The Dickinson press., 1917-10-06
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C. A. Sharp is the new N. P. agen,
at Medora, taking up his duties las,
week.
Watford has an epidemic of meas
les, a large number of cases being re-
ported.
John Moses, who has been practic.
ing law at Hebron, has moved tc
Hazen, Mercer county, where he will
continue the practice of his profess
sion. 90
A beet sugar plant to cost a million
and a half dollars is one of the big
industries that Williston people are
trying to promote.
The Billings county local board ex-
amined 40 more men for the draft
army this week. This will make 15C
examined to make the county's quota
which is 43.
The N. P. pump house at Medora
caught fire from a spark from a pas
sing engine on Monday of last week
but the blaze was extinguished before
a great deal of damage was done.
A total of 39,964,133 acres of land
were assessed for taxation in North
Dakota this year as compared with
39,5S4,286 acres last year, an increase
of 379,849 acres, according to State
The City bakery at Watford was
nearly destroyed by fire on Tuesday
night of last week. The fire gained
such rapid Roadway that three ladies
sleeping in the living room barely
escaped with their lives.
Gottlieb Krieger of Krem was sent
enced to the state penitentiary for
one year at hard labor by Judge J.
NJ. Hanley, having been arrested and
pleading guilty to the charge Of
grand larceny.
Auditor Carl Kositzky. The increas-
ed acreage placed on the tax roll this
year is accounted for in a large num-
Der Of homcsteads having been proven
up on and the sale of a large amount
Of school lands.
DR.. j. P. Wcyrens is in Taylor TAX
ing the place Of DR.. H. F. Kammann
for a short time. Dr.. Weyrens was To-
Gated in Dickinson a few years ago
and later moved to Taylor. He will
remain in that village during the
absence of DR.. Kammann.
Attorney f. E. McCurdy Of Bis
marck, who has in nine months done
more to clean out the blindpigs and
tough places than all Of his prede-
cessors i'm the county Of Burleigh.
spent Tuesday night here and Wednes-
day attended to legal matters at
Manning.-Killdeer Tribune. .
DR.. R. Thompson, who has been
temporarily located at Killdecr fol-
the past few weeks, has decided tc
locate there permanently and vii!
have his office in the building vacated
by Attorney R. C. Pinkham, who has
joined the colors. DR.. Thompson was
formerly located at Mcintosh, S. D.
The village board Of Mott objected
to the carnival which had been adj
vertised to be held in that city fol-
two days, and the contract had to be
cancelled. The Mott band was behin(
the carnival in the hope of securing
funds to pay off the accrued debts
No reason is given for the action Of
the village board.
Few North Dakotans know that
Wallis Huidekoper, an old-time ranch.
man in southwestern North Dakota
and now engaged in the r%anching bust
ness in the Sweet Grass country ir
Montana, is the owner of the origina.
sketch Of Charles M. Russell's "The
Last of Five Thousand-Waiting fol
a Chinook" Huidekoper is a great
admirer of Russell and in recent years
has purchased several thousand dol
lars worth of his pictures.
A prairie fire which started about
four miles from Glen Ullin swept the
surrounding country and e. into the
Haymarsh region. The Snyder
%threshing outfit after closing dowr
Saturday night pulled out the fire
CRATES and left them, and during thu
night a heavy wind came up which
started the fire. J.. K. Petit was tn;
heaviest loser. His loss totals :
thousand tons of hay which was re
Gently put up. Several other mino1
damages resulted. For a time thu
fire threatened to come into Gler
Ullin.