The Dickinson press., 1913-02-01
lOCAl NEWS


Attorney I. r. Murtha returned Satur-
day evening from q business trip Of two
days with the legislator ct Bismarck. ,
r. K. Barton. one of the state agents
for the United States Fidelity and
Guaranty Co.. was calling on the local
agent, John Orchard on Monday. Mr..
Barton was pleased over the amount Of
business done by Mr.. Orchard for his
company.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Carr were in the
city over Sunday visiting their many
friends here. They were en- route from
their homestead at Northrop to Oshkosh.
Wis.,, to visit at their old home for e
eral weeks. The Cars had S. 600 BUSH
els of grain the past year at their farm
in Dunn county. They marketed the:
fax in Di crimson and they will hold
the wheat until spring at least.
Mrs. A. r. Boxrud was very much
surprised last Thursday when about six
teen ladies arrived at her home in q
body. prepared to make merry for the
afternoon. They brought along many
good things to eat and played 500 and
other games for amusement. All had
a good time and nobody enjoyed it any
better than did the hostess.
.'Stonewall jackson" will be the sub
ject of Rev. J. G. Morrison's lecture
at the Commercial Club rooms Sunday
afternoon, February End. The new
association hymn books were used last
Sunday for the first time and seemed
to please the audience. On February
9th the lecture will be about the Illi-
nois Railsplitter and the ladies will
be invited.
Rev. j. G. Morrison went to Bis
marck on Tuesday to attend a meeting
of, the officers of the state camp Of
Methodists. Mr.. Morrison is treasurer
of the organization and Rev. F. H.
Farrand, now of Darlington. is secretary
with S. A. Danford, president. This
is the mid winter business session Of
| the officers and their annual assembly
| camp meetings are held at jamestown
during the summer months.
Incorporation papers were pepared re-
Gently at the law Office of H. J.
Blanchard for the Bayer & Lob CT. Of
| Gladstone. capitalized at $40, 600. The
incerporators are Frank Bayer, Matt
Bayer. John and Andreas Lob. well-to.
do farmers and business men in the vi
cinity of Gladstone. The company will
handle Grain, lumber and machinery.
having recently purchased the Julius
Hoist elevator and yard.
j. B. Dickson. manager of the Da-
kota Development Co.. was over from
Halliday the past week. making the
trip by train via Manning. Mr.. Dick
son has a Reeves and two Big Four en-
gines and will be ready to start the
plows just as soon as the frost is out of
the ground. He still has a large guam
tity of grain to market. and some of
the grain from fields which did not ma
ture before the frost, will be ground for
feed as soon as he gets a mill which is
on the, way set and in working order.
Rev. Griswold Bragaw, rector of St.
Johns Episcopal church. will likely
leave on the 5th, after conducting his
Ash Wednesday evening service, for
Fargo to attend 10 some church matters
with the Bishop and to join Mrs. Bra
do sy x,ho will than ho m how r.,o1, e.oro
New York. Mr.. and Mrs. Bragaw ex-
pect to arrive in Dickinson on the nth
of February, in time for Lenten services
which start then at St. Johns church.
For the present Mr.. and Mrs. Bragaw
will have rooms at No. 421 Sims street.
E. H. Hoffman was down from the
farm on Bull creek with his family in
Dickinson ove Sunday and Monday.
MIR. Hoffman will be at the farm the
most of the time until the first of April,
looking after his coal mine which he
reserved when he rented the place for
three years to J.. P. Turner. a recent
homesteader north of Zenith. The coal
at the Hoffman place is being used by
farmers as far away as the Daglum set
Element. Mr.. Scott, a neighbor who
purchased the Leuck half section a year
or so ago. is kept busy with two teams
hauling coal, from his mine to Bel6eld.
August Pertner and Otto Angst were
in the city Friday from their farms
about II miles south of Dickinson.
Both young men had excellent crops the
past year all of which they are market
ing in Dickinson, which is some miles.
further from them than New England.
but they like to come here to do their
trading. Mr.. Pertner's crop of grain
amounted to about 10000 bushels, half
of which was wheat, and Mr.. Angst,
who has been in North Dakota three
wears had 1 Inn hushe1s Of drain Hie