The Dickinson press., 1911-07-01
LOCAL NEWS

LOCAL NEWS
E. G. Bishop of Gorham was in town
Thursday.
DR.. Doneway went to New Salem on
business Friday.
Frank Roquette went on business
trip to Taylor Friday.
Eight hundredths of an inch of rain
fell in Dickinson Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. J. D. Dobson and son left Friday
for few days visit with Mrs. James
Haskin in Mandan.
Albert Champlain of Fargo was in the
city Thursday. looking after the electric
wiring of the hospital.
George Frenzel of South Dakota. is
visiting at the Burda home, five miles
!. northwest of the city.
Nels Christensen arrived Thursday
in the city, after spending the past
nine months at Harvard college.
Louie Klein and Peter Killer of
Richardton were business visitors in
the city Thursday and Friday.
E. Hunt from Banon, Wisconsin.
arrived in the city Thursday and is
going to work in the freight Office.
Mrs. James Birch expected her mother,
Mrs Hannah Tollefson, home Friday
from a three weeks visit in Mandan.
Mrs. H. A. Desfoges and son and the
Misses Lynch and Kennedy. all of South
Heart, were shopping in the city Friday.
Miss Verna Nash arrived last week from
Oneida. ILL.,. and is guest at the home
of her uncle, Geo. Drenkel for three
weeks.
Mrs. Anton Burda and daughter, Miss
Mary. leave Sunday for kensall, N. D.. ,
where they will visit friends and rela-
tives few days.
Saturday last Mrs. Guy Hunter enter
tained five ladies informally at one
O'Clock luncheon to visit with her
mother. Mrs. Conger.
A. W. Van Cleave and v. Roy Barri-
gar, formerly printers in Iowa, and now
homesteaders in the country north, were
callers Friday morning.
Phillip Loran, wife and daughter
from Richardton, came up Thursday to
visit few days with Peter Mischief,
who resides IA miles north of the city.
Thursday New England was visited
by cloud burst and wind storm of such
strength as to take away the roof of a
barn. Roads are in a bad condition as
a result of the storm.
Treasurer Wilson Eyer has received
4,335.42 school money from the state
interest and income and 2-mill tax
and $640 state aid to the high school
for the year ending June 80, 1911,
The wool market is decidedly ''off"
the past few days. A little sold triae
higher, but 16 cents is all the buyers are
offering and the growers are; holding,
being unwilling to sell at that figure
or consign.
James Quinn was up before Justice
Folsom on Thursday on the charge of
blind pieeing and on his own statement
was held to district court. Bail was
fixed at $500, which he could not furnish
and he was remanded to Jail.
Miss Emilia Simonson left Friday
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home in Hanley Falls, MINI. While
home she intends to visit St. Louis.
Miss Simonson is employed as book
keeper in Roeuette Bros store
J. W. Clarey of Minneapolis and J.
E. Romans of Aberdeen, S. D. were in
the city last Friday and Saturday and on
Sunday made trip to New England in
company with H. X. Nichols Mr..
Clarey owns section of land near New
England.
Mrs. Lee Nichols of Mandan enter
tained the Birthday Club on Wednes-
day afternoon at the home of her par
ents, 1st St.. N. and End Ave. w.
Sixteen ladies enjoyed delightful
afternoon and enjoyed fine lunch and
Mrs. Nichols was the recipient of the
usual gift, two silver forks.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. j. Stoxen of Taylor
drove to Dickinson Friday with their
guests. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred c. Stoxen
and daughter of Hampshire, Illinois,
and Mr. and Mrs. William Rusk OF
Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Mr.. Stoxen
is brother and Mr.. Rusk brother in
law of L. j. Stoxen.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. M. Ferris and Miss
Myrtle Gunter left Monday for St. John,
New Brunswick. where they will visit
for several weeks at their old homes,
stopping at Chicago and Niagara Falls
for few days en- route. Miss Gunter
has been visiting her sister ). Mrs.
Ferris, for several months and will
romain in the oast ,t