The Dickinson press., 1909-02-20
THE DICKINSON PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1000

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Road Foreman B. P. Johnson was.
down from Glendive Monday, ,.irt
Miss Hazel Wilson left Monday for a
visit with relatives, in the country south.
William Mccarthy ,xas in from Mikkel-
son last week attending the Maccabees
masqu Grade ball and the dance Monday
night.
Owing to the absence of Rev. Fir.
Dienam from the city. no services were
held at St. Patrick's Catholic church
Sunday morning.
You will find the ]. c. Cartwright
Co. sale a hummer. 1t is genuine and
you are enabled to get first-class goods
at greatly reduced prices.
Supt. B. o. johnson was in the city
Wednesday and Mrs. johnson expects to
visit friends in Dickinson in q few days
and take in the B. of R. T. ball Monday
evening.
Tom McDonough. formerly in the
employ of the Northern Pacific here.
left last week for San Pedro. CAL, where
te will be employed as section foreman.
Joseph Coushlin.' formerly of this city,
is also located there.
A. G. Schultheis of Grand Forks,
special adjuster for the Phoenix Insur-
ance Co.. n of the companies repre-
scented in the Merchants National bank
agency, was in Dickinson this week to
look over the Dakota Meat market loss.
S. L Damer writes from Hymera, Ind,
that the weather has been only fair in
Indiana this winter although the Their
mometer has REGISTERED as low as zero
only N or twice. MI. Damer is sue
cessfully carrying on a mercantile bust
ness in Hymera.
Since the recent changes were made
in the mail service from Dickinson to
the country north the mail for Bailey
and Melby comes though the Dickinson
postofice and goes out on the Manning
stage, giving these towns daily service
instead of twice-a-week when it was
handled through the Taylor office.
Albert Left of Reeder, who conducts
a stage line between Dickinson and
Reeder, also a line between Reeder and
Watson, S. D., is nov making prepara-
tions, in company with G. H. Niles. to
establish a through line between Reeder
and Reva. S. D., which will be made a
daily stage as soon as the business war
rants.
One of the cases which will be tried
before Judge w. c.. Crawford at Dunn
county court in Manning March 8. is
that of the Spring Valley Land Co., Paul
Elmer ct al vs. the county of Dunn, an
action for the abatement of their taxes
on the ground that the manner in which
the tax was levied was not in accor-
dance with the law. McFarlane & Muir
tina the newly organized law firm of
Dickinson will appear for the plaintiffs
and F. E. McCurdy for the commits
sioners.
The special sale at the J.. C: Cart
wright Co. store opens today Saturday
and promises to be one of the really
big reduction sales of the season. G. F.
Moery of Mayville, this state, arrived
early in the week to help arrange the
stock and to assist Mr.. Cartwright in
conducting the sale. Several local
people have also been engaged to assist
in the work. Prices talk in this sale, as
the readers will note by reading the J.
c. Cartwright Co. ad appearing on page
three of this issue.
Hon. T.. S. Underhill, who is spending
the winter at New Orleans, La, sends
the PRESS copies of the New Orleans
Picayune containing accounts of W. H.
Taft's visit to that city last week Fri
day and Saturday. He writes 1T was
certainly a notable event, not only in
its magnitude but in its significance to
future national policies, both political
and commercial. The speeches of well
come from Louisiana statesmen and the
responses of President Taft will make
this a history making period"
+. F. Murtha of the firm of McFarlane
& Murtha of this city was the attorney
in a Dunn county cas- of recent date.
It was a suit brought by Charles A.
Miller against Bernard O'Neil of Bailey
for SS9. so for labor performed by plain
tiff in digging wells OF the defendants
homestead. MI. Murtha represented the
plaintiff and F. E.. McCurdy the defend
ant. From the evidence, it was brought
out that Miller had bored for water.
without success, in four places. for which
he had never received payment. O'Neil
commended that there was an agreement
whereby no charge would be made if
Miller failed to get water. Judgment
was rendered in favor of Miller for $87. so
and costs. amounting in all to about