The Dickinson press., 1915-05-08
LOCAL NEWS

Louis Dundas recently returned
from England.
Rasmus Jensen was in from his
ranch early in the week. ~
Single man wants position on farm
or in town. Address PRESS office.
adv. lip
H. G. Christensen was in from his
ranch the first of the week to attend
to some business matters.
A daughter was born Sunday, May
End, to MI. and Mrs. Mckinney at
their home in the western part of the
city.
G. E. Smith of St. Paul is the new
Western Union city manager at Dick
inson, entering upon his duties May 1.
Mrs. Julius Hoist returned recently
from Mudbaden, Minnesota, where Mr..
Hoist is taking mud baths for diabetis.
He seems a little improved and will
return home in a week or so.
o. B. Frankenberg has leased the
room heretofore occupied by the Re-
corder-Post to use in connection with
his pool hall in the J. V. lessen base
ment. He will arrange a shirt order
counter, where coffee, etc., will be
served.
Nathan Mum was in Dickinson on
Wednesday en- route to Alberta, Can
ada, from Baker, Montana, where he
had been to seed some land on his
homestead. MI. Mum still owns The
cottages north of the Singer home.
It will be good news to many people
to know that Mrs. C. D. Litch, who
underwent such a serious operation
last week at St. Joseph's hospital, is
now getting along nicely. For a few
days members Of her family were
very anxious about her condition.
Miss Della Molloy returned the
past week from Milwaukee and Chi
cago and will be with her brother, }.
w. Molloy of Dickinson, and later
with her father, Hugh Molloy, in
Dunn county. Her father has been
in Chicago the past winter and was
expected back the last of the week.
Albert Langdon and j. o. Palmer
came in Thursday from the Grassy
Butte country to get supplies. They
expected to load out the same even
ing. Mr.. Langdon has 40 acres in
crop and will offer proof on his 800,
acre farm early in June.
On Sunday the new Congregational
church at Wibaux will be dedicated
and Rev. John Orchard of this city
will preach the sermon. About 22
years ago Mr.. Orchard organized the
Wibaux (then Mingusville) church.
Rev. G. J. Powell, formerly superin-
tendent of Congregational church
work in North Dakota, now of Mon
tana, will also take part in the serv-
ice; also Rev. Geo. N. Remission Of
Beach.
George L. Grayson and Sam Combs
came in Wednesday in the formers
auto from Killdeer. Mr.. Grayson is
the local salesman of the Fertile Val
ley Land Co. in Dunn county, having
an office in Killdeer, and came in to
get John Marshall, secretary, who
came out from the Twin Cities to look
after affairs a little. The local office
reports the sale of a quarter section
four miles from Killdeer to John
Zimmerman at $27.75 per acre.
A. P. Collar, the Underwood repre-
sentative in the territory west of Bis
marck, is a happy. man these days,
having won out vel five others as
the champion salesman in the state
| for April. The contest closed while
Mr.. C ollar was in Dickinson, his last
| sales being a machine for the
| Stark county treasurer and four for
| the Everett Co., two for the office
here and two for the Manning office.
! Mr.. Collar received a wire from the
state manager congratulating him up
on his success.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Odds have
leased the rooms next east of the Tot
tingham barber shop, for some time
occupied as a tailor shop and are
| opening there a shop to be known as
"The Midget" while catering to the
public in their popular Candy Kitchen
as before. The new shop will carry a
full line of fresh candies, tobaccos
and cigars and periodicals and the dis
penser of all these will be John Rob-
inson, the popular baseball fan and
all around good fellow, whose popu-
larity is measured only by his &C.
q%uaintance.
The Brown Dairy Thursday sold to
George Peterson of Emerson eight
| grade Holstein cows and a registered
yearling Holstein bull, the consider
alton being 1926. A year ago Mr..
Brown sold a herd Of ten cows and a
registered bull to a Dunn Center
farmer and County Auditor C. H. Gut
mann of Manning, Mr.. Hewson of
Libby Butte and w. H. Cooke of Dick
inson, own registered bulls from the
Brown herd. All this is suggestive
and points to increased interest in the
dairy business when farmers r plac-
ing registered stock at the head Of
their herds.
On Friday of last week Mrs. L. A.
Simpson and Mrs. Christine Messer-
smith gave a kitchen shower for Miss
Bertha Dolezal, who has been with
the Simpson family the past year and
who in the near future is to become
the bride of Joseph Zahradnik. Fiji
teen of Miss Dolezal's girl friends
were present and all passed a most
delightful afternoon. Their gifts to
the prospective bride were numerous