The Dickinson press., 1916-04-29
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ing to Gottlieb Wiedemyer, about
seven miles northeast of Halliday,
were killed by wolves recently.
The Mott city council has made ar
rangements for putting in a large
the coming building season. {
The Halliday band has 10 members
and will m practice next
week. Earl Harris is the president;
Oscar Braaten, vice president; Loren
Curtis, secretary.
Anton Koshiol, now proprietor of
the Mott creamery, has closed a deal
whereby he has leased the building
and machinery for one year from
the Mott Creamery Co.
The Taylor Concert band has rent
ed the Taylor auditorium for a year
and the members are practicing dill
gently. w. F. Kempshall has been
elected manager.
The Beach Tennis association has
purchased three lots in Hunters adj
dition to Beach, which they will i'm
prove for use IS permanent tennis
courts.
Martin Brottcn and Carl Peterson,
pioneer business men of Fryburg, left
recently for Paulson, Mont, where
they will engage in business. Mr..
Brotten will move his family to
Montana as soon as school is out.
John Tester of Snow has sold his
48O-acre farm to Liber Hecker of
South Heart for a consideration of
1920 or $1,000 per acre. This is a
| 80. $3.50 rryk1r No1 0NNCrrJaeo %ho+
the land lays about % miles from the
railroad.
The recent heavy rains so increased
the volume of water in the Milwau-
kee reservoir at Hettinger, known as
Mirror Lake, that about so feet Of
the dam was washed out. The rail-
road company soon had a large crew
of men at work repairing the dam.
A petition containing so names has
been presented to the Halliday Com
mercial Club, asking that the club
use it's influence for the establishment
of a rural mail route north from
Halliday. A south route is also con-
templated.
Joe Watson, who lives near Schafer,
trapped q full grown bobcat at his
farm on the Little Missouri river
the other day. The animal was
nearly four feet in length. 1t had
been killing Mr.. Watson's chickens,
making nightly raids on his hencoop
for some time.
A. L. Martin, the we'll known stock
man of Sentinel Butte, recently re-
ceived a car load shipment of
thoroughbred Polled Angus bulls
from a large stock farm at Cogswell,
this state. Two of the animals were
unloaded in Dickinson for w. l..
Richards.
Robert J. List of Amidon is a can
didate for the nomination as senator
from the Both Legislative district. Mr..
List is one of the best known men
in the Slope country and his friends
maintain that his nomination and
election is practically assured.
A new tri-weekly mail service be-
tween Marmarth and Camp Crook
goes into effect May list. The new
route is made possible by the energy
and liberality of the Marmarth Com
mercial Club, which has spent in the
excess of $4,000 on the road through
the gumbo hills, 20 miles south of
Bowman.
Paul Voltz and Kaspar Mastel,
both parents in Butte district, were
araigned before Justice Grayson at
Killdeer recently for neglecting to
send their children to school as the
law requires. Both men plead guilty
and were fined the minimum penalty
and costs, as this was the first time
they had been brought up before the
court for that onense. Each paid $22.
w. C. Pelton, proprietor of Pelton's
Folly Dairy, appeared in Dunn Center
recently with a brand new dairy
wagon, modernly built and equipped
and as nobby looking affair as one
would see in the cities. Mr.. Pelton
believes in keeping pace with the
growth and progress Of The City
Beautiful and owns n of the finest
diaries in the northwest. Mr.. Pelton
was formerly a Dickinson resident.
Dunn county parties residing near
Halliday and Werner, have recently
purchased through Lyman Sumter,
agent, three blooded stations which
were shipped from Bismarck. The
animals are of the Belgian and
Percheron types and were purchased
as company horses. Among the pur-
chasers are included Walter Thomp-
son, C. j. Fox, Hart Bros, Peter Kay
and others. Walter Thompson will
have a Percheron at his place 10
miles south of Werner.
What is probably one of the big
gest shipments of high-grade cattle
to come into that city reached
Beach when Oswood brothers re-
ceived 10 carloads, containing about
275 head of Hereford cattle. The
stock was shipped from Halliday, N.
D., and was taken out to the Keen
ranch about 40 miles north of Beach
on the Big Beaver. The Oswood
brothers have purchased 300 acres
and also the stock on the Keen ranch
and m addition will place this large
shipment of Herefords on their
newly acquired property.
Geo. Crysler of Belfield was at Kill
deer last week looking over the city
with a view of establishing an electric
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