The Dickinson press., 1909-01-02
FORMER YEARS

and Twenty-Five Years Ago
This Week.
From the PRESS Of January S, 1884.
John Fennell had both ears badly
frozen Monday.
Merry & Pearl are putting up a build
ing which they will fill with ice.
An outfit Of freishters with merchan-
disc for peadwood merchants, left here
Monday.
The Good Templars in Dakota have
increased from 700 to 200 during the
last year. .
Little Missouri is to have a news
paper. The outfit has been shipped
there. :.
Henry Willard has resigned the presi-
, aency OF u.e Northern Pacific railroad.
f. c. Bates and Miss J. Campbell
were married January list at the home
of the brides uncle. j.. G. Cambell.
Fargo had another big fire Monday in
which three business blocks were burned.
Bismarck had an So, 600 fire in the bust
ness section Sunday. =
NJ. j. Duffy has resigned as foreman
of the car shops and will 60 to Port
land, Oregon. He is succeeded; by
Thomas Regain of the Mandan shops;
DR.. v. H. Stickney has received Fl
volumes of standard medical works from.
his brother, W. w. Stickney,. who is
clerk of the Vermont house Of represent
tatives. ,
The Marquis de Mores has a novel
enterprise under way. He plans to raise
so. 900 cabbages on his ranch at Little
Missouri and have them ready for market
by April 1. They will be raised under
glass in some peculiar French manner
and when they have attained a certain
size, they will be transplanted into in
dividual pots and forced rapidly by rich
fertilizers from the slaughter house.
From the PRESS of January E, 1894.
W. H. Brennan brought in a fine lot
of furs this week.
J. Q. Gray takes the house on Sims
street vacated by the ZimmeTmans.
Michael Goodale is wintering 500
sheep which he is feeding once a day.
Joe Coughlan. who was in the city
this week. said there was no snow at his
ranch e Medora.
School enumeration: 1873 boys, $50
girls, total, 288. An increase of A
per cent over the enumeration for last
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Zimmerman and
children have returned to Pennsylvania
for the winter. .
1t is reported that Everett Folsom,
who went to Vermont on a visit last
fall, will not return to Dickinson at
once as he has a good position. :
The dance of the hose company swa
a success. netting $58. 40. The COM
mittees were: arrangements. P. C.
Hagerman, Frank Lucas; floor. Jack
Wiech, J. X. Porter. D. S. Littlehales
and C. B. Anderson; reception, j. A.
McGregor, John L%enneville. William
Best and Archie Granteer.
At the annual meeting of the Ladies
Aid society of the Congregational church
Mrs. M. L. Ayers was elected president F.:
Miss Esther Lenneville, vice president ;
Mrs. j. A. McGregor. secretary; and
Mrs. George Aud, treasurer, -.
Schuyler N. Lebo son, Of Judge Lebo,
a prosperous farmer living 80 miles
south of Medora. and Miss Maggie
Garbeg of Taylor were. married January
1 by James G. Campbell. -.
Fred viewie, yvho has had charge of
the Dakota Land and Colonization Co. s
interests in misplace, has been tend
cred a flatterind position in New York
and left last keek. The family will
follow within a'few days. "a
S. P. Gotta is one of the oldest con-
ductors in the Northern Pacific service,
having commenced %railroading on the
Central Vermont in 1873. Two years
later he was given a regular freight run
between St. Adams, Vermont. and St.
Johps. P. Q. Mr.. Gotta has worked for
butftwo companies during his twenty
years of railroading and has never laid
.aaa day.
Among the visitors in the city are
John Ballard, aKildeer rancher. James
1'Kerr Of Oakdale, Miss Ida Ellison Of
Richardson and Mr.. and Mrs. W. l.
Richards q. Oakdale. M. L. Parker has
been in Jamestown.
News wal received Of the death Of
Mrs. James Fennell at Elmira, N. r.,
December 18th. She had resided il
Dickinson ten years. She was Sc years