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Miss Bessie Bates is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. Landman. Mr. John Linehan took Postmaster Coffield to Chadron on his way to Buffalo Gap. Local showers have done some good but have come to late to help any thing but corn and potatoes. If it was not for the irrigation ditch ft the school there would have been no small grain raised this year. Mr. & Mrs. Geo. C. Dawson came in from Porcupine and spent a couple of days as the guests of Dr. & Mrs. Ross at the school. Day School Inspector Duncan has had an accident to his Hupmobile Runabout and at present writing it is laid up fo~ repairs. and rose the next day to find their precautions vain and their labors futile What was left but to curse God and die? It was on the morning that the headquarters of the committee flamed out a new motto, placarded there by the young minister: "Wear a smile on your face and a flower in your buttonhole." Men would not have heeded a sermon more dogmatic but few could resist the persuasion of a homily so sensible and short. They pinned on the flower, smiled, and took heart, and went about the hard duty of repairing the work which the storm had destroyed. And now, as they look back upon those days of distress, it seems to them a message from heaven that came to them in their need-"Wear a smile on your face and a flower in your buttonhole." News Items and Rumors of Pine Ridge 14. Dr. & Mrs. Ross went to Chadron the first part of the month and traded that Reo runabout for a Buick, Model 33, four passenger car. Mr. W. A. Coffied left Pine Ridge on the 9th of July and his successor, Mr. C. E. Hagel, took charge of the Post Office Mr. Coffield will hereafter make his home near Buffalo Gap, S. J, Miss Margarei Moran, cook at the Boarding School has been transferred to the position of laundress at the same school made vacant of the resig nation of Mrs. Porter. Dr. and Mrs. Ross went to Chadron a couple times during the month in their new "Buick" car to visii the dentist. Mr. and Mrs. Molzahn went with them once. Mr. H. P. Simmons, of Manderson,