The Dickinson press., 1909-01-02
THE DICKINSON PRESS, sAIURDAn,JANUARY. :, 1000.

Miss Marguerite Patterson of Bowman
was a holiday visitor in the city at the
homes of w. A. Carter and Robert Lyon
The past week.
The schools of Dickin son will open for
the winter term mex Monday. morning,
after q Christmas vacation Of. two weeks.
Yesterday being New Years day and
q holiday in this state. the banks and
land Office were closed all day and aome
Of the stores were closed a ;pars Of. the
day. y ; - - -; - -: IA.
Mrs: Willeta McGlashan Of Bisnauck
was a holiday visitor at the: home.sof
her aunt, Mrs. A. C.:McGillivray, where
her daughter, Marion. resides. : >s-s
H. b. Powers and Victor Chilgren
moved this week from the residence .sof
ALT White to. the new Jessen block,
where they are to occupy two of the
rooms on the second floor. 20.
A. R. Arrowsmith of Mott, who was so
severely wounded in a hunting accident
in the Bad Lands. several weeks ago.
necessitating the amputation of his leg
at the Stein hospital. was able to return
to his home this week, having been at
the hospital about sever weeks.
j. A. Palmer recently purchased two
fine teams of horses of the Hammel
brothers. near Bailey, which..he is using
on the new, mail route between Manning
and Dickinson. He intends to put on
an up-to-date stage in the near future
So many people have been asking
Supt. Waldron of the experiment station
where they can secure seed grain, that
if the farmers who have such seed for
sale will write to Mr.. Waldron. he will
give them the~~addresses of those in
quiring for the grain.
W. c. Mckenzie, the New England
merchant, was a business visitor in the
city the. past week.
Miss jamie Brew will-resume school
work at Davis butte mex Monday, the
same as in the city schools.
Mrs. James Soules will entertain the
Ladies' Aid society of the Conerega-
tional church at the annual meeting to
be held on Tuesday afternoon, January
5th.
Stewart Cummings and James Soules
leave next week for an extended trip
through the east, including Boston and
points in Nova Scotia. -
Sheriff T. N. Hartung returned the first
of the week from Glendive with Ernest
Darling. who was wanted for the alleged
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses. Some time ago Mr.. Darling
obtained $50 from the Dakota National
bank, giving a mortgage on a certain
bunch of stock. 1t wat later reported
that Darling did not own the stock and
the arrest followed. Darling still claims
that he has the stock in charge, of a
man in Morton county. He was az
lowed to 60 Thursday on his own recog-
nizance to the country southeast Of
Richardton to which town he promised
to deliver the stock and turn it wei to
the bank. If he does this his part of
the contract will have been fulfilled and
there will be no hearing.
The Knights of Pythias carried out
their regular custom this year of send
ing Christmas baskets to all of the needy
people in Dickinson. This year only
four baskets were delivered and it was
more for the purpose of keeping up the
custom than to supply the poor for in
any of the four cases the families would
have had plenty of food for a merry
Christmas. There are no destitute
families in Dickinson. Z
Christ Lee of Oakdale transacted bust
ness in the city the past week.
The old year finished with the coolest
spell of the season. The Thermometer
registered 4 below on the 10th and is be-
low on the 31st. The new year started
out rather strong with IL below but it is
moderatine every hour and nice weather
is expected during the month of jan,
uary. :, .
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Lawrence McGregor was down from
Medora the first of the week.
E. P. Lee of Montevideo, MIMI, closed,
a deal yesterday with Messrs. Bouleer
and Hughes for their laundry plant in,
city. Mr.. Lee has some business,
matters to attend in Montevideo but:
expects to return to Dickinson in a few
weeks to take charge of the laundry.