The Dickinson press., 1909-06-26
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A Congregational church is to be
erected at Haynes soon.
On Wednesday. June 80, the citizens
of Sand Creek. township will elect three
school directors and a treasurer.
The Scandinavian Lutherans of Flasher
are raising money for a church, to be
built this fall,
A new addition to the city of Lennon
has been surveyed and plated, con-
tanning "a lots.
Lennon will celebrate the Fourth in
elaborate style with a program covering
two days, July S and 6.
The central telephone office at Hettin-
ger will furnish its patrons with daily
weather reports from Bismarck.
The ''Nord Dakota Herold." a German
newspaper published at Bismarck. has
moved its quarters to Mandan.
1t is reported that a section of land
near Howser recently sold for $22. so an
acre. 1t was un%improved land at that.
The postofice at Hettinger is being
rebuilt. A new foundation is being
laid, the building widened and a second
story added.
Seventy men arrived in Hettinger one
day last week to investigate the count
tributary with a view TO making invest
ments.
Lennon will hold. a special election
to decide on bonding for S25. 900 for
a water supply and SIS, 600 for a school
building.
A new postofice named Ash has been
established is miles south of Bowman
with Mrs. Bridget Holm in charge.
Mail will be supplied from Victor.
There is talk of locating {. starch fac
tory employing so hands in Hebron. 1t
would require 1, 900 acres of potatoes in
that vicinity. .--
A fellowship meeting of the Congre-
gational pastors and laymen of the Bow
man district was held at Bowman Thurs
day and Friday of this week.
Haynes will have no fourth of July
celebration but will observe August 20 as
harvest festival. Hon. Thomas Marshall
has been asked to speak.
Charles E. Martin, an N. P. freight
brakeman, was injured at Sims recently,
being struck by a stand pipe the train
was passing. He died June IS of inter-
nal injuries.
During the summer ten new county
school houses will be built in Morton
county and there will be $50 teachers
employed in towns and rural districts
next term.
Rev. j. L. Countermine is the new
CONGREGATIONAL minister at Beach. He
is a native of New York. Rev. MIR.
Douglas will devote all his time to
Sentinel Butte and Wibaux.
C. L. Hoyt has been elected secretary
of the First Loan & Securities Co. of
Mandan of which. R. Lyon is president,
C. L. Zimmerman vice president and
j. P. Hess treasurer.
A Sunday school has been organized
at Sand Creek with Mrs. C. B. Williams
superintendent, Miss Ella Williams
secretary and Mrs. Henry Backhaus
treasurer.
The Manning social club has arranged
for a ball game and dance at that place
Saturday afternoon and evening OF this
week. The opposing team will be
Oakdale.
Business lots at Mott are reported as
selling at from $500 to 81. 900 and the
Pioneer Press is of the opinion that that
is pretty good for a town not yet on the
railroad.
Workmen have been engaged in finish
ing up the second floor room of the bank
building at Manning. 1t will be used
as a public hall and is 16 by 40 feet in
size. n
Allyn Undem met with a serious
accident at the Crew ranch in Dawson
county last week. He was thrown from
a buckinG broncho. His right leg was
badly fractured and he may lose it.
The t~wo-year-old daughter of Jake
Mehre of Mott drank from a bottle of
horse medicine containing %strychnine
last week. After hard work the little
ones life was saved.
The Mott State bank which recently
increased its capital stock to SIS, 600
and will become a National bank July
I. expects to build a large two-story
brick block. The second story will be
for Offices. The Farmers State bank
will also build a new building.
Baseball results of the week: Bow
man s, Scranton 2; Hettinger 3. Bow
man 1; Lennon 6. Bowman o; Elling-
son, S. D., 1. Hettinger 1 Scranton Z.
Reeder S Scranton 3. Lennon O.; Reeder