The Dickinson press., 1909-02-20
OUR NEiGHBoR'S
Interesting News From Adjacent
Towns. on the Slope as Cleaned
from Exchanges. Newsy Items
Briefly Told for Busy Readers

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Briefly Told for Busy Readers
Bucyrus will soon have a bank.
Motifs next market day will be Febru-
airy 20. y
About five inches of snow fell in
Bowman county last week.
rank Heldt has been appointed a
deputy sheriff at Scranton.
The Deep Creek coal mine is doing a
big business with ten teams a day.
The Lennon, S. D., Masons have
taken steps to organize q 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 Gascoyne.
The ladies of Rhame have organized
an Aid society with Mrs. O. S. Jordet
president and Mrs. S. Brown secretary.
The new Catholic church at Burley is
nearly completed and the members are
pleased with the structure.
A move is on foot at Lennon to
organize a company Of. militia and. there
is much enthusiasm over the question.
The Ladies Aid society of Bucyrus has
elected Mrs. Lars Larson president and
Miss Olga Larson secretary.
A. M. Anderson has resigned as post
master at Seim. Chas. X. Nowlen is
working for the place.
The business men of Bowman are to
of putting in a local telephone ex-
change.
The Rhame commercial club at it's
annual meeting last week elected M. H.
Gilfoy. Ole Paulson, O. S. Jordet, A. S.
Vendby and H. L. johnson directors.
A delegation of prominent Mott and
Hettinger citizens has been in Bismarck
this week doing a little lobbying in the
interests of Hettinger 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 big boom is assumed at Wibaux.
The business men are now working for
a good -four mill and believe that their
efforts will be successful.
A petition is being circulated by
Principal Skinner of the Hebron public
schools for a new and up-to-date school
building in the spring.
j. P. Dinius of Richardton has been
awarded the contract for carrying the
mail between R%ichardton and Marshall,
on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays,
after February %.
A sta mail route from Reeder to
Riva, S. D., via Buffalo, has been Pc
titioned for by the homesteaders. A
stage line will o o be established be-
tween these two towns.
A petition signed by seventy residents
of townships 1874 and 135 of ranges 1O1
and 102, asks that the territory be organ
lied into a civil township to be known
as Sand creek township.
DR.. L. E. Reich, the dentist, has
moved from Reeder to Bowman, and has
Offices in the Bowman county bank
building.
A camp of the Modern Woodmen of
America will be organized at Black
Butte 70 by T. A. Cahill, who has
been appointed Deputy Head Consul Of
the order.
The stockholders of Die Wacht Am
Missouri of Hebron recently elected P.
Bratzel president and Carl Semrath secre-
tary and treasurer.
Rev. Thomas A. McCurdy. D. D., L.
L D.. was installed as the pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Mandan,
last Sunday.
A dozen Medora young ladies organ
lied the Bad Lands Music club recently
for the purpose of entertainment and
social pleasures.
St. Joseph, in Morton county, has a
new hall with 1874 square feet and a
good hardwood floor. of which the citi-
zens feel proud.
The Wells-Fareo Express Co. will
handle all express over the coast extern
sion of the Milwaukee hereafter.
The Hettinger fire department will
hold its second annual ball next Mon
day. W~ashington's birthday.
The Billings county republican central
committee Yves scheduled to hold a meet
ing at the court house in Medora yester-
day afternoon.
A meeting Of the school officers of
Bowman county will be held in the court
house at Bowman February ~. Console
dated schools and their expediency will
be discussed.
r. E. McKibbin has sold his photo
graph business at Beach to Mrs. C. A.
Pfremmier and has gone ia his old home
in Philadelphia.
Gus He'll. who has been employed by
the Mandan Mercantile Co. at Glen
Ullin has been made manager of the
company's yards at Almont and H. B.
Lechtleugner becomes manager of the
Farmers Elevator Co. at Hebron.
The Dawson county bank al Wibaux,
organized in 1901, is to ~re-organize
soon. with a capital stock of $40, 600.
The bank will be made a national insti-
tuition. Practically all of the stock has
been sold.
The question of organizing school dis
tricts is agitating the people of western
Bowman comfy. At present the Beaver
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