The Dickinson press., 1909-12-18
New ENGLAND

be presented to the public on Thursday
evening, December 3. at the school 2
building. II will be one of the most
pleasant events Of the Christmas week
and should be we'll attended.
Mrs. M. A. Keefe and son, Clement,
arrived recently from Saskatchewan,
Canada. for a visit at the home. OF her
daughter, Mrs. ]. L. Chald.
Harry Steelhammer is back from
OREGON, where he had been working in
the lumber business for several months.
Leo Zempel of St. Paul is spending
some little time with his sister, Miss
Alma Zempel. and brother. Robert
Zempel. He expects to locate per-
manent]y in this vicinity.
Edward G. Berg of Horswill left re-
Gently for Griswold, Iowa. where he will
spend the winter. He will be back in
the spring 10 attend to his work on the
farm.
Albert Borchardt made several trips to
Dickinson during the past two weeks.
He has been marketing his grain and
also the grain raised by his sister, Miss
Mary Borchardt. !,
Dr.. j. VS. thrilling is able to be about
again after a two weeks illness with
inf1ammatory rheumamtism.
W. S. Van BERGEN has returned from
a business trip east and is putting in, the
winter at his homestead s miles south
| of town.
Roll0 Hunt. who has been working at
the Rice ranch south of town and for H.
A. Gilbert in South Dakota. left the past
week for his home lei Mandan.
W. C. Mckenzie returned last week
from a business trip to the Twin cities.
Henry Bohnhoff left the first of the
week for Elizabeth, ILL.,, where he will
spend a few weeks with relatives at his
! old home.
s. M. Nelson has about completed a
fine five-room house on his homestead just
southeast of town. The house which is
beautifully located, is 16x28 feet with a
full basement and when finished will be
one of the incest farm houses in the
county. Mr.. Nelson is a good farmer
and had a crop yield this year that will
be hard to beat. His hard wheat ave-
ragged 29k bushels, oats Sc bushels and
flax 16H bushels to the acre. He intends
to farm or a much larger scale next
year. =
Walter White returned this week from
Chicago, where he went w weeks ago
with a shipment Of Charles Colerove's
cattle.
Surveyor W. H. Woo dbury went to
Dickinson the first of the week to confer
with some of the N. P. officials in regard
to the location of permanent survey for
the Mandan branch of the Northern Pa
ciic railway. Several surveys have been
made through this territory during the
past three years and il is quite probable
that the n to Re used will be deter
mined in a very short time.
Ole Stenmoen returned Monday from
Dickinson from which point Mrs. STEM
moen with her daughter, Olga. and son,
Alvin. took the train for Polk county,
Mimi, where they will visit relatives
for a couple of months. During the alb
sence of his family Mr.. Stenmoen will
play the bachelor act on the homestead.
Leo Zempel has filed :.on a homestead
II miles west of town. Red" Miller
having relinquished his rights to the
same land last week.
A very successful bazaar was held in
the Harrison & Marsh store Saturday
afternoon and evening and over $40 was
cleared by the New England Ladies'
Aid society. Many useful and fancy
articles were on exhibition and every
thing sold well. Some articles sold so
rapidly that the ladies, in order to sup
ply the demand, took orders for future
delivery and added many dollars to the
receipts of the evening. A supper was
served from S 80 on and a large number
from the tow and surrounding country
took supper with the ladies and pro-
nounced the food and service as A 1.
The society, which was organized two
months ago, is not a one-church affair,
having a good membership of Congrega-
tionalists, Catholics and Lutherans. Its
object, however. is about the same as all
aid societies and its first bazaar is very
encouraging to the ladies.
Lee Lucey and George Gardner vent out
to the johnson school 10 miles south of
town last Saturday and report a fine time
at the basket social. Baskets sold as
high as So. so under the hammer of Auc-
tioneer Otto johnson and SSH IS was
added to the library fund for the school
taught by Miss Pomeroy.
J. G. Homer made a busiess trip to