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The Dickinson press., 1913-08-16
Gladstone

Little Dorothy Prindle was ill several
days this week.
Farmers in the vicinity of Gladstone
have begun harvesting.
c.. C. Turner was a business visitor
in Dickinson Saturday evening.
Dr.. J. P. Weyrens was in Gladstone
Saturday. making professional calls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Lyons of Dick
inson were Gladstone visitors Monday.
Mrs. Leonard and little daughter of
Dickinson visited Tuesday at the John
Little home.
Miss jeanette Partridge of Glen Ullin
is making an extended visit with
friends here.
o. R. Rich visited his daughter, Mrs.
X. E. Julian, in Lehigh Monday even
ing between trains.
Ben Cooling went out to the Arthur
Cooling ranch Saturday and will remain
with his uncle for some time.
Mrs. W. L. Prindle and Miss Tina
Brown autoed to Dickinson Saturday
morning, returning in the evening.
J. j. Steckler left Sunday evening for
St. Paul, after a few days visit here
with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Steckler.
j. H. Harnden has sold his residence
property, two so it.. lots, and a modern
house to S. B. Elston for a consideration
of ST., 050.
J.. N. Culver of Mapleton Iowa,
arrived here Tuesday morning for a
weeks visit at the home of his brother,
E. D. Culver.
Mrs. j. H. Truax and little daughter.
Lucille, of Steele are making a ten days
visit at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell Lawrence.
A large number from Gladstone and
vicinity were in Dickinson Tuesday
and Wednesday of last week attending
the Elks' celebration.
Miss Minnie Perry of Minot arrived
here last Friday and is making a ten
days. visit here at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John Little.
Mrs. S. B. Elston returned Tuesday
evening from a two months visit with
relatives and friends in Bookings.
and other points in South Dakota.
Albert U. Sand, who has been teach
ing school south of Gladstone for
several years. is in Montana this sum-
mer. living on his claim near Sidney.
Miss Anna Pfeiffer. daughter of Mr..
and Ms. Nick Pfeifer of Gladstone,
and Mr.. Olaf Maleren of Dickinson,
were married in Dickinson Monday
evening by Judge Maser. The young
The Dickinson press., 1913-08-16
Dunn County News
From Dunn County News :

W. A. earns, ST.. came up from his
nome near Marshall and remained a
few days the guest of his daughter,
MRS. I. Leroy Evans, and son, State
Attorney W. A. earns.
Judge W. C. Crawford informs the
News that the fall term of court for
Dunn county will convene either the
18th or 22nd of September, official
notice of the exact date to be given
within q few days. There is q large
number of cases, both civil and crimi-
nal, on the calendar for this term.
The preliminary hearing of Adam
Ziermer. charged with shooting with
intent to kill. was held before Justice
Morton last week and the defendant
was bound over to court under SIS, 900
bond. The defense did not offer any
testimony. Ziermer has been unable ia
furnish the required bond and is still
confined in the county Jail. Attorney
ALI. Nelson represents Ziermer.
The first silo to be built in Dunn
county vas completed last week at the
Diamond c ranch, near Oakdale, The
sil0 was contracted for last fall BY W.
L. Richards and was delivered and
put up by the Geo. Heaton Lumber com
pany. Its capacity is 200 tons and il
will be filled this fall. Mr.. Richards
has about 80 acres of corn which is said
to be a great deal better than the aver.
age and this will make great feed this
winter. About 500 head of cattle will
be wintered at the Diamond C.
There was a large attendance at the
annual meeting of the Dunn County
Sunday School Association held al
Manning last Saturday and Sunday.
Rev. Fulton. n of the workers of the
State Sunday School Association, wal
present and his talks on Sunday school
work were very interesting and enter
tanning. Reports of the progress of g
number of Sunday schools in the county
were received during the session. OFF,
GERS for the ensuing year were elected
as follows: President, Mrs. W. P.
Owens vice president, Thos. Bailey
secretary-treasurer, C. L. Melby
The Dickinson press., 1913-08-16

