The Dickinson press., 1917-12-29
GRASSY BUTTE E

The First State Bank Of Grassy
'fButte has been handing out some
beautiful calendars this month.
Another letter from Pat Hemme,
comes from London, England, where
he writes of his work with the avia'
ton department.
M. T. Hanson of Snow was in towr
recently. Mr.. Hanson has a feed mil
1T his place and does business with
some of the farmers out this way.
Fred Steffen, Jr., formerly Of Dick
inson, has just filed on an additional
quarter adjoining his original hall
section filing about three miles wes'
Of Grassy Butte.
Rudolph Raether of Grand Rapids
Wis, who is spending the winter with
his son, Walter Raether, has bought
the Geo. II. Newell farm down near
Six Mile. The son will have charge
Of the place.
Mrs. Geo. H. Newell and children
were leaving the past week for Beach
where she will remain for the winter
giving the children a chance to go to
school. Mr.. Newell has not just made
up his mind what he will do.
MI. and Mrs. H. c. White and Mrs.
Fred Hartman were down from the
Mary country recently. Mrs. White,
it will be remembered, came out from
Minnesota a short time ago. They
were married at her home and drove
over land in their car.
|. Postmaster Mckenzie has received
his quota Of war thrift stamps and
now the people Of this locality can
commence to save up their. small
change, and invest in the stamps. It
is a grand way to ave and it should
be practiced in every family.
The Grassy Butte division Of the
Red Cross society has about 134 mem
bers, a large number having been
secured during the Christmas drive.
Many of the local members r of
the opinion that the society here has
made the best showing of any divts-
ion in Mckenzie county.
William Venues, who had been en-
ployed at the Mary Crist ranch for
some time, left the past week for
Dickinson, thence to go to Seattle
and Tacoma where his parents reside.
It is four years since he was home
and he was counting on a very pleas
ant holiday time at the parental
home, after which he will try to en-
list in the navy, but if not accepted
it is his plan to return to this part
Of the country, very likely going back
to the Crist place.
Rev. burke, father of Mrs. Bert
Murray, preached an interesting
sermon to a good sized audience at
the Murray school house on the even:
ing Of the 18th, leaving the following
morning for, his home in Iowa. Mr..
Durkee was formerly a homesteader
in the Emerson country, having been
in the ministry the past few years.
He spent a few weeks in the Killdeer
mountain country before coming yer
to this section to visit his daughter.
The Godfrey pool hall and restaur-.
ant was formally turned over to Tri
Bros. on the 18th. Peter and Peter
Paul, Mathew and John Tri, all of
Waubay, S. D., compose, the new firm
which has rented here for four
months, after which they go to their
half section homestead 10 miles from
Upton, Wyoming. They have their
claims in the famous oil fields Of
Wyoming and feel that they made a
fortunate move when they went ovcr
there to file last fall. Alfred Ander-
son, a brother-in-law, from near Kill
deer, has also filed on land adjoining
the Tri Bros. L. E. Godfrey, as stated
last week, will look after work on his
farm during the winter, expectffg@to
return to his place here III the spring.
A strange cattle buying transaction
came up here this winter. w. B. Croft
of Croft, an inland town a few miles
from Watford City, bought a dozen
head or so of beef cattle on the oath
of November and placed them in the
Donald Mckenzie yards in this town
that night, it being supposed that he
had made definite arrangements with
Frank Kovis to drive the herd into
Watfor the next day. The buyer and
his helper went on home and in some
way there was a misunderstanding be-
tween him and his driver and the
stock remained in the sheds here Q
three full weeks. Mr.. Croft went to
Chicago with a shipment of stock in
the meantime and did not get around
to take his Grassy Butte cattle until
December 16. He found a good sized
feed bill, but this was no fault of MI.
McKenzie's, as the buyer admitted
after going over the affair.
A meeting has been called for Sat-
urday, January IL, for the purpose of
organizing the Grassy Butte National
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