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The Dickinson press., 1909-07-10
Old SETTLERS
Meet at Gladstone July 29-Im.
portant Business Matters to
Come Up-Picnic Grounds May
Be Bought By Association.

The annual meeting of The Old Set
tiers association will be held in the
grove south of the river at Gladstone,
the last Thursday in July, being the
10Th.
As usual the affair will be basket
picnic and everybody is cordially in
vited to attend. An effort will be made
to have speaking and music. The
committee of arrangements of this part
of the program Mrs. Ira Lawrence, M.
l. Ayers and Chas. Hagbure. These
parties will please take notice that it Is
up to them to take an interest in the
davs musements and have lively pro-
gram enacted.
A resolution passed by the association
at the last meeting in 1908 instructed
the secretary to ascertain whether the
grounds where the annual meeting has
been held so long could be bought or
not. The reply to the secretary's letter
is to the effect that the whole of the
land owned by the Wolf estate lying
south of the river will be sold. This
embraces the picnic grounds and will
cost $500.
The reason that the secretary has for
announcing this fact at this time is that
it will reach many and will cause the
whole of the membership. to discuss the
question beforehand so that when the
resolution comes up before the meeting
with other question of interest the 10Th
it may be fairly discussed.
The Dickinson press., 1909-07-10
MANY CELEBRATE
At NEW ENGLAND

Over thousand people were in New
England Saturday to enjoy days out
ina and assist in celebrating the 133rd
anniversary of American Independence.
Whole families came a distance of
thirty miles and all would have returned
to their homes feeling we'll paid for the
trip were it not for the heavy rain which
started in right after supper and con-
tinued all night.
Mott was represented by the ball
team. band and a good delegation of
citizens. The band consisted of q
pieces and the excellent music furnished
throughout the day added greatly to
the enjoyment of the program.
The feature was the two ball games
between Mott and New England.
Everybody in this locality enjoys a
good ball game and they had chance
to witness two such games Saturday.
The forenoon game was by far the most
exciting. The visitors made five scores
in the third and seemed to have the
game cinched. A change of pitchers
put new life into the locals and they
commenced to do business right where
Mott left off. It was to have been a
Thinning game but at the end of the
seventh the score was to and the
excitement about 120 in the shade.
Neither side scored in the eighth and
Mott could do nothing in the ninth. The
locals put the wood to the ball in the
ninth and scored the winning run.
The afternoon game was very differ
ent. The locals started off with the
same spirit they finished the other game
with and kept peggine away until they
had Qlne scores at the end of the seventh
inning. Mott never got look-in until
Sheriff Barry landed on the ball for. q
two bagger in the ninth and was hefDed
to score by a couple of sacrifices. New
England's slow fielding in one play was
the only thing that saved the visitors
from shut-out.
The ball game was followed by horse
racing and basket ball game between
the young ladies Of New England and
Desart. The Desart team won BY q
In the evening there was GOOD dis
play OF fireworks but the big bowery
could not be used on account Of rain.
Two dances were held in the; new drug
The Dickinson press., 1909-07-10

broken asher granite work. The build
Ing will be of light colored brick, which
will be furnished by the Missouri Slope
Brick & Tile Co..
The building will be one of the finest
nigh schools in the state and will even
surpass the jamestown school. which is
considered model. That cost $35, 600
while the Dickinson school at over
S, 600 less has ESQ square feet more of
door surface than the jamestown build
tng. Il is considered that So, 500 of the
'S29, 730 represents the cost of the power
house. So the board has reason to feel
|that they have secured good bid.
The Dickinson press., 1909-07-10
0R|I0US s.,
FOUR u ! | Il tn l
South Dickinson Has Big Time
Monday-Accounts Of Celebra-
tions at Ma['edora, oakdale,
Logging Camp and Others.

