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N . P . W A T C H I N S P E C T O R

LOCAL NEWS the Receiver Ed. Hughes was on

sick list the past week. Joe Beres, for five years employed

in the St. Charles hotel, quit work at the hotel this week.

Attorney T. H. Pugh went to Beach Monday night on legal business. He returned the next morning.

Lewis F. Crawford of Sentinel Butte, president of the board of Reg­ents, was a passenger Tuesday en route to Bismarck.

Why not buy your shoes, clothing and men's furnishings at the Quitting Business Sale of the Dickinson Mer­cantile Co. You can save about half. —adv.

Mesdames R. H. Craig and D. D, Mars, faithful Nonpartisans, went to Bismarck the latter part of the week to straighten out the supreme court and incidentally have their eyes at­tended to.

D. E. Shipley, recently of near Dickinson and now manager of the Farmers Co-Operative warehouse at Bismarck, returned on Tuesday from an extended business and pleasure trip in the east.

Lucas Adamski, who is farming three quarter sections north of the city, was in with a load of wheat on Thursday and has aroun<r200 bushels more to haul. This spring he is fig­uring on seeding about 300 acres.

H. F. Schroeder, one of our promi­nent merchants, was quite ill the past week with grip, but on account of a shortage in help at the store came down town for short periods of time. Mrs. Schroeder and the children are just recovering from a similar siege.

Clifford, the twelve years old son of Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Jorgenson, is ex­pected home on Saturday after spending about two weeks in James­town, being treated for ear trouble. He will be home only a few days, however, as he must return for furth­er treatment.

Miss Marjorie Cuskelly left on Thursday on an extended trip to west­ern points. She will visit with her sister, Mrs. I. M. McCarthy, at Gar­field, Wash., and en route will stop off to see friends at Helena, Mont., and Spokane, Wash.

H. F. Ufer spent the greater part of the week at Richardton repairing boilers for the N. P.

Miss Viola Keller of Richardton was a guest of Mrs. T. N. Hartung from Tuesday until the following day.

Mrs. H. A. Hogue, who for several days was a guest of Mrs. James Mc-Kechnie at Bismarck, returned home on Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bowen left on Sunday for Minneapolis, where they will visit with relatives for about two months. Mr. Bowen was employed in the Don Hughes barber shop.

The Dickinson Mercantile Co. is quitting business and are selling out their remaining stock at about half price. Don't miss the opportunity. —adv.

Miss Rose Hornstra was expecting ! on Thursday her little sister, Violet, from near Gladstone to visit with her until Saturday. Both are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John Hornstra, form­er Dickinson residents. Miss Rose stays at the Mrs. A. Branick home and is enrolled in our high school.

Miss Marian Howe, deputy in the abstract office of Kunz & Everett at Manning, was expected in the latter part of the week by her aunt, Mrs. Harry Beidler of this city, for a short visit, prior to Miss Howe's leaving for Orlando, Florida, to join an aunt for the winter. Miss Howe will leave on her southern trip about the last of the month.

The members of the Congregation­al choir were most delightfully enter­tained on Wednesday evening by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Blume, they being as­sisted by Misses Violet Yaeger and Julia Blume. About 30 guests were present. The evening sped quickly with games, and a most jolly good time prevailed. Luncheon was served toward the close.

W. T. Best writes from Texas that he is having a fine time raising onions and other garden crops. He is a former passenger engineer on the N. P. with headquaters in Dickinson and for several years conducted a dry goods store in the rooms now occu­pied by Tom Tottingham and the Midget. After leaving Dickinson Billy Best also conducted a store at Braddock for a time.

LOCAL NEWS Miss Myra Wiley returned on Sun­

day from a several days' visit at Bis­marck and Mandan.

COMING—William Farnum in "The Price of Silence," a $160,000 produc­tion. Watch for date. Ray Theatre.

The Capital Hill sewing club met last Saturday afternoon with Mrs. P. F. Berringer and this coming Satur­day will meet with Mrs. Fred Dickin­son.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dinius and the former's brother, George, of the Fay­ette country were in the city recently visiting Mrs. Jacob Dinius, mother of Carl and George.

Why not buy shoes, clothing and men's furnishings at half price ? You can do so at the Quitting Busi­ness Sale of the Dickinson Mercantile Co.—adv.

Miss Hattie Collis of Ranger is the guest since Sunday morning of her friend, Mrs. Ellen Overbeck of this city. Miss Collis expects to remain here for about two weeks.

W. J. Mozley left on No. 2 Tuesday for Fargo to be in attendance at the Tri-State Grain Growers' convention. He expected to be gone for several days.

Joe Auth, a former Dickinson resi­dent, who now is in business at Me-dora, was in the city between trains on Monday visiting old friends and looking after business affairs.