the local station. The shipment. ,w.eiehed
2, 500 pounds, the amount Of butter
manufactured last week. Mr.. Mack
stated that the creamery was running
smoothly and the indications are that
the business will be increased consider
ably in the next few months.
L. M. Mortenson, who lives"a few
miles west Of New England, has about
finished cutting his grain aud is now
busy stacking. He intended to thresh
from the field but the party who is to
do the work had to delay for q few
days until he finishes cutting his "
grain. The hot weather last week
ripened off many fields of wheat that
would have kept green if there had
been rain in the last week in July.
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H .a III .FL .f7Nr'aH v. IT,. 20
machine home the other day. He is
busy making necessary repairs. so as
to be ready to start threshin9 as soon
as the farmers are ready.
Oscar Linde, Berequist and Skalbeck
made trips to Belfield last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brandt of Fairfield are
spending a few days with the Kruger
family.
Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Schermerhorn
spent Wednesday afternoon with Mrs.
Skalbeck.
There was a school meeting held at
N. T. Hanson's Tuesday evening. The
contract for painting the eight school
houses in the Indian SPRING district
was Given to A. o. Skalbeck and NJ.
T. Hanson. the lowest bidders.
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Dunn Center
rom Spring Valley Times

Mrs. James Clark, Mrs. M. F. Robin.
son and Grandson, George Robinson
who are visiting from St. Paul. cailed
Friday. Mrs. j. w. Robinson CALLED
later.
Frank Joslin was on his way to Tav.
l0r Wednesday when his wagon broke
and he was forced to return and e a
wagon from Ben Iverson in order Ia
complete the trip.
The much needed rain arrived and
the worried ones are now feeling cheer
full. There is no section Of the state
looking better than Dunn county and
Dakota some parts are burned out.
A man by the name of Ole Olson
from up in the mountain region wax
within six miles of Dickinson and.
with two small boys. was camped on
the prairie when his horses left them
Wednesday night. Both horses were
bay. sh0d in front and bore the lazy K
brand. We are sure that any Informs
ton leading to recovery of said horses
will be appreciated, and should any one
have such information to impart kindly
address Ole Olson, Oakdale, N. D. .
Ole Finholdt was advised by q friend
to 60 to Dickinson and find out what
allied his head and back before some
one had to take him there. Ole ac-
copied the advice and when he arrived
at the aforesaid city found that he had
an attack OF typhoid fever. Ole says
it is a deuce of a note to get to town
to get sick. Here's hoping he soon
RECEIVERS. Frank Rackard turned..in and
is harvesting MI. Finholdt's crop for
him, indeed a good neighborly act.
Will w get the steel this fallY That
is the question every one is asking and
no n answering for no one knows.
That is a question of vital importance
to the farmer. If the steel is laid this
fall then a winter of misery on the
forty mile road to the r. r. will be
eliminated. The real progressive
farmer, however, is figuring on enlarg-
ing his granary room and holding his
grain till he can ship it u over our
" road. The Dunn county banks
always have and always will see the
farmer through and the granary is a
permanent investment.
The Elks' parade in Dickinson was
passing down the broad, paved, sun
lighted, main street. while we OF the
frigid north stood idly by watching The
pleasing sight. The space allotted to
Dunn Centerites was much smaller than
our town should have had and we were
just about to make a kick, when a loud
whoa-haw smote on our ears, then the
loud rattle of chains ; we tried to climb
up and see whether it was a real con-
vict, a real OK team or anything real
but climbed in vain. Then a neighbor
enlightened us: ''Ohl It's the boys
trying to make Tom Ahern keep step
with the Elk crowd" The sympathetic
tears unbidden came. We climbed
higher. there he was, our own Tom, our
head inancier, our first citizen, chained
like a common criminal, driven like q
common TX. We wanted to fight but
the odds were too heavy. We wept
but no mercy was shown. When all
was owe they turned Tom loose and he
quickly sought his northern home.
Never again. says Tom.
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SNOW

Mrs. Esby Keith spent Sunday in
Belfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hall visited-.-McGilli-
ways on Sunday.
Several parties were out picking choke
cherries this week.
John Tester made final proof on his
homestead the 7th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pendleton took supper
at Skalbeck's Friday.
And didn't it rainl Who rays it
doesn't rain in N. D.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. 3. Hanson called on
H. Hanson last Tuesday.
Frank Maui purchased a COW from
Oscar Bergquist last week.
Mrs. Brandt of Fairfield visited with
Mrs. Pendleton on Monday.
Otto Krueger moved his threshine
The Dickinson press., 1913-08-16
new ENGLAND

