The Dickinson press., 1915-05-29
OCA NEWS

their daughter, Miss Jessie, is in the
telephone office at Hettinger and Miss
Susie, another daughter, is teaching
domestic science there.
We are obliged to put over until
next week a lot of good stuff, both
city and county.
Gretchen Nottingham was quite
seriously injured Wednesday by being
struck by a big swing on the school
grounds in which two boys were
pumping"
Mrs. Cartwright. who leaves Sat
urday afternoon On her vacation, will
visit in Detroit, Minnesota, and in
Detroit, Michigan. At the latter
place her mother will meet her and
they will go on to the old home at
Aylmer, Ontario.
Louis Berg, in charge of the North
ern Pacific bridge and carpenter crew,
returned to Dickinson the first of the
week from the west and will be en-
gagged for ten days or so in repairing
the east water tank, laying maple
flooring in the depot waiting DON and
making repairs at the stock yards.
His e had been working at South
Heart, Medora, Sentinel Butte, Beach,
Wibaux, Hodges and other towns
west, and when through at Dickinson
they will nov along east. All the
stockyard platforms have to be re-
modelled to conform to the new re-
quirements.
The many friends Of H. M. Roberts
were pleased this week when it was
announced that he was slowly i'm
proving at the hospital. His condition
was 80 serious about the goth that it
became necessary to. summon rela-
tives. Mrs. V. o. Seymour, a sister,
| came over from Grand Forks, while
Mr.. and Mrs. R. J. Roberts and MI.
and Mrs. Valentine Roberts, broth
ers, came from Lakota. The Roberts
families came over in their auto, a
distance Of 140 miles, to Jamestown,
in order to save time in getting to
the main line of the Northern Pacific.
The sister returned home on Wednes-
day and the brothers and their wives
were to leave Friday morning.
The display windows of the Ro-
quette store have been much admired
this week and have all the style, class
and artistic effect attained by the big
city decorators. Llewellyn r ,quette,
who recently completed a course in
this line of work, is the man respon-
sible for this. A window in the
Crowl- Schroeder store is also attract
ing a great deal of attention. 1t is a
summer godos window and the lunch
baskets, hammocks, croquet sets,
garden and sand pile make it very at
tractive. A. S. Goodman, the firms
shoeman, did this decorating.
The street and alley committee has
decided to oil 9 or 10 blocks, practi-
cally the White Way district, and it
is expected that work will commence
the coming week. The first thing is
to get the streets surfaced and ready
for the oil application. About. $4,000
gallons of oil has been ordered from
the Standard Oil Co., the grade used
for this purpose costing around SC per
gallon laid down. If the oiled streets
are a success, as it is believed they
will be, more of this work will be
done another season.
The Alces club held a pleasant
party in the Elk home Wednesday
afternoon which was not largely at
tended on account of the rain. Tit
ladies plan to have these meeting'
every Wednesday afternoon and thu
) coming week will have invited guests
The new officers are: Mrs. Mcbride
president; Mrs. McCabe of Belfeld
vice president; Mrs. John Lish, sec
) rotary; Mrs. Cartwright, treasurer.
; The P. E. o. meeting at Mrs. Stick
ney's Tuesday evening, the last of tn