The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-08-22

S" nays oSo ior q woman
in the park, east OF town. The WON.
an had been plying her trade at Lu-
verne for several days, and was order.
ed out OF town by the marshall.
Some person raised the cover of q
wagon, in which she was sleeping with
a man purporting to be her husband,
and fired q 80 caliber revolver at her
The ball entered her leg near the hip
passed through both limbs. She re-
fuses to give her name. Dsever was
with her the night before but denies
all knowledge OF the shooting.
Members of the executive commit
tee OF the South Dakota Board of
Congregational missions were in con.
sultation with superintendent ThraIl
at Huron a few days ago, with refer.
ence to employing for special work
this winter a number of missionaries.
and to apportion the state into dist.
riots for aggressive work. The exc
cutive committee of the South Dako-
ia Sunday School Association was
also in session planning work and con
sidering matters pertaining to the in
sSiSSS " IL oiSAiILoIioh.
A. H.. Garfield, an Aberdeen music
dealer, has eloped with Miss Bessie
Moore, daughter OF w. H. Moore, of
Mitchell, S. d. Miss Moore has been
employed in Garfeld's store, but left
town Thursday night. 1t transpires
she met Garfield at Langiord, S. d.,
and together they went to BreCkin-
ridge, taking a train north from there,
probably across the Canadian line.
Garfield leaves a wife and three children
without a dollar. States prison
stares him in the face it captured, as
the girl ID only Is years old. The
affair creates in tense interest and
Garfield is liable to be treated to a
coat of tar and feathers if he returns
to Aberdeen.
A Sioux Falls business man, who is
not a real estate agent, and who has
no property for sale, makes a prsc-
tice of sending to his friends in the
east copies OF local papers containing
various items about South Dakota's
wonderful crops, says the Argus Lead.
or. The example could we'll be initiated.
People no farther away than eastern
Iowa and Illinois, to say nothing OF
those in New England, do not begin
to appreciate the resources of South
Dakota. This state has the soil, the
climate, the what it needs
is ad Nertising, which meansthicker
settlement, rising land prices, and gen.
eral development. A vast amount of
valuable advertising can be secured
in this way at small expense. An in
vestment OF a few dollars for extra
copies of your local newspaper will
pay for itself a hundred fold.
Charles H. Wright, who was sent on
an errand by his stepmother twenty
years ago, and who had not been
he ard of from that day returned re-
recently to his fathers home.
bringing with him the article he had
been SEM to get, together with a wife
and four children. When the boy
went away the Wright family was
living at Fox Lake, Wis. Charles was
ordered by his stepmotherto 90 to the
store and get a clothesline. The boy
was displeased, and instead of doing
the errand left the town. A few years
later Mr.. and Mrs. Wright removed to
Wilmot, S. d., where they own alarge
farm. They have looked upon Charles
as dead, In the meantimeth boy had
gone to Monticello, Mimi, where he.
in the course of time, married and
raised q family. A few days ago he
learned that his father was living at
Wilmot, and came on q visit. Before
going to the house on arriving he
went to the store and purchased a
clothesline. and, armed with this, and
followed by his family, marched in on
the old people and dropped the line
at their feet.