William Gabbert has put up l25 tons
of hay on the Fred Gabbert place near
town.
T. K. Shutz is back from his eastern
trip. Mrs. Shutz and Miss Myrtle re-
mained longer 10 visit in Iowa and
Illinois.
Herald w. H. Mack was in from
Midway. last Friday bringing a ship
ment of butter from the Midway Co.
operative creamery. to be shipped from
The Dickinson press., 1913-08-16

A vast amount of ill health is due to
impaired digestion. When the stomach
fails to perform its functions properly
the whole system becomes detanged. A
all you need: They will strengthen your
resuiste your boweis entirely dcins
away with that miserable feeling due
to faulty digestion. Try it. Many
others have been permanently cured
why not you? For sale by all dealers.
adv. 1885,
The Dickinson press., 1913-08-16

1t is stated that Col. Ben G.. White.
head plans On starting a string of
democratic papers in Oliver and Mercer
counties. Editor Whitehead recently
made a tour of the Milwaukee railroad
towns and some of the wise ones
thought that he was going to buy up
some of the papers down that way.
The Dickinson press., 1913-08-16

Editor l. L. Doherty is improving the
news service of the Dunn County Settler.
He was formerly located at Marmarth.
where he won a reputation for honorable
DEALING.
The Dickinson press., 1913-08-16

After dinner mints-delicious at Olds'
Candy Shop.-adv. 5-I7-tf
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ANOTHER AVENUE A.

1t would have reminded me Of Avenue A
at its busiest time but for the lack of ami
nation in the scene.
No one took any interest in any one
else. There was small exchange Of amen
titles and no lingering for gossips with
neighbors.
Just the problem Of living from day to
day is about all the Mile End Road can
concentrate its attention upon as things
are now.
OF course, nobody noticed me, and when
the gray paIl-of fog and depression and
general hopelessness was more than I
could bear walked along past the mar
ket to a modest little house with q strip
Of grass in front.
1t stood out a bit from its neighbors.
for it was as clean as soap and water and
fresh paint could make 1t, and on its
garden gate was a brass inscription.
''Doclers' Union" which means that 1t is
the headquarters of the Dock, Wharf,
riverside and General Workers Union of
Great Britain and ireland, Of which Ben
Tillett Is the secretary.
I made my way up the narrow path to
the front door and lifted the heavy knock
cr. letting it fall with a thud, which is
the Mile End method Of announcing your
trivial
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, "oh, I thought there was no doubt
about his intoxication," 1 murmured:
the policeman said SO and the magis-
trate convicted him"
Mr.. Tillett's mouth curved disdainfuIly.
Nonsense he calculated, curtly, and
his voice. which is rather gentle at most
times. was distinctly harsh. IT'S all
nonsense to believe any such evidence as
was given about him. We have police
men over here as corrupt as those in
New York even. and We have magistrates
who are fanatical teetotalers, and when
poor wretch is in the hands Of a bully
ing. corrupt policeman and a fanatically
teetotal magistrate he is between the
devil and the deep sea-
Then the agitator dismissed the case
with a spacious wave Of his hand-that
hand of the workingman, with veins
gnarled and knotted, yet with a certain
fineness of moulding and texture.
A DINING REVOLUTION.
well, what's going to be the future Of
labor in England, anyhow" asked des-
perately. for I saw Mr.. Tillett was not
going to help me out in our talk, though
he was quite kind and rather amused at
being interviewed by a female Ameri-
can on the question of English labor
problems.
Revolution" was his laconic answer to
my last query. There must be revoiu-
tion." And the fighting spirit showed IN
the Tightening OF his lips and the fash of
his eyes.
But do you really think the English
laboring man would ever get worked up
to that7 He seems 80 apathetc, 70
heavy"
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A socIALlsTIc pooRkEEPER.

There was an immediate response. A
tall thin, paIlid youth appeared. He
wore his hair long. SO long that its only
excuse was music or football. 1t was
straight, too, and laid itself gently on a
reluctant collar. And. dear ones. he wore
a red tie!
That crimson tie settled the matte. l
knew him for a socialist.
Can I see Mr.. Tillett?" asked your
gentle auntie, with outward nonchalance.
but inward tremors.
/ wouldn't have been bit surprised to
have been called upon for password or
a countersign. But not at all.
The pallid. wraithlike youth gave me a
seconds keen and intelligent scrutiny,
and said in a pleasant voice. with no
trace of the cockney accent which per-
vades that quarter:
II think so. VIII you come this way?"
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A DASHING LEADER,

