The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-10-28
SOUTH DAKOTA.


brated its fourth anniversary recently.
During the month of September thir-
weight carloads Of cattle were ship
ped from Miller to the Eastern market.
The Catholic school i'm Sioux Falls
will be reopened by direction OF Bish-
Op O'GOrman.
Warner Wright Is about to assume
the responsibilities of postmaster ut
Emery. succeeding Albert Durisch.
Thrcshng is nearly done ut Emery,
the average yield OF wheat being about
ten bushels per acre.
S. NJ. Keller was awarded the con-
tract To carry mail from Hurley to Da-
Wis. his bid being S325 per annum.
The new iron bridge across the river
north of Faulkton is completed. aud Is
n model structure.
DIR. Samuel Hall. one OF the oldest
settlers of Faulkton and n practitioner
| of forty years standing, has con-
cluded To remove 10 Arizona.
The October school appOrti0nment
| for Lincoln county has just been made
and aggregates S2.27S.59 or n per cap
| ita apportiOnment of a trific over 62
cents.
| \ three ycar-old child of John Nolan.
at Emery, while playing around the
stove upset Il vessel of boiling water.
| splitting ii over its head and shoulders,
| Scalding the little one badly.
Fourteen car loads of cattle on a spe-
cial train were shipped from kimbal
in one day recently. They were pur-
chased by Iowa parties for feeders
from Richards X Moulton.
|
| through the heart with Il revolver ut
| Armour. 1t was pronounced suicide.
| Mr.. Weiss came from Alta. Iowa. and
| took up Il claim on the Yankton rcser-
| walton.
| Articles of incorporation have been
| filed for the Mecker Live Stock com
! pany III Rapid City. with Il capital
stock OF $4,000. Incorporators. John
| A. Mceiicr. Nellie Il. Meeker and Mi
| randa Scott.
| The statements Of condition Of the
| three national banks Of Pierre show
that they hold. subject to check, ut the
| present time. S24T.126, which would
not indicate that that is a badly power
| ty-Stricien community at present.
The Sioux Falls water works is
greatly bothered with the clogginG OF
/
the water In some cases a hole only
onc-SiNteenth of an inch i'm diameter
is left
The Dakota Central Telephone line,
which connects Huron with points
onrth along the Chicago & Northwest
ern and Milwaukee railways, is doing
good business. Merchants and busi-
ness men find it very convenient.
| a n Il, a
improvements this year. She has now
graded streets. stone cutters. and the
council has just let the job to parties
from Jasper, Mimi, TO put in stone
| croSSWalkS.
Senator Wilkinson is putting up n
neat store at Lennox. His son. Harry,
will occupy the same for his jewelry
and photograph business. Harry in
tends to stay in South Dakota. The
senator is preparing TO go to California
with his wife and daughter
Wayland Sergeant. living three
miles south of Emery, was returning
home on horseback from a neighbours.
when his horse slipped and fell. throw
ing him head foremost to the ground,
breaking his collar bone and bruising
his face badly.
From all over the state comes the
story Of improvements in all classes OF
business concerns. Firms are chang
ing, new business ventures are being
established, buildings are being erect
| ed and repaired, and general air OF
| prosperity prevails everywhere.
The new StockyardS Of the Chicago
& Northwestern ut Huron are almost
daily taxed to their utmost capacity.
so great have shipments of cattle from
this section become. Buyers are there
from all the large cattle markets. and
Huron is fast becoming one of the
most important live stock markets In
that part of the state. Its shipping ia
cilities are of the best.
At meeting of the South Dakota
Methodist conference Of the state. held
at Mitchell. tie report of the statistical
secretary contained the following:
There are 49, churches i'm South DakO-
Ia. estimated value. S26J.WO: o. par
sonageS. valued at $4,000: 9.1J1 menu
bers and probatiOners: BOG Sunday
schools and 12.430 members. During
the year over $4,000 was paid for
ministerial support.
Farmers around Faulkton have been
busy the past week threshing. The
yield is better than expected. some
pieces going as high rs eighteen bush
els per acre. The grain is of good quail
ity AMI will grade No. ! Northern. n
large amount of corn was planted last
spring i'm the county. and the yield Will
he good and OF good quality. \ large
amount of stock is being shipped from
Faulkton. especially cattle. \ good
price is being paid for beef cattle.
\ great deal of effort has been vast
cd for several years by Interested par
| tics In irving TO show that that pOr-