The Dickinson press., 1917-10-13
GRASSY BUTTE NEWS.

GRASSY BUTTE NEWS.
A. l.. Falconer of Hutchinson,
Mimi, was buying one or two car
loads of cattle here last week. His
purchases included some from the
Following parties: Blakely, Nichols
and Walker.
F. j. Steffeck, superintendent of Nc
Kenzie county schools, was, in the
Grassy Butte country the past week.
He has 149 schools in his county and
10 of them are this side of the river,
IL being in the Rhoades school dis
trict.
r. Walker of Fargo, general collec-
tor for the ]. I. Case Machine Co.,
came out from Killdeer recently to
close up some business matters for his
company. He is a relative of Postmast-
er and Mrs. Don Mckenzie and a tai
ented singer.
Mrs. E. C. Carney and Miss Bertha
R. Palmer, field deputy superintendent
; of schools of Williams county, and
Miss Henrietta A. Irgans of the
| Williams County State Bank, anne
over from Williston en- route to Dick
inson for the federation meeting.
Miss Palmer, a former teacher in the
Dickinson public schools, later super
visor of drawing and music at Bis
Henry LUCKNOW had his notice to re-
port for duty at Schafer on the End.
A few days before leaving he went
over to Manning and was married to
miss Martha Weber. Frank Luckow
left on the 10Th of September for
Camp Dodge. Gus LUCKNOW, who is at
Taylor, where he was recently mar
ried, may be the next member of the
family called into the service. Mr..
and Mrs. William Luckow, settlers
; northeast of Grassy Butte, were
planning to make the trip with Henry
to Schafer.
marck, was taking the party over in
experiences crossing the ponteen
and the ferry at the Little Missouri
crossing. They enjoyed the Bad
Lands scenery on this trip and their
stop at Hotel Mckenzie in Grassy
Butte was also among their treasured
recollections. They were bearers of
the Senator w. D. diversion collection
of Indian curios, said to be the largest
and finest individual collection in the
northwest, and gave the people of the
hotel here a chance to see the same.
L. H. Nicols, contractor with the
Heaton Lumber Co., came out Friday
who is residing on their homestead
c%ornering their SON, Alonzo's, ranch,
to go in for the Methodist church dedi-
cation and state conference meetings.
Misses Emma, Puma and Lucille also
went along for the event. Misses
Emma and Puma are teachers in this
locality, the former having a home
stead neal her brothers ranch. Herb
ert, who attended school out here last
year, is attending school now at
Flasher, being with his sister, Mrs.
S. R. Shannon. Mr.. Shannon is
cashier of the First State Bank at
, Flasher and will be remembered to
many Press readers as a former resi-
dent Of Dickinson.
es most Of the territory in Mckenzie
river, being the largest in the county,
year: Emma Nichols, Elma Murray,
Meta Hoist, O. j. Luethi, Gladys Ell
lingson, Hazel Murphy, Archie Lam
bert, Mrs. Jessie Lambert, Mrs.
Allen Gray, Rita Conway, Puma
Nichols and Rose Coyne. A. E. Law
head is president of the board; Sam
Rhoades and Sam Glerup, directors;
Don Mckenzie, treasurer Daisey P.
Waddell, clerk. In this connection it
will interest the readers, perhaps,
to know that Miss Coyne has a sister
in the telephone exchange at Killdeer,
another filing the position of stenog-
rapher in, Attorney Tom Johnson's Of
flee and still another homesteading on
Maverick Flats.
October II was the time when Sam
Glerup, T. G. Saunders, Cuskelly Bros.
and others were to make a shipment
of some 800 stock cattle to the Stand
ing Rock reservation for the winter.
This trainload Of cattle wa to be
loaded at Killdeer and shipped via
Mandan to Flasher II some point
just west and then driven across the
country to a point about 20 miles
south of Morristown, southeast of
Lennon, about IS miles. Dexter
Glerup expected to remain at the
winter camp until spring and probably
some of the other owners will remain
there for the winter. A crew of
men have been putting up hay down
there for some time. They have
been getting about a ton to the acre.
1t was scarcity of hay and winter
range that caused our cattlemen to
m 1ro +bic ehift fo,. kba uJi,,+oy