Then he went ahead and glided swiftly
and softly along a little passage out into
a back yard, where a child's swing and
a yellow Persian cat were in command,
and into a sort of annex, very recently
built, and with the smell Of newness
towering round It Up little fight of
stairs he dashed, and followed at a pace
more in accordance with my age and fig
ure-
Then he knocked at the door of Ben
Tillett's own sanctum and ushered me I'm
at once.
1t was a little bit of a room with new
green paint on the walls. a bookcase,
well filed. and papers everywhere.
Mr.. Tillett was at his desk, almost
showed under with papers and pamph-
let's. I would never have dreamed who
he was. IL the friendly youth hadn't
given his name to me, and mine to him.
You see, when you hear Of labor asi-
tators and srrike leaders you always ex-
pect them To be big. burly men, with
voices like bass drums, and ail-roupd
massive personalities.
And there sat Mr.. Tillett, q quiet. coll
orless little man, with a sad, tired facs
and shoulders that dropped in a discour-
aged way.
1t was difficult to picture him swaying
crowds OF excited men. leading process
sions OF unemployed, calling down ven
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geance on Lord Davenport from Tower
Hill because his lordship refused to ac-
cede to the terms of the strikers.
No, you'd have taken him for a nice.
hard working, family man. good to his
wife and children, but with his hopes and
ambitions bounded by the four walls Of
his modest home
"oh, come sit down." said Mr. Tillett IN
kind Of 'TIl-tend-to-you-presently'
voice, and with an easy gesture he swept
a mass of pamphlets of a chair. Then he
went on writing and finished quite long
letter.
AN IMPORTANT LETTER.
Here y'are, Harry" he cried briskly.
and tossed it to the gentle youth who had
stood by to receive it Stood at attention
as it were, with no more time for me.
only a steadfast look for his leader.
And now what can I do for your"
asked Little Bonnie" when the door had
closed on the wraithlike one and his let
tiers. He didn't ask 1t with any curiosity
or interest. but just as il it were sort
Of form.
I timidly told him what wanted-only
to talk to him, and he seemed highly
amised. for his mouth twitched humor-
ously.
Did you ever see any one whose mouth
Is the most expressive feature OF his face?
Well, Mr. Tillett's is. Everything else
in his personality is colorless. indeter-
inmate, but his mouth dominates.
No. don't mean that II Is large, but
It is expressive. 1t is a weak mouth and
a strong one. It curls up and drags down.
The lips compress or protrude. There
are lines Of pain about it and lines OF
humor. and where other people's eyes
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STIRRING UP HATRED.

DO the men and women down here
ever come to the West End?" I asked,
thinking Of my long Journey to the Mile
End Road.
Yes. sometimes. We see to that 1t Is
one OF the best ways Of stirring them up
TO rebellion to let them go through May
fair and Belgravia and see the palaces
and mansions"
My breath was rather taken away by
this, for Mr.. TilIett makes you sort Of see
things when he speaks, and I recalled the
one procession of strikers and out-of-
works I've seen since I've been here.
Gaunt, haggard men IN frayed and tat
tered clothes and shadowy women, some
dragging little children and half fainting
as they trudged along. and some singing
actually singing-to lend courage to the
faltering ones Of this procession Of human
misery.
Here there was an interruption, for In
bounded, quite without the ceremony Of a
knock at the door. the. roundest, cheeriest
and rosiest Of little men.
Hello, Benz said he.
Hello. Harry said Ben.
Then Harry gazed at me, and Mr..
Tillett introduced me and DESIGNATED
Harry as the Mark Tapley Of the move
and turned roster.
TOO MUCH DEPRESSION.
81 need to be a bit cheerful" he as
sured me. There's about enough depres-
sion going round here" and he looked
disapprovingiy at his fellow workers
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mirror their feelings Mr. Tilletts mouth
does all the heavy work.
He didn't wear a red tie. He had a
gentle gray one with white dots as an
adjunct to his soft collar, and his pepper
and salt clothes. But his hair was a
shade longer than is usual In other po-
litical circles. However. it wasn't ostenta-
tiously so, and my own idea is that he
and that ordinarily it is regulation length.
What do you want to talk about?"
queried the agitator. just as II he didn't
know.
'oh, about strikes and strikers and
slums and anything else you like" piped
your Aunt Kate. cheerfully.
That's a large order" demurred Mr..
Tillett.
We'll, in the first place, what about
this present strike in Newcastle because
an engine driver had been fined for drunk
enness and then lost his position. Is that
going to spread and paralyze the Christ
mas trade and trafic?'
TYRANNY OVER ENGINE DRIVERS.
IT don't think so. 1t will be settled sat
isfactorily before very long. 1t arises
from a grievance Of long standing. No
one wants drunken engine drivers. natu-
rally, but there is a sort of tyranny ex-
ercised over many railroad employees in
certain places which is most irksome.
Their home lives, their religious ideas
and all their affairs are supervised in
most calling fashion. Now, this man
wasn't drunk. We have proof Of that.
and his companions are taking this OPP
portunity of showing their INDIGNATION at
general official petty tyrannxT !.
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THE PATIENT WOMEN.

