The Dickinson press., 1912-01-20

Miss Hazel Fox was in Glendive on
Thursday. a guest of Miss Florence
White.
Mrs. A. D. Davis has been very sick
the past week. being under the of
a trained nurse.
Rev. F. H. Farrand leaves on Monday
for Steele, N. D., where he will conduct
a series of revival meetings.
Delbert Gould of Oakdale had a load
of flax in the city on Thursday, receiving
$l.S7 per bushel therefor.
Miss Myrtle Homer was taken ill with
pneumonia this week. Her condition
was not considered DANGEROUS on Friday.
Webster Schoield, who is teaching
school in Montana, spent his vacation
at the jeff Mcdonald home west of the
city.
Robert Scarf has finished a successful
term of school about five miles southwest
of here. He expects to take q school
near Belfeld for the remainder of this
school term. ..
Sheriff J. A. WEIGH is away on a trip
of two or three weeks. He was not sure
when he left just where he would 90.
Deputy Jerry Dryer is looking after mat
tiers al the Jail.
There is to be a masquerade ball at
the German Mercantile dance hall in
South Dickinson on the evening of jan
uary 9th. Three prizes will be given
and everybody is cordially invited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Fisher, John
Fisher, William Richter and Harold
Peck were taken into the Eastern Star
on Thursday evening. After business
session there was a dance and banquet.
The lodge rooms had special decorations
for the occasion.
Hereafter the mail for New England
will be taken in via the N. P. branch
from Mandan. The Milwaukee has been
unable to keep it's branch open from Me-
Lauglin to Mott and the repeated COM
plants of patrons forced the government
to make the change.
X. X. Olson was in Thursday from
Oakdale with a load of flax for his
brother. He sold at ST.. IS per bushel.
The following day it was quoted at
$1.S7 and wheat at 91c. There is con-
siderable grain coming in from the
north since the Shedding got good.
There will be a girls basketball game
at the armory on the evening of Friday,
January rs. Immediately preceding the
big Leap Year ball of the G. l. A. to B.
of L. E. The contesting teams are from
the local high school and from the Man.
dan high school and the first girls game
OH home floor this season. There will
be sure to be a big crowd out.
Dennis Moran returned recently from
a trip to Bismarck and several points in
Minnesota, including St. Paul. He
stopped off al the capital and had ar
interesting chat with Curator Fish, re.
lating to him interesting things about
the Indian outbreak at Old Fort Ridgley
in southern Minnesota, August q, 1862.
Mr.. Moran is a G.. A. R. veteran and
while away visited a number of his old
army comrades. He is stopping at the
H. c.. Christensen home for a few days
in Dickinson but expects to return tc
the Christensen ranch and his own
ranch on the Little Missouri anothel
week.
T. G. Saunders was in this week with
another load of flax which he sold at
$1.85 per- bushel. Mr.. Saunders said
he never saw better Shedding in this
country. During the Extremely cold
weather he was ON the Little Missouri
gathering cattle for 10 days and he said
that he got along much better than a
person would think. The grass was
short in his territory which made it
necessary to take up his stock and feed.
Where there is feed, he states, stock is
doing very we'll on the range still.
Charles Foulke of Regent, who mar
ages James Soules' farm on the Cannon
Ball river, was in the city for a few
days this week.
ANIMAL MASK RAIL-