The Dickinson press., 1908-08-22
LBssRssd News.

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miles south of town, was, seriously in
jured Monday by the explosion of a shot.
gun. Erickson was trying to shoot a
hawk with q double barreIed gun. In
some way both charges, exploded, burst.
ing the gun and sending pieces in var
ious directions. Abortion of the barrel
struck Erickson on the bridge Of the nose,
fracturing the skull. He vas taken TO.
Belfield for treatment, 1t being necessary
to remove several small pieces of hone.
DR.. Colwell says the mans injuries are
serious but he thinks the. chances for re-
covery are very good. .a.t1,r
Mrs. Charles Colgreve of Dickinson
recently visited with Mrs. M. w. Ran.
dolph on the latter's claim near town.
An enjoyable time was had at the I'm
perial hotel, Wednesday evening. The
occasion being q box social given by the
Ladies' Aid. society.
Guy Gamers uncle from Illinois has
been in town the past week. He likes
the country and may decide to locate in
this vicinity.
Bill Hendricks, of minneapolis is
spending a lew weeks with his friend,
Bert Mosher, and IL assisting in the
work of putting up the; Dyer elevator.
Miss, Mabel Inman, was very seriously
i'll the frs. Of the week and her mother
was called in from the ranch ia assist in
the care of her daughter, who was much
better the latter part of the week.
Miss Bower has been having a very
bad attack of shingles from which she is
slowly recovering. j.
The Ladies' Aid society has an enter
tainment booked for next Wednesday
evening at the church. .A,good program
has been arranged and those who attend
will have q fine time. 3 sss,
: GIN Babcock has been hauling out
lumber and is putting up ranch buildings
on his land in township 14I.1o1 in the
edge of the Bad Lands. He is fencing
IL sections of land and will have one Of
the incest ranches in this part of the
country. He will raise fine horses
and cattle.
Carl Gunkel and Dan Drenkel recent.
ly sold ? carloads of cattle to Ed. Rus.
sell, who shipped the stuff t Fargo for
the beef trade in that city. Messrs. NC.
Cutchan, Christensen, Frrisbie and others
have cars ordered for cattle 10 be shipped
this week. iAt
Mr.. Nelson, the hardware man, re-
turned from St. Paul, Monday. He is
recovering from an operation for apen-
dicitis.
DR.. r. Colwell recently returned from
Toronto where he was called on account
of the illness of his father, whom he left
much improved in health.
Mr. Christianson of the Christensen
Elevator Co. returned the first of the
week from a several weeks stay in the
cities.
]. E. Dyer is busy putting up his grain
elevator and expects to have everything
ready to handle his share of this falls
crop. The Lahart Elevator Co. expec-
ted to start work on its elevator the lat
ter part of this week. &"
G. M. Babcock shipped a fine bunch
of horses last week to Buffalo, this state
]. L. McCutchan started harvest.
ing his o acres of grain on the edge oil
town this week. His zoo tons of hay
cut from his farm almost in our village,
looks mighty good to Jim. This week be
sold some village lots to John Klingmau
and J. F. Staples who will put up houses
in town in order that their children may
be able to take advantage Of Belfelds
school.
Business has been rather slow in Bel.
field village the past week, but there has
certainly teen plenty Of work in the SUR
rounding country where the farmers are
busy harvesting their boomer crops
The past two weeks has seen three large
threshing outfits unloaded at this station
good evidence that the farmers are farm
ing aud have come to stay.