Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-11-17
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.


Eureka is to have a Catholi,
{ church.
I +. l.. Noahr is now publishing the
. Lennox Independent.
A new Methodist church has inst
been dedicated at Garretson.
: Joe Kirby a Sioux Falls lawyer has
sued Rev. w. J.. Skillman of the
Journal for $4,000 for libel.
The Sioux Falls wooden mills have
sixty hands aa their pay roll and are
manufacturing 1000 yards of crash
toweling per week.
The Worthwhile STANDARD lived
Just a week. The promised support
didn't materialize and the publishers
wisely suspended publication.
In the hurry of the closing Of the
campaign a great many papers have
neglected To state that taxes are now
ripe.
Yankton parties have enjoined the
county treasurer from paying the
$500 appropriated BIZ the county
commissioners OF that county to the
worlds fair.
The s25, 900, 900 worth Of Midland
Pacific railway bonds are said to have
been sold in New York and it is
asserted that the road will now be
pushed tocompletion.
Madison will return the two fire en-
gines that it bought and found not
what was ordered, freight prepaid and
thus settle the matter. They have
been stored there over a year.
F. Moultrie Mordecai has obtained
a divorce from his wife Hannah at
Bookings. 1t is understood Mr..
Mordecai has settled $1,000 a year
upon his former wife so long as she
lives unmarried.
The large warehouses have been
erected in Charles Mix county in
which to store grain and goods for
the river trade. 1t is the Intention J
to establish regular buyers at the
and TO buy grain for /;
storage until spring, throughout the /,
winter, so that there will be an album
dance of freight on hand TO keep the
boats busy during the dull season I
between the time the river opens ]
In the spring and next years harvest.
There is nov a strong probabilitytha
the two rival steamboat lines Will be q
before spring. I
d. A. Ingersoll. formerly superin- a
OF the Plaster association I
mills at Fort. Dodge, is now superin- C
lending the Evans plaster mills at n
Hot Springs and assisting in the de- ;.
of the Black Hills gypsum I
beds. Mr.. Ingersoll says that the d
Black Hills deposits are the best in
he world and turn out a superior ar
icle OF stucco. He thinks that the
superior quality of stucco and the :
.ase with which IL Is manufactured I
viii overcome the differences that are !
the Hills mills in railroad I
'ates and make a success of the under
aking.
Another Cardiff giant has been
IneaTthed at Pierre. Aparty Of cow
goys were in that city having in
barge what they called a petrifled
indian, dug up in the Bad Lands Of
,outh Dakota. The 'istin" is
unningly made, and a gullible public 4
nay soon expect to go through all the !.
ensations they had when the Cardiff a
nd other purported human beings
Iere sprung on the world. Doctors c
nd other learned men there scout its !
en~uineness, while the massof people
'ho have seen it are ready TO swear
v this new petrifed wonder. =
The work Of preparing a worlds :
lir exhibit at the state university is =.
ell under way. The different topics M
nd divisions have been assigned and e.
leir preparation begun. Prof. John IA
/. Dow, recently from Glasgow, Scot II
md, has been appointed university
and is gathering data for a Sc
Ill history OF the school from its 70
Establishment in 1862 to the present "
me. In the department OF astrcn- :
a greater part OF the illustrations
i'll be done in crayon by the different
Iembers Of the class. The whole 4
ork is to be put upon paper OF a \
size and finish, and will be
rongly bound in as many volumes J
are considered necessary %