The Dickinson press., 1917-01-06
OCA NEWS

LOCAL NEWS
H. A.. Hogue left the middle Of the
week IN a trip to jamestown to look
after business matters. He expected
to be gone several days.
Mrs. Chas. l.. Marshall was on the
sick list at her apartments in the9Vil-
lard hotel for several days TIE past
week with an liberated tooth.
The Ka-na-o Club is to be enter
tanned by Miss Hazel |Berringer to-
night (Friday). Next week they will
meet with Miss Geraldine Berry.
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
Insurance policies written while
you wait. ORCHARD AGENCY,
Phone 2. Press Bunilding.
Chas. West, a farmer near killdeer,
left for his farm home on Wednesday
by way of Mandan. Mr.. West vas here
for some time suffering from rheuma-
tism.
Miss Laverne Roquette departed on
Wednesday for her school work in
MINNEAPOLIS following a short vaca-
ton at her home on Fourth Avenue
east.
Harold, Jr., the four years old o
of MI. and Mrs. Harold Beedle, is
quite a sick boy with leakage Of the
heart. Mr.. Beedle is connected with
the South Side Drug Co.
Miss Helen Cuskelly entertained 20
young ladies at a 6 o'clock Dime on
Thursday in honor of Misses Florence
Mckenzie and Jessie Leask who are
home from school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Ellingson and lit
tie daughter of Almont spent a couple
days here the first of the week visit
ing Mrs. Ellingson's sisters, Misses
Anna and Emily Anderson. ~
Misses Della and Florence Spears
left last Friday for New England,
wher they are engaged in teaching,
following a short visit with their sis
ter, Mrs. A. N. Jefferies of this city.
Miss Dorothy Ayers left on Monday
for Oberlin, Ohio, to resume her Sec
ond semester's work at Oberlln Col
lege. Miss Ayers is taking a regular
college course but is majoring in ply
steal education. p,
Mrs. F.: M. Smith, who with her
husband is spending the winter with
her daughters, Mesdames w. L. Rich
ards and Geo. Kilmer, was laid up
with a bad cold and grippe. at the
Richards home the past week.
Miss Barbara Suits of a short dis
lance northeast of the city spent the
greater part of the week visiting
friends in the city, particularly at the
Chas. Kono, j. C. F. Parker and Wal
ter Sterland homes. =
The Patriotic Aid held their last
real meeting with Mrs. Roy Baird on
Tuesday afternoon. 1t was decided at
this meeting to cooperate with the
Commercial Club in giving the SOL
dier boys a royal welcome when they
return, possibly in the form OF a big
public reception followed by a dance.
Miss Leila Berringer is now en-
gagged as s~tenographer in Billings,
Mont. A lettc.- home tells of her glad
surprise to find several other Dlckln-
son girls there, including Misses Cath
crime Beres anl Elizabeth McArdle.
The latter was chief operator in the
local telephone lfice for some time.
Mrs. ALI. White is very i'll at her
home on Sims St. and has been under
the care of t trained nurse, Mrs. F: M.
Wee, of Portland, Ore, since last Sat.
urday. Her condition the middle OF
the week showed no Improvement.
Friends were not allowed to see her
during the week.
John Jefferies, who was the guest
of his mother, Mrs. Nora Jetferies,
during the holidays, accompanied his
sister, Miss Florence, on her way back
to Grand Forks as far as Mandan, tex
ing the branch line from there tor
Killdeer on his way home to the n
near Grassy Butte.
Joe Po1ensky and son, Frank, were
in the city from their farm Is miles
north the first of the week. The for
mer has been suffering an attack OF
rheumatism for the past three weeks.
Both are now kept quite busy feeding
their stock. The latter is now milking
nine cows and hauls his cream to
Dickinson. :
Mrs. C. N. Barker is a guest of her
daughter, Mrs. Fred Christensen out
north, having been taken out via auto
just before Christmas by Gervase
Manning, accompanied by Victor
Christensen, who was returning home
for his vacation from the N. D.. Y.
She endeavored to return home last
week, but they got only as far as the
Rasmus. Jensen ranch and had to re-
turn on account of the storm. Is