The Dickinson press., 1909-02-13
OUR NEIGHRoRS

Interesting News From Adjacent
Towns on the Slope as Cleaned
from Exchanges. Newsy Items
Briefly Toldfor Busy Readers
Mott's next market day will. be Febru-
airy 20. 6
The Lennon, S. D., Masons have
taken steps to ossanize a Royal Arch
chapter:
The Minecke Building Co. of Marmarth
has the contract for the L. F. Hartman
cement block at Lennon.
The Milwaukee road is putting up a
large section house at G~ascoyne.
Bucyrus will soon have a bank.
A delegation. of prominent Mott and
Hettinger citizens has been in Bismarck
this week doing little lobbying in the
interests of Hettineer county.
Glen Ullin's next market day will be
held March 4. Over three thousand
dollars worth of property was disposed of
at the last sale.
A. M. Anderson has resigned as post
master at Seim. Chas. X. Nowlen is
working for the place. :,
A petition signed by seventy residents
of townships 1874 and 1875 of ranges 101
and 1o2, asks that the territory be organ
lied into a civil township to be known
as Sand. creek township.
Two hundred cars of grain have been
shipped from Buffalo in the past four
months. =. IS.
Beach has a new bakery. J. F.
Loughton of La Fayette, Ind, is erecting
a two-story brick building "a by 40,
| Herbert Lewis has sold his interest in
the Adams County Times at Reeder,
also his interest in the Lucas Lewis
Land Co. to his partner. R. Lucas, who
is now sole owner. Mr.. Lewis will
practice his profession of law.
Wibaux is to have an opera house,
100 by so feet, two stories high. Work
will be started about April list. The
building will be built of birck.
The long spell of good weather brought
on the baseball fever among the fans of
Beach and the enthusiasts are talking
over the prospects for a nine there this
summer.
The 4 E ranch. on Crooked creek will
SOW over so acres of alfalfa in the
spring.
The question of an electric light plant
in Bowman is still being aeitated and
all that is needed is a little more push
and money.
A meeting will be held today at
Beach for the purpose of organizing an
Odd Fellows lodge in that town. g
Two stta,eeSslinesars=,n ow=4in operation
between Buffalo i and Bowman, one in
charge of w: L. Pierce going east
of the Cave Hills and the other with
Joe Guldeman going west of the hills.
The Bowman Commercial club met
last week and discussed waterworks and
fire protection, creamery and good
roads. Charles Phelan, F. E. Diehl and
E. E. Hogoboona are committee to
investigate the various projects for a
w%aterworks system.
The new Congregational church, costing
SO. 600, was dedicated at Glendive
January 81. Dr.. Vittum of Fargo college
preached the dedication sermon.
The report for January shows that 9, 142
pieces of mail were delivered and col
lected on Buffalo's two rural mail routes
during the month.
Alfred Anderson of Rhame expects to
plant between 3, 900 and 1000 forest
trees on his farm this spring.
The new, Congregational church at
Bowman will be dedicated February %.
Rev. r. j. Kellogg is the, pastor. The
churches at Hettinger and Reeder will
also be dedicated soon. The program
is now being arranged.
Geo. Zentel and Frank St. John wer
buried under q weight of dirt recently
while digging a cistern at Scranton.
They were quickly rescued and escaped
without any serious injury.
C. E. Merritt of Huron. S.. D., is to
start a bank in Haynes. 1t will be ready
for business in two weeks.
The postofice department is advertiz-
ing for bids for carrying mail between
Kennedy, Pine and Reeder postofices.
The Billings County Live Stock Pro-
tective association will hold a general
meeting at Medora today.
Ben Odiorne of Alpha captured a live
a large white owl recently. which is
l tame enOndh tn oat nIlt Of hia hand