The Dickinson press., 1909-05-01
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G. M Babcock located three home
steadeFs last week.
w. 7. 4Sharman was in from the ranch
the first Of the week.
Charles King made a business trip
to Dickinson Tuesday. /. ,s..
asE. G, Bishop was in from the ranch
near Gorham the first of the week,
Miss Rose Miller. is putting in so acres
Of flax on'her homestead this sprina.
There. was a large, attendance at the
Roman Catholic services. Last Sunday
Mr.. Gibbons; came from, s,ttle east the
past week to establish residence on his
homestead. y .Gsss.s.s /, ~, 1
Tim OiConnprg arrived Tuesday from.
Sacred Heart, Mimi, tot d short bust
ness stay in town. Il
Ed. O'Connor left last week for a trip
east and is expected to return with a
party of l~andseekers in a few days.
Miss Collins, formerly a teacher in the
Belfeld school. arrived in town the past
week, to take up residence on her home-
stead.
John Pugh of Oskaloosa, Iowa. is hav-
ing 400 acres broken and seeded to flax
this spring. j. L. McCutchan is doina
the work.
Messrs. Fuller and Babcock have
finished seeding at the ranch, having
put ip quite q quantity of bronze grass,
alfalfa and oats. &.
A party from Wisconsin shipped In
q car load of heavy draft horses the past
week. j. O. Mullaney and son are
handling the horses. '
Christ Savage. of. Martinville, Ohio. 1
who purchased land in this country last
year, came out a few days ago to COM
mencee' his farming operations.
II, M. Roberts. the Dickinson jeweler
has moved into his new quarters. Just
toLr doors east Of the old stand. Drop
in. - -" '&,G ~ 4-24-tt
Bonnie Fritz arrived a few days ago.
from ,Wheatland; Mimi. started farming
on the southeast quarter of, section 2 Just
out side of the town limits.
The work on the foundation. for the
Woodman hall and Sharman. livery
barns are we'll started and the Scarpean;.:
tiers will be busy in a few days. .
Sixteen. young people from this town
attended the. baseball dance at Dickinson
last Friday evening. They made the
trip down on No. 2 and returned on No. l,
;. The work of setting the poles for the
Belfeld-N Northwestern Telephone. Co. was
started this week and rushed right along
The line will extend north a distance of
Is miles. s,.. .&..a, 49,,
Mr.. Hanson, the merchant from.
Sharon. N. D.. has unloaded "a car of
merchandise here and commenced bust.
ness in the new store building just
south of the meat market. 4
Julius Lerfald has finished putting up
a ST, OOO house on his homestead 8 miles
southeast of town. This is his first sea-
son at farming but he intends to start
out by putting IS acres in crop. q
The O'Connor brothers have purchased.
all of the salable railroad land adj0in-
ing the original townsite and will have
the first addition to Belield as soon as
the surveying is completed and the
'plats ready. A little later in the year.
they. will hold an auction, sale of, town
lots. 80.
|. j. l. McCutchan's gasoline breaking
outfit is running right alona both day and
night and is eating up the prairie at the
rate of IS acres per day of. "a hours.
Mr.. McCutchan figures that actual cost;
for labor; gasoline, etc, for a 10-hour
day is SIG and that in good daylight
20 acres would be an average 10-h0ur
job. He is greatly pleased with his out
fit. He has contracted to break yer
1, 1000 acres this season.