Ong's ranch.
Postmaster Feldhausen of Ong was
in Phoenix one day long enough to
notice the difference between a town
and a postoffice. George is one of
the pioneers here and recalls the
time when Bismarck was our post
office and the principal business point
of the county and feels encoura ged to
hope for Phoenix conditions at Ong in
due time
The report that our postmaster had
transferred his pig to Tom Wilkinson
and decamped for Denhoff in the
nighttime was the source of no little
confusion among the credulous people
Of our vicinity until investigation re-
stored order by finding that our up.
right and sencere stamp defacer had
sold and conveyed unto Tom his one
and only specimen of the swine genus
with its optical senses in good work
ing order and the demands of his bust
ness was the occasion for his sudden
departure for the railway in the retir
ing end of the day. The question is
who started the alarm or did the pig
squeal on them "t@~
Last week Arena dug up Joe Bling.
This week he gives US the same ole
thing. @
TITS sad yet true that he's not borr
poet,
But sadder yet that he don't know it
He may live in hope and die in despair
For poets head contains more
than just long hair.