The Dickinson press., 1917-02-24
LOCAL NEWS

Attorney w H buTneEC spent IueS-
day in Bismarck On legal matters.
Mrs. M. Z. Mcbride is visiting with
her husband, Senator Mcbride, at Bis
marck since Wednesday.
w. j. Orchard was host on Sunday
night to nine guests at the Hotel
Willard. "a special menu was served.
Mrs. o. B. Frankenberg and Mrs.
lF. u. Roquette are entertaining Miss
Rapp's band at the Roquette home
this afternoon.
G. G. Mead came in from his cattle
ranch on Wednesday and left. the
following day to attend the stock sale
at Mandan, expecting to return to
Dickinson on Friday.
Mr., and Mrs. Bert Sprague and
son, Donald, left this (Friday) morn
ing for Minneapolis and Perham,
Mimi, to be gone about ten days.
Mr.. Sprague's folks reside at the lat
ter place. /,
Malcolm Ankarberg, electrician at
Stanton, was terribly shocked by
touching a live wire while cropping
around the plant in the dark. Copper
buttoners on his gloves were melted
off.
j. Z. Monson is substituting for
Miss Stella Van Dyke in teaching in
the ~high.school science department for
several weeks and will later leave for
his home at Fargo to be in charge of
his fathers trunk factory, while the
Platter is away on trip.
IGfsFfbHEI E&Ay
NE. Blood recently disposed Of his
garage and automobile repair bust.
mess on West Willard street, tojFrank
Dunlap Of Circle, Montana, who is
now in charge of the business. Mr..
Dunlap, is a n expert mechanic and will
do. a general repair business. Mr..
Blood has not as yet decided what he
will do in the future.
o. "A. Brown, chairman Of the Stark
County Grain Growers Association,
returned on Wednesday after a Ten
days absence from the city, going to
Bismarck, st. Paul and Pennington,
MINI. He was engaged principally in
lfurthering the interests Of the assoc
Iciation and was instrumental in shap-
ing the course of bills for state grain
inspection for North Dakota and
Minnesota, appearing before the leg
|islative committees for that purpose.
While away he was chosen the North
dakota director Of the National
Wool, Growers Association.
Sergt. c. J.. Kuntz went out to
Manning today (Friday) to take up
his duties with the Northwest
Abstract company. He was manager
of the company when the call came
for Co. K to go to Mexico last spring
and the office was left in charge Of
Miss Marian Howe. Later E. III.
company, took charge and Miss Howe
left recently tol spend the winter in
Florida. Mr.. Kuntz and Mr.. Piatt
will both be associated with the COM
pany, the former will look after the
abstract work and the latter will look
after the farm loan and real estate
department.
p. W. Lebo of Medora, clerk of
Icourt of Billings county, brought a
curious water reptile to Dickinson the
fore part of the week and placed it
on exhibition in an aquarium at the
Knapp variety store. It sss.diHerent
from any water reptile described in
the dictionary, being of a salamander
form, but has six horns or feelers at
tached to the head, and breathes
Through gills. It is an aquatic rep
tile and can live entirely submerged
in water, but can also get along very
nicely on a dry surface by the means
of peculiar legs. This curious water
ireptile was captured in a water reser-
t.Voir on the ranch of Mr.. Leho's
Ebrother.near Medoya- a8 A. 3ss
Last week issue of the Taylor re-
PORTER givasSansaecountEof asdeal
which was recently contaminated
whereby Wallace Halverson, manager
of the Peoples Meat Market at Tay-
llor and his brother-in-law, Ed. Hedge
son of this city, became owners of
1.-THE above named business, which
formerly belonged to George Davis.
The business will be continued at the
old stand. MI. Helgeson has been en-
lp1oyedS by the Parker meat market for
some time and thoroughly under
stands the trade while his brother-in-
law has been with the Peoples Meat
Market incet he shop started and will
Econtinue as manager. MI. Helgeson
expects to move his family to- Taylor
this spring.
FEDERAL FARM LOANS.
The loans made under the Federal
Farm Act can be for 10, 20, 80
or 40 years. Still they can Be
paid up in full at the end Of
l(5) years. These loans are all made
on the amortization plan, that is,
1 MI naH tho n nfnrsocf y Is lssSnn IL - ~. NjI