Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-06-10
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
s%nterestiny News Items From ~"
over the state.

taken in at the Parkston creamery
June i.
Cut worms are doing considerable
damage 10 corn in the vicinity OF
Parkston. A number of fields have
been replanted.
Five inches of water fell ut Parkston
in less than five hours the other night
Everything is flooded and several
bridges have been washed away.
A fwelve-year-old son Of Frank Rob
ell of Milbank. a farmer. broke his leg
" lille catching on to a buggy o De-
hind. II is a compound fracture.
Richard Davenport has assumed the
duties of postmaster at Alpena. He is
an old soldier and II Of the first Da-
kotans to receive recognition
The annual picnic and reunion Of old
settlers of Clyde, Custer, Clifton and
Pearl Greek townships win occur in
Miners grove, at the mouth OF Pearl
creek, near Huron, June y.
The board of pardons recommends a
pardon for Charles Il. Grant, sentenced
from Turner county for bigamy. He
is in bad shape physically, and the par
don will DE granted.
The state insurance department has
liceIsed to do business the Western
Mutual insurance association of Park
er, S. D.. and the Germania Mutual In
surance society OF Milbank.
Police Justice Eths of Aberdeen dis
charged Constable w. p. Stickney OF
Bath, charged with committing assault
and battery on l.. Tenberg, a peddler.
and taxed the costs, amounting to $40,
against the complaining witness.
Fire destroyed the residence of Mrs.
Aas on the outskirts of Webster. The
family was awakened by the neigh
bors who had been attracted by the
glare of the flames. Loss, about ST.
OV0. on which was a small insurance.
Articles have been filed for the Cas-
tlewood creamery company, with a
capital of $500. Incorporators, L. f.
Schulze, NJ. NJ. Karlstad, John Jardine,
Thomas Mellor. William White, A. +.
Poulson and Gunder Johnson.
More farmers are working with the
cream cries than last season, and all
are pleased with the results. A gen
VidA JNNiiii- vi improvement 10 ittt anu
merchants are buying more freely than
for some seasons before.
The Alpena high school graduating
exercises were above the ordinary this
year. Five scholars passed with high
honors. namely: Misses Efie Barber,
Iottie Pognie, May Roger, Fannie Pog-
ney. Minnie Yegge and John Mott.
The Dakota Central Telephone com
pany are shipping in the material for
extending their line from Redfield
south to Huron and east to Doland. 1t
in Clark and WATERFOWL before the
season closes.
On the 10th the Woonsocket cream.
cry will commence business. 1t is said
to be the largest and best-equipped
creamery in the state, having a capac-
ity for the milk of 5000 COWS, and can
run three separators. The institution
will be run on the cooperative plan.
Graham & Beebe of Blunt bought
335 head of young cattle from Van l..
Ross of Huron, to be placed upon their
ranch. Mr.. Ross has sold over LOCO
head of young cattle for Western
ranches during the last fe wdays.
The stone dam on the Sioux river
at CaStlewood has been repaired and
improved, and all the surplus water IL
running into Lake Poinsett, which has
risen ten feet. The government fish
commissioner Will place a consignment
of black bass in the lake this fail.
Col Jerry Il. Elson, late Of the Ninth
Iowa infantry, died suddenly at his
home at Huron. aged s~ixty-one. He
was among the early residents of HUI
ron and n Of the b~est-known Grand
Army men in the. state and a proEni-
nent Mason. Death was the result of
an old wound.
n Great Northern road has at last
succeeded in getting a train OF cars
over the Jim river. by pushing them
across the bridge at Aberdeen with a
long train OF empty cars The water
is still two or three feet deep over the
rails, so that an engine cannot be run.
NO trains have arrived at Aberdeen ND
to this time for about two months via
that line.
A number of farmers at Carthage are
making substantial improvements this
season, building new barns or enlarg-
Ing. Very little new land is cultivated
this year, but the distribution of grain
has been changed materially. About
20 per cent more hand is seeded In
wheat than last year, about 10 per
cent more To oats, and the acreage in
flax and barley has been correspond
ingly decreased.
The Redfield high school closed for
the summer vacation with graduating
exercises in Anderson's hall. Edna
Bird was class valedictorian. The
teachers for the ensuing year will he
the same ms last. with the exception of
assistant principal, second primary
and first grammar grades, which will
be TILED by Grace Hardie Of Mellette.
Coral Stevens of Ashton, and Emily
Black OF lroquois. respectively.
Prairie wolves are unusually pumer.
Gus and troublesome in the vicinity OF
Huron. They disturb fiocks of sheen
and devour hens without number. The
farmers are endeavorlng to extermin-
ate the pests. and on a reward they re-
ceive from the countryside for eyery
wolf scalp delivered to the auditor.
few days since William Medbury and
Byron Gyles captured a den of went
young wolves, and n day or two ago
J0nn Wells caught thirteen.