The Dickinson press., 1914-03-21
Local News

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reasonable in price. Vallancey Sist-
ers.-adv. ~ It
Sidney Morrison helped E. j. Scharf
out with his cattle Monday morning.
From the Crooked creek farm he went
on. to the Frank Reichert place, where
he spent his vacation.
G. w. Blakely came in from Hirsch-
vile country Tuesday with his family. /
Mrs. Blakely came in for some, dentistry
work. Mr.. Blakely feels good over the
fall of snow even though 1t hindered
the return trip which was made Thurs.
day. ~ ga
j. L. McCutchan is having a 4-room
cottage finished just across the street
west from his home which has been
rented to Manager Fisher of the Dickin-
son Roller Mill Co. Geo. Stevens of
Bel6eld is doing the decorating and,
will have the place ready for occupancy
in a few days.
Mrs. Josh Fisher arranged a surprise
party for Mr.. Fisher last Friday even.
ing. 1t took Mr.. Fisher some little time
to realize why so many of his friends
were appearing at one time. During
the evening a delicious lunch was
served 1t was a very late hour. when
the guests bid the Fishers good night.
The Grill's attractiveness has been
greatly increased by a new coat. of var
nish and fresh paper along the wall.
The panel pictures upon the wall adds
immensely to the beauty Of the place.
The work was we'll done by a new firm
in the city, The St. Louis Decorating
Company. This was their first job. =
Rev. E. H. Stickney of Fargo herd
services at the Congregational church on
Sunday. He had just returned from a
trip in the country around Beach. Rev:
A. A. Thorn. who has been supplying
at Emerson and Manning the past four
months. came to Dickinson to meet Mr..
Stickney and went out to the Trotters
country early in the week to take up
new work. +
The H. X. Nichols garage now has a
new drive way to the shop and storage
room and the Office has also been re-
modelled. MI. Nichols has had his
hands more than full with the repairs
and regular work of the garage the past
few weeks but he hopes now that he is
through with the hardest of it. The
trainload of Buick cars which: went
through Dickinson for the Seattle market
last week interested the local agent. It
indicates the GREAT demand that exists
for the Buick. ~.
Richard Ivey, who has been attending
the Dakota Business College at Fargo,
was in Dickisonn the. first of the week
en- route to REGENT to visit his parents
for q: short time. Before going away to
school he worked in Dickinson fora
year or two. Edward Nelson. who had.
been at; Cbaska, Mimi, for some time,
was also returning to his home in the
vicinity Of Regent: His father, Nuns
Nelson, is one of the pioneers of Het-
finger county. ., -
The Fargo basketball team which won
the state championship, returned this
week from Chicago where they played.
in the Western Championship series. !
They won fourth place. They tied
Deerield for third but were compelled to
play off the tie directly after their de-
feat by Evanston. the winners of the
meet. In their game with Evanston,
they came within six points of their op-
ponents. the nearest any team came.
Thompson. the star center for Fargo,
proved the star in each game. The
standing of the teams were as follows:
Evanston, Peoria, Deerfield and Fargo.
At a regular session of Dickinson
Lodge No. 1897 3. P. o. Elks, the fol-
lowing applicants were initiated into
the order: Geo. F. Gardner, rancher of
MikkelsoD ; Edwin Johnson rancher of
Midway; A. E. McAdams, druggist of
Bel6eld; Chas. Gunkel, farmer of Bel
field and E. P. Bishop merchant of Bel
field. The following out of town men,
bers were present at the session: Il.
C. Short, j. X. Swihart, S. N. Lebo.
Willis King. Jr., Ed. Dietz. Walter
Ray. George Carr. VIM. f. Doering and
Carl Ruiz of Medora: c. F. Corbett, N.
j. Steffen, Frank Sharman, v. S. Lang
lois, AL. Hike. David Coutts, H. A.
Mackoff, H. A. Anderson and Carl G.
Gunkel Of Belfeld; MAIDS Jesperson,
John Fl. Peterson and j. NJ. Noes of
Taylor; Lambert Keffeler, Frank w.
Young and James G.. Young. of Mikkel-
son ; v. A. Baker of Emerson !; Geo. H.
Flint Of Fryburg Jack Obere and Henry
Hollst Of Bismarck James Shea of
Fargo.
The II. u. B. were entertained at the
home Of Mrs. H. W. Reed Friday, March
18th. The quests were received nv little