The Dickinson press., 1917-09-01

The new telephone line between
Killdeer and Grassy Butte has been
completed and the people Of the
Grassy Butte country now have con-
nections with the outside world.
A Red Cross branch has been or
ganized at Midway, with the follow
ing officers: Mrs. A. w, Arnott,
chairman; Mrs. ]. K. Branch, vice
chairman; Mrs. E: P. Church, treas
urer; Mrs. Peter Oberg, secretary. !
The construction work on the new
Slope county court house at Amidon
is progressing rapidly, and will be
ready for occupancy shortly after
October list. The frame is now com,
pleted, the outside walls boarded and
the roof in place.
Woodberry school district in Slope
county has let a contract to Bake
& Melby of Dickinson for a three
room consolidated school building to
cost $1,000. The building will be OF
brick and hollow tile and will be the
last word in modern school building.
The county officials of Bowman and
Slope counties met in bloodless bat
tie on the baseball diamond recently
to decide the inter-county baseball
championship. The Bowman aggre-
cation proved too fast for the Slope
politicians and carried off the honors
by 9 to 5 score. The $65 gate re-
ceipts were turned W to the Red
Cross society.
Ernest Kruger, a prominent farm
er of near Hebron, died of heart fall
ure August 21st. He had been con-
fined to his bed for several weeks re-
covering from a broken leg and other
injuries received when ne was at
tackled by a mad bull while riding on
horseback. He was aged 40 years
and is survived by a wife and two
daughters, and his mother, who is in
her 84th year. Funeral services were
conducted at the farm home last
Thursday by Rev. A. Debus.
An accident happened at Pierce
when a motorcycle came pretty near
putting an automobile out of commits
sion. r. H. Hutchinson Of Amldon
was riding the motorcycle and Frank
Byers was operating the car when the
accident happened. Hutchinson was
hitting a lively clip and was unable
to guide his machine to the right
when a collision occurred. line
front part of the car was badly dam
aged but the motorcycle came through
with only a scratch. Hutchinson was
badly shaken up but was able to
hop on the wheel and return home.
Mr.. Byers was not injured.
Saturday of last week at the Con-
gregational parsonage. IN kll!deef,
Miss Mabel Thorson and Mr.. Clifford
Horseman were united in marriage
by Rev. George Atkinson. M. w.
Power and Miss Minnie Tabery at
tended Mr.. and Mrs. Horseman. Inn
mediately after the ceremony, MI.
and Mrs. Horseman left via stage Tor
Dickinson where they took a train to
Wisconsin and other eastern points to
spend their honeymoon: Mr.. Horse
man is a plumber and has been en-
gagged in Installing heating plants IN
Killdeer and Dunn Center. He has a
claim near Trotter, N. D., where they
will go to housekeeping.
Alexander Friedt Of Mott and
Joseph Rettinger of New England
were arrested last week for alleged
violations of the act of May IL, 1917
failure to register, and were ar
raigned before U. S. Commissioner E.
S. Dunn at Regent last Thursday;
They entered pleas of not guilty and
were released on $500 bail for their
appearance at the Bismarck term OF
United States court. The former
claims to be under the draft age
while the latter claims to be past 81
years. They will be given an op-
portunity of establishing their age
claims when their cases come up next
month.