The Dickinson press., 1916-04-15
LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. Zingleman of New Salem spent
Saturday in the city.
Miss Saphronia Gaylord is visiting
at the Glen Cassidy farm south of the
city this week.
Miss Oral Roquette returned Sun
day from her ten days. visit with her
sister, Miss La Verne, at Stanley
Hall, in st. Paul.
Misses Agnes and Phoebe Smiley
visited the latter part of last week
with their uncle and aunt, Editor and
Mrs. J. l.. Strang at Taylor. IN,
John Schaeffer, yard foreman of
the Dickinson Fire & Pressed Brick
Co., was recovering the first of the
week from a severe illness Of ten
days.
Miss Ruth Richie, who is teaching
near Mandan, visited recently at the
W. E. Baker home in this city. The
Richie and Baker families were close
neighbors, when the latter resided in
Mandan. ri
Claude H. Severance, who is farm
ing a half section of land five miles
south of Belfeld was in the city the
first of the week on business. This
year Mr.. Severance plans on putting
in 200 acres of crop.
Rev. R. H. Craig departed Tues
day morning for a business and
pleasure trip to Fargo and Lisbon,
this state, to be gone until today
(Friday.). His son, Ray, is sheriff of
Ransom county and resides at Lisbon.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Asher returned
last Thursday, the former having
gone down several days before to
Austin, MIMI, to accompany his wife
home. Mrs. Asher spent the greater
part of the winter with her folks at
Austin.
Carl Hupenbecker of Zenith was a
Dickinson visitor on Monday. Mr..
Hupenbecker expected to begin work
in the fields on Wednesday, providing
the nice weather of the first of the
week continued. He is planning on
charging his crop acreage this spring
with quite a little new breaking
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wilkinson left
Tuesday morning on No. a for
Beulah, N. D., being called by the
serious illness of the latter's brother,
, who resides IS miles north of Beulah.
, Mr.. Wilkinson expected to return to
his duties as foreman of the Russell
Miller Milling Co., in a few days.
His wife, however, will likely remain
for several weeks.
Nurse Lille Reid came up from
! New England Monday evening, &C.
companying Nurse Catherine Law
l renee, who had contracted typhoid
. fever and was seriously i'll. They
} made the trip by auto but on &C
count of the bad roads it took them
five hours to come in. The patient
entered the hospital Immediately anc
r Miss Reid returned to her home ir
e New England the next morning.
l Fred Deiters left Monday Afternoon
on a couple days. business trip tt
Beach. He was accompanied by his
e sister, Mrs. J. w. Groves and he1
:, daughter, Lois, of St. Paul, who arc
e spending some time with Mrs. Louise
Deiters in this city. Mrs. Groves anc
S daughter visited only a short time
e before returning home again. Mrs
Louise Deiters is getting along very
nicely and was able to enjoy an auto
: ride the first of the week. ~
Max Hendrick returned Saturday
e from Minneapolis, where he spent the
r week ~transact1ng a business deal with
r James C. Young, which involves the
sum Of $24 800 and covers the Young
park land section, which adjoins the
city limits on the north. The 612H
0 acres, which the purchase includes
: lie east, north and west of the park
and constitute the remainder Of the
section with the exception of three
f~ve-acre tracts on the west, which
are also owned by local parties. Mr.
Hendrick always has his eye open tt
a good deal and thinks he got this
i land at a bargain at $40 per acre, as
certain parts of this tract are easily
$ worth over twice that amount pei
acre. He has also made several
other important purchases in loca
r real estate recently and is in no hurry
v to dispose of his newly acquired prop
+ erty as he realizes that land in anc
about Dickinson is steadily raising il
value. ~