The Dickinson press., 1912-10-12
LOCAL NEWS

The Taft club had q talk from Att0r-
ney H. C. Berry on Monday night.
Attorney M. H. jefferson of Beach
was attending to business in Dickinson
on Tuesday.
Guy Hunter went up to Forsyth last
week for a few days visit at the Ralph
featon home.
Miss Sadie Nichols was in from her
school twelve miles west, to spend Sat-
urday and Sunday at home.
Misses Colwell,. Clark. Toreer and
Ostvig were Quests at Custer Trail Sat-
urday, going to Medora Friday.
Guy De France, who is buying wheat
for the Pathmann elevator at Richard
ton. spent Sunday in Dickinson.
George Pelissier of Belfeld plans to
remain in town this winter and start
ranching again in the Bad Lands in the
spring.
Mrs. c. E. johnson and Master
Clifford were in Taylor Saturday and
Sunday, guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. B.
Doran. formerly Of Dickinson. !,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Lenne7ille are back
again on the Lenneville farm for the
winter after living in the eastern part
of the city for the summer months.
j. M. Messner of New England re-
turned last Friday from a visit to Min
nesota points and Fargo. He returned to
the Cannon Ball metropolis on Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Steckler were in
Dickinson the past week with a load
OF vegetables raised at their farm
northwest of Gladstone. They had two
hail storms during the summer and
still have good crops. These people
formerly resided in South Dickinson.
Alex Fowler was in Wednesday from
Manning with Mrs. Harvey Owens,
wife of Cashier Owens, and Miss Katie
Ferguson, a homesteader near Manning.
Mr.. Fowler said the roads were very bad
for running an auto OF any other means
OF conveyance. The party returned on
Thursday.
Albert Koesel has the Barth store
business at Mott and August Koesel the
Barth elevator at the same place. These
gentlemen were recently engaged in
business at Richardton for many years.
at n time were owners of a store at
Gladstone and Antelope. Mott people
are fortunate to get these families.
A Bismarck report says:-On the
main floor of the building, about half
way down the section to the right of
the main entrance is the small but
highly artistic booth of the Russell-Mll
Ter Milling company. 1t is made of a
frame work covered with green and ele-
eantly trimmed in Grain designs. The
booth displays many interesting -four
products of this great milling company,
and does credit to them and to the deco.
rators.
The farmers were again disappointed
on Saturday and Sunday when "a of an
inch of rain fell. making the total for
1912 up to date 1907 inches. II seemed
to rain more in the vicinity of Beach
and Glen Cllin and less at Missouri
river points. The farmers were lust
getting nicely started with threshine
again. following the wet September
weather. Fortunately the fall was not
great for the two stormy days and the
work of threshing was resumed on Tues
day.
Stark county's booth, which was in
stalled under the personal supervision
of G. S. Cryne Of Gladstone, was one of
the beauty spots of the exposition. The
grains and grasses are shown in cases
and are arranged in an especially neat
manner. One feature of the exhibit is
the elaborate display of prairie grasses.
of which IS varieties are shown. The
native prairie grasses of Stark county
are the most succulent of the state ow-
ing to which fact stock raising was a
profitable industry in days gone by
Exchange.
John Goodall. superintendent of live
stock for the government had rather
an interesting time in Arizona the
past summer. His work on the Indian
reservation wal laying out grazing pas
lures and putting the proposition on a
business basis, and if the department
at Washington follows out his recon-
mendation the revenues from pasturage
will be increased $50. 600 yearly. At
the same time the cattlemen will be
better satisfied for they will. know
what they have and can stock up for the
future with safety. The reservations
are very large in Arizona. the San Carlos
territory comprising 1900, 600 acres and
the White Mt. 1, 400. 600 acres. On the
former reservation he found the Boice,
Gates & johnson Co. with 20. GOO cattle
and 1000 head on the White Mt. dis.