With the utmost patience and cour-
age in many cases, but OF course their
suffering is very great and many OF them
do complain. I wish We could organize
the wives so they worked with us in
full understanding OF what is coming to
pass and why and how. I wish all the
women down here in these districts could
be organized. 1t would mean everything
That is why We in this corner of Lon
don welcome the woman movement It
is revolt and rebellion. 1t is fine, splen-
did. Let's have plenty of it,"
Agitators will out, I expect. II wa.
here I realized that Ben TiIlett Is an
orator OF no mean ability. Enthusiasm
made his face glow. his voice ring, and
began TO understand how he could sweep
people along with the force of his ear
nestness. his conviction.
But after this outburst he settled back
in his chair and toyed restlessly with
some of the papers on his desk.
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Kate Carew journeys to Sordid Mile End Road in Lon
don's East End and Hears from the Leader Of the
Dock Workers lis Views VI pom the Present
and Future Of Those Who Toll
with Their Hands.

, the city gates wound my taxicab at snaifs
pace because of the traffic and the mar.
rowness of the streets. Moorgate. Aldgate,
Aldersgate and Bishopsgate We passed.
Then on by Sydney street. historic scene
OF the anarchist SIEGE" and down into
Whitechapel, of which only a few years
| ago one spoke with bated breath for very
| horror of its crimes, its dirt, its misery.
1t has changed now, though. 1t has been
widened and cleansed and purified. and
1t is quite a respectable quarter. so re-
spectacle, in fact that the Inhabitants
in various notorious streets there are
constantly appealing to the London
County Council to have the names of the
streets changed so they will not longer
be associated with rqualor and vice.
NOT TO BE TAKEN FOR A "ToFF."
At last. just a mile from the Mansion
House, where the Lord Mayor holds forth.
We came to the top of the Mile End Road.
and let my cab go, for l didn't want
TO be taken for tor in Stepney. where
taNis are rare.
1t was market day. and the whole Mile
End Road was doing its Sunday shopping.
1t was a pavement market" a nice. in
formal affair, where all goods are spread
out on the ground. and you ''pys your
money and tykes your chyce."
And what a collection OF things were
there!
Bread. meat, vegetables. old boots and
shoes, ribbons. laces, bacon. cheese. fruit,
very blue milk. oleomargarine, bits of
china, pots and kettles and flannel by the
yard.
Pathetic-looking rabbits hung by their
toes on sticks, with their limp heads
little to one side, and these were in
great demand, for the piece de resistance
of Mile End Road Sunday dinner, when
the good man is working and the family
in funds. is a succulent bunny. stewed
with a strong and savory onion
There were plenty of second and third
and tenth hand clothes. and pieces Of old
furniture and mouldy books. In fact.
all the rif-rafr Of the worlds belongings.
and nothing of value.
WHERE sHoPPING's A FINE ART.
Shopping is a fine art in this part of
London, though its scale is Hmited-a
penn'orth OF margarine. a ha-penn'orth OF
sugar. the same OF salt. two penn'orth OF
tea, penn'orth of milk, and so on
The women have reckoned It all very
carefully. They watch the measuring OF
1t with eagle eye. and woe betide the
salesman II he tries to cheat them. for
they are ready for him, with a fine flow OF
Billingsgate vituperation.
There were women with faces pinched
with hunger and others with eyes large
and bright with misery. and still others
with ugly bruises as a sign of their mar
Red state. And the general uniform was
a dirty shawl over a dirty, torn blouse
and skirt ard unkempt hair fastened to
he head with one skewerlike pin
There were costers. men and women.
The girls in feathered hats and gay !
shawls. the men some or them real |
pearly kings" with heaps Of buttons all |
,yar their clothes