Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-10-05
SOUTH DAKOTA.

T1reshing In the vicinity OF Estei-
line is expected to be completed py
Oct. 90.
Land In Cook county has advanced
from So to So per acre during the past
Tx months.
In one day recently the Bank or Up
| switch paid out over $4,000 for cattle
and wheat.
Fred Meier has decided to construct
and operate another grain elevator at
! Chancellor.
The contract has been let for the con-
| struction of a new Catholic church at
Running Water.
The mex improvement at Bridgewa-
| ter win be the putting in of a complete
system of water works.
The school board Of Henry has pur-
chased a free circulating library Tor
the benefit Of its patrons.
The grass through the state is re-
| ported to be curing nicely. thus assur-
ing good winter feed for stock.
Coffee & Larkin, millers, of Madison,
have let the contract for a 20,O0O-bush,
| ell elevator OF Madison. The firm Is
| also building an elevator at Baltic.
A party of Massachusetts, sportsmen
are hunting prairie chickens in Clark
county. They travel in two special
cars.
The new school building at Kimball,
erected to take the place Of the n de-
stroyed by fire some months ago, has
been completed.
Laborers are still reported to be
| scarce In the vicinity of Ipswich, not
withstanding that 81 per day is being
offered and paid.
The disbursements just made by the
Kinsball, Gam Valley and Pukwana
! rreameries among their patrons for Au-
| gust milk aggregated $4,000.
Capt. S. V. Arnold of Ipswich has a
| %crabapple tree that has produced one
crop this season, and now n large
branch is in full bloom and loaded
with fragrant blossoms.
A new Presbyterian church has been
| completed on the line between Moody
and Lake counties. 1t is large, wen
finished and furnished with opera
chairs, organ, etc, and is entirely free
from debt.
John Wilkes, a Brule county artesian
well contractor. has just completed a
] four-inch artesian well for the Cham
berlain roller mill. 1t is a good well,
$40 feet deep, and was put down in
6fteen days.
Bagley & Heidi, ~saloonists Of Garth
age. have been bound over to the next
term of the circuit court to answer to
the charge of selling liquor to a minor.
This is believed to be the first case Of
the kind brought under the new Ii
cense law.
Hetland is not behind it's sister towns
In kingSbury county in the matter of
| public improvements. A new church,
business house and several dwellings
| have been erected there this season.
The town is surrounded by some of the
richest farming land in the state.
Large quantities of sorghum sugar
cane have been grown this season In
Bookings county, which is now being
made into syrup. r. M. Crawford, n
on the men who have been experiment.
Ing with raising the cane, says 1t can
be successfully grown in South Dako-
Is.
The Masonic lodge of Scotland has
decided to erect n new Gladstone
building this fail. The building will be
eighty feet long, twenty-five feet wide
and two stories high, the upper story
to be used as a Masonic hall and the
lower part to be rented for brg,iness
purposes.
J. e. Helton, an Aurora county farm
er, lost a quantity of property by a
fire, which was started in a peculiar
manner. While moving, the knives Of
| the machine struck a stone, and the
sparks set fire to the dry grass, which
spread before he was aware of wha,
| had occurred.
Col. nj. ID. Skinner of Lansing, Mich,
formerly a newspaper man, has just
purchased a cattle ranch containing l.
100 acres on Hat creek, Fall River
county. He has also bought some 200
head of cattle with which to stock his
ranch, and he will devote himself to
the business of stock raising.
A law suit before Justice Ward at
Redfield illustrates the usual result.
Certain parties went to law over three
hogs, valued at S14. They had attor-
neys' fees to pay, and got a Judgment
that n side should have n hog and
pay costs amounting to $3.50. The
other side got two hogs, and had to
pay the same amount of costs.
Gam Valley will have the public hall
which it has long been i'm need of. w.
j. hughes has decided 10 erect a man.
moth new building at that place. The
new building will be 24x6i feet and
two stories high. The upper floor win
be used as a public hall and the lower
part will be used for business pur-
poses.
Nearly sixty carloads of cattle were
shipped from Miller last week, all for
points in Iowa. The cattle were pur-
chased from Hand county farmers by
Iowa men, who viii feed them corn be-
fore turning them on to the market for
beef. The value of the sixty carloads
Is estimated at 10000, all of which
was distributed among Hand county