S. D. Gregg, one of the prosperous merchants north of Gladstone, was in the city for a short time on Monday visiting his daughter, Miss Doris, who is attending high school here.

Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Olson have moved from the home of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hager, and are now located in a cozy flat over the Senior & Langley hardware store.

Mrs. Geo. Burgess of Medora, who is well known to many in this city, is ill with throat trouble at her Me­dora home. The rumor that her case was diphtheria is erroneous.

W. F. Sommers, of the Roquette & Co. store, received the sad news on Monday of the death of his brother, Robert Sommers, an old resident of Butte, Mont. Mr. Sommers found it most inopportune to leave for the fun­eral.

Hospital Notes—Operations: Mrs. Anton Merdel, Lefor; J. Van Hoof, Gaylord; Ernest Simmonds, Wibaux, Mont.; Mrs. S. H. Lueck, city. For treatment—Philip Wolf, • city; Miss Adela Kubic, city.

Harry Lohman who for the past three months has been a member of the Press force in the mechanical department, left for Bismarck on Monday morning to engage in similar work during the legislative session.

G. L. Heegaavd, formerly of Man-dan but now residing in Minneapolis, who is general manager of the line of yards of the Mandan Mercantile Co., spent Monday in the city, visit-

iiing B. H. Crawford, who is manager of the local yard.

E. R. Orchard, in charge of the municipal department of the state ex­aminer's office, came to Dickinson on Thursday from Bismarck to work on the city books for a few days, and incidentally visit with his father, John Orchard, brother W. J and sister, Mrs. Wei ton McDonald.

Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Bowen and little son, J. W. Jr., returned Wednesday from a five weeks absence from the city. Mrs. Bowen and son visited during that time at her old home, Elmwood, 111. The doctor took up special work while away at Chicagv and Cleveland.

Frank and Edgar Wead of Rhame, who are spending the winter with their sister, Mrs. S. S. Louks, and their niece, Mrs. P. A. Swanson, of this city, returned on Tuesday from Bismarck, where they visited for sev­eral days with friends.

Geo. Wallace, who resides close to the Six-Mile ranch came in recently to see his daughter, Miss Mary, who was recovering from an appendicitis operation. Mr. Wallace was accom­panied by Henry Warfield and Mose Kostenko, close neighbors.

Mrs. Rose Dirkes of Great Falls, Mont., who is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Brown, suddenly came down with an attack of acute appendicitis on Wednesday. She is ill at the Brown home, but at the time of this writing it is not ascertained whether or not an operation will be necessary.

"Ramona," the most beautiful love story ever written, will appear Boon at the Ray theatre. An 8-reel special feature. it

Save half of your money by pur­chasing your shoes and men's cloth­ing and furnishings at the Quitting Business Sale of the Dickinson Mer­cantile Co.—adv.

Herman Hartung and Sidney Mor­rison departed the latter part of the week for Des Moines, la., to take up an osteopathic course. On the way, they will stop off in Mineapolis, where Sidney will visit a sister and Herman will see his sister, Miss Vera, who is a student at the Minnesota U.

E. E. Anderson made a three days' business trip to Beach during the week. Next Tuesday he is planning on leaving for Fargo to attend a con­vention and later leave for Fergus Falls, Minn., where his wife and baby have been visiting for some weeks. They expect to return about the first of February.

Mrs. C. L. Hager is now enjoying almost complete recovery to the sight of her eye. She underwent an optical operation during the summer at Jamestown and since then had made two trips to that same point for treatment, returning from the last one on Sunday, after an absence of five weeks.

Mrs. F. P. Stults of five miles north­east, was a guest at the Walter Ster-land home for a short time on Tues­day, waiting for the Manning stage. Mrs. Stults was summoned by tele­phone message to come to the Camp­bell Scott home at Manning to assist in the care of the Scott baby, who is very ill with pneumonia. Mr. Scott is register of deeds for Dunn county.

Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Johnson depart­ed on No. 1 Thursday morning for an extended western tour, to be gone until about May. Their first stop of any duration will be at Salt Lake City, where they yjill visit with their son, Watt, who is engaged in mining en­gineering at that point. They will then travel on to the coast to visit relatives who are spending the winter at coast points.

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar O. Olson, who a short time ago moved to Gladstone from the Gorham country, to take charge of a restaurant, have closed their business at Gladstone on account of the recent fire. They moved to Dickinson the past week, having rent­ed the cottage just north of the Elks Temple on First Ave. West. Mr. Olson is again engaged .at his old work of wrecking engineer on the N. P.

