The Dickinson press., 1909-03-06

A lodge Of Royal Nei9hb0rs will be
Organized soon at Schafer.
The Methodists at Mott are going to
have an organized choir soon.
Felix .Patyke of Mott had the misfor-
tune to have his nose nearly bitten off
by a vicious horse n day recently.
The voters of Beach will hold a caucus
March 9 for the purpose of nominating
officers for the coming township cleo
ton.
The Northwestern Land Co. has begun
sinking a well in the Rocky Ford district
and there is confidence that oil in album
dance will be found there.
A caucus will be held at Glen Ullin
March 10, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for the vsrious village Off
GERS. The election will be held on March
Is.
There is an epidemic of scarlet fever
in the Solder .neighborhood. south of
Glen Ullin. There are ten cases at
present and several of them have al
ready proved fatal.
The Western Land Securities Co. has
begun proceedings to secure title to the
land on which Rhame is located and a
lot sale will probably be held there early
in the spring. III u
The new First State bank of Flasher
al opened for business Monday of
this week. The officers are E. H. Nc
Hugh. president w. F.. Berrier. vice
president &C. W. Schlosser, cashier
=: The new opera house contract :" at
Wibaux has been let to A. c. Edwards
of Wibaux. The building will be 50x9O
feet, the lower floor to be used for stores
and the upper part as the auditorium.
At the recent election of the voters
of the village of Beach. it was voted to
bond the village for So, 900 for the pur-
pose of putting in new fire apparatus
and improving the streets. The vote was
IS to II.
Flasher has a gymnasium on a small
scale. Some of the young men in that
neiehborhood have banded together and
purchased some apparatus. They have
rented a room and plan to do bigger
things later on.
The county commissioners of Bowman
county have been petitioned by the
inhabitants of the township west of
Rhame, asking to be set over into the
Rhame school district. They decided to
add IL sections to the district.
A large influx of people to the country
south Of here is expected this spring.
Many of them will make Bowman their
starting point and 60 out to the land in
Perkins and Harding counties in South
Dakota. Buffalo is one of the towns that
is growing very rapidly. ;.
The school board at Sentinel Butte has
installed a set of toilet rooms in the
basement of the school house and will
do away with the out buildings. AS
the town has no sewerage system the
plan is evoking considerable discussion
among the citizens.
The new court house at Bison will be
30x50, four rooms, on one side and four
rooms and a stairway on the other side
of. the hall through the middle. Upstairs
will be the court room and judges and
jurors rooms. There will be a view 40
miles off from the top of the building.
There are to be two additional trains
on the Milwaukee after March is. A
fast train between St. Paul and Butte
will cover the distance in "a hours,
cutting down the present time 12-hours.
1t will only stop at important points,
including Lennon, Hettinger, Bowman
and Marmarth.
A gang of men are working on the
holes for the telephone line between
Belle Fourche, Camp Crook and Buffalo.
A surveying crew is also working ovel
the line and all the poles, wires etc. are
on the ground and ready for use. Phone
charges will be a cent a mile. There
will be stations at Brant's, Peterson 8,
Harding, Camp Crook and Buffalo.
The teachers of Hettinger count,
recently met in convention and formed
an association with Supt. Josephine
Steake as president: Thos. q. Blaine.
vice president f; Miss Maud Batty, secre
tary; Mrs. G. w. Hickman, assistant
secretary: A very interesting meeting
was held with papers and talks of mucl
benefit and also social pleasures. Thu
meeting was held at Mott.
An odd case occurred at Marmarth
Ludalf Effron, a Bulgarian, working il
the cinder pit at that place. underwent
an operation last week. He had fv'
fingers on each hand and six toes OF
each foot. He also had a girl in tn
Old country who refused to marry hin