The Dickinson press., 1917-01-06
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District court will at Me-
dora on Tuesday, January 9th.
Miss Jennie Rapp is visiting her
mother and sisters at Medora during
her vacation
Miss Anna Freer of Medora depart
ed recently for Valley City, where she
will attend the normal school the bal
ance of the winter.
The first sacks of flour turned out
by the Killdeer mill were bought by
D. j. Price and Claus Tweed of the
above named place.
Miss Barbara Olsen formerly of
Marmarth received the appointment
as deputy Co. Supt. of Schools in Fall
Ion county, Mont.
A.. Glassnapp, formerly proprietor
of the auditorium at Killdeer, has pur-
chased the opera house at Hettinger.
Mr.: G%lassnapp also conducts a theatre
at Bowman.
The electric light plant at Killdeer
now gives service for twenty hours.
The only time there is no service is
between twelve at night and four in
the morning.
Pliny Moen, who has been cashier
and operator at Killdeer for the past
year, has been nominated as agent at
He'll, this state, and expects to leave
as soon as he is relieved.
Morris Wascm,r returned to Halliday
from Mercedes, Texas, on Friday of
last week. Morris has a twenty day
furlough and is not certain as to
whether he will be compelled to go
back or not.
Mrs. Olsen of Medora, who left last
week for Des Moines, Iowa, is report
ed seriously i'll at that place with
pneumonia, and Miss Norma Olsen
left last week to join her mother at
that place.
D. ]. Price, the furniture and rug
store man at Halliday, is closing up
his store at the above named place as
Mr.. Price states that his large bust
ness interests a3 Killdeer require all
his personal attention.
The new city hall at Halliday has
been accepted by the trustees and is
now the property CT the city of Halli-
day. George Wright will sleep in the
building and look after the chemical
engines and keep the building warm.
There was a bread famine on in
Halliday Christmas morning and Ed
itor Evans of the Promoter says that
SOLICITING bread from your neighbors
on a morning like this Christmas was,
is not what it is cracked up to be by
a long ways.
Hazel .Theoline, second oldest
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A.
Ellestad of Dunn Center passed away
last Saturday morning after a battle
with the measles followed by pneu-
monia at the age of four years and
five months.
Cholice MCGOWAN, daughter of
Charles MCGOWAN of Killdeer received
the information last week. that she
the winner in the contest put
on by the magazine entitled "The
Farmers Wife" Miss MCGOWAN will
receive a Shetland pony, cart, harness,
saddle and bride, valued at $4,000
Conductor Middleton is laid up at
Marmarth for the winter as a result
of a severe bruising and injury to the
head as a result of being struck by an
engine while blinded by a heavy cloud
of steam at Hettinger last week. Mr..
Middleton was brought home on a
stretcher but is much better now.
Mrs. Caroline Thompson and Fred
Anderson were married at the Ger
man Lutheran church at Dunn Center
on Christmas day. Mr.. Anderson
came here about six years ago and is
a prosperous rancher neal Mary. Mrs.
Thompson has resided in Dunn county
for several years and mas a vast num-
Der of friends who wish her happiness.
Friday of last week Michael Her
Man, who lives with his three sons,
seven miles northeast Of Manning,
was brought to town by his sons to
be tried on an insanity charge, the
elder Herman was subject to epileptic
fits and of late has been acting
strange, and it has been thought for
some time that he was mentally de-
ranged. Early last Friday morning,
after quarreling with his sons, in a
fit of anger ran out on the prairie,
without shoes, and when his sons sue
ceeded in getting him into the house,
his feet and face wer badly frozen,
and he was in a pitiable condition.
He was adjudged insane by the board
and taken to Jamestown.