The Dickinson press., 1909-11-20
Our 1eigbbors
Interesting News from Thirty-five Slope
Towns as Cleaned from Exchanges
Newsy Items Briefly Told for Busy Readers.

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Hettinger has been holding successful
horse sales this fall.
Deer are reported as being plentiful i'll
the Missouri river bottom this year.
The work of installing the water
system is progressing rapidly at Bowman.
Bowman is becoming a great wheat
market this fall:
J. B. Wyman. Jr.. was killed by
falling from wind mill tower at Mar
marth.
The Young Hardware Co. of Bowman
have begun the construction of new
brick block.
The new school of mines at Hebron
will experiment extensively with Ignite
coal briquettes.
The Barth lot sales at Mott, November
10, amounted to 81, 40. The buyers
were all local people.
John Christensen of New Salem lost
four valuable Holstein COWS by their
being run over by a. Northern Pacific
train.
A. F. Noble, chairman of the board of
county commissioner of Mckenzie county,
won four prizes in the North Dakota seed
contest held recently. at Bismarck.
A landslide at Mandan lake is caus-;
ing considerable trouble for the;
railroad contractors on one of the branch
lines out of Mandan. A thirty-,wo
foot cut was completely filled up by the
banks giving way.
The Golden Valley Chronicle has its.
new Cranston press installed and comes;
out in new and enlarged form. The
Chronicle has very prosperous appear
ance, and it boosts for Beach first, last
and all the time.
D. N. McPhee of Bowman county had
probably the LARGEST field of corn in the
county. 1t was put in on sod and never
touched until it was ripe. The corn
yielded 80 bushels to the acre: and Mr..
McPhee recently sold 500 bushels at IS
cents per bushel.
A brick building is being erected at
Hazelton. Emmons county. to be occu-
pied by the Farmers State bank; and
the Emmons County Republican claims
this is the first brick building to be erec-
ted in the county. 1t is built of pickin-
son brick, too. which shows to what
remote corners Dickinson products
penetrate.
W. c. Keller and VIM. Young, the
two zen who were arrested in Glen Ullin
early in September on a grand larceny
charge and bound over to the district
court, escaped from the county Jail,
where they were being held to await
trial. A negro who was also being
held escaped with them. A reward of
$50 is offered for their capture. },
Banker Moore, arrested on the charge
of embezzlement of $500 last August
in connection with the failure of the
Glen Ullin bank. pleaded guilty to the
charge at Mandan and was sentenced
tuesday. Moore has turned over all his
property to the bank and fixed matters 80
the depositors will not lose cent.
There are other counts against him
but it is understood they will not be
pushed.
Of the many large yield of grain as
well as the many big returns in dollars
and cents that we have heard of this
fall none quite equal that of Chris
Goodhal of Wolf Butte, Adams county,
who threshed 10 bushels of flax per acre
on a field of IL acres and II bushels per
acre on another field of acres. The
flax sold for ST. 56 per bushel thus the 8
acre field yielded cash return of SIS. 81
per acre and the IL acre tract gave i
cash return Of $29. "a per acre.