The Dickinson press., 1917-05-12

Greatest patriotic gathering in the
history of Sentinel Butte was held in
the opera house there last Friday
night, the occasion being a farewell
party and banquet for the eleven
young men who left that town to en-
list in the United States navy.
John H. Blanke of Mott and Mrs.
Alma C. Berendts Of Burt were united
in marriage in the Congregational
church in Mott on May 1. The BRIDE
groom is associated with the Mott
Auto Company and the bride has
taught school in the Burt vicinity for
two years.
Conrad, 1~O-year-old son of MI. and
Mrs. N. O. Nelson Of Center, is the
victim of a terrible affliction known
as carcoma. The disease is usually
rapid in action and considered incur
able, but attending physicians assert
that there is hope in the case of the
Nelson lad.
A big patriotic rally was held in
Richardson last Sunday, honoring DR..
&c. S. Gies and o. M. Medchiel, who
have enlisted in the United States
navy. The Taylor band played sew
az SCICSC1O1Lo az r. Il1O Id1lWoy Qua
ton, and an address was given by At
torney T. D. Casey Of Dickinson.
Assurance has been given Amidon
residents that the new Milwaukee
extension from New England to
Amidon will be built this summer
without fail. A crew of Milwaukee
surveyors will arrive in Amidon in
the future for the purpose of
laying out the new 400-acre landsite.
L. R. Baker, electrician at the Mott
mill, and wife have returned to Mott
from Morris, Mimi, where they had
been staying for the last five weeks.
Mr.. Mott recently was released from
the hospital at Bismarck, and has I'M
dergone five operations since last fall.
He has resumed his work at the mill.
Miss Mary Mullin and Henry Pat
terson, both of Marmarth, were mar
ried there last Saturday, and left for
the east on a honeymoon trip. They
will return in a short time and reside
in Marmarth, where Mr.. Patterson is
assistant cashier at the Farmers
State Bank.
Of the eleven recruits for the navy
from Sentinel Butte, five were reject
ed on account Of slight physical disa-
bility. Will Gardner and Jack Field
were sent to Norfolk, Va, and Victor
Christensen, Wallace Forman, Clar-
ence Frame and Everett Roberts to
the training school at Great Lakes,
Ill.
Plant installed at Scranton recently
for b%riquetting of Ignite coal without
use of a binder is to be increased in
the near future to a twelve-unit plant,
which will have. a capacity Of more
than 800 tons of finished product
every "a hours. The plant is now
turning out pound briquets at a rate
of 100 a minute.
Dunn Center will have a patriotic
pageant and celebration on May 80,
Memorial Day, and at the same time
the new school house will be dedi-
Gated. N. C. Mcdonald, state super
intendent of schools, will be present,
and deliver an address. A parade will
be held and in the evening there will
be a banquet.
Dietrich Schwarting, pioneer resi-
dent of the vicinity Of New Salem.
passed away last Tuesday in the
home after a lingering illness. He
was 81 years Of age and is survived
by the widow and four children. Fun
eral services were held on Thursday
at New Salem and interment was in
the cemetery there.
Dominick Morel, who resides six
miles southwest of Gladstone, has
sold his 80-acre homestead, six miles
west of Lefor, to Julius Molden1laur.
The consideration was $25 an acre.
Mr.. Morel will now devote all his
time to the Gladstone farm, hoping
to make it pay out better than in the
past, as he has lost his crop by hail
four years out of seven that he has
had this farm.
Damage amounting to $3.50 was
caused by a fire which started in the
residence Of J. E. McCabe Of Bel
field about 2 o'clock last Sunday morn
ing. A volunteer fire department
quelled the blaze, but a short time
afterward another blaze started and
soon the walls and basement were
again, in flames. After hard work it
was finally placed under control a Sec
op1 limo