The Dickinson press., 1908-01-11
LOCAL NEWS.

All. White left Friday for a business
trip to Billings, Mont.
A son wa born Monday, January E, to
MI. and Mrs. J. ]. Sexton.
Miss Anna Kostelecky is assisting in
the office of the City bakery.
J. "A. Eslick of Bel6eld was a business
visitor in the city yesterday.
J. F. Phelan and daughter, Miss Ruth,
left yesterday on an auto trip to Bowman.
Mrs. B. O. Johnson and daughter,
Fannie, are recovering from a several
days siege with la grippe.
Brakeman William Satchell left yester-
day for Brainerd, Minn.,> for treatment
for car trouble. He was accompanied to
the hospital by J. c. Bower.
F. A. Little passed through on No. 3
Wednesday with a party of land men
from the east to look at lands near Wi
baux, Mont.
Welland Orchard left yesterday for
Fargo, after spending a few weeks at
w. M. McDonald's. His mother will re-
main a few days longer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ferris entertained
on Wednesday evening at a course din
ner Miss Mary DAILY and w. J.. Servis,
the bridesmaid and best man of the
previous evening.
Frank Ray returned to his studies at
the Minnesota University the first of the
week, and Robert Hilliard is again at the
Shattuck school in Faribault, MIMI, after
spending the holiday vacation in the city,
An insane man was taken off train No
4Thursday morning and was placed in
the county Jail until relatives o friends
are made aware of his condition and he
is properly cared for. He was travelling
from Portland to St. Paul.
Fred Paukert and George Bachik o.
Horswill were business visitors in the
city the latter part of the week. These
gentlerNen have been in this part of the
country for three years and have fine
homesteads in a good state Of cultivation
Miss Mary Nolan returned the first o.
the week from Sante Fe, New Mexico
where she visited Miss Elizabeth Tschir
hart, who has been located in a lane
office there since last spring. Mis-
Tschirhart enjoys her work but the alti
tude of the country does not agree will
her health and she may ask to be trans
ferred to some other office.
S. L. Carroll had a fire at his home OF
Cross street at an early hour on Thurs
day. In some way the girl upset tn
lamp in her bedroom upstairs and in
very short time the room was filled will
smoke from the burning clothes and fur
niture. The screams Of the girl brough
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll to the rescue. Mr.
Carroll knew just how to go about TIL
work of extinguishing the flames. HI
used quilts to smother the fire and ap
piled three pals of water which his wifi
handed up the stairs. They were bot
cool and collected and did not turf in al
alarm, thus saving the city unnecessar
expense. Their loss is less than $40
and is fully covered by insurance in tn
Ayers agency.
The fire alarm was sounded at
O'Clock Wednesday morning and in
few minutes the firemen were busy at tn
old coal dock, where a lively fire wa
making good progress. The fire wa
caused by a gasoline explosion in tn
engine house and the flames spread raE
idly up through the belt shaft and eve
to the main beams at the top of the docl
1t required considerable water to cor
quer the flames although the damage wa
not very heavy. The belt shaft was
total wreck, but the dock was in runnin
order again the same afternoon. Anotht