The Methodist Ladies Aid Society met last Thursday afternoon in the church parlors in regular business session and elected the following of­ficers for this year: President, Mrs. J. G. Bitzan; 1st vice president, Mrs. Allen Harleman; 2nd vice president, Mrs. C. L. Dalton; secretary, Mrs. B. E. Noark; treasurer, Mrs. D. D. Mars. Secretary and treasurer to take charge of the building fund, Mrs. W. T. Nickel.

Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Flanagan re­turned on Wednesday from their wed­ding tour of a month to west points. They visited in Seattle, whqre Mr. Flanagan's mother resides, at San Fttanciseo, Los Angeles and then by boat to San Diego, the home town of Mrs. Flanagan's grandmother. On their way back they stopped off at Salt Lake City and Grand Island, Neb., to see relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Flanagan are planinng on renting a flat in the Ray building.

William Chaloner, who was in since before Christmas in the interest of the J. C. R. case, set out for his ranch near Mary on Tuesday accompanying his son-in-law, Harry Schwalbe, as far as Belfield via team. From that point he expected to make the rest of the way horseback. Mrs. Schwalbe took the train to Belfield, where she joined her husband on his way to their home near Grassy Butte. Mr. and Mrs. Schwalbe have been in for a number of weeks, the former undergoing an serious operation for appendicitis and hernia while here.

Senator M. L. McBride arrived from Bismarck Wednesday evening to spend a few days at home transact­ing business matters and visiting his constituents while the senate recess continues. Mr. McBride, through his experience and aggressiveness, has become one of the big men in the senate and the people of Stark county can congratulate themselves upon the fact that they have "Mac" at tne helm of affairs in the upper house at Bis­marck.

Don't Miss It!

The Court OF

THE HUMPTY DUMT1ES In the "Court of King: Cole" Production taken by Dr. Anderson and Harold Peck.

King Cole GRAND MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA

Opera House DICKINSON

THURSDAY and FRIDAY

Jan. 25-26 100 People in the Cast Management Mrs. Har­riet Purdy-Smith—Aus­pices the Guilds of St. John's Episcopal church

A Host of Novel Features See the Humpty-Dumpties,

King Cole, Three Little Fid­dlers, Jack of the Beanstalk, S h e p h e r d e s s G i r l s , I n d i a n Braves and Maids, the Old Wo­man in the Shoe, Sally Waters,, the Golden Egg Hen, Mistress Mary, Bo-Peep, Slnbad the Sailor, Girl from Sherry's- and Wooden Shoed Gretchens.

Prices, $1.00, 75c Reserved seat sale opens at Benzie Drug Co. on and after

Tuesday, January 23rd.

Judge Fred Maser issued a mar­riage license on Thursday, January 18th, to Arthur Heidt and Miss Monica Sticka, both of Scheffleld.

M. L. Ayers left the first of the week for points in the middle and southeastern part of the state to look after his fire insurance agencies.

Judge and Mrs. Fred Maser are enjoying a vacation visit from their son, Fred Maser, Jr., and" his bride of Crookston, Minn. The guests arrived on No. 3 Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. A. Singer of Flasher, former Dickinson residents, arrived in the city on Thursday to be the guests for about two weeks of their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. H. Singer of this city.

Mrs. Arthur Sterland came down from Glendive on Thursday for a short visit with her husttand's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sterland, and with her daughter, Miss Thelma, who is staying at the home of her grand­parents and attending school. Mrs. Sterland expected to return tomorrow (Saturday).

J. W. Beras and family have taken the Ray property recently vacated by J. C. Agnew and will reside there un­til spring. They recently lost all their household furniture and stock of merchandise in the South Side fire, and Mr. Berns is as yet undecided as to his future plans.

Henry Brown left last Saturday for the Twin Cities with a load of hogs, for the Dickinson Live Stock Market. The train was slightly wrecked at Almont, this causing a long delay,, which brought them into Jamestown at feeding time. Mr. Brown writes; that the hogs went in on the Tues­day market, bringing top prices. Mr. Brown, while in the cities, will do* some buying for the Brown Bros. Jewelry store. En route home he will stop off at Grand Forks for a short visit with his mother, Mrs. Michael Kelly.

Alonzo Nichols, who came in from his Grassy Butte ranch for about a. week having his broken leg set, and his sister, Miss Emma, who was in since Saturday, both being guests of their sister, Mrs. Sam Merrill, left for their home on Tuesday via Man­dan. They were accompanied by their father, L. H. Nichols, who was en route to Bismarck on business for his firm, the Heaton Lumber Co.. There are four members in the Nichols family who have homesteadsi out in the Grassy Butte territory and now in addition to the half section of land that each had, L. ,H. Nichols, Alonzo Nichols, Sam Merrill and Miss Emma Nichols, have filed on addition­al half sections under the new law enacted December 29th. There has-been a big rush among homesteaders for these lands. .

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