The Dickinson press., 1917-01-20

Mrs. Geo. A. Perkins has been in
disposed Tor over a week with grip
and a bad cold.
Now is your last opportunity to get
goods at way below cost at the Quit
ting Business Sale of the Dickinson
Mercantile Co.-adv.
There's going to be fun for every
body at the Senior basket social to-
night friday at the high school
gymnasium, beginning at 1880. Every
body is invited.
Miss Dagny Selrod, who is staying
at the Mrs. John Little home in this
city, made a business trip to Fryburg
and Beltield last week, returning Fri
day morning. While in Fryburg she
was the guest of Mrs. j. C. Cooke.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Dickinson moved
the first of the week from their home
on First Avenue West to winter quar-
tiers in a flat over the German-Bo-
hemian bank. Their residence will be
closed during the winter months.
Johann Kirschner of ~ miles north
west of the city was in on Saturday
with his witnesses, Peter Durmasch
and e.. Kitchen to make final proof on
his homestead before Register W. B.
Dickson and Receiver Ed. ]. Hughes
at the Dickinson U. S. land office.
The next luncheon of the city Fed
Grated Club will be given at the St..
Charles hotel on Saturday, January
9th, at 1 o'clock. Those who expect
to attend will please notify Mrs. E. A.
Llllibridge. These luncheons which
the ladies' enjoy once every month are
getting to be quite popular.
Mrs. E. Oscar Baker, with the aid
of her daughter, Miss Mabel, arranged
a most successful birthday surprise
party for her son, Ralph, last Friday
evening. About rs guests we're invit-
ed and the boys end girls enjoyed a
very social evening with games.
Lunch was served at 1920.
Little Erasmus, the three years old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. V. A. Baker, is
we'll along the road to recovery after
a two weeks illness with pneumonia.
The little fellow was seriously i'll for
a time and his father, who was out at
Emerson, was called home. MI.
Baker expected to go out again the
latter part of the week.
C.. H. J. SCHNEIDER, who owns a
very fine quarter section of land two
miles southwest of South Heart was
~transacting business in the city on
Monday. Mr.. SCHNEIDER has been out
here for about six years and has done
very well. He has 10 head of cattle
at the farm and ships cream to Dick
lnson. He has two sons, who tend
very efficiently to the farm work.
Miss Fay Mclean, who is engaged
in teaching north of Fryburg, but who
for the past few weeks had been
obliged to give up her work on &C
count of throat trouble, returned to
Fryburg last Friday after a months
stay in the city, as the guest of Miss
Dorothy Gobler. While here she had
her tonsils removed and felt greatly
improved at the time of leaving.
Mrs. H. Beedle is just recovering
from a very hard siege of grip, being
able to sit up a little the first Of the
week after being under the care of
a special nurse Tor almost two weeks.
AS soon as she is able, which is
thought to be in about a month, she
and the children will leave for Brit
ton, S. Dak., where they will visit for
several months with her parents.
MI. and Mrs. J. O. Haugen, who
reside at their farm home, 20 miles
north of Taylor, made a short visit
in the city the first of the week,
coming here from Bismarck on No.
3, Monday afternoon and returning to
Taylor the following afternoon. Mr..
Haugen owns three quarter sections
Of land in Dunn county, 100 of which
are fall plowed. He is feeding a
hundred head of cattle this winter.
Mrs. J. P. Danson, well known to
Dickinson people as Miss Jessie Mes
sersmith, who now resides at Great
Falls, Mont, left with her little son a
few days ago for Biloxi, Miss, to
spend the winter with her parents,
MI. and Mrs. F. E. Messersmith, who
went down from here a short time
ago. Mrs. Danson, on account Of the
high altitude at Great Falls. is. obliged
to spend her winters at lower levels.
Last year she went to California.
Mrs. Danson is a talented soprano
singer, as many here will recall, and
she has Won great popularity in her
home city and vicinity.