The Dickinson press., 1909-09-25
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Interesting News from Thirty-flve Slope
Towns as Cleaned from Exchanges.
Newsy Items Briefly Told for Busy Readers

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Hebron is to have a new telephone
system.
It is reported that Beach is to have
another lumber yard. making five in all.
The citizens of Bowman, headed by
the Commercial club. have decided to
hold a fair at Bowman on October Sth
and 9th.
Reeder Times-Gascoyne is having
quite a boom. The latest addition to
the town is a banking institution con-
trolled by some capitalists from Bral-
ian, MINI.
The Morton county fair had a total
attendance Of IL. 600 people, the largest
ever In attendance upon the annual fair.
VIM. Stark has purchased a half-sec-
ton, farm beside a lake near Waubay,,
s D. y presumably for q summer home,
Hfter. living in Bowman county for
nearly 20 years.
Robert Wilkinson, near Scranton, has
ehIee acres of dent corn with some of
die stalks ten feet high. He expects
the corn to yield so bushels 10 the acre.
Messrs. Beard and Burke of Bessie,
Bowman county. had durum wheat that
yielded ~ bushels to the acre. blue stem
81 bushels, oats 81 bushels. Judge
Weaver, neal the same place. had a
piece of oats that yielded 81 bushels to
the acre.
Marmarth Malta ride through the
southern portion of Billings county,
east of Marmarth, greatly surprises one
who is unfamiliar with the class and
conditions Of the settlers who are build
ing their homes Don their own lands
there. The high moral and educational
standing of these newcomers is especi-
ally surprising.
About 40 men were shipped into
| Mandan from the Twin cities last week
to work on the south branch of the new
N. P. extension from that city. The
contractors are. making q hard fight to
get as much of the south branch com
pleted as possible before the ground
freezes up The contractors on the north
line expect to begin laying steel out Of
Mandan in the course of a couple of
weeks.
At the regular rehearsal of the Mott
concert band the editor of the Press
WHO has been officiating as director for
the past year, was presented by the
band with a fine silver and gold Holon
| solo cornet, as a token of appreciation
for the interest he has taken in the or
ganization.
A fire broke out in a clothing store a,
Beach caused by the explosion of a gaso:
line lighting plant, and burned foul
business establishments to the ground,
causing a loss estimated at from SIS. DOC
TO $40. 600. The Farmers and Merchants
bank and the Chronicle Office were only
saved by hard work. Most of the fire
sufferers started in at once to clear away
the debris and to prepare for rebuilding
T.. A t%wenty-acre field of oats in Adams
county. owned by H. E. Co1llcutt
yielded !, 800 bushels of No. / oats
Mr.. Collicutt sold the oats as 0 a
threshed to Mcintosh Bros, milwaukee
railroad contractors, a thirty cents
bushel, receiving in cash 81, $40. Il
other. words this crop paid, in one year
for the land on which it was Grown.
Van H. Crane went to Mott last weel
to open an Office for the practice Of law
He has resigned his position as steno
erapher for Judge Allen of the Fourth
judicial district and has decided to
cast his lot with the good people o
Mott. He looked over the field som
time ago and made up his mind thai
Mott was to be one of the good town.
of the southwestern part of the state
He liked the character of the peopl
going in there and has pulled W
stakes at Lisbon and is nov an en-.
thusiastic boomer for Mott. :.
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