The South Side was the scene of great
activity on Monday aud the Fourth was
sloriousiy celebrated from early morning
until late at night. Many Of the busi-
ness blocks and DWELLING were decorated
with bunting and flags.
A parade had been planned for the
morning but owing to the bad condition
of the streets this was given up. The
German hotel had prepared a unique
float which was awarded the prize. At
the rear end was stove at which the
chef was busily engaged. while eta
table. two worthy citizens were heartily
enjoying meal.
The horse races were pulled off during
the forenoon. The first race resulted in
Frank Scheiler 1st, John Meyer End,
Ray Lyon 3rd. The second race was won
by Mike Webber, with Joe Koch second.
The slow race for horses resulted in
William Chaloner list, R. Lyon End.
Victor Walton 3rd. After the races
August Vetterlein delivered an address
in German.
The afternoon races were witnessed by
a big crowd. including a large number
from the North Side. Frank Wanner
was marshal.
The results were as follows:
Young mems race. won by Thomas
Refs. Louis Friedt End.
Heavy mems race, won by Charles
Burdick. Paul Tygum End.
Boys from IL to is. won by Ross
Delaney, Vernon Greene End. John
Connolly 3rd. &.
Boys under 2, won by Quinton
Roberts, Nuns Hager End. L. Wiley
3rd.
Girls under IL. won by Viola Keller.
Miss Koch End. Feronica Emmel 3rd.
Girls between IL and IS. won by Statia
McKeever. Barbara Ehli End, Lucy Kluf
3rd.
Boys under 8. won by John Freolich,
John Olson End.
wheelbarow race. won BY F.A. Paul,
Joe Thomas End.
Sack race. won by Vefnon Greene.
John Decker md. Frank Meyer 3rd. g =;
Continued on page 1o)
The Dickinson press., 1909-07-10
SCHOOL OFFICERS OF
! STARK COUNTY DISTRICTS
y

!: The school directors of the different
districts in Stark county, elected at the
school election in June, have been
reported to County Superintendent
Pader.
I In Elm Grove, three new electors were
elected and in Plum Creek there was
no election so the superintendent will
appoint three directors at later date.
IN districts No. l., 2, 3, S. 8, 9, 10, is,
~ and %, the directors succeeded them
selvos =
The Dickinson press., 1909-07-10

store buildings and although these places
were rather crowded, the dancers seemed
TO have fine time. Quite q number
remained over night on account of the
rain. The day passed without an
accident Of any kind and the rain was
the only disagreeable feature. ss''7
The Dickinson press., 1909-07-10
:sss a: h'.se!a a.; !a|eEF E,s:!U SUNDAY
G, Company K Boys Leave In Spec.
ial Car Attached To No. 6 Sum
day Evening Going To
Devils Lake for Encampment

AT ten o'clock Sunday evening. the
members Of Company X. A. J. Osborn,
captain. will leave lpr Rock Island
Reservation near Devils Lake, for the
annual encampment. The company
will report at the armoy at q. m. to
prepare for the trip. A special car will
be attached to No. s and at jamestown
q special train will be made up. The
boys will be gone about ten days.
There are quite q number Of the local
members who have been excused so
Co. X will be represented by only about
40 members.
The following is the company roll who
will attend encampment:
Capt. A. J. Osborn
1st Lieut.. Arthur Tolefson .
End Lieut.. Roy Baird
1st Sergt. Roy Dodd
q. M. Sergt. Arthur Davis
Sergt. Arthur Parker
!" Reuben Lyon
- F. j. Fleury
Corp. Deane Wiley
y Harry DeFoe
- Ole Jahr
John Klug
Arthur Ellian
Musicians Ryder and Burgeson
Privates:
Bartik. Birch, Butt, Bloom. Dardis,
Engebret. Erdahl. Gall, Hibson. Horner,
Jenner, Klue, Kuntz. Klump, Martenson,
Merlak, Palmer, Reed, Richler. Schorsch,
Sibley, vulgamott, Van Golden.
Wetzstein, Wickland. Wolford. Gartley.
The Dickinson press., 1909-07-10
ASSESSORS RETURNS
FOR DUNN COUNTY

The Dunn county assessors have made
their returns for the year 1909 and the
figures show slight increase over last
years valuation as returned BY the
assessors. The following figures while
they may not be exactly correct, will
show the approximate valuation Of the
The Dickinson press., 1909-07-10
GETS CONTRACT
FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL

