The Dickinson press., 1917-09-29
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MISSOURI SLOPE NOTES
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The free mail sent out by Congress-
men amounts to seven tons a day.
Stock Slippers will load about seventy
cars of cattle out Of Killdeer on
Thursday Of this week.
Owing to an accident to the limo
type machine, the Belfield Times force
had to stick type by hand for last
weeks edition Of that paper.
The Boyd restaurant at Manning
has again opened for business. Mrs.
Boyd, proprietor of the restaurant,
has been i'll during the summer and
has been taking a much-needed rest.
Citizens of Bismarck will now par
take of clarified water. No longer
will the muddy Missouri kind appear
in the fashionable hotels of the Capt.
tai city. Clarified water with the right
kind O. stick in it is some appetizer.
Chicken thieves are at work in Nc
Kenzie county. Ninety full-grown
hens were stolen from A.. K. Brown,
who lives north of Schafer. A few
weeks ago some sneak thief stole
twenty-four chickens from Ray Dodge.
Peter C. Moe of Schafer and Miss
Hilda Sophia of Arnegard were
united in marriage at the brides home
on Saturday, September Is. The
groom is in the garage business at
Schafer.
E. S. Evenson, we'll known business
man of Halliday, was united in mar
riage Wednesday Of last week to
Miss Lillian Hermansted, the cere-
mony being performed at the home
of the brides sister, Mrs. Peter John
son, at Halliday.
DR.. O. M. Smith has returned to
Killdeer after doing postgraduate
work in Chicago hospitals for the past
nine weeks. Mrs. Smith accompanied
him and spent the time visiting with
friends and relatives.
Attorney John Moses, who has been
a law partner with Attorney Samuel
P. Halpern of Hebron, left last week
for Hazen, where the field is opened
by the departure of Attorney l.. U.
Stambaugh for service in the National
army and the withdrawal of Attorney
Oliver Leverson from active legal
work,
Three Hazen men are up against
the federal law charged with bringing
booze into the state. They are Adam
Schwartz, hotel man, Gus Schlenden
and J. M. Sailer. They were bound
over to the federal court, and their
cases will be presented to the federal
grand jury in November. Bonds were
fixed at $1,000.
The Charbonneau Betterment Club
made a raid on the middle Creek
Glee Club" at Charbonneau last week
and as a result the members of the
glee club, at least five of them, are
tangled up with the law. They were
having a quiet little drinkfest on the
sidewalk in the early morning hours.
Prosecution under the federal bone
dry law will follow.
The four-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Rhode, who lives south of
Halliday , received injuries last
Wednesday which proved fatal the
following day. The father was n
gagged in burning a straw stack and
while the little fellow was playing
about the fire his clothing caught on
fire and he was badly burned about
the body before the burning clothing
could be removed. He died on Thurs
day afternoon.
Louie Cohen, a Stacker, va picked
up by the authorities in Oliver county.
He is said to have made some re-
marks as to what might happen in
case an attempt was made to make
him register but when the sheriff
called on him he was decidedly SUBJ
missive. He claimed to have regis
tered in Montana and later to have
had his registration card burned up in
a pair of overalls while in Dickinson.
Anyone heard of an overalls fire
lately?
A test case Of the North Dakota
bone dry law will be made through
the efforts of Williston officials. A
suit case containing several bottles or
whiskey were discovered in a lodger's
room at a local hotel. The police con-
fscated the stuff and arrested the
owner. No charge Of trying to dis
pose of the liquor was entered, the
ase will be tried on the charge Of
having it in his possession.
H. l.. Hartman, manager of the
Palace theatre at Mandan, was ar
rested recently by States Attorney H..
H. Connolly, at the instance of At
torney General LANCER, charged with
operating a place Of amusement on
Sunday. About three weeks ago Mr..
Hartman presented a film of religious
character and this has been followed
for two Sundays with films of a like
nature. Attorney J. F. Sullivan mas
been retained to defend Hartman, and
the outcome of the LAST will be
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