The Dickinson press., 1910-05-07

Alfred White was busy the first of the
week picking up at his Willard street
Office. He has some machine supplies
yet to dispose Of.
Jerry Brabec has accepted a position
as %bookkeeper in a wholesale house at
Kansas City. NO., and left this week
for the east, visiting at St. Paul and
Chicago en- route. Mrs. Brabec will 60
later.
j.. F. Gardner, local manager of the
Go]d-Stabeck Land & Credit Co.. re-
ceived his new Slower automobile the
past week. He has plenty use for it in
making examinations of land where he
is placing loans for his company.
Alb. Murray drove in this week from
the north with his mother. Mrs. Ann
Mum y of Faribault, Mimi, who had
been visiting at his home for a few
weeks. 1t was quite a long trip for a
person of her age but she stood the
journey we'll and went home happy.
Tuesday night the Odd Fellows init
ated DR.. G. A. Clark and F. C.. Angliss
in the first degree and C. c. Turner in
the third degree. Following the degree
work a lunch was served in the banquet
room of the hall. making the evening
altogether a very pleasant one.
C. O. Armstrong was in from Fayette
this week on business. He wintered
$50 cattle in good shape and is now on
a deal to get 700 head from the west.
He will know within a few days, about
the matter, and if he gets the bunch
that he figures on he will ship out a
lot of beef stock in the fall. Cattle are
high this year. but the range is good
and beef prices are very promising.
Albert Left is attracting much attention
down at New England with a new
system of overland ~freightins. With
a'big traction engine he pulls 10 double
box freight wagons Of grain from the
Columbia elevator at New England to
Reeder. from which place it is shipped.
The engine has no difficulty in pulling
this load and Mr.. Left says be expert
ences no trouble on the long haul.
MT. and Mrs. l. N. Cary were return
ing home to Mandan on Tuesday from
their winters trip in California. The
early settlers remember back 20 years
ago when Mr.. Cary was struggling to
get money enough to pay taxes on his
town lots al Taylor and acreage prop
erty scattered " Stark and Morton
counties. They called him land-poor
and a fool for hanging onto his prop
erty, but the tide has changed and
L. N. Cary is now a very rich man.
The Parker Chamberlain engine was
put out of commission last Wednesday
by the breaking of the main crank
shaft. A new shaft was ordered by
telegraph from Iowa and was expected
any day this week. The new shaft
weighs over 800 pounds and will cost
around 5000 laid down. Mr.. Parker and
Engineer Woodward were running the
plows nights and Mr.. Chamberlain and
q helper operated days, and they were
turning sod at..the rate of 100 acres per
week when :--the accident happened,
caused by a defect..in the shaft.
r. M. futile was a passenger last
SATURDAY en- route to his Portland home.
Mr.. futile was formerly cour, stenogra-
pler to Judge Winchester when his dis
trict included.-al of the west Missouri
Slope, and for many years owned and
ably edited the Mandan Pioneer. Mr..
futile is a man of great executive
ability ~and.early in life commenced to
save money and today has a great deal
of this worlds goods at his command,
and no n knows better than he and his
family how to take care of the mselves
and enjoy life.
Charles E. Ward, principal of the
Gladstone school, was in Dickinson last
Saturday looking over the field with
reference to his candidacy for superin-
tendent of schools. He has taken the
state examinations and secured a five
year professional certificate from Supt.
w. L. Stockwell. Mr.. Ward took up
land in the vicinity 0; Gaylord some
years ago and has taught school success
fully at Gladstone for two Or more years.
He has q large acquaintance in the
western part ofethe county as we'll as at
Gladstone which will be:a great help to
him in his candidacy. It is understood
that Lloyd RAIDER. the present incum-
bent of the county superintendent
Office. is not to be q candidate this
year, which leaves the field clear, so
far as known. to w. c. Fait and Charles
E. Ward.