The Dickinson press., 1912-07-27

EEeuetlCA, leIl uneSu afternoon
for northern Michigan. where they will
visit for q month or two..
The rainfall last Saturday evening at
New England measured IA of an inch.
There was q of an inch precipitation
at Dickinson.
Tuesday afternoon there was q severe
hail and windstorm along the river bot
toms in the vicinity of Mandan and
Bismarck. Some damage is reported at
the Indian school buildings and injury
to crops on the flats out from Mandan is
also reported.
R. j. List. cashier of the Grand River
State bank al Scranton. visited his sis
ter. Mrs. Geo. W. Mawhinney in the
city the first of the week. Mr.. List is
the republican nominee for represen-
tative in Bowman and Billings counties
and was an important member of the
New England ball team on Sunday.
Frederick. the li~ve-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Julius Kroah. farmers north
Of Gorbam. met a peculiar death last
week from eating too heartily of raw
flax. His mother found him at the
fax bin and it was not long before he
was taken with cramps, and a doctor
summoned. He lived only a few hours.
At the j. L~.eonbereer farm northeast
of the city the damaged wheat crop
has been harvested for feed. The
heads were partly filed and will make
good fodder. As soon as the crop is
off the land will be plowed for the 1913
sowing. Mrs. Leonbereer lost 40 chick
ems and her cat in the storm of July ii.
At Emerson Mrs. Fred Leonberger lost a
portion of her crop.
This week John Wynn. road foreman,
has been conducting railroad examina-
tions in air and machinery at Dickin-
son. Among those taking the examina-
ton from the city were Peterson and
Tom Grant, Pierson Of Glendive Bruck-
er and Lahren Of Mandan; WaIdenham.
Johnson and Dahl of Forsyth. If the
candidates pass they will be listed as
men competent for engineers.
Rev. A. R. Lembke of St. Johns Luz
theran church, spent Wednesday INLAY
lor visiting Rev. Schmidt. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Schmidt leaves soon for
Chicago, where he will enter a theolog-
ical seminary for another years work
in English. The Taylor people like MIR.
Schmidt very much and dislike to have
him 60.
A. o. Johnson of Turtle Lake. Minn.,
is the proprietor of a new store which
will be opened in Belield in the near
future. After looking over the surround
ing country and seeing the fine crops
that will soon be harvested Mr.. johnson
was not long is deciding that Bel6eld
offered inducements for another general
store. Mr.. johnson has a store in
Minnesota which he will turn over to
his sons management.
A. F. Pierce. adjuster for the Ameri-
can Insurance Co., was in Dickinson
and vicinity three days this week and
finished up q large number of hail loss
es for the John Orchard agency. The
Will Clark insurance was written two
hours before the storm on the nth but
the company allowed the same in full.
Mr.. Orchard as we'll as his patrons are
pleased with the way the company set
ties it's losses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Funk and Mrs. A.
Branick went to Medora Saturday and
were Joined by Miss Cordelia Branick
on a trip to the Custer Trail ranch,
where they were royalty entertained
over Sunday by Bill Mccarthy
It was reported in the city last Satur-
day afternoon that a Obstructive storm
from the west was fast approaching.
1t was learned the following morning.
however. that a strong rain and wind
storm had visited Beach, Yates and
Sentinel Butte. A very little hail fell
at Yates but not enough to do any dam
age so far as known. At Sentinel Butte
the storm lodged crops but the grain
Strengthened up in a day or two and ap-
parently suffered no injury. The rain
storm did not reach Dickinson, there be-
ing merely a sprinkle and no wind.
The rain is said to have extended IS to
IS miles north of Beach. 1t did not 60
very far south.
G. W. Miller and Dave Warn were in
Tuesday and Wednesday from the Little
Missouri country north of Mary. Mr..
Miller is building up a place at the old
TX crossing on the river. He moved
over from Montana about a yea. ago so
as to be near his brother-in-law. Bert
Jenner. who has a place further on to-
ward Ellsworth. These gentlemen want
ed some hayine machinery and found
when they got to Dickinson that the de-
mand was almost greater than the sup
.Eply this season. Mr.. Miller lived at