His Bid of S2a73o the Lowest of Three-Work Already Com
menced-Must be Completed in Ninety Days October
Building Will Have Bigger Floor Area Than Jamestowns
Fine olSchoo Board Pleased With Present Outlook
The Dickinson press., 1909-07-10

i The new directors are:
1. Dickinson, J.F. Davis
: 2. Gladstone. C. C. Turner
I 5. Taylor. M. M. Bobb
\ 4. Richardton, j. r. Baeenstoss
S. Newport, Nick Schmidt
.. Sprlngvale. John Loran
7. Antelope, Jacob Neidhardt
&. Alpha, William Heck
4 >. South Heart, William Kennedy
10. Belfeld, D. Hughes
II. Versippi Ira Lawrence
IL. New Hradec, Joe Oukrop
IS. Elm Grove, l. A. Nelson.
Fred Sharman, N. B. Nelson
IL. Plum Creek. No election
i IS. Fisher, Chris Olson
10. Shipley. Chris Egeers
H.. Norway. Franz Bayer
1S. American New Hungary.
Bernard Martin
Il. Stolz. Raphael Heidi
22. Heart River Karl Lutte
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21

and made me feel like q new person,
and it shall always have my praise"
Mrs. w. p. VALENTINE, 902 Lincoln
Avenue, Camden, N. j.
Gardiner, Me. ~ was great suf-
ferer from female disease. The doc
tor said I would have to go to the
hospital for an operation, but Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound COM
pletely cured me in three months."-
MRS. S. A. WILLIAMS, Il. F. ID. No. II,
Box 80, Gardiner Me.
Because your case is difficult one,
doctors having done you no good,
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound trial. 1t surely has cured
many cases of female ills, such as in
flammation, liberation, displacements,
fibroid tumors, Irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing down
feeling, Indigestion. dizziness, and ner-
vous prostration. 1t costs but triflo
to try it, and the result is worth mil
lions to many suffering women.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21
Mother Bird Drove Boy Away.

People on Main street, Dallastown,
Pa, witnessed an amusing sight the
other morning, when a curious small
boy who climbed into maple tree for
a closer inspection of a nest of young
robins was put to flight by an angry
mother bird. Discovered by the old
bird after he had clambered into the
tree the youngster was savagely at
tackled. The bird pecked viciously at
his bare hands and face, causing him
to retreat to the ground, and then
driving him home
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21
MAKING UP RIGHT QUANTITY.
President Taft's WiIIful Misinterpre-
tation of Little Girls Intended
Naughty Rebuke.

President Taft is fond of children,
with whom he is favorite. A charm
ing story on this head comes from Gin
cinnati.
Once, when pretty Cincinnati girl
was child of six or seven, Mr.. Taft,
calling at her house, found nobody
home excepting herself. She enter
tanned him little while, and when
he rose to go, he stopped down and
kissed her.
Here's one," he said, "for the baby.
Here is another for little Jim. And
here is third for Billie-boy."
The little girl, drawing herself up,
said haughily-she had been reading
a novel:
"Mr. Taft, you forget yourself!"
He bent down again.
$50 did," he laughed. We'll, here's
one for myself"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21

Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou-
BILE can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21
DREADFUL DANDRUFF.
Of All Her Hair-5aby Had Milk
Crust - Missionary's Wife Made
Two Perfect Cures by cuticura.

For several years my husband
was a missionary in the Southwest.
Every one in that high and dry at
mosphere has more or less trouble
with dandruff and my daughters scalp
became so encrusted with it that I
was alarmed for fear she would lose
all her hair. After trying various rem
edies, in desperation bought cake
Of Cuticura Soap and a box Of Cuti-
cura Ointment. They left the scalp
beautifully clean and free from
dandruff, and am happy to say that
the Cuticura Remedies were a COM
plete success. I have also used sue
cessfully the Cuticura Remedies for
socalled 'milk-crust' on baby's head.
Cuticura is a blessing. Mrs. J. A.
Darling, 80 Fifth St., Carthage, Ohio,
Jan. 20, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Boston.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21
Time to CHANGE Subject.

The Courier-Journal tells of this
embarrassing statement made by a
well-known Louisville woman who is
known as saying things without
thinking" Her daughter was enter
tanning a young man on the front
porch and the mother was standing
at the fence talking to the neighbors
next door. In the yard of the latter
was baby little over year old,
and it was trying to walk. you
shouldn't let it walk so young" ad-
vised the thoughtless matron. wait
until it's a little older / let my
daughter walk when she was about
that age, and it made her bow-legged"
The young man began to talk ener-
getically about the weather.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21
NEW SENSATION FOR DoBBIN
Come to Think of It, He Would Have
Felt Funny Sitting in the
Position Indicated.

