The Dickinson press., 1916-01-15
LOCAL NEWS

]. c. Schwartz of Manning was in
Wednesday with a load Of wheat.
Miss Aimee Barbeau arrived Satur-
day from Ekalaka, Mont, for a visit
Of two weeks with her mother and
sisters, Miss Ida Barbeau and Mrs.
John Lish.
Miss Elsie Kyseth of Taylor is a
guest at the home of her aunt, Mrs.
Roy Henderson of this city every
week, when she comes up for her
violin lesson.
Mrs. Harry Lawrence returned
Tuesday from a several days visit
with her husband at Beach. MI.
Lawrence has had a run as conductor
from Beach to Ollie for the past sew
eral weeks.
The cold weather Of the past two
weeks has brought a great deal of
over time work for the plumbers, on
account of the many frozen water
connections. One plumber alone had
26 calls during two days.
Jerry Mahoney, n of the drivers
of the Dickinson Union Delivery, left
Wednesday in response to a message
informing him of the death of an
uncle in South St. Paul. He expected
to be gone only a short time.
John A. Roth of Malta, Mont, and
Miss Elizabeth Schorsch of Richard
ton, were married Wednesday by
Judge Fred Maser. They left in the
evening on No. 7 for Malta, the groom
having a homestead eight miles north.
| The first big leap year affair of the
season was the dance given by the
Eastern Star at the Masonic temple
last Saturday evening. An unusually
fine lunch was served and a large
crowd present. Music was furnished
by Mrs. Valdemar lessen on the piano
and Frederick lessen, violin.
Mrs. J. G. F. Parker is apparently
making a good recovery at st. JOS
sph's hospital from her serious hip
fracture Of two weeks ago. However,
it will be a long time before she can
get around, and in the meantime rela-
tives and friends are doing what they
can to make it pleasant for her.
Miss Margaret Blackburn, a pupil
in Bad Land school district, Oakdale,
was the winner of a prize in North
Dakota Appreciation Week essay con-
test. When n stops to consider that
there were over three thousand essays
submitted, the honor coming to Miss
Blackburn is indeed a signal one.
Little Frances Mclean, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Mclean or Sec
ond Ave. West, sustained quite seri-
GUS burns Tuesday evening, when she
slipped and fell on the hot register.
The accident was doubly hard on lit
tie Frances as she was to appear in
the Tom Thumb play that evening.
Regular services will be held in the
Lutheran church Sunday, German in
the morning at 1890 and English in
the evening at 7:3O. The Lords Sup
per will be celebrated at the morning
service. A congregation meeting will
take place at 200 o'clock in the
afternoon. Rev. F. K~ordowick, pastor.
Frank Spriggs, for the past six
months an assistant in the Oscar Farr
J furniture store, departed on Sunday
for his old home in Grand Rapids,
michigan, having resigned his position
with Mr.. Farr. Mr.. Spriggs made a
, number of friends during his stay
here, who regret to hear of his leav-
ing Dickinson.
Miss Julia Finger of South Heart,
after spending several days at the
home of her sister, Mrs. C. 2. Angel,
. left Tuesday on No. 3 for Roosevelt,
Utah, where she will spend the winter
with relatives, intending to return to
North Dakota in the early summer by
way of St. Paul and Minneapolis,
where she expects to visit some
weeks.
Alex Monty and sons, Floyd and
Roy, were in Dickinson from Fryburg
on Thursday in attendance at the tri-
county convention of the Farmers
Educational & Cooperative Union:
Mr.. Monty will ship a carload OF
hogs to the eastern markets the lat
ter part of this week. These hogs are
all of his own raising On his farm one
mile east of Fryburg. He will also
take along a carload Of hogs for the
, Farmers Union of his vicinity. The
entire Monty family are strong
boosters for the Union, and are of
the opinion that cooperation will ulti-
mately be practiced by all farmers.