The Dickinson press., 1917-12-22
LOCAL NEWS

Special. Christmas dinner at tho
Willard hotel-12 to $3.50 and 6sto 81
MI. and Mrs. Walter Ray Of Medora:
were here Tuesday. /
The New Hradec school purchased
a big South Bend range from Senour
& Langley last week.
Mrs. G. B. Smith of Emerson left
Wednesday for Owosso, Michigan, to
visit her mother who is quite i'll. NJ.
Smith brought her; to the train.
Frank Davis left Wednesday for.
Long Beach, Cal. Frank is registered
in the draft and, before leaving, made
arrangements with the local board to
transfer him to the western district.
The Schwartz & Singer sale is being
well patronized. Scores of people
throng the store all day long and
many good values are being secured.
The sale will last till Christmas eve.
The Press carried an ad last week
stating that a mink scarf had been
lost and asking it's return to Schwartz
& Singer. Shortly after Mrs. Feinin-
ger, of the South Side, who had found
the scarf, returned it to the store.
Mrs. Fred Maser, Jr., working on
the South Side in the Red Cross drive,
was a little premature in her zeal and
accordingly took O. Schwartz's sub
cription the day before the campaign
opened. That's the way to 60 after
them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orville Beach of Sec
ond Avenue East, r mourning the
loss of their infant son, who died on
Monday, being only a few hours old.
REV. r. 81. Craig conducted a short
funeral service at the home on Tues
day afternoon. Mr.. Beach is a rail-
road man.
Miss Irene Anderson departed on
Tuesday for Forest City, Ia, to spend
part Of her holiday vacation with her
father, and the remainder of the time
she will vista friend at Des Monies.
Her aunt, Mrs. Clint Davis, is reliev-
ing her during her ten days absence
at the expense clerks desk in the
In. p, freight house.
In the rush incident to the holidays
and the generally binding task of
|stock-taking around the first of the
year, there is a strong likelihood that
the minstrel show which is to be
given by the Home Guard, will not
take, place until some time in Febru-
airy. Considerable ~rehearsing will be
necessary and for that reason plenty
of time must be given to this feature.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. L. Beard, who
were here from the west for about
two weeks, looking after their inter-
ests here, left on Tuesday to spend the
winter at Vancouver, Wash. En- rou-e
they planned on stopping off at Miles
lefty, Mont.y and Spokane, Wash: to
visit and attend to business. They
have promised. their friends here to
return in the spring when they may
possibly again embark in business.
F. J. Ridl, residing six miles north
and one mile east Of South Heart,
drove into Dickinson on Wednesday 20
do some holiday shopping. Mr.. Ridl
says that he has just enough feed e
last his stock through the winter:
The straw, he says, this year is not
of much value on account of being 50
short. Every one Of the Ridl family
is q member of the Red Cross.
Gullick Eli Gullickson, ffty-nine
years old, living sixteen miles north
of Richardton, died recently at his
home after an illness of three years.
His malady took a serious form about
three months ago.. He is survived by
a wife and six children, two brothers
and four sisters. Ole Gullickson, a
brother of the deceased, is a promi-
nent farmer south of Taylor near
Heart river. The body was buried at
Taylor.
Mrs. Fred Schroeder of Taylor, who
expected to leave the hospital a week
ago Monday, could not go on account
of the severely cold weather, and now
Mrs. Schroeder is suffering a relapse
and indications are that she may re-
main in the hospital for several weeks.
Mr.. Schroeder was up several times
during the week to see his wife.
Their little son was taken early in the
week to his grandmother, Mrs. MAIDS
Jesperson, Of Taylor.
W. E. Bennett Of Minneapolis, form
erly of Winona, is the new day clerk
at the st. Charles. He is a genial
accommodating fellow and expert
fenced in handling the public. Fred
Strother, former night clerk at the
st. Charles, has just written to
Gordon Downs from Fargo, saying
that he had passed the examination
for entry into the Signal corps and
was on the way to st. Louis, where
he will be stationed.