The Dickinson press., 1909-01-16

Supt. B. o. johnson was in the city
on Tuesday.
|. Editor E. X. jenkins of Manning was
a visitor to the city the first of the week.
Hugh Thompson Of Antelope was
operated upon at the Stein hospital this
week.
Miss Genevieve White has accepted q
position as assistant in the Office Of
her father. County Auditor J. S. White.
Miss Josephine Deffebach left Sanlr-
day on No. 3 for Hunters Hot Springs.
She will 10 later to Helena and points
in Washington.
Fred H. Trueman. Peter Goetz and
Peter Perkal of Richardton were bust
ness visitors in the city the first of the
week.
Henry Holtz, who was formerly a
clerk in the store of Roquette Bros, but
is now travelling for a dry goods firm,
was calling on old friends in Dickinson
this week.
The engines which were in the freight
wreck at South Heart last week and
many of the damaged cars. have been
brought to the Dickinson yards and will
be repaired at the railroad shops here.
A Miles City paper contains an inter-
esting account of the opening of the Y.
M. C. A. in that city on New Years
day. The music for the occasion was
furnished by J. A. Merth's orchestra and
a very high compliment was paid to the
young man who had charge of the Dick
inson orchestra last year.
An alarm of fire was turned in at
about 9 O'Clock Friday evening Of last
week for a small fire in q barn belonging
to John Ehli on the South Side. The
flames were put wi with buckets of
water and snow by the neighbors 70 that
when the apparatus arrived it was not
needed. The loss was not over SIS.
The fire wat in the hay loft and caused
quite a smudRe but little blaze.
The Dakota Collection and Credit Co.
is meeting with much success in its
collections and is ia king a lot of new
business every day. necessitating the
hiring of a stenographer and ~bookkeeper,
Miss Jean Sellers accepted this position
and commenced work Thursday morning.
Miss Sellers has had experience that will
make her very efficient in this work.
The Dakota Collection and Credit Co.
Office is at the Walton & Davis lumber
Office.
The Northwestern Building Co., which
recently moved its Dickinson plant tc
Miles City, Montana, where the main
business has been located for some
time. was one of IS firms which made
bids fol-, the new Dawson county high
school building which is to be erected
in Glendive. Their bid was $35, SIS
while the contract was let to W. T.
Perham of Miles City at $31. SIC. There
were three bids between these two. The
Hebron Pressed Brick Co. has secured
the contract for the brick. and the build
Ing will be of gray speckled brick with
trimmings of notified brown brick.
Medore Herald: j. o. Lytle arrived
from Bowman Monday. morning and S.
L. Sheldon and Charles Phelan arrived
from the same place Tuesday morning.
MIR. Lyle filed a petition with the board
of county commissioners, signed by
upwards of 200 residents of the two
south tiers of townships. asking to have
said townships segregated from Billings
county and Joined to Bowman county,
After the matter had been discussed
with the members. of the board. the
gentlemen from Bowman concluded not
to ask the board to call a special cleo
ton at this time and the board laid the
petition on the table until some future
time. MI. Phel an left Tuesday evening
for Bowman and Messrs. Lyle and
Sheldon went east the same day, expect
ing to 60 to Dickinson and Bismarck be-
fore returning to Bowman.