The family horse, who rejoiced in
the eminently proper equine name OF
Dobbin, had earned a rest by long
service, and was accordingly sent
away to the country to spend his de-
Ginning years in the broad pastures OF
farmer friend of his owner. The
distance being somewhat excessive
for his rheumatic legs, he was shipped
to his new home by rail.
Little Edna, the family four-year-old,
viewed the passing of Dobbin with I'M
teigned sorrow. She sat for long
time gazing disconsolately out of the
window. At last, after a deep sigh,
she turned with a more cheerful ex-
preston, and said:
Did old Dobbin go on the choo-
choO cars, mammal"
Yes, dear" answered her mother.
A broad grin spread over the little
girls face. Il was just thinking" she
said, "how funny he must feel sitting
up on the plush cushions.-Woman's
Home Companion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21
Hospitals a Benefit to Property.

The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
has recently concluded an investiga-
ton, which shows that CTS per cent.
of the tuberculosis sanatoria and hos
pitfalls of the United States have been
a benefit to the property and health
of the communities in which they are
located. In the case of more than GO
per cent. of the sanatoria the presence
of the institutions has helped to in
crease the assessed value of surround
ing property.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21

We lose money and comfort, and
even temper sometimes by not learn
ing to be more careful-Dickens.
Burning String in the Sick-Room.
Months spent in sick room have
taught me many things for the COM
fort of an invalid, one of the simplest
and most effective of which is burn
ing a string to purify the atmosphere.
Take a soft string and stick it with
a pin to the back of a chair; after
lighting, blow it out gently, leaving
the tiny spark, which will create
smoke enough to make a decided diff
ference in the mosphere.-Harper S
Bazaar
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21

his whiskers, one on one side of the
limb and one on the other, like pair
of saddle bags, until Uncle Ashdod re-
covered from his faint.
Then there was a terrible battle.
Uncle Ashdod put up his hands and
took good hold of the limb, and be-
gan to kick the lower end of the pike,
and the pike frightened it's grip on
Uncle Ashdod's whiskers and began
to slash at his legs with it's cruel bony
tail. 1t looked like about an even
fight, for if Uncle Ashdod had boots
on, the pike had tough scales, and
there they fought, face to face I'm
Gle Ashdod said he never in his life
saw anything so awful as the look in
that pixies eyes as it hung there.
Already Uncle Ashdod's boots were
slashed to strips and every blow of
the pixies tail cutting him to the bone
while he hadn't seemed to make any
impression on the tail of the pike, and
he was giving himself up for lost
He didn't have knife or any sort of
weapon to aid him. And then, as a
sort of last resort, he took one hand
from the limb and tickled the pike in
the ribs.
Uncle Ashdod says he had never
heard that pixies were ticklish, but he
had never heard that they were not.
either, and when a man is on the
verge of death he will try anything as
last resort, so he thought he might
as well try tickling the pike as any
thing else.
Well, at first the pike seemed more
amused than anything else. 1t sort of
screwed up the corners of its mouth
| and grinned, but in minute or two it
began to chuckle inwardly. So Uncle
| Ashdod kept right on tickling it. He
says it was the most weird thing he
ever saw in his life, to see that pike
! chuckling away as if it was in the
best humor and at the same time
glazing at him hatefully with its eyes.
| So he tickled it a little harder and it
began to gasp between its teeth but
! it did not loosen its hold on his
beard in the least So he tickled It
a little harder and said: 'Ketchy.
ketchy-ketchy." Well, that was too
much for that pike. It's sides began
to heave and palpitate with laughter,
and its tail curled up and it tried to
throw it's head back the way man
does when he hears an awfully good
/ one and is going to give a mighty
hearty laugh, and it began to gasp.
When that happened Uncle Ashdod
says he began to have hope, and he
pulled his finger back and sort OF
cork-screwed it toward the pike and
said:
Creepy mouse. creepy mouse
tickely, tickely. tickely!"
At the last "tickely" he says he
dug his finger into the ribs of the
pike, and the pike seemed to simply
double all up with laughter, and sud
denly 1t opened its mouth and shout.
ed: "Ha! Ha! Hal" and turned blue
in the face and fell spang to the
ground as dead as door-naii
Uncle Ashford says that Of course
he hated to take life in that way, but
he was sort Of forced to do 1t in
self-defense. I asked him what he
really thought of the fight and he said
he was still too wrought up to say.
/ asked him what he thought the pike
thought Of fight Of that kind. and
he said he guessed the pike liked
it; he said the pike seemed tickled
to death.
Copyright 1sos. BY W. q. Chapman.l
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21

The extraordinary popularity of fine
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch matter of great i'm
portance. Defiance Starch. being free
from all injurious chemicals, is the
only one which is safe to use on fine
fabrics 1t great strength as stiffen-
er makes half the usual quantity of
Starch necessary, with the result of
perfect finish, equal to that when the
goods were new.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21
Another Step Needed.

