Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-08-24
SOUTH DAKOTA.

ing houses.
A new grain elevator will be built at
Arlington.
II is estimated that this years WOOL
clip yielded South Dakota sheep rals-
ers 100000.
The Baptists nj Clear Lake will, this
roIl erect q handsome new residence
for their pasfor.
Agnew. Thompson & Mears are
building a new grain elevator at Ban
croft, Clark county.
Ground has been broken for the new
$1,000 drill hall and gymnasium at
the South Dakota Agricultural college
at Brookings.
A Des Moines, Iowa, bridge company
has been awarded the contract to con-
struct two new steel bridges in Bon
Homme county.
The Merchants State bank is h
name oil a new banking institution at
Freeman, Hutchinson county. John
Schamber Is president.
Arrangements are being perfected
for a race meeting and base tour
nament at Kimball, Sept. II and 13.
The purses will aggregate 5000.
John w. Carter of WATERFOWL and
William Kelly Of Nebraska, who was
visiting him. had to pay $3.50 each
for killing four prairie chickens.
Elkton is one of the South Dakota
towns which is this season making SUD
stantial strides in the way OF new
buildings and other improvements.
William Blankartz, a progressive
Cook county frmer, Is building a TO-
900 bushel granary. and says he VIII
have enough grain this fall to fill 1T.
Native grasshoppers are quite nu-
merous along the Missouri river in the
southern portion of Brule county. and
have done some damage to crops and
trees.
BY a unanimous vote, Emery has de-
cided to incorporate as a town, n a
special election has been called for
Wednesday, Aug. 16, to elect town Of
ficers.
A stock company is in process OF
formation by the business men or
Clark, having for it's object the con-
struction of a $1,000 opera house in
that town.
Some one who has taken the trouble
TO keep a record, finds that, during a
period of sixty days this summer, 266
head Of live stock were killed in South
Dakota by lightning.
The agent Of a Minneapolis company
at Bowdle has, since April 1 last, pur-
chased 1896 pounds of butter and s,
2S5 dozen eggs at that point, paying
therefor S4,677.6 &c in cash.
Disbarment proceedings have been
instituted against G.. T.. Harden or
Scotland, ex-county judge of Bon HON.
me county. The hearing has been set
by the state supreme court for Sept. q.
Lightning rod fakirs swindled three
Turner county farmers out of an ag-
gregate of $3.50. The farmers settled
the matter rather than carry it into
the courts. as the contracts had come
into the hands OF innocent purchasers,
to whom the swindlers sold them.
Paul Decker has been bound over to
appear before the circuit court in
Hutchinson county, to answer to the
charge of forging mortgages. upon
which he drew money from the school
fund of the county. The name of his
mother-in-law was forged to one of the
mortgages.
This Is n great potato year in South
Dakota, and there evidently will be no
limit TO them. A Parker man, Oscar
Elce, dug a hill in his garden and got
los potatoes, ranging in size from a
marble up to a goose egg. The vine
was green and the potatoes growing
dug.
Ted Whalen is one of the army Of
South Dakota farmers who are too
busy making money to have the time
or inclination to make complaints. lie
lives near Iroquois, and the other day
sold $3.50 worth Of cattle. During the
past year he has received $3.50 from
the sale of milk to the Iroquois cream
cry.
The annual meeting of the Old Set
tiers Association Of Aurora county has
been postponed from Sept. 6 to Sept.
In hopes that the Aurora county
boys In the First regiment, South Da-
kota volunteers. will have returned
from Manila by that time. so they can
participate in and be a feature Of the
celebration.
Some enterprising individual at the
town of White. Brookings county. is
engaged in manufacturing counterfeit
dollars, many Of which have been
passed on business men there. The
counterfeits are fairly good. but the
character of the metal used in them
easily leads to their detection when
examined closely.
A report m that a fakir In the vi
entity of Langford is selling the farm
ers goose wheat for seed. 1t is said
to be a beautiful looking berry. but 1t
will. not make -four, nor is 1t market
able. Most farmers are familiar with
goose wheat, but there seems to be
some who are not, as the fellow is re-
ported to be selling a great deal Of Il.
Lawrence county, with thirty-eight
inmates, continues to contribute the
largest number of patients to the in.
sane asylum at Yankton. Minnehana
second, with %; Union has 21; Lin
coin, IL and Brown IS. while Clay,
Grant. SPHINX and Turner have Is each;
Yankton, Ia; Day, 10; Pom Homue.
IL; Beadle, Kingsbury and Lake ii
each; C~odington, 10.
1t cost Martin Wudel, a Hutchinson
county farmer, the sum of $67. so for
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