The Dickinson press., 1915-05-15
NEWS

The Croteau dining room is to open
within a day OF two.
Sand and gravel at the North Da-
kota Pressed Brick plant, Csc per
yard at pit; 1925 delivered in city.
adv. E.a 5-15-2t
There was 10 degrees of frost re-
corded at the local government gauge
on the 9Th. The foliage vas not in
jured and very little garden stuff
was far enough advanced to take any
injury.
Mr.. and Mrs Andrew Erdahl are
expected home from their honeymoon
trip Saturday or Sunday. They will
board for a few weeks or until about
the first of June when they get the
| Robert Wilcox house.
Miss Florence Turner of Fargo
won the Forum Beauty Contest which
closed the first of the week. Miss
Minnie Frank of the Odds Candy
Kitchen, was the candidate at Dick
inson and gets honorable mention in
the Forum.
DR.. S. w. Bailey wrote from juno
ton City, Kansas, on May 7th that
the party was delayed there two days
on account of rain. All members of
the party were well and having a good
time. The travel through Iowa, Ne
braska and Missouri was already
completed.
Small grain seeding was finished at
the Anton Burda farm seven miles
northwest of Dickinson on the 10th.
About 200 acres of wheat were sown,
so acres of oats and the ground was
to be prepared this week for 40 acres
of corn
Mrs. J. C. Erb came in from Man
ming Saturday on the auto stage to
visit a few days with her son, Paul,
and daughter, Miss Ruth, who are
attending high school here. Mrs.
Erb returned to Manning the middle
of the week.
MI. and Mrs. Christ Peterson and
Miss Thelma were returning from
Minneapolis to Medora on Wednesday.
Their daughter is better but it will he
some time before she fully regains
her health. MI. and Mrs. Peterson
now plan to return to Dickinson in
the near future and to again occupy
IllC1I llO1llO vi Va <AVNANS
Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Smiley and family
moved this week into the Roy Heaton
house recently vacated by the Hugh
Roberts family. Editor S. c. Barnes,
who bought the house occupied by the
Smiley's, expected to move his family
into their new place the last of the
week. They have been living in one
of the Pat Mckinley houses in the
eastern part of the town.
George Wright, the Taylor hard
ware man, was in Dickinson on Sat-
urday for the purpose of getting
trees at the experiment station to re
place stock in his grove at his rented
farm this side of Belfeld. Mr..
Wright has a good man on his farm
and is doing his part by keeping up
the improvements as far as possible
on the place.
Mandan Observation-Disclosures Mel
son has found it necessary to put on
40 extra men to take carr of the Sec
ton work that is to be done on the
first sub division of the Yellowstone
division. There is considerable re-
moving of ties, many small fills to be
made and other important work which
is necessary to be done right away.
The extra section men were started
to work the first of the month.
w. j. Runyan arrived on Tuesday
from Danville, ILL.,, where he had
, spent the winter at the National Sol
diers Home. He came out through
. South Dakota, the state where he
; pioneered, carrying mail for Uncle
Sam in the days before there were
) railroads. Mr.. Runyan will spend a
! few weeks in this city with his
. daughter, Mrs. B. E. Noark. On the
7th of this month he celebrated his
:, 82nd birthday.
T. S. Underhill and his niece, Miss
Mabel Hyde, arrived Sunday after
noon from st. townsville, N. Y, where
, Mr.. Underhill had peen spending the
greater part of the winter. They
visited in Chicago and the Twin
Cities on the way out and were not
tired from a long continuous trip OH
their arrival here. Miss Hyde el-
poets to remain at Dickinson and
Antelope for some weeks. Mr.. ard
Mrs. B. Lepper are her uncle and
aunt, and all four have DON at the
new John Croteau home on First
Avenue East. With the exception of
a bad cold, Mr.. Underhill has enjoyed
good health the past winter. He says
the people complain bitterly of hard
times in the eastern states and on the
first-class passenger trains the travel
is very light.
W. H. Reaney, advance agent for
the Yankee Robinson circus, was in
v | DsI-~~ lad C~4-J~~r @,,.0 n
date in this city-Tuesday, June !.
The Yankee Robinson shows were in
Dickinson in 1911. Since this time
the company has added 10 carloads of
animals and various attractions, hay
ing IS carloads in all. The show
comes from Miles City to Beach,
then to Dickinson for June 1 and New
Salem on June 2 and Bismarck on
Time 2 An excursion train will take