The Dickinson press., 1916-12-30

Happy n Prosperous New Year,
Brown Bros, jewelers.. 1t
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Schuyler Lebo of Medora at the
local hospital on Friday, December
22nd.
Walter Marty and VIM. Stein came
in from their adjoining homesteads in
the Oakdale country last Sunday en-
route to the John Marty farm, twenty
five miles south, to spend. Christmas.
Walter is a son of John Marty.
J. L. Johnson, formerly of Dickin-
son and more recently with the Kill
deer Tribune, is foreman in the Spot
light office at Mott. Mr.. johnson
moved his wife and two children over
to the "White City" of Hettinger
county the past fall and is well pleas
ed with new location.
v. A. Baker left this Friday morn
ing for Emerson, going via stage to
Manning and then on to his fern. He
has a carload of fat hogs which he
went down to prepare for market. He
will ship from Dunn Center to st.
Paul. Mr.. Baker will likely be gone
about a week.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Con-
gregational church will meet in the
church parlors Thursday January 4th.
The entertaining ladies are Mrs. A.
w. Mclean, Mrs. Lloyd RAIDER, Mrs.
C. E. Eldred, Mrs. David Roberts and
Mrs. Jean Crowl.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Gruschus re-
turned on Tuesday from Bismarck
where they were the guests since last
Saturday of Mr.. and Mrs. c.. r. Dali
rymple. Mrs. Dalrymple is better
known here as Miss Luella Peet, a
former Dickinson resident.
Mrs. Mary Walton, daughters, Miss
es Ellen and Dorothy, and son, Victor,
left for Malaan last Saturday to
spend Christmas with the H. S. Rus
sell family, MS. Russell being Mrs.
Walton's daughter. Miss Ellen and
Victor returned on tuesday evening
and Mrs. Walton and Dorothy were
expected back the last of the week.
Bert Waddell and Harold Rase
autoed in from Grassy Butte on Sun
day to spend Christmas with relatives.
They started out in Mr.. Waddell's
auto the day before but did not cover
much ground before their radiator
froze and they were obliged to spend
the night at a rancher's. They were
accompanied back on Monday by
Bert's brother, Lee, as far as the
Diamond C ranch, where the latter is
working, being in only for Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. v. lessen had as
their out-of-town guests on Christmas
dow NM owl Mrcr- T1oo5 T1co1, or,l
daughter, Eleanor, Of New England
The lessons from New England came
up in their a and we're stalled here
for several days on account Of the
here, as the first of the year he will
take up a position in: the Hub Cloth
ing store. Both Thomas and Fred are
brothers of J. V. lessen.
w. B. Howe has been too busy the
past year buying grain. and selling
coal and feed for the Mclaughlin
Equity Exchange to pay his annual
visit to Dickinson friends and rela7
tives. Mclaughlin is the point in
South Dakota where the Milwaukee
leaves the main line for Mott and
New England, and Mr.. Howe believes
the town has a good future. He re-
Gently had the good fortune to get a.
half section of choice Indian land not
far from Mclaughlin. w. B. Howe,
Jr., has a farm adjoining the TOWNSHIP
where he resides and keeps 80 cattle
and about the same number of horses.
This young Dickinson man has two
little sons at his home 3.
Geo. H. Foster of three miles north
of Belfield was in the city between
trains on Thursday, having come down
on court matters. Mr.. Foster is one
OF the prosperous farmers in that
community, but is planning On gradually
giving up farming for cattle raising.
He now has a herd of 70 Herefords
and. figures on investing in about 80
more head in the spring. He has
been feeding since early in the fall,
having plenty of hay put up, some 300
loads, of sweet clover and timothy and
some wild grass. MI. Foster is high
in his praise of sweet clover, as he
says it grows on gumbo as we'll as
| fertile soil and does not bloat the
stock as timothy or alfalfa are some
times. apt to do. He has in so acres
of sweet clover and timothy mixed
and 80 acres of clear timothy. He has
60 bushels of seed alfalfa which he
harvested from 16 acres of ground.
This was a most inopportune time for
| Mr.. Foster to leave home as the chill
dren are quite sick, his little daughter
just on the road to recovery but his
son Edward, aged eight years, having
a bad case of pneumonia and being
under the care of a special urse at
his home. e
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS
The regular annual meeting of the
| stockholders of the First National
Bank of Dickinson, for the purpose of
| electing a board of directors for the
ensuing year, will be held in the di-
rector's room Of said bank on Tues