Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-11-25
SOUTH DAKOTA.

OF $50 in gold n SlZ IN stdnnps.
Armour is to have !; new hotel. Fred
Day will conduct it.
A new butcher shop is bein glocated
in washington.
Lyman ]. Bates was appointed post
master at Lake Preston.
l.. NJ. Hanson, a young druggist OF
Canton, has taken possession or the
drug store at Hudson.
Children playing with matches SET
fire to the barn of Mrs. Addingt0n AT
Huron, seriously damaging IT.
A man by the name of G. @. Booth IS
charged with the theft of a horse at
Glendale last week.
Tie sale of carriages, wagons ana
farm implements ut Elk Point inns
season has been unprecedented.
The furniture store of w. T..
of Hudson was broken into by bur
glars last week. The safe was blown
open but the burglars secured nothing.
Harry Baker and William Teets, the
parties arrested for stealing goofs
from Scott 4 Stones store at Center
vile. were given ten days i'll jail.
Several new buildings have been
erected at Estelline since spring, II
others have been enlarged and ~
proved.
The seven-year-old son Of George
Letcher of Emery fell from a load OF
hay onto the tines of a fork and was
seriously injured.
A mar named Spencer, manager or
the postal Telegraph company at
Deadwood, committed suicide while
visiting in South Bend, Ind.
John w. Harding, recently appoint
ed Indian agentat the Yankton
agency, will take up his duties next
week.
Armour will sink another well. Her
recent fire has awakened the citizens
to the fact that n good artesian well is
a mighty handy thing during a fire.
The city council at Elk Point has
called an election for Dec. =. 10 vote
on issuing $1,000 in bonds to build a
system of water works.
The first town in the state 10 step up
and pay a saloon license, and the first
one TO make n brek at the illegitimate
sale of liquors by druggists, is Wes-
Singt0n.
The United States and American
Express companies have consolidated
their interests at Mitchell, and the
BUSINESS of the two will be conducted
by n agent.
Milford T.. Motz fell from n Milwau-
kee train at North Wolsey and was
killed. His home was in Topeka, Kas.
LII company with w others, he was
trying TO steal a ride.
c. T.. Stroud. "A shoemaker, eloped
from Elk Point with Miss Carter, a
daughter of ED Carter of that place.
Stroud leaves a wife and four small
children in destitute circumstances.
Mrs. b. r. T.. Prugh. wife of the
Presbyterian minister at Rapid City,
is dead of consumption. The remains
will be taken to Seward, Neb., for in
torment.
Land Commissioner Lockhart re-
Gently sold $40 acres of school land
twelve miles northwest of Milhank for
SIS per acre. This makes 4S0 acres of
that section sold Mt the same price.
The barn on the Fisher property at
Huron, occupied by -. l.. Perkins. was
destroyed by fire. The fire is supposed
to have originated from children play
ing with matches.
Mr.. Hofer, living one mile west of
Freeman, lost his house, barn and
most of his grain by fire. Ills see
and grain for milling purposes was all
burned with the buildings.
Nh I II D,JGpnb ONE &c Napl.t0,.s
pioneer residents, is dead, at the home
TO his daughter, Mrs. j. n. Cramer.
Mr.. Bulfinch has resided at Yankton
since 1872.
Farmers In the vicinity OF Montrose
have built more this year than for
several years. Several hundred acres
Of new ground have been broken, and
a larger crop than ever will be put in
next year.
The Hudson Building and Loan asso-
citation elected the following officers at
their last meeting: j. b. Bradley,
president; Il. A. Aversuch, secretary:
A. l.. Fritts. treasurer. In addition to
these, w. X. Slade and Il. Il. Cable are
on the board of directors.
At a meeting of the Aurora county
canvassing board. which met on Mon
day. the following results were OBJ
tanned from the vote of that county at
the recent election: Smith, Republic
can, 233: Fellows. Democrat, POI:
Goodykoontz, Populist, 81.
a telegram has been received at
Fort Meade that Troop A. which has
been stationed for some time at Fort
Kcogh, Mont. is ON the way to Fort
Meade. their old station. When they
arrive Fort Meade will be the largest
cavalry station in the United States.
The steamer Last Chance has re-
turned to Chamberlain from Forest
City, from which point it has been en-
gagged in hauling government freight
to the Cheyenne Indian agency. 1t
and several other boats will 60 into
winter quarters at Chamberlain.
Len n. Abbott, a well known young
clerk of Groton, nearly died ecently
Of morphine, self-administered, poi
soning. At last accounts he was sim
alive. There Is an air OF mystery
about the case which relatives decline
to clear up so far.
There is talk OF remodeling the on
era house at Huron, and using IL for a
department store. The owner, II. nj.
J~effries, came TO this decision while
nj IIfrx.av Al. fAx.. H.