The Dickinson press., 1912-05-11

Pat McGraw was up from Taylor on
Thursday evening.
Attorney r. H. Yaeck Of Richardton
had business in the city on Monday.
Dr.. and Mrs. v. H. Stickney enter
tanned the card club IN Thursday even
ing.
Ed. Partridge and Robert Wilcox were
to leave for their ranches north on FRI
day.
Dan Brew recently delivered a good
work team for use on the stree is of
Dickinson.
Charles Tear and Lace Tear went to
Gladstone again the first of the. week
to work on the Skinner barn.
c. E. MCGEE is unloading q car of fine
seed potatoes this week which he has
shipped in from Valley City.
Ed. Koran, the South Heart road
superintendent, recently finished grad
ing streets in Belield. The road grader
and wheel scrapers were used with
good effect under the direction of MI.
Koran. 81,
City Engineer Veigel and Atty. W.
F. Burnett went to Bismarck Friday
morning to look over the system of
white Way Street lighting in order to
get pointers for installing the system in
Dickinson.
Bismarck tribune: Friday afternoon
Mrs. Robert D. Hoskins entertained at
cards for Mesdames Mary Turner and
0. A. Dietsche. There were several
tables and during the course of the
afternoon dainty refreshments were
served. The Hoskins home was prettily
decorated with pink and white roses.
Earlier in the week Mrs. Philip j.
Meyer also entertained at the capital
city for the Gladstone ladies.
Robert Wilcox was in the city the
past week for a number of days. The
weather was too bad for him tt return
north on Saturday or Sunday and be-
sides he was not feeling very we'll a
part of the time. In addition to this
the Dickinson Motor Car Co. was getting
in another carload of Buick autos and
Mr.. Wilcox wanted to check up the
machines while he was here. III F.
Davis has one of the new cars.
The local baseball team are looking
forward to a good game with Beach on
Sunday afternoon in the local park.
The Golden Valley players are down on
the earth this spring. having had
their fill of all salaried ball players.
The game scheduled for the 18th at
Dickinson will be the first game of
the season with outside parties. and
from what is known now the players of
the two places are evenly matched.
Grant Palmer, who has the u S.
daily mail contract between. Dickinson
and Manning. is out with a new Veerac
auto truck. the first of its kind ever
put into service in Stark or Dunn coun-
ties. The car has a. specially construc-
ted box and seats for nine passengers
in addition to the drivers seat. Il lis
an oil-cool car. put up specially foriex-
press and passenger service al the COM
pany's works in Minneapolis. where A.
B. Curry. formerly a cattle grower at
Oakdale, has the position of general
distributing agent. Mr.. Palmer will
change his leaving time a little, going
out from Dickinson at about 8 O'Clock.
He figures on a running time Of 2 TO- az
hours between Dickinson and Manning,
a distance of 80 miles, and. will make
the passenger fare 81. Hay and feed
were getting SO high. MI. 4PalmeIs de-
cided that it vas best to put his horses
in the pasture at Manning and use the
auto stage. He looks for good results
and in case Of unusually muddy roads he
has horses that can be put in to thesser-
vice on short notice.