The Dickinson press., 1910-11-26
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Interesting News FRONT Thirty.five Slope
Towns ss Cleaned from Exchanges-}
Newsy1tems Briefly Told for Busy Readers
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ~~>~>>~~~>,.,,,,oo,-a
William Murphy is the new post
master at Haley.
Supt. C. E. Melby is erecting an
Office at Emerson.
Chas. Weiael of Hebron has returned
from trip to Canada and the Northwest
in the interests of Hebron brick.
Burleigh county voted more than two
to one for FIVE county commissioners
instead of three.
"A school has been established at
Manning to begin December S with
Rev. Noah Garwich as teacher.
Ninety new citizens were made at
the present ter:a.. of the Morton county
court.
The Northwestern Laundry Company
has an agency in Manning. E. G.
Erbe. and baskets come in every Mon
day.
Thomas Bailey of Emerson, was
called to Colorado Springs. last week by
the serious condition of his wife, who
had been there for several weeks.
Levi B. Hanson of Belfeld announces
that he has sold 10, 1000 acres of land
the past month, mostly to eastern
parties.
Slope county is agitating the county
seat question and Chenoweth, the new
town in the location survey of the N
p. is spoken of as GENERALLY located.
An exchange from the Milwaukee
country says the railroad has purchased
160 acres of land at Ives and that the
latter may be made a division point in
the spring instead of Marmarth.
Manley Haskins, whose home is some
twelve miles west of Mott had his skull
crushed last week by the kick of q
horse. An operation will probably be
necessary.
The Methodists dedicated their new
building al bowman on last Sunday.
The exercises were conducted by Dr.. S.
A. Danford, assisted by Rev. j. M.
Taylor and the pastor, j. C. Cooke.
Miss Callie Bugbee. daughter of Judge
and Mrs. Charles Bugbee of Oakdale.
was recently married to John Schoen.
line, her father performing the cere-
mony. They will reside at the groom {
place on the Little Missouri.
The proposition to increase the juris.
dic:ion of the county court carried in
Bowman. county by a large majority.
This enables the county court to act in
all civil cases involving not more than
ST, 900 and all criminal cases below the
grade of felonies. A term of court is
called each month and the cases are
promptly disposed of.
In the race for state representatives
for the 4Sth Legislative district COM
posed of Dunn. Mercer and Oliver coun-
ties, Boerner and Whitmer of Oliver and
Hienemeyer of Mercer county were
elected and will represent the district
for the next two years. The total vote
of the district for the five candidates
that were in the field is as follows
Boerner, 1925; Whitmer. 1904, Heine-
meyer. e56; Wilcox. 826; Kelley, 40.
A ruling which went into effect last
week extending to first, second and
third class postoffices, provides that
all undelivered letters shall be held no
longer than five days and letters bearing
the name of the sender in the upper left
hand corner, whether sent to General
delivery. rural route or to street ad-
dresses in cities, shall be returned.
Fourth class postoffices have been noti-
fed to hold letters fifteen days.
Friday, at her home at Terry, Mrs. j.
B. Kempton died Of cancer and was
buried at that place Sunday. Mrs.
Kempton had not been we'll for som e
time, but since the death of her hus-
band three months ago, her health has
rapidly failed. She leaves several
children, of whom Mrs. E. H. Phillips
of Medora is one. and who was present
at the last. The Kemptons are we'll
known to pioneers in western Dakota
and eastern Montana. having lived at
Terry since 1884. E. H. Phillips and
wife and Willis King attended the
funeral.
C. c. Mills. editor of the Scranton
Register, and who was defeated for
the Office of states attorney in Bowman
county by Attorney lotion, has the
following in the issue of the Register OF
last week: THE election results in