The Dickinson press., 1916-12-09
LOCAL NEWS

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attendance is requested.
A. C. McInnes, of the Benzie drug
store, has rented the Bower house
north of P. F. Berringer's residence.
He expects his wife and little son to
arrive from Devils Lake in about a
month.
Senator Ed. Hughes of Bismarck,
one of the members of the firm of
Hughes & Deiters Of this city, was
the guest over Sunday of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. H. Deiters.
The little six months old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Koch passed away
on Tuesday after only a days illness.
Mr.. Koch is employed in the Dickin-
son Bottling Works and resides in
South Dickinson.
Ed. Moldenhauer of 18 miles south
of the city :.utoed in on Wednesday
to do some shopping and attend to
business matters. Mr.. Holdenhauer
is farming a quarter section of land,
having resided at that place for the
past nine years. .
P. E. Zimmerman, of the Dickinson
Ice & Transfer Co., returned Sunday
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couple of days on matters in connec-
ton with the new ice and storage
plant which will soon be in the
process of erection.
H. C. Christensen, one of the
prominent ranchers of the country
north, drove in on Monday and spent
the greater part of the week in the
city, attending to business affairs and
visiting old friends. MI. Christensen
while in the city, was a guest at the
C. N. Barker home.
Mrs. VIM. Kostelecky entertained ID
little guests on Friday afternoon from
8 o'clock to $50 for her little son,
William, the occasion being his Sec
ond birthday. Flowers and Santa
Clauses were used for decorations.
Mrs. Lillian Deisher of Salt Lake
City, who is visiting her niece, Mrs.
Kostelecky, assisted.
At a meeting of the Eastern Star
on Thursday evening, Mesdames o.
Schwartz, Harry Singer and F. l..
Roquette, Misses Oral Roquette and
Fannie Singer, and Llewellyn Ro-
quette were taken in as new members.
Tonight (Friday) the Eastern Star
will join with the Masons in a pub
lie installation of officers.
Mesdames M. P. Reed and Henry
Sunders of Beach came down on
Tuesday morning to spend the day in
the city, Mrs. Reed being the guest
of her friend, Mrs. F. D. Cooper,
while the latter visited her sister,
Mrs. Mary Sherlock. Mr.. Sunders is
engaged in the mercantile business at
Beach.
The D. Y. w. A. will give their first
annual public dance in the armory on
Wednesday, December 18th. Tillot-
sons Singing orchestra will furnish
the music, which in itself is a predic-
ton of a success. The committee in
charge have planned a most delight
full time. Tickets will be sold for
$1.00, extra ladies rs cents.
L. j. Willis was suddenly taken i'll
on Tuesday morning and grew worse
as the day progressed, necessitating
his entering the local hospital in the
afternoon for an operation for acute
appendicitis, which he underwent in a
few hours after entering. The oper-
alton vas most successful and he is
now getting along nicely.
Mrs. w. B. Dickson was hostess on
Saturday evening to the lady teach
ers of our public schools at a prettily
appointed 6 o'clock dinner on Satur-
day evening. Covers ere laid for "a.
The guests brought their Christmas
fancy work and spent a most delight
full evening. Mrs. Dickson had the as
s~istance of her daughter, Miss Agnes.
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A young joy rider borrowed Lloyd
RcGcr's Ford automobile one evening
recently and decided to take a young
lady to a dance about Is miles dis
t2nt. While turning g corner at high
speed the car skidded into a ditch and
turned over. The young man es-
capped uninjured, but the young lady
sustained quite a sever injury to
her back. The car was pretty badly
wrecked, and as a consequence of the
joy ride the young man has quite a
repair bill to foot.
The Sorosis, the new organization
for the young ladies of the Congrega-
tional church, held it's monthly
meeting in the church parlors on
Monday evening. A fine dinner was
prepared and served by Mrs. Earl
Branick and Misses Ida Bartz, Esther
Ayers and Minnie Angliss, and was
followed by a social evening over
sewing and fancy work. The next
meeting will take place the first Tues
day in the new year.
Thos. Miklautsch had a hard streak
of luck recently during the rush bust
ness in his tailor shop, when two of
his men were disabled for some time
on account Of illness and accident.
Gustave Seland had the misfortune
to slip and break a rib, which laid him
up for several days and during that
time John wanna, also an assistant
in the shop, was obliged to enter
the hospital for an appendicitis oper-
alton. Mr.. Seland is back on the job
and Mr.. wanna will be able to re-
sumo work the first Of next week.
The P. A. Swanson home was the
scene of a pretty wedding on Wednes-
day afternoon at a o'clock, when Miss
Louise Idler became the bride of Carl