The Dickinson press., 1917-10-13

threshed nine bushels of wheat to the
acre.
John Muggli of Richardton went to
Ringing, Mont, to see his brother,
Joe, before he left to join the army.
Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Dahlen of
Halliday are enjoying a visit from
their daughter, Mrs. Jacob, of Albert
Lee, MINI.
H. M. Pippin of Halliday, whose ex-
emption claim was rejected, will likely
leave about October 18th for Camp
Dodge, Ia.
A deal was closed last week at
Dunn Center whereby L. A. Chase
traded his farm for the Congo pool
hall. Mr.. Chase took possession i'm
Mrs. A. C. Diehl of Dunn Center de-
parted on Thursday last for Fort
Dodge, a., to visit her brother, who is
in the army.
Martin Lindemann and family have
moved to Richardton and Mr.. Linde-
mann is now the livery and dray man
at that place.
E. H. Piatt has sold his residence In
Manning to Oscar Helgeson and will
move it out onto his fine farm south
east of Manning. ,
w. F. Kopka of Halliday shipped
four carloads of stock to the St. Paul
market last week. Mr.. Kopka accom-
panied the shipment.
Joe Komp, who is employed by Matt
Blick at Killdeer, expected to leave
soon for the Twin Cities to work in
one of the large saddleries. .
DIR. Randall Thompson has returned
to Killdeer from Mcintosh, S: D.,
Thursday last and will open his Of
flee in Pinkham's place at once.
]. B. Manifold of Dunn Center lost
a valuable mich COW last week. Dur
ing the night she got her head caught
in a feed rack and choked to death.
Little Beata Messmer, daughter OF
Jacob Messmer of Richardton, VINO
underwent a serious operation at the
Bismarck hospital recently, is now i'm
proving.
W. H. johnson has rented his farm
near Dunn Center to .Theodor Carl
son. Mr.. and Mrs. johnson will spend
the winter visiting relatives In v
eral states.
Henry Commes of the Marshall
n~eighborhood, with 4 party OF friends,
left for Portal last week. MI. Com
mes has for years been one Of the
big farmers in the Marshall vicinity.
Mrs. Lorena Will of Medora left
Monday for Fargo, where she will
join her brother, w. W.. King, and
wife in an auto trip to the coast.
Mrs. Nichols will have charge OF the
postoffice at Medora during her
absence.
Mrs. Floyd Mead has purchased the
Cal. Odren farm near Werner for a
consideration of $4,000 per acre. Mr..
and Mrs. Oden have purchased a small
farm in Michigan, where they will
make their future home.
Werner, a village in Dunn county
Of $50 inhabitants, was three years
old last Friday and the Record came
out with a nice write up OF that
town and also a special write up for
each of the business houses:
Fire recently caught in the wheat
stacks belonging to John Mcdonnell
neal Dunn Center and they with the
separator belonging to Mr.. Kruger
burned.
Rudolph Olson, a farmer living a
few miles south of Almont, was ar
rested Tuesday for stealing ten spools
Of barb wire from F. W. Hyde OF AL
mont several months ago. Olson has
confessed to the theft and it is ex-
pected he will plead guilty when ar
raigned in district court to answer to
the charge of larceny.
Oscar Ebeltoft of Dunn Center came
near losing his life when he fell from
a scaffold on the Joe Marx barn near
Werner last week. He was found in
an unconscious condition under the
scaffold and was rushed to Werner
and upon examination it was found
that his head was badly gashed and
his shoulder dislocated. He was able
to return to his home on Wednesday
last.
Changes in the depot force at Rich
ardton are First Trick Operator j. IS.
Fisher, who left last week for Harris,
Mo-, where he will visit his parents.
w. B. Pierce is taking Mr.. Fiser's
place. Operator o. R. Pippin was
transferred to Zenith, Mrs. w. B.
Pierce taking his place. Operator
Zech expects to be called within a few
days, having joined the signal corps
some time ago. MI. Spike has also
resigned his position as agent, and
expects to leave for Washington about
October 18th.
Lee Bannon is wearing a somewhat
disfgured face this week, caused when
a load Of baled hay, which he was
hauling, dumped over. The accident
occurred while going down the steep
hill about twenty miles southwest OF
Mott. When the load tipped over Lee
was knocked down by the heavy bales
and completely covered up. His nose
and face was badly bruised and
scratched up and he also suffered a
bad injury on his left hip. His faith
er, j. R. Bannon, who was with him
at the time, was fortunate in escap-
ing without a scratch.
Mrs. William Lorenz, a resident OF
Mercer county, about 20 miles north
of Hebron, died at the hospital at
Bismarck, Friday, September 18th.
Deceased had been a patient at the
hospital for several weeks preceding
her death. The cause Of her demise was
due to a lung trouble from which she
had been suffering since June goth.
She was rs years old at the time of
her death.
A bad fire, thought to have started
from a flying spark, completely de-
stroyed several buildings on the John
Rokusek farm, northwest of Mott, on
Sunday afternoon of this week. The
fire was first noticed about three
o'clock by one of the little Rokusek
children, who Immediately spread the
alarm to it's parents. A general fire
alarm was given to the surrounding
farmers by telephone and within a
few minutes fire fighters arrived from