Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-12-01
ALFRED DICK DIES
IN M|NnEAP0L
UNExPEOTED DEATH OF FORM
Err WELL KNOWN JAMES
TOWN RESIDENT AT
HIS HOME

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HIS HOME
q tWord was received Tuesday by
triendssln this city that Alfred Dick
ey, long a resident OF; Jamestown and
member Of the Wells and Dickey
Co. died III Minneapolis that morning
at $40 o'clock. Few particulars
have been learned. but it is under
stood that Mr.. sDickey's death was
due to ptomanine poisoning. He had
been on trip to Indiana and had
returned to. dInneapolis the day be-
fore his death. He called up the Of
fices OF the Wells,;an Dickey Co.,
in that city, and told them that he
was not feeling we'll but expected to
be down to the office Tuesday as us
ual. Instead word came that Mr..
Dickey had passed away. Mr.. Smart
phoned the information to Manager
Default Of the Wells and #Dickey
Co. here, and the sad intelligence
was soon generally known among the
friends Of the deceased. Mr.. e. ?.
Wells, who has been spending a day
or two in the city, had taken the
morning train to Fargo. After fun
eral services in Minneapolis, the body
will be taken to Greenwood, Ind, for
interment at which place the father
Of the deceased is buried. Green
wood is near Indianapolis, Ind, which
was for "a number Of years the home
lof Mr.. Dickey's mother. His wife
was in Minneapolis at the time Of his
sudden death.
The jamestown friends who did
attend the funeral are w. B. De-
Nault, W.. b. s. Trimhle, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Graves are expecting to
20 also, all leaving on various trains
for Minneapolis They will be Joined
by Mr.. and Mrs. r.. P. Wells and 9TH
ers at Fargo, and it is probable that.
as a mark of respect to the deceased, e 6
all the heads Sof the departments OF
the Wells and Dickey Co., business
associates and Others in Minneapolis,
will accompany the remains to In
diana. 4.
supt. and Mrs. A. NJ. Burt also
left Tuesday to attend the funeral.
Alfred Dickey was born in CraW-
fordsville, Ind, and was about 3S
years of age. He spent most of his
life prior. to 1893 in jamestown and
was graduate of the high school
in this city. He left here about 1898
and, going to indianapolis, engaged
for time in the practice of law,
having been shortly before that ad-
mitted to the bar. He also wrote
! extensively for newspapers and mag q
azines. He travelled extensively
both in this and foreign countries,
and as all his friends knew, was q
man Of broad information and schol-
+ arly attainments. His father, AL
fred Dickey, sr.; established the
5Dickey Free Library in this city, and
gave it the start, which eventually
made it the: public library OF today.
Both father and son contributed an
enually and literally to the James
town library. st n, g54;
~ The Jamestown library has indeed
been deprived. of q very loyal support
er in the loss Of Mr.. Dickey. Even
since the library has been upon
tax basis, he has still kept up his en-
thusiastic interest. He has given to
the library the subscription Of 80
periodicals and also the magazine sill'
case case which contains them. ss I. 81
The splendid collection Of bound
volumes Of magazines is largely due
also to his generosity in furnishing
snoney for this purpose. For the
past two years he has donated 800 90
worth Of popular non-fiction Il, N order l'.
to encourage the reading OF this class
Of literature. q; f
Mr.. Dickey leaves q wife and one,
little girl. about 4 years and a half
old old Mrs. Dickey has been Ill about ut
! ary year ia Minneapolis.
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