The Dickinson press., 1915-02-20

taught CldC Jay III HeT SCedQ.
The pupils of the Freshman class
will give a play on March 10Th.
Everybody come. Admission for
children under IL years of age will
be 15c. Adults 25c. p
REMINISCENT OF EARLIER DAYS
Editor of The Press:
When Dickinson began to put on
airs the fall of 1882, there drifted to
that town some of the most unique
~personages that ever c~ongregated in
one little frontier village. There was
Eph. Seaman, who built the corner
store building. Then there was
Fowler who put in the first drug
store. Doc. Mcdonald as picturesque
a parsonage as one ever saw then or
now. The doctor, when I first became
acquainted with him, had been farther
west but somehow drifted back to
Dickinson.
The firm of Aud & Hoyt (soon to
be changed to the firm of Aud &
Moore) did business on the corner
where the house stands on Willard St.,
built by Charles K%linefelter, Jr. :
Right back from the Aud & Moore
store a man had a dug-out in which
he subsisted by the grace of a higher
power and tanned hides for a liveli-
hood. This unique person lost his
life later in the Yellowstone Park by
failing from a considerable height on
a tree. .;
Then we must not forget Frank
Lish. He was conductor on a train
on the N. P. at that time and can re-
member well the first time he ever
pulled into the Dickinson yards.
H. L. Dickinson was considered to
be the father of the town and he GER
tainly was able to do the fatherly act
most gracefully. y
N. C. Lawrence came from Glen
dive a little later and the ubiquitous
1J.aC. Scott appeared on the horizon
of u activities and issued the first
number of THE DICKINSON PRESS
on March 31st, 1883. Joe said that
the paper was owned by Scott &
Mabee and would be published every
Saturday, Providence permitting.
The editorial column was the first
column on the fourth page and the
prospectus was the first column on
the first page. Joe made good and
sold later to the present proprietor
and drifted with the frontier fellow
farther west.
E. F. Messersmith, the McGinleys,
L. K. Grantier, who by the way, built
the first dwelling house ever erected
in the town. This house, I believe, is
occupied at present by Walt. Nor
thrup.
Charles Kleinfelter, ST., the first
winter, occupied the railway section
house and kept a good place to eat
Here one stormy day Dan Forbes
Charley Kono, G. S. Cryne and one OF
| two other worthless came and had q
: good dinner, after which they went
to Eph. Seman's place and Dan bought
two yoke of wild cattle, or at least
, they might better have been wild fol
all the good their knowledge of the
!, ways of civilized oxen are supposed tc
act and took them to Gladstone tt
break sod the season of 1883.
That winter George Aud kept
supply store somewhere near where
Bowman now is and there was a sup.
ply store kept by Sebastian & Edga,
at Sully Springs that season also
7 The latter named firm and Beckett &
Foot at Sully Springs bought the
greater part of the hides that were
sold by the hunters. At Gladstone
Cryne bought a few and Aud &
] Moore bought at Dickinson. This
r comprised the buffalo business the
first two winters and afterward there
was nothing doing in the buffalo bust
ness, However, Tom Evans; the
notorious Tom, he of the varied &C.
| eomplishments, made a record the
summer of 1884, as being the first
! person to ship a carload Of buffalo
. bones. His shipment was to st
: Louis and the price was SO satisfac.
: tory that he shipped more, and this
/ brought the industry where every
body and his wife and her relation
went to picking bones, until in a com.
paratively short time there would
: have to have been a prize offered fol
' a buffalo bone if anybody should have
! needed one.
4 Not to have been a bone picker
marks a person as being in class by
, himself. :.
: Then Beckett & Foote opened The
Lehigh Coal Mine by making an entry
into the bank north Of the railway
: This entry was made off the ice or
the river and demonstrated the thick.
: ness of the vein. From that first
, venture the mine progressed to what
it is now, a very lucrative property
and ranks as the first commercial Goa,
mine after the one opened in the rail
) way cut just west Of the Franz
. Moore hosiery at Little Missouri.
I(Pyramid Park) now Medora, in 1882
by the Mp. Ry. Co. Right here Mike
LaIly enters the scene. Mike always
had an eye out for the main chance
, and when he took the rock cut to ex.
cayate from the contractoron The
railway he also believed that he would
do d stroke of business by squattine
on the quarter section which he after.
ward sold to the mining company: