The Dickinson press., 1916-10-21

Patrick Heenan Of Minot has been
appointed state transportation agent.
Elwood Raveling Of Buffalo had the
misfortune of breaking one of his
arms. This makes the fourth time he
has had this arm broken.
A campaign for sale of 500, 900
worth of stock in the Uorthern
Packing company, recently organized
at Grand Forks, is under way.
The Western Telephone Co., has de-
cided to adjust it's somewhat tangled
affairs by an assignment. T. j. Cum
mings of Towner has been appointed
receiver.
C. G.. Bostrom of Cooperstown has
patented recently a new device which
he claims will work wonders in the
operation of washing machines. A
| good thing for lazy mems wives.
About twenty young ladies of Nc
| Vile have formed what is known as
the M. O. B. club. It is probably a
M. O. B. the young men of the town
had better look out for
Edward Clark of Darlington has
asked a divorce from his wife on the
ground that their marriage, two days
after they were divorced eleven years
ago, was illegal. They have a SON.
Towner has been assured of an cleo
trio light service within the next go
days. The property owners in the
down town district are already on
| sidering the installation of a dazzling
white way.
An automobile owned by Leo Ku-
boski of Williston, was destroyed by
fire from the cylinder and gained
such Roadway that the machine was
practically a complete loss before the
flames could be extinguished.
Olaf Pierson of near York, had a
large stack of oat hay destroyed by
fire. 1t was stacked while quite damp
and got so hot in the stack that it
caught fire from spontaneous combus-
ton.
The Pembina Light & Power COM
pany has a good portion of the main
wires stretched through that city and
most of the buildings are wired.
There are four crews at work there
and one or two at Neche.
At Smaller, in Morton county, Harry
Gieve met with a most serious acct
dent while running a threshing ma
chine. One arm was broken in four
places and he received injuries in the
chest and had several ribs broken.
Ben Cloud, we'll known graduate of
the Bismarck Indian school, is an ex-
cellent soldier, according to word re-
| ceived from his company on the
border. He has been made battalion
| sergeant major of the first battalion.
Mrs. Wilhelm Ley of Ashley met
with a rather painful accident while
grinding ~horseradish. In some way
She got her finger into the mechanism
of the grinder, which resulted in the
almost complete severance of the
member.
The Farmers Elevator company at
La Moure received the highest priced
load of grain ever brought to that
town, it being a load of flax hauled
by Sam Montgomery for George Klo-
beck, 112 bushels and sold for $25O.9O.
What might have been quite a.seri-
Gus accident occurred at Edgeley
when a speeder on the railroad ran
off at the switch. A number of boys
had been playing with the switch and
left it turned and could not turn ii
back before the speeder struck it.
AS a means of combating diph-
liberia, three cases of which have ap-
peared within a week, one being fatal
the schools of Cando have been
closed. Marian Williams, aged 6, was
in school a day after she became af.
fected with the disease, and she dice
the second day after quitting school
While assisting in unloading a tor
and half safe for the Citizens State
bank at Antler, Thos. Bready's right
foot got caught between the Grating
around the safe and a block on the
car floor when the Grating on the op'
posite side from which he was lifting
broke and let the safe fall to thu
floor. In jumping to free himself hi