The Dickinson press., 1910-04-09
Our neigbbo,s
; Interesting News from Thirty-five Slope
s Towns as Cleaned from Exchanges
: N%ewsyItems Briefly Told for Busy Readers.

$NewsyItems Briefly Told for Busy Readers.
A lodge Of Odd Fellows will be
instituted at Manning soon.
G. M. Babcock sold a quarter section
of land in the vicinity of Bel6eld for
$47 an acre.
Mrs. Helena Adams died at Beifeld
at the home of her daughter. Mrs A.
F., Korsmyer. She wa over go: years
old and leaves a husband. six daughters
and three sons.
Clarence Haynes and Miss Mildred
Fitzpatrick of Lennon were married
on the 22nd OF March.
F. A. Lenhart. MANAGER of the Man.
dan Mercantile Co. yards at Glen
Ullin, will 60 into business for himself
in, one of the new towns ON the south
branch Of tie N. P.
Miles City's handsome new Y. M.
CA. building. which has cost SIS, 600,
was formally dedicated On April s.
Bowman. invites all in southwestern
North Dakota and Eastern Montana.
who wish to become members Of q wool
growers association, to;, meet q. that
place on: April II.
Jacob Anderson. Of Bowman died at
Rochester. Mimi, Of, ,Briehts,, disease.
He leaves a wife and, small child.
Attorney TX. Murphy Of. New ENGLAND
is a candidate for states. attorney on
the democratic ticket. He is4the first
democratic candidate in the. county.
A young man named Zunael from
Underwood was robbed of. $500, .hy his
pals ,raslae asleep.iA a Bismazslk hotej.
1he sAas were aa.ssssted and a1hsenssg re-
turned. e.ys
John Quinlan. an old-time, resident
of Bismarck. succumbed to diabetes and
was buried in the Catholic cemetery
there.
II. II. Schultz sold his farm near
Beach at SIS an acre to Geo. Kinsey Of
Sioux Falls, S. D. This is a record
price for Golden Valley land.
The New York Evening Post recently
took up the story of J.. r. Smith. the
fax king of Beach, that VAS published
in the Beach Chronicle last fall, but
badly exaggerated and twisted the
story.
John f. Wallace. one of the genuinely
old-timers of North Dakota and a boomer
for the Missouri Slope. died at the state
hospital of old age. He was a Burleigh
county farmer in early days.
Twenty five thousand acres of N. p.
lands lying in North Dakota and Mon
tana were sold at the St. Paul general
Office of the Northern Pacific railroad
and at Glendive recently.
One of the most brilliant meteors ever
seen in Montana flashed through the
sky early March 81 and struck the earth
presumably near Ravalli on the Flat
head Indian reservation. The Indians
of the reservation are in a state OF
terror. The visitor from space was
visible to persons in Missoula as it sped
through the sky from asst to west.
the fiery mass struck, the earth
trembled as though it were in the grasp
of an earthquake.
Charles Skorpil, the f~our-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charley Skorpil. living
near Alexander, died from drinking q
half bottle of horse 1iniment. The child.
when discovered, was in commissions
which were followed by death.
According to orders from the postofice
department at Washington, the Horswill
postofice was moved four miles south,
to the townsite: of: Regent, on the. Mil
waukee. No doubt, the name of the
town or the postofice will be changed
in the near future to- correspond will
the other. J. o. Horswill continues al
postmaster.
Douglas, Mead & Co. of Glendive
have secured the contract I erect thu
new postodice building there. 1t. will
be a two-story brick building 25xS(
feet and the entire lower floor will be
devoted to postofdce purposes.
A new telephone line between Taylor
and Emerson has just been completed.
W. L. Stockwell, state superintendent,
of public instruction. temperate,
assumed the duties of secretary of TIT
various Masonic bodies made vacant b,
the death of Frank ]. Thompson Of
Fargo. Mr.. Stockwell is not unfamiliar
with the duties of his office. as he wa,
much associated with Mr.. Thompson.
The Slope educational meeting al
Mandan recently wat very largely at.
tended and a great success. Beach wa.
selected as the meeting place for tn,
next year. the date to be arranged later.
J. A. Kitchen. superintendent of Bill
II Undo county, xvoo o1ootol n-o.:lo~s -,