Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-08
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

The next harvest excursion from
the east will occur Sept. 9th. The
railroads give half fare rates and
tickets are good for return passage
within twenty days from date of
sale.
Arrangements have been consum-
mated fer opening aSstate bank in
Salem. The stock has been all sub
scribed and the bank will be opened
for business as soon as the prelimin-
aries can be settled.
The city council of Deadwood has
let the contract for an electric light
plant of3,O00 incandescent lights and
100 arc lights. The incandescents
are to be Is candle power and the
arcs 1000 candle power.
VIM. Barr, a promising young man
OF Aberdeen, was almost instantly
killed in the Milwaukee yards in that
city last Thursday while coupling
months at the time of the accident.
He was insured.
A half-mile race track upon the
Thomas Fisher farm, adjoining the
town of Beresford is being surveyed.
Three hundred dollars have been sub
scribed for the building of the tracks
and a meeting called and officers
elected with a view to incorporation.
The following South Dakota post
Office appointments have been made:
A. Marsh, vice b. S. Seymour,
resigned, at Vanderbilt, Campbell
county: III. Dennis, wee S. Potts
resigned, at Baskerville, Custer county
and Mrs. j. Frangen, vice L. d
Pow ell, resigned, at Hat Creek, Fal
River county.
al Mansil, living nine and one-half
miles northwestern Beresford, finished
threshing and reports wheat ayerag-
ing thirty-one bushels per acre, cats
tifty-six bushels per acre and barley
flfty-seven bushels per acre. A neigh
Dor adjoining him threshed his
wheat, averaging thirty-seyen BUSH
els per acre.
w. e. Cross has a tree claim south
west of Alexandria near the Jim
river, on which he planted some cot
tonwood trees seventeen years ago.
The trees have thrived well and he
now has wood to sell. Last week he
"a uOhh a ltCC Ihdb hlIdoNiNO ulllC-
ty-seven feet from tip to butt, not
measuring the stump and was two
feet in diameter.
w. +. T. Bushnell, editor of the
Dakota Farmer and statistician, puts
the maximum yield in the state of
South Dakota at AZ, 10000 % bushels.
No good can come to our state in
guessing the crop to be greater than
these fgures,n he says. THAT
amount is over 200 bushels for every
man, woman and child in the borders
of our state. We will neither have
to beg, borrow nor steal with such q
crop. We can feed and ciothe our
selves and our poorer friends and rel
a~tives, when we are so blessed"
A small meteor fell at Bath, Brown
county, Monday afternoon.
The coming theatrical season
promises to be n of the gayest ever
known in South Dakota.
Three hundred Huron Sunday
school children spent a day at st.
Lawrence picniciDg last week.
Land sufficient for a park has been
donated to the city of Parkston and
it will be improved as such.
A 15-year-old boy of John White
ley's of Howard, has this harvest cut
$50 acres of grain. That's Dakota for
you.
The third series of the Lake Pres
ton Building s. Loan Association is
now in full blast with about two hun
dred shares issued.
The st. Lawrence journal thinks
it has discovered a plot among wheat
buyers in that region TO ''bear" the
the market by lowering the grade of
wheat.
All persons holding homestead
claims on public lands are now
required to make final proof in seven
years from date of entry. If they
fail in this their claims are cancelled
by the the general land Office after
notice TO the entrymen.
Stephen Fashey, while threshing
near BrIdgewater, met with a painful
cacident. The machine was nearly
stopped and he undertook to feed
some grain into the cylinder with his
foot. Result, foot badly crushed, and
found necessary to amputate two toes.
Militia boys throughout the state
are somewhat ''riled' because they
can neither indulge in the usual
encampment nor visit the worlds
fair. They are endeayoring to con
sole themselves that the state will be
represented at Chicago by the Cover
nor and his gorgeous staff Of ten colo
nels.
The question has been raised as to
whether OF not Judge Gardner is
eligible to the Office he now holds
that of judge of the Seventh judicial
circuit. AT the time Mr.. Gardner
was apo inted to fill the vacancy
by the resignation of Judge
Eowlin he was a member Ofathe legis
lature, and his term 10 that Office will
not expire until next January.
Ed. Rogers, who has been running
a hotel at Alexandria, met with a
great loss last week. He was moving
his furniture and household fixtures
to a farm several miles south of town.
preparatory to making his residence
there. All his goods had just been
moved into this house, when it took
fire and was entirely destroyed
together with all its contents.
Mai. Coffin, of Huron, ex-state
engineer of irrigation, in charge of
the proposed exhibit of irrigation
products, views, well machinery, data,
ETC., at the worlds fair, is now col
~lecting exhibits and laying plans for
others to be furnished later on. He
hopes to accumulate avery satisfac-
tory display showing definitely and
conclusively the inc;lculable value
and benefit of the artesian well sys-
ton, Hn miD hnrn ncnnrntn rntnrnc