The Dickinson press., 1909-07-24

M. c. Mccartney was in from Midway
this week.
Henry Tyler was in the past week from
his place at Halliday.
Mrs. C. Condit of Valley City was in
the city this week.
Mrs. j. r. Stewart has been suffering
with quinsy the past week.
Manager Rye of the new Bowman
creamery was a visitor in the city last
week. getting ideas from the Dickinson
creamery.
T. P. Riley. the Fargo plumbing and
heating man. came on Monday to look
over the Dickinson high school job and
submit figures as a bid.
Supt. C. L. Melby of the Dunn county
schools came in from Manning on
Wednesday. Mr.. Melby hopes to find
time to visit Seattle in August.
Frank Kruger. clerk of DaGlum school
district. was in Dickinson Wednesday.
Mr.. Kruger's district is getting ready
to erect two new school houses.
William Grinnell of Scranton has
accepted a position in the Office of the
Consolidated Coal Co. MI. Grinnell was
the Scranton ball teams star left fielder.
Mrs. B. E. Noark was called to Bis
marck Tuesday by the serious illness
of her neice. Mrs. Gale Round. of Mott,
who was operated on there for Appendix
citis.
Mrs. B. F. Thomas and Miss Doretha
Of Lancing, Iowa. arrived last Saturday
to spend a month at the home of J.. A.
Kemble, Mrs. Thomas father. northwest
of Dickinson.
Miss Louise Poland entertained a
few friends Friday evening of last week
in honor of her sister. Miss Dora Poland.
of Chicago. Cards were played after
which light refreshments were served.
In the last Dunn county proceedings
it was stated that j. E. Phelan, not
appearing on the assessors books, the
assessor was authorized to list his pro-
perty as follows: Horses $50 head, one
stallion at $50. cattle 3, 500.
P. E. Pallowick. formerly an en-
ployee of the Northwestern railroad, has
been with the N. P. at Dickinson for a
month and likes the country so well
that he is planning to get his wife and
three children out from Baraboo. Wis.
Archie Granteer came over from the
Missouri river country on Tuesday. He
came via Minot and bismarck. Mr..
Granteer recently made communication
proof on his homestead and plans to
remain with his parents in Dickinson
for the present.
Judge W. C. Crawford and Stenogra-
pher Richard Boulger 60 to Schafer in
Mckenzie county for court next Tues
day. The docket has a number of
criminal cases including two for man
slaughter, horse stealing. etc. There
are also a large number of naturaliza-
ton cases.
The sensation of all was at the Unique
the first of the week, the Tinkham Co.
in the cage of death. These three
people, two men and a woman. perform
stunts on the sides of a bowl shaped
cage and as a climax, one travels on
a motor cycle at what is said to be
the rate of a mile a minute. The act
has lots of thrills. Harry Reid, negro
comedian, would have been better off
the program, owing to the class of hi s
jokes.
Katharine Wehner offered proof on
100 acres of land near Gladstone at the
Dickinson U. S. land office on Wednes-
day. John Wehner and John Morgen-
thaler appeared as witnesses. Here it
was found that in issuing the receivers
receipt at Bismarck some years ago that
a mistake had been made. Consequently
it is necessary now for the local land
Office to get the error corrected at Wash
ington and that gives Miss Wehner a
chance to start the case over again.
Charles Brislin returned Thursday
morning from an extended trip west.
He came in via Leeds and jamestown.
Mr.. BrisIin spent two weeks in Seattle
and reports good crops almost every
where, with perhaps a few exceptions
in Washington, where there appears to
have been a lack of moisture. Mr.. Bris-
lin will return to his work as engineer
at the city water works plant the first
of the week.