The Dickinson press., 1916-03-25
LOCAL NEWS

tendent of nurses at St. Luke's hos
pital in st. Paul, returned to her
work Sunday after a short visit with
her mother, Mrs. Jeane Crowl, and
sister, Mrs. R. A. Lyons.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Tollefson and
little son, Norman, expect to leave
Sunday for the Twin Cities, where
the little fellow will receive treat
ments. Their daughter, Marjory, will
remain with her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Ole Tollefson, until their re-
turn.
Albert Cooke, residing five and one
half miles southwest of Gladstone,
was in the city Monday on a return
trip from Killdeer, where he spent a
week visiting a cousin. He was a
guest for a short time at his fathers,
w. H. Cookies, farm south of the
city while in this vicinity.
"Peg o. My Heart" will be shown
at the Dickinson opera house next
Monday night by the original New
York-Boston cast. This is not a
motion picture, but a real show-one
of the best on the road. It comes to
Dickinson direct from the large
eastern cities, and is a guaranteed
production.
A rehearing has been granted by
the supreme court in the damage
cases brought by several Dickinson
people against the Northern Pacific
Railway Co., for damage lone by
backing water from the railway cul-
verts. This cast is scheduled for
trial in the district court in Dickin-
son next Monday.
The Mandan Pioneer of March 21st
states that General Manager J. M.
Rappelje, Supt. T. H. Lantry, Train
master John Wynn and other officials
of the Northern Pacific were at
Mandan on that day watching the
breakup of the Missouri and taking
charge of preparations to safeguard
the railroad property. i
The ladies Of the Dickinson Gene
terry Auxiliary are so well satisfied
from the results of their food sale
Saturday afternoon in the Masonic
building that they are planning for
another within a month or six weeks.
They cleared a goodly sum which will
go toward the salary of caretaker of
the cemetery during the summer.
Mrs. Mary Candee, who resided in
the house recently purchased by
Verne Baker of Emerson in the west
ern part of the city, moved the past
week into the house west of the
library, where she will reside tempo
rarily with her sister, Mrs. John
Little. The Bakers will move into
their new home in the near future.
w. H. Cooke, of a short distance
southwest of the city, completed a
deal the latter part of last week
whereby he sold a quarter section of
land each to John and Mike Wanner,
residing south of Lehigh. This land
is located about 10 miles southeast of
dickinson and was sold to the former
at $3.50 per acre and to the latter
at $27.5O. The land was sold on the
crop payment plan.
The current. number of the Yeoman
Shield contains a very interesting de.
scription of Holland, "The land of
written by H. c. Evans of Des
Moines, Iowa, editor of the above
publication. Mr.. Evans is a brother
of Editor T. Leroy Evans of the
Promoter at Halliday, and an uncle
of Miss Lorene Evans, a senior in our
local high school. He was chosen a
member of the Ford peace party, and
from time to time writes very inter-
estingly of his travels.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Hughes of the
Grill Cafe are expecting the adjusters
to determine the recent fire loss to-
day. AS soon as adjustment is
made work on repairing and redeco-
rating will begin Immediately. The
walls will be reprinted and kalso-
mined, new linoleum put down, new
supports and joists placed in the
basement and new plumbing and elec-
trical wiring put in. 1t will probably
take all of next week to make the
necessary changes and the cafe will
be opened around the first of the
coming month.