The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1916-08-03

terday for Red Lake Falls,
Minnesota, on business CON
nected with his official duties.
J. Greengard arrived Monday
evening from his home at In
ternational Falls, Mimi. for a
visit at the home of his brother,
A. Greengard, in this city.
For S le-Thoroughbred
Scotch collie pups. Five and
eight dollars. l.. Critics, Over
ly. N. D. 48tf
For Sale--H:gh grade piano,
good as new, will be sold at
one-third Of regular price. G..
w. Snyder, Souris, N. d. 3tp.
Attorney Thorpe was over
from Towner Monday, driving
up to Lake Metigoshe to make
arrangements for a short out
ing at the lake.
T. G. Michaels of the Will
low City Eagle was in town
Tuesday on his return from
Lake Metigoshe, where his
family will spend a few weeks
outing.
g. A. Huss, auditor of the
Piper-Howe Lumber Co. and
r. ]. Piper of Minot, a mem
Der of the firm, were in the
city on business the first of
the week.
On account of Rev. Meyer
officiating at the Press Associa-
ton song service at Lake Metz
goshe there will be no morn
ing service at the Presbyterian
church on Sunday.
In the language of Walter
Lee, unless some speed king
gets a bug in his bonnet that
he cannot use streets as a race
track there is bound to be an
automobile accident at Antler
sooner or later.
Place the green card in your
window Friday morning of
each week and we will deliver
to you kerosene or gasoline in
any quantity at wholesale
Drice.-C. r. Gleason, agent,
STANDARD Oil Co. !ft)
Quite a number of citizens,
under the direction of the
Good Roads committee of the
commercial club, spent Tues
day on the Lake Metiaoshe
road, digging stones and
smoothing out some of. the
rough spots in the road. AS a
result of this work the Metigo-
she trail has been greatly i'm
proved for automobile travel.
Newton Greiner, who is
spending the summer at the
family homestead at Wauchope,
Sask., was taken seriously ill
with appendicitis last Satur-
day. DR.. MacKay of this city
was notified and left here Sun.
day morning in company with
Miss Nellie Greiner. They
reached Wauchope at nine
o'clock that evening and an
Operation was at once perform
ed. Reports from the patients
bedside report him as doing
nicely with fayorable chances
for recovery.
In the opinion of many sports
men, the prairie chicken hunt
ing in Bortineau county this
year will not be of the best, the
belief being that a large num-
Der of the birds have been kill
ed by the poisoned grain used
for gopher determination. The
fact that dead birds have been
found about the prairie gives
credence to the theory. Farm
ers also report an unusual scar
city of prairie chickens and
young coveys are very rare in
deed.
P. J. Scully, of the First Ma
tional Bank is enjoying an
auto trip to Minnesota in com.
pany with He. Harry of One
NEE. The gentlemen left on
Thursday for Elysian and are
travelling via Mr. Harty's new
Dodge and were accompanied
on the trip by Misses Nora
Harry and Bessie Kopp, of
Elysian, who were guests at
the Scully home during fair
week, and Mr.. Scully's son, Leo.
On the return trip they will
stop at St. Paul, where they
will be joined by Miss Cathe-
rine Scully, who is enroute
home from a six weeks visit
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