The Dickinson press., 1909-10-09
Miss Anna Bjorling 10 again acting
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Miss Anna Bjorling 10 again acting
as cook at the Mckenzie hotel
Mrs. A. S. White Of Shollsmade is
cooking al the Gardner restaurant.
Rudolph Boehlke of Shollsmade will
offer proof on his land at the u. S. land
Office in Dickinson on November is.
W. C.Ladage Of Crundy Center, Iowa,
recently sold sections of Hettinger
county lands to Iowa parties.
An auction sale Of horses. cattle and
farm machinery will take place at Jake
Mehrer's farm October 18th.
j. W. Ferguson Of Tyndall, S. T.,
arrived in town Sunday for few days
stay at the Harrison home.
G.. Wilson is planning to put up
a building and open d blacksmith shop
in Gabbert's addition this fall.
Roy Reed was in town the first of the
week to get some repairs for his thresh-
ing rig.
Thomas Patterson has purchased. sew
erai residence lots in Gabbert {. addition
and intends to build in that part of
town this fall.
Mrs. George DeWalt was in town
Tuesday with her lite son. Basil. who
has been in poor health for the past
month
Charles Simon. the attorney, and A.
N. Kinnamon the land man, have -hung
out some attractive business signs. the
work of c. J. Pryor.
The harvest social at the school. build
ing last Friday evening was we'll al
tended and the sum of $6.75 was .se-
cured for the library fund.
j. w. Ferguson has commenced work
on building on one of his lots on the
new townsite. When completed mil
linery store will be opened by Misses
Susie Harrison and Efie Marsh.
Carl Halgren has finished threshing
1850 bushels of wheat and 935 bushels
of oats. His wheat averaged 2SK
bushels and oats So bushels to-the acre.
MIR. and Mrs. Alf White and Misses
Florence and Genevieve White made a
short visit in New England Sunday.
returning to Dickinson from trip to
the White ranch west of town.
Byron Mabon of the Mabon Land CO.
of St. Paul. was a business visitor in
the city Monday. Mr.. Mabon is one of
the livliest land sellers that visit this
part of the country.
|: Miss Elfreda Borrill, who has been
visiting at the home of her parents in
Canada, arrived in the city on Monday 8
stage and is now living on her home
stead near the Mead ranch.
Peter Blum is one of the happy farm
ers in this vicinity. having recently
finished threshing $500 bushels Of
grain of which about 5000 bushels is
as fine hard wheat as was ever grown.
Marnius Rome has grain record
that will be hard to beat From his
2o-acre' field of blue-stem wheat he
threshed 700 bushels. machine meas
ure. The grain will weigh out consider
able more, making an average better
than IS bushels to the acre.
Herman Boettcher seems to have the
buss threshing outfit in this part---.of the
country and some of his record runs
will be pretty hard to duplicate. One
day last week 4, 100 bushels OF grain
were threshed. The record for the fore
noou without single stop was 2,275
bushels of oats at w. C. Bowers place.
The machine averaged S bushels of
wheat per minute while G. A. hohen-
sees grain was being pounded:: ::out. Mr..
Boettcher get cent per bushel..for oats.
S cents for wheat and cents for flax
and his daily receipt slips .amount 10
more than 500 per day.
There was an unusually large attend
ance at the services held by the German
Lutheran society al the schoolhouse
Sunday. Rev. Eugene Ahl of Dickin-
son was present and assisted Rev. F.
Bunge at the services in both the fore
noon and afternoon. During .-the few
hours between services the-members of
the congregation talked over the matter
of building church and instructed the
trustees to start the work this fall.
; Over ST, 600 has aready been subscribed
and the members of the society are an
, xious to see the work commence.
Rev. John Holland of Reeder was in
town Monday for a short business visit
Mr. Holland states that it is intended
} to organize a Norwegian Lutheran
| church in New England. There are
hundreds of Norwegians within radius
of IS miles Of thist own and it is plan
ned to have resident pastor at New
England, who will also have charge of
several missions in the surrounding
country.