The Dickinson press., 1915-03-06
LOCAL NEWS

w. R. Lindsay of Fargo arrived in
days this week visiting with his many
friends here.
Lost-Riae 8 M. M. gauge in gun
Ease. From stock yards and around
town. Good reward, return to
PRESS.-adv. 3-6-1p
John w. Harnden is getting a little
stronger and was able the past week
to take his accustomed chair in the
kitchen of his home on Fourth Ave.
West.
Senator and Mrs. M. l.. Mcbride
are expected home from Bismarck the
last of the week. The children have
been staying with their grandparents,
Postmaster and Mrs. Frank Lish.
Mrs. w. N. Poor returned home
Tuesday from St. Paul, where she
has been visiting with her daughter,
Miss Helen, who is a nurse in st.
Luke's hospital.
Walter and Donald Ray spent Sun
day in the city visiting with their
mother, Mrs. Catherine Ray. They
returned to Medora in the evening.
Donald is looking after the stock
while Walter is attending to his dut-
les as register of deeds.
Representative and Mrs.. H. J..
Blanchard r expected home the last
of the week. During the session, Miss
Bernice Blanchard, sister of Mr..
Blanchard, has had full charge of
the Office and has more than handled
the business we'll.
The Edwin O.. Vtreho VS.. J. M.
Messner litigation, involving plain
tiff's farm north of Havelock, has ter
minated in favor of Vtreho. This
week Attorney F. C. Hebron of
Dickinson received an order from the
court directing the cancellation of
deed which Messner had procured in
addition to his mortgage on the land.
L. Scott returned last Saturday
from a visit with his sons out in the
Marshall country. He went out in a
buggy and found the snow very deep
and the going bad before he reached
either of their farms. Harry Scott
recently had a sale, disposing of a
large part of his personal property.
He has rented his farm and expects
to spend the summer in California.
Mrs. Henry Ramsey was a visitor
in the city from Killdeer the middle
of the week. She was in doing some
shopping and trying to get track of
four of their work horses that had
gotten away from them since moving
to Killdeer. MI. Ramsey is now in
| +h1 l.,ox, h,1oso1oo fh4r1 rr,hS1a tho
young men have charge of the pool
hall.
The heavy snow neal New Eng
land Tuesday night made it impos-
sible for the auto stage lines to make
the trip clear through. The drivers
of the autos were able to get within
four miles of the town Wednesday,
though they had to dig out their cars
a number of times. 1t was hoped that
the road would be plowed so that by
the end of the week the trips could
be made without trouble.
Miss Louise Suits, eldest daughte.
of P. F. Suits, arrived in the city
Wednesday morning and will spend
a few weeks visiting with friends and
relatives here. Miss Suits has been
in the millinery and dry goods bust
ness and has been looking over sew
eral fields for a location. She is 8
former resident Of this place, having
lived here until a few years ago when
she went to Excelsior, MINI.
M. M. Ruder, a Killdeer merchant
was in Dickinson on Wednesday, com
ing over via Mandan. Mr.. Ruder hao
business at Mandan and accompanied
his mother-in-law that far on her re
turn home. He says, however, that
the railroad fare from Kildeer via
Mandan to Dickinson is but a little
more than the cost of travel overland
at this season of the year. Of course
it takes much more time and that is
valuable to a business man.
Representative G. NJ. Moses OF
Drayton was in Dickinson the past
week looking over the field with g
view of changing his present loca-
ton. He is agent of the Great West
Life and has fully made up his mino
to settle in the western part of the
state, having important centers like
Dickinson and Minot in view. Mr.
Moses is father of bill II, known as
the Watkins measure, (which went
down to defeat in the Senate last
week.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Scharf ano
children came in Saturday from theil