The Dickinson press., 1916-05-27
LOCAL NEWS

oOVs 4.Xo.CI
Postmaster Jacob Krier of Glad
stone was in Dickinson on Sunday for
the K. c. doings.
Indian Motorcycles sold on the in
stallment plan. See Ray Graf at the
St. Charles Barber Shop. 5-27-tf
Peter Zahn and M. ZaL1., both of
Beulah, N. D., are spending a month
in Dickinson taking chiropractic ad-
justments.
H. Meisner returned from Fryburg
on Tuesday, going from here to Bis
marck and thence back to Wetting-
berg, Wis.
Mrs. B. E. Lepper, who has been
i'll in her rooms in the Crtteau house
about three weeks, was able to sit up
the first of the week.
international, Big -Four, Geiser,
Emerson and Reeves steam and gas
tractors. Roy Butler, st. Charles
Building.-adv.
Mrs. M. M. Bobb of Taylor stopped
in Dickinson Wednesday to consult
Drs. Garner & Garner, motoring on
through to New England, where she
will visit friends.
j. A.. Dobson attended to business
matters in connection with his farm
during his absence of ten days out
south. He states that Fred Griswold
is doing a good deal of farming this
season in the vicinity of Regent.
Cashier and Mrs. w. A. Shaw Of
the Rhame bank spent Friday and
Saturday in the city. Mrs. Shaw
found the Dickinson stores good plac-
es in which to buy goods not carried
by the merchants of her own town.
John Charmley, owner of the Mott
Spotlight, and one of the best known
editors in North Dakota, in the city
last Friday and Saturday, was great
ly impressed with the growth of
Dickinson since his visit of two years
before.
Rev. C. A. Balloon, recently of Will
liston, his family still residing there,
was in the city the middle of the
week looking up a residence, in case
he should decide to move to this
place. Mr.. Balloon is in charge of
Presbyterian Sabbath school work in
the western third portion of the state.
Attorney H. J. Miller of New Eng
land was in the city the first of the
week en- route to the state capital on
legal business. Mr.. Miller recently
purchased a section of land in Dovre
township in Slope county. He is hav-
ing the land plowed and will have
several hundred acres in flax this
year.
Rev. A. C. Hacke and John
Orchard are each scheduled for ar
address at the state meeting of the
international Sunday Schol Associa-
ton convention to be held in Devils
Lake the middle of June. Allen
.Harleman, president of the Stark
County organization, will go down as
delegate.
Mrs. A. J. Osborn received word
from Huddleston, Va, that her moth
err, Mrs. Matte Saunders, is just
about the same only much weaker
and in greater pain. Mrs. Osborn's
sister, Mrs. w. H. Cooke of this city,
is still down there and likely to re-
main with her mother as long as she
is needed.
A rain set in last Saturday night
which lasted for most of the day
Sunday. The total precipitation was
IS inches according to the govern
ment gauge at the Dickinson x
pertinent station. It also rained
again Wednesday night. The weather
has continued cold and cloudy most
Of the time for several weeks.
F. W. Turner, the Cadillac dis
tributor for southwestern North Da-
kota, sold one of his e~ight-cylinder
cars to J. E. Phelan the past week,
making the fifth that he has sold this
spring. This beautiful seven-passen-
ger car vas taken to Bowman on
Wednesday by Paul Kittleson. Mr..
and Mrs. Phelan will leave in a
month or two overland for Seattle.
Rev. F. Kordewich, pastor of the
Lutheran churches in Richardton and
Dickinson, drove out to Manning,
Killdeer and Dunn Center points the
first of the week, organizing congre-
cations out north. In the near future
it is expected that a new Lutheran
church will be erected at Dunn Center
and a minister called to serve that
and the neighboring towns.
Sam Glerup of the Grassy Butte
country spent a few days in Dickin-
son this week. His cattle and horses
wintered without loss the past winter.
Mr.. Glerup is a director of the First
State Bank of his place and was
present this week when the first
meeting was held. He has made a
success of the stock business and
should be just as successful as a
bank director.
Mrs. M. l.. Ayers will remain in
Oberlin, Ohio, until school closes and
then 60 to the New England states
to spend a month or two before re-
turning to Dickinson. Miss Dorothy
Ayers has sufficiently recovered from
her operation to resume a portion of
her class work. She is still weak and
had to be taken around in a wheel
chair the past week.