The Dickinson press., 1909-01-09
in FORMER YEARS
Happenings in Dickinson Fifteen
and Twenty-Five Years Ago
This Week.

attendance.
L A. Davis has been elected Sunday
school superintendent of the town Sum-
day school.
Merry & Pearl are busy engaged in
putting up ice which is two feet thick.
James Collister, E. F. Smith. M. A..
Sebastian, A. D. Carpenter and Mr..
Wright spent Tuesday in the capital city,
The young man reported frozen to
death at Sims last week was merely
drunk and thawed out again when taken
to the fire.
Bruce Sebastian came in from the
range Wednesday with badly frosted
toes.
jamestown business men are showing
their enterprise after the recent big fire
in making preparations to erect a $780,
600 hotel.
So far no persons have been reported
frozen to death in this vicinity during
the last cold spell.
Fred Rau has erected q comfortable
house on his claim north of town and
will 0 his family there in the
spring.
Joe Cuskelly, who has charge of the
branch store of Cuskelly Bros. at Little
Missouri, reports a big business.
From The PRESS of January 10, 1894.
W. A. McCloy is very ill.
Forty below zero Sunday in the Red
River Valley.
The Billings county board allowed
1913 in wolf bounties last week.
Dan Manning is a new member of the
board of directors of the First National
bank.
Ten dollars has been contributed by
the people of Taylor toward the relief
of the Hurley, Wis, sufferers.
W. A. Carter has vacated the Schultz
building and taken quarters in the old
harness shop building with Capt. Aud.
1t is getting to be no uncommon thing
to have North Dakota range cattle on
the mid winter market.
The government thermometer here
registered n below zero last Saturday
night.
Welton Mcdonald has purchased C. F.
Merry's interest in the drug store and
will hereafter conduct the business
alone.
Drs. Stickney and Davis have ampu-
tated the thigh of Mr.. Trumbel, the man
who recently received a gunshot wound
at Kildeer mountains.
]. A. Barker is seriously ill at Mingus-
vile with bronchitis and inflammatory
rheumatism.
Eight head of buffalo, owned by a
Cassleton man, passed through here
Saturday en- route to the Mid Winter
fair at San Francisco.
E. Deffebach has gone to Manhattep,
Mont, to buy cattle.
Misses Edith and Grace Montague
have gone to jamestown to attend school.
ALI White came in from the Little
Missouri Friday and reports everything
in first class shape on the range.
j. W. Currie was called to Grand
Forks this week by the serious illness of
his brother, Archie.
At the meeting of the stock holders of
the First National bank Tuesday H. L.
Dickinson, A. C. McGillivray, j. E.
Phelan, R. H. johnson. A. N. Jefferies,
Dan Manning and A. Hilliard were
elected directors.
The preliminary steps were taken this
week in the organizing of a lodge of the
Oriental order. Frank Kihm was made
president and J.. E. Bardwell secretary.
Brooks Goodall, the able representative
of the order of iremen of this place,
came up from St. Paul Saturday. He
said that the N. P. conference, as far
as he could see, was no nearer settle
ment than two weeks ago.
H. W. Bates has his coal mine in
good working order and has already
mined so tons.
The first quarterly meeting of the
Dickinson school. board was held this
week. The t%reasurer's receipts for 1898
show as follows: Apportionment, ST.
$50; district taxes, 81, 928. 81; other
sources, sig. The sum of ST, 681. 80 was
expended fer repairs 81. 2o5. Is for teach
ers: $74 for school officers. 81, 010 for in
tere st, ST. 1877. 81 for incidental expenses.
A lodge of the American Railway
Union was organized Wednesday with
J. B. Purcell, president; W. r. Nc
Ginnis. vice president and Fred Thomp-
son. secretary and treasurer.