The Dickinson press., 1917-11-03
LOCAL NEWS

this week attending to legal business.
November Records on sale at
Benzie's. "
Adam Lefor of Lefor, one of the big
guns in the Dickinson-L efor-Leipzig
Railroad company, was in Dickinson
this week.
Mrs. J. P. Tingle is making slow
recovery at St. Joseph's hospital, be-
ing able to sit up for a little while
on Monday, but it vas not supposed
that she would be able to leave for
her home this week.
John Gallagher, who for six weeks
was a guest of his daughters, Mrs. W.
A. Mcclure of this city and Mrs.
Julius Hoist of Gladstone, left on
Monday for his home at Hazen, N. D.
Miss Josie Kouba of Sentinel Butte
came down ON Saturday for a short
visit at the Dominick wanna home in
this city and also at the Anton
Burda farm, five miles north. Miss
Kauba returned on Monday.
Mrs. S. M. Ferris, who left last
Thursday to meet her mother. Mrs:
w. H. Gunter, in St. Paul, returned
with her guest on Sunday. Mrs.
Gunter comes from St. Johns, New
Brunswick, Cam, and expects to spend
the winter here.
E. A. Lillibridge returned the mid
die of the week from. st. Paul, where
he spent a short time on business,
having gone down from Fargo, where
he went as a delegate on Y. M. c. A:
work. En- route east he stopped off
at Breckenridge to spend Sunday with
his brother.
Miss Sylvia Sticka, niece of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Petricka of this city, is a
new telephone operator at the local
exchange. Miss Sticka came from the
east about three months ago, and has
been visiting with her cousin, Mrs.
Frank Burda, a short distance north
of town.
The Womens Foreign Missionary
society of the M. E. church met on
Saturday afternoon in the ladies' par
lor Of the church. The society has be-
gun the study of a new book Under
the Crescent and Among the Kraals,"
reviewed the first chapter at this
meeting.
E. F. Froelich, who three years ago
left for Minneapolis, and of late has
been engaged at the Ford branch at
that point, writes home to his rela-
tives here that he has joined the 30th
Engineering corps and left the past
week for Washington, D. C. Before
leaving this city he was engaged in
work at the N. P. express office.
Friends in the city received an
nouncements the past week of the
marriage of William Frank Smasal to
Miss Annie Margaret Wolf in the
Holy Trinity church at New Ulm,
Mimi, at 9 o'clock Tuesday, October
3Oth. Mr.. Smasal was employed for
some time i'm the First National Bank
of this city and was a member of the
Bachelor club. He left from here for
New Ulm, where he is now located.
Mrs. j. C. Haskin of Spokane,
WASH, who has been spending about
a week visiting her mother, Mrs. Lucy
Dobson, and other relatives in this
city, and also old friends at Mandan,
her former home town, left for her
coast home on Wednesday, taking her
mother back with her. Mrs Dobson
will be with her daughter for the
winter. While at Mandan Mrs. Has
kin was the guest Of honor at a num-
Der of social functions.
Now is the time to order magazines
fer Christmas gifts and your W
for the coming year. Many maya
zines give the November and Decem-
Der numbers free-fourteen months
for the price of a year-if ordered
now. Several special clubs will be
withdrawn November 10 and the price
of some magazines advances then.
The Congregational ladies solicit your
magazine patronage and guarantee to
meet any club rate put out. Orders
may be given Mrs. H. w. Reed or
Mrs, M. L. Ayers.
I. A. Nelson, contractor residing at
Belfield, was in the city on Saturday
attending to business matters. Just
now, while work is Stacking up a
trile, he S busy putting up buildings
on his W farm, 10 miles south of
Fryburg. The new house is 24x24
feet with a 12x16 addition. He is also
planning on erecting a 16x24 barn.
His farm consists of three quarters,
which he rents out, the family resid-
ing in Belfeld. His son, Carl, who
the past summer enlisted in the. navy,
has been transferred from the Great
Lakes training station to Philadelphia.
On his trip to Dickinson Mr.. Nelson
was accompanied by VIM. Sellman,
who visited his wife at the local hos
pital.
Miss Mabel Carroll was hostess last
Saturday evening at a veXy pretty
party to which 80 young folks, boys
and girls, were invited. The guests
were met at the door by am ominous
looking witch, who escorted them
through a dark spooky basement room
and up a stairway before they en-
tered the living room, which was
beautifully decorated with cats,
witches and orange and black stream
ers, these also forming draperies over
the archways. Mrs. Carroll, with the
aid Of Mrs. T. A. Tollefson, served
the guests a four-course dinner at
small tables, which looked very pretty
with Halloween place cards, favors
and shaded candles. The guests had
a jolly good time throughout the
evening with games and stories.
Nearly a hundred people were pres
ent at the Halloween basket social
and dance given by Miss Alicia Jones
at her school house in the New Hradec
district on Saturday evening, and this
was a fine attendance taking the cold.
stormy weather into consideration
The decorations were elaborate and
represented much work on the mart of