The Dickinson press., 1913-04-26
NEW ENGLAND

McSSTS. ldlltuddkc q WcyCE dIC OuS
with a Case touring car.
The local ball team organized by
electing P. 3. Murphy manager and M.
j. Connolly, captain.
Mildred, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Otto Thress, was treated last week for
Alan Rice has secured a IS h.. p. en-
CINE and will crop both his mothers
and the W. S. Van Bergen farms.
Miss Anneta Jacoshenk has finished
her work with the Herald as compositor
and has gone to Dogden, this state. to
visit her relatives.
A. J. Culver and family are back
from Wisconsin and were looking for a
house last week. Mr.. Culver expects
to work at his trade as mason.
|. Mrs. A. L. Moore came last week
from La Moure, N. D., were she has
been visiting for a time. Manager
Moore of the Columbia elevator and Mrs.
Moore are now making their home in
! the J.. C. Ireland residence.
Adam Gels arrived in New England
Tuesday from Missoula, Mont, for a
visit with his daughter, Mrs. A.. Nc
Cracken. Mr.. Gels. who is IS years of
age recently returned from a visit to
tn Panama canal and spent some time
in California the past winter.
Elmer Weaks and DeForest Wood of
Midway loaded q car of immigrant
movables, consisting of horses, cows,
farm machinery and household goods.
at New England this week and shipped
the same to Ingomar. Mont, where
they have filed on homesteads.
W. C. Rev. who, for the past four
years, has been in the government Ser
vice as mail clerk with a nun from Bis.
marck to Hankinson. was in New Eng
land on Tuesday to submit his testi-
mony and make final proof on his home
stead located near the Tepee buttes.
His witnesses were Charles Rafferty, and
Roy Rev.
Fred Harrison arrived last week from
Pasadena, Calf, for a visit with his
mother, Mrs. Anna Harrison, the C. l..
Harrison and Asa Gardner families. Mr..
Harrison visited in New ENGLAND -four
years ago and is renewing acquaintan-
ces with a number of friends in this
vicinity. Miss Susie Harrison, who
has been working in the auditors Office
in Med0ra for several weeks, wa home
owe Sunday to visit her brother. Her
aid.
The Midway townsite e, which has been
talked about for several months, is now
q reality. The work of plating q
TOWNSHIP was completed this week BY
Civil Engineer w. r. Veigel of Dickin-
son. The townsite is located on the
southwest quarter of section 1859,
on q forty-acr tract of land owned by
w. H. Mack, F. B. Williams and S.
A. Fuller, twenty acres of which is in
cluded in the present plated portion.
Main street. running north and south, il
a quarter of q mile long and 80 feet
wide. The streets and avenues running
east and west. are 66 feet wide. -Four
blocks long and two blocks wide less q
block and a half has been plated on
an avenue east of Main street, or a to.
tai of 48 business lots and 7 residence
lots. According to MI. Veieel 1t would
be impossible to find q better location
for a townsite. It is high and dry, with
the very best advantages for natural
drainage, every part of the tract slopint
GENTLY to the Cannon Ball river. The
bank of Midway building is the first
building erected on the new t0wnsite.
Cashier F. B. Williams reports that the
building will be completed in q few
days and that he will be permanently
located at Midway the early part of the
coming month. The Fuller Potter Lum.
Der Co. will have an office and lumber
yard established at the town In q few
weeks and a general store is expected
to be among the first buildings put up.
Things are getting lively out west.-
New England Herald.