The Dickinson press., 1917-12-08

Word comes that Glen Hollenbeck
and Quintin Roberts of Company K
have been made sergeants and Hughie
Roberts was made corporal.
Mrs. Jerry Dryer is recovering
slowly from her operation of several
weeks ago and was able to sit up a
Little for the first time on Wednesday.
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Dick
jnson Cemetery Association postponed
their regular meeting from December
4th to Wednesday, December 18th.
Mrs. H. J. Gruschus will entertain.
Lee, son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Schwan of South Dickinson, departed
Sunday for the Great Lakes naval
station after a furlough visit of al
most a week with his parents and
friends.
Miss Vera Berringer, who has a
large class of piano pupils, has al.
ranged a recital to be given by them
at her home on Second Avenue West
tomorrow Saturday evening, begin
ming at 1880.
The adjuster for the Security In
surance Co. was here this week and
settled in full with J.. w. Molloy,
whose home and shop were recently
damaged by fire. John Orchard is the
local representative.
Mrs. J. O. Gray of Medora came
down on No. 2 Thursday especially to
attend the Red Cross meeting at which
Mrs: Remington spoke. She was very
much disappointed, however, as her
train arrived too late.
Martin Lenhardt of the Willard hotel
has gone to Bismarck to take up a
business course. His place at the
hotel is now being filled by Frank.
Hatzenbuehler, who was formerly
with the St. Charles hotel.
C. R. Norton, who formerly travelled
for the Gamble Robinson Fruit Com
pany, is now vice president of the
Western Sales Company at Bismarck,
and was in this city and Beach on
business matters the past week.
Mrs. P. c. Remington, district field
secretary of the Red Cross, gave a
talk to the local chapter at the Ma
sonic hall on Thursday afternoon.
Among the out-of-town women pres
ent were Mesdames J. P. Reeves and
Thos. Hayward, of Beach, who were
guests of Mrs. P. S. Washer.
MI. and Mrs. P. S. Washer, pro-
prietors of the st. Charles hotel, ex-
pect to leave or Monday for the east,
the latter being en- route to Chicago
and from there expects to. leave for
Texas to spend the winter. Mr..
Washer will accompany his wife to st.
Paul and plans on being gone only a
little over a week.. ,
A. L. Price arrived the early part
of the week. from Caspar, Wyo., to
R. C. Horn. Mr.. Horn and his man
were busy the past week installing a
Delco-light plant to light the New
Hradec church and parochial school.
The plant was purchased from c..
Peterson of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan White, accom-
panied by Mrs. J. A. Currie, autoed
to Dickinson on Wednesday, the
Whites being guests of Mrs. Whites
sister, Mrs. Robert Rudiselle, and her
husband, and Mrs. Currie visiting her
sister, Mrs. A. C. PagenKopr, and
family. They returned to their homes
at New England the next morning.
N. Blick, who is known to many
Dickinson people as he once man
aged the Dickinson Saddlery here,
later going into business for himself
at killdeer, had a streak of hard luck
the first of the week, when his shop
burned down to the ground. The
place was only partly insured. Mr..
Blick's future plans are not known.
Miss Anna Mullaney, who went
down with her father, J. o. Mullaney,
before Thanksgiving to see her broth
er, Leo Mullaney, who is a student in
St. Thomas college, St. Paul, re-
turned on Saturday and Mr.. Mullaney
several days later. While they We're
with him, Leo underwent a minor oper-
alton and is now getting along very
nicely.
The November quarterly apportion-
ment for the Stark county schools is
$1457.25, $4,000 being allotted to the
Dickinson district, which has 1876
children enrolled. The remainder is to
be divided among the 27 other dis
tricts of the county, representing 3643
children. This is the smallest appor-
tionn1ent that Stark county has had
for a longtime.
William, the little one and a half
years old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Casper
Fink Of Richardton, is in the local
\ hospital, being treated for very Sc
were scalds on face and arms, that
were incurred when the little tot. fell
into a tub Of hot water, when his
mother was washing clothes the first
of the week. Little William was
brought to Dickinson on Wednesday,
and will recover nicely after some
time.
P.sH. Harrington of Prince Albert,
Canada, mention of whose expected
arrival, was made in a recent Press
issue, came on Wednesday, accom-
panied by his son, James, and daugh-
tiers, Marian and Nellie. They expect
to visit here for about two weeks. with
Mr.. Harrington's mother, Mrs. Mary
Harrington, his brother, Dan, and sis.
tiers, Mesdames Bert Sprague and
Chas. Sproat. Mr.. Harrington is still
quite weak from his injuries received
in active service in Europe, but hopes
to regain his strength so that he
may again take up his work as rail