The Dickinson press., 1916-08-26
N~EIGHBORHOOD NOTES
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position with an electric light and
telephone company.
w. H. Hardy, for the French gov.
eminent, conducted a horse sale al
Belfield last week and secured three
carloads of horses, paying from SOC
to $40 apiece for them.
Mrs. Fac Elliott, who has been in
charge of the Manning drug store for
the past few months, returned to Kill
deer last week. The drug store at
Manning has been closed.
Rev. Arthur E. Prior of Valley
City has been called to the passionate
of the Congregational church by the
unanimous vote Of the members of
the Congregational society at New
England.
f. D. Mcbride of Killdecr made a
deal the first of last week whereby he
became half owner of the general
merchandise store at Emerson, pur-
chasing same from C. B. Nyhagen,
who retains the other half.
Harry Lehman and Elvin Boyd
have been engaged in wrecking the
old Dunn county Jail this week (from
the outside). The cells have been
sold to the town of Killdeer and will
be freighted over there and set up
| this week.
DR.. Furman, formerly of Richard
ton, but now located at Langdon, N.
D., is seriously i'll with typhoid fever
and members of the family have
been summoned to Langdon from
Neenah, Wis. Those who came are
his father and mother, one brother,
a sister and two nephews.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Grayson, Jr., who has been visit
ing at Grayson farm south of Kill
deer with his mother, accidentally
drank some turpcntine Wednesday
while he was playing in the barn
and was burned quite badly. At the
present time he is rapidly recovering.
At a meeting of the directors of
the First State Bank of Killdeer held
recently Jourgen Howard resigned his
position as cashier Of the bank, hav-
ing sold his stock to J. E. Gunderson
of Rugby. All the other officers were
reelected. Mr.. Howard is undecided
as to what he will do in the future
but will undoubtedly enter business at
Killdeer.
George Chrysler returned to Beach
from Halliday Thursday evening,
| stopping over at South Heart to at
tend to some details in connection
with his contract for heating and wir-
ing the new church at South Heart.
| While at. Halliday Mr.. Chrysler Sc
cured the contract for the plumbing,
heating and wiring of the new $4,000
school house being erected at Halli-
day.
Phillip Koch, the butcher at Dodge,
recently dismissed from the Manning
Jail for beating up his wife, was
I given a coat of axle grease and
feathers at Dodge on Saturday night
of last week. 1t seems that Koch had
been up to his old tricks again of
abusing his family. He was taken
into the streets, stripped Of his cloth
ing, smeared with axle grease and
then decorated with a coat of feath-
ers, afterwards being turned loose.
w. F. Fitzpatrick died at the home
of his son, w. F. Fitzpatrick, a few
miles east of Oakdale on Tuesday,
August 18th. Death resulted from
old age and dropsy. Deceased was
born in New York and came to his
county three years ago, had he lived
until his next birthday he would of
been 80 years old. Four sons and
one daughter are left to mourn his
loss. Mr.. Fitzpatrick had a kind dis
position and will be greatly missed
by the large circle of friends who
knew him.
George Wiebke, of the firm of
Bishop & Wiebke of Belfeld, last Fri
day morning was injured when three
horses he was leading became fright
ened at a passing automobile. Mr..
Wiebke received a violent kick on the
lower part of his face, fracturing his
nose and causing a number Of painful
and ugly confusions, besides deep cuts
over the right eye and his upper lip.
His hands and one foot were also
cut and bruised. Mr.. Wiebke will
probably be around again in about a
week.
John H. Baer, for the past three
years postma ster at Beach, on Tues
day Of last week sent in his resigna-
tion to tie postmaster general at
Washington, D. c., same to take eff
feet as soon as another can be ap-
pointed in his stead. The Non
partisan Leader and Dakota Engrav-
ing Co. made him an offer which he
felt he could rot afford to pass up.
Mr.. Baer has sold his residence in
Beach and will leave for Fargo as
soon as a successor to him as post
master can be appointed.
The pump house of the N. P. rail-
way at Hebron was completely de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday morning of
last week at about a o'clock. The
cause of the fire is unknown, as no
one was in the building when the
blaze started. The greatest loss was
sustained by Arthur Darling, the en-
gineer, who had his best clothes and
Ia G0E0 nootoroxyc1o c+orod in thu