The Dickinson press., 1915-01-30
LOCAL NEWS

Dr. and Mrs. Delbert of Hebron
were guests in the city last Saturday.
G. A. Hoffman Of Faith, S. D., had
business in Dickinson the first Of the
week.
G. O. Thompson, editor of the
Taylor Reporter, was in Dickinson
this week for both the council and
Robert Burns doings.
Walter J. Ray, register of deeds for
Billings county, was down from Me-
dora on Sunday, visiting relatives and
taking in the concert.
Miss Anna Johnson, stenographer
for the Mandan Mercantile Co., left
on a months vacation the first Of the
week. She will spend much of her
time at her home in Taylor, also visit
ing at Glendive, Mandan and possibly
Fargo.
Mrs. August Johnson of Taylor ex-
poets to leave the %forepart of the
coming month on an extended visit
to Iowa. Her main visit will be at
Es%therville, where she will visit a
sister, Mrs. X. Bervin. Her little son,
Hugo, will accompany her.
John A. Elliot of Amidon was able
to leave St. Joseph's hospital the first
of the week and was registered at
the Kihm for several days, expecting
to go out home for a short time the
last of the week. His operation was
quite a serious one but he expects to
be all right again in a short time.
Mrs. F. A. Halstead of Mankato,
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Halstead, and family of this city.
She expects to go on west Sunday to
visit the Panama Exposition. Mr..
Halstead, who is with the Molloy
Heating & Plumbing Co., came to
Dickinson early last spring and he
and his wife are much pleased with
the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Klein and son
were guests the past week for a day
at the w. A. Mcclure home in this
city. Mr.. Klein was returning from
10 days spent at Hunters Hot Springs
and Mrs. Klein and son, who had been
visiting at Bismarck and vicinity,
came to Dickinson to meet him. The
family went from here to Richardton
to visit before returning to their
home in Halliday via Mandan.
Conductor A. C. Galloway enjoyed
a visit this week from his father,
James Galloway of Driscoll, N. D.,
who was on hand for the Sons of
Scotia celebration of the Burns an
~niversary on, the 25th. MI. Galloway
is a genuine Scotchman and brought
with him his bag pipes, much to the
qualification of those who had an op-
portunity of hearing him play. He
returned home after a few days visit.
DR.. G. A. Perkins had an auto
mobile accident the latter part of last
week at South Heart, where he
damaged a Buick run-about somewhat.
While endeavoring to make the west
crossing at a good rate of speed his
machine skidded: Along the south
side of the track there is a narrow
deep ditch; crossing the track all
right the doctor dropped into this
ditch, damaging the radiator, wheels
and other parts of the car.
F. D. Cooper, the N. P. station
agent at Dickinson, was joined Mon
day morning by his brother, Duncan
Cooper, an N. P. operator at Beach,
in a trip to Lohrville, Iowa, 20 miles
below Fort Dodge, where they were
called by the serious illness of their
father. Agent Cooper had received
word some days before that his
father, aged about IS years, was suf-
fering from pneumonia.-Later- A
telegram came Tuesday saying that
the father had died before the arrival
of the sons.p
The way people have been attend
ing the "blue pencil" sale at the Dick
inson Mercantile Co. store the past
week has been gratifying indeed to
the management. Saturdays sales
the opening day, were considerably
better than had been expected and
Mondays sales were even larger
Crowds of people are visiting the
store each day, requiring an addition
al force of clerks. This will be con.
tinued through the coming week, Civ.
ing the people from the country an
opportunity to get in and take ad-
vantage of the bargains.
William Dolechek and Anton
Kaisky drove in Tuesday in a buggy
from their homes Is miles northwest
They found less snow this way and
concluded that they had acted wisely
in not starting out with a sled, al
though there is plenty of snow for