The Dickinson press., 1906-06-09

Miss Ottawa Cole visited Ia Taylor
Sunday and attended church there.
Little Harold Hagerman fell OF
fence last Saturday and broke bis arm.
Remember to be In Dickinson June
- and % to attend the farmers insti.
tute.
E. F. Messersmith has sold 1 business
lot in Bismarck to M. H. Jewell At !
very good figure.
Miss Florence Davis is compelled 10
use crutches for a time on account Of
a diseased nerve.
Mrs. Riggs Of Sentinel Butte, sister Of
]. B. Stoddard, was brought to Dickin.
son Wednesday. i'll with pneumonia.
Word comes from St. Paul that Mrs.
w. G. Whinn is recovering we'll from
the effects Of a surgical operation Mon.
day.
In response to a telegram from At
torney voss, Attorney Simpson went to
Mandan where district court was in
session.
A. c. McGillivray Of this place and
M. H. Jewell of Bismarck, were called
I, Omaha this week on a United States
land case.
Mr.. and Mrs. Womack are guests Of
MI. and Mrs. L. A. Simpson since
Tuesday and will remain some two
weeks.
E. A. Lanes health is very poor and
he can scarcely attend to Office work.
His son-in-law. George P. Simmons, is
with him.
Mrs. c. S. LanRdon left on the flyer
Monday for a six weeks visit in Boston
her old home and Providence and
New York.
w. A.. Mcclure went to Taylor Tues
day to vote at school election. Milton
Bobb was elected director and John
Courtney treasurer.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Heaton and Guy
Hunter are occupying the Jensen house
which they rent furnished. When Mrs.
Hunter arrives, Mr.. and Mrs. Heaton
will take rooms over the Heaton office.
At a meeting of Frontier Lodge No.
II, l. o. o. F. on Tuesday evening the
following officers were elected: Henry
Schultz, N. G.; Henry Hansman, v. G.;
D. w. Mckenzie, treasurer; Archie
Granteer, R. S.; and c. c. Chatham,
trustee.
M. c. Lasefl. a lawyer of La Moure,
N. D., was in the city Monday, return
ing home from Sentinel Butte where
he lectured Saturday. He was a class
mate of Prof. Kitchen and an old time
acquaintance in S. D. Of Berringer Bros.
Mrs. Maxwell of South Dakota, who
visited her brother, Felix Dilger, of the
Brown store, last week, was much
pleased with the city and was quite
disappointed that the continued rain
prevented her from looking up some
real estate investments here.
The Langdon farm has been greatly
improved this season and presents a
fine appearance. Of the 1000 two-years
old elm, maple, willow, box elder and
ash trees set on the south and west>as
a shelter belt not one has failed to grow
and the orchard Of apple, cherry and
plum trees is doing remarkably we'll.
School elections in Dickinson are
usually very quiet affairs and the one
on Tuesday was no exception. 1t had
been practically conceded all along
that no one was better fitted to succeed
John F. Davis as director than himself
and he received the vote of each of
the thirty-eight people who remember
ed to cast their ballot. For treasurer
]. L. Hughes, was the only name pre-
sented and he received thirty-six votes
two complimentary votes being cast fol
R. H. Johnson, the present treasurer
who, it was understood. did not wish t,
be considered a candidate.
About 1890 a. m. Monday, an ALARM
Of FIRE was sounded and it was sool
learned that the barn in the north
eastern part of town. belonging to Mrs
Mary Shipley, was on fire. Mrs. SIMPLE,
had just taken her horse out on til,
prairie and was in the house for waite
for some chickens which were in til
barn, when she saw the fire. 1t caugh
in the hay at the rear of the barr
probably from a children's bonfire