81 like my house all right" said
Luschman, except for one thing.
guess you'll have to fix that"
What is it?" asked the architect.
Several times lately I've nearly
broken my neck reaching for another
step at the head of the stairs when I
got home late, so l guess you'd better
put another step there. catholic
Standard and Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21
Let's BE Fair.

The wires have flashed the news
that peach basket" hat worn by a
woman in canoe, and rendered lop-
sided by the careless zephyr, caused a
list and overturned the craft. At this
point the correspondent, evidently
male and prejudiced, stopped short. If
he wished to be fair he should have
gone on to tell that the occupants of
the boat grasped the hat, climbed
aboard of it, and until their rescue
garden truck which constituted a part
of it's artistic decoration. The true
news expert never IS hiased.-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21

was dull and exhausted nearly all the
time. l consulted doctors and used
medicines, but only Doan's Kidney
Pills helped me. Soon I was perma-
nently cured"
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21

Delay is dangerous.
Alonzo Adams, o.
ceola, Iowa, says:
MY kidneys failed
me. 1 suffered aw-
full pain and was so
weak I could not
work, and often had
to take to bed. I
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-07-21

1t is a terrible thing to have a life
long enemy-so my Uncle Ashdod
Clute of Betzville says-and we who
have none should be thankful Last
Thursday Uncle Ashdod nearly per
ished through an enmity that culmi-
mated on that day.
When Uncle Ashdod was a boy of
II he began fishing in Mud creek, and
the very first time he threw in his
hook he caught a pike, but when he
pulled 1t out it was such a thin,
small, miserable little skimp of fish
that he was as mad as hops, and he
stood right up and told the pike what
he thought of it and then slammed
it back into the creek, and thought
no more about it. But that pike did.
A pike is the most vindictive kind of
fish; terribly vindictive; and never
forgcts an injury. Year after year
that pike lay low and nursed it's an
ger and planned revenge, and poor
Uncle Ashdod knew nothing about it.
He never suspected It in the least, he
says. He would have treated that pike
the same as he would have treated
any other fish, if he had met it, he
says
Things went along that way for SO
years, with Uncle Ashdod Cmte think
ing nothing at all, and the pike gnaw-
Ing its cankerous heart out for a
chance of revenge, and last Thursday
it thought it saw it's chance.
There was Uncle Ashdod sitting on
the bank of the creek with his pole
stuck in the mud beside him, when
suddenly there came a cloud-burst a
mile or so up the creek and almost
Instantly the creek began to rise by
leaps and bounds. Before Uncle Ash
dod. who isn't as spry as he used to
be, could get to his feet the creek
was Up to his knees, and there in
the water was the monStrous big pike
dashing and slashing at him with its
jaws wide open, and leaping out OF
the water in frenzied attempt to
catch Uncle Ashdod by the neck and
drag him down to death.
Any pike can leap like deer, but
this pike was a wonderful leaper, and
Uncle Ashdod saw there was only
one chance for his life, and that was
to climb tree. So he made a dash
for big pine and jumped for the
lower limbs, and all the time the
water was rising, and no matter how
fast he climbed the tree the water
rose as fast and there was the big
pike right facing him and gnashing
its teeth. Every moment the pike
would make a leap, and before 1t
could fall back into the water the
water would overtake it. In that way
Uncle Ashdod climbed the tree, with
the creek and the pike never three
feet behind him, until it began to look
as II he would run out OF tree before
the creek began to go down, and he
knew that IL he reached the top OF
the pine and the water kept on rising
the pike would swim in and complete
the deed 1t had set its heart on.
But Just as he reached the top the
water began to fall as rapidly as II
had risen, and the pike gave one cry
OF futile anger and made a last enor,
nous leap and grabbed Uncle Ashdod
by his long gray whiskers which were
blowing out over the topmost limb
and at that moment Uncle Ashdod
tainted and dropped. II it hadn't been
for the pike Uncle Ashdod would have
been dashed to death, but once a
pike gets hold it Is like bulldog; II
never lets 60. So there they hung by