Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-08-17
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Centeryille wants q nrSl-claSS nctcl
and a good man to run 1t.
Isaak g. Sprecher have purchased the
Owen & Perry grain elevator at Cure
ka.
Faulkton will have a new bank, to be
| established by Faulkton and Redileld
business men.
The assessed valuation of real estate
and personal property in Yankton coun-
ty is in excess of $4,000 600.
Frank Schumacher and John Suhr
are building a new grain warehouse CT
TO- OO-bushel capacity at Eureka.
The annual picnic of the Old Settlers
society of Union county will be held
twelve miles south of Beresford, Aug.
90.
Hoboes who strike Egan In search OF
Handouts" are compelled to earn
their food by cutting weeds along the
streets.
The stockyards at Conde have been
| enlarged and otherwise improved, in
| anticipation Of an increased business
this fall.
A total Of $50 car loads of wheat
were shipped from Bristol since last
fall. A good showing, considering the
size of the town.
The encampment park and base ball
grounds at Flandreau have been pur-
chased by NJ. A. Davis, the considera-
ton being $1,000.
n. B. Keeney & Son of Leroy, N. Y,
were the successful bidders for the
new school bonds issued by the town
Of Valley Springs.
Plankinton sports talk Of arranging
for a baseball game between two mines
one composed solely of Republicans
and the other Of Democrats.
Charles f. Pickett has been bound
| over to appear before the next term OF
circuit court in Sphinx county to answer
to the charge of criminal assault.
J.. Haerter e Co. of Hosmer has or
dered from Eureka parties the lumber
necessary for the construction of a
large grain elevator at that place.
In a ball game at Hurley the other
day the score vas only % TO Al, and it
is said there was a %perceptible increase
in the business of the shoe stores.
1t is reported that Prof. Aaron Beede
has severed his connection with Red
field college, and has accepted the chair
of Greek in the college at Fargo, n. ID.
The town of Pukwana, since the re-
cent starting there of another newspa-
per, Is now better supplied with news
| papers than any other town in the state
having N to each fifty voters.
County Superintendent of Schools
Ashley of Clark county has purchased
the interest Of his partner, the late IL.
t.. Miller, in the Clark Republic, and
will hereafter conduct the paper alone.
Railroad men at Redfield say the
Redtield line of the Mort western rail-
road will be given a passenger train
this fall. If the proposed train is put
on it will, it is said, run from Tracey
via Marshall, to Groton.
There are more than 100 artesian
wells within a radius of six miles OF
Parkston, Hutchinson county. While
the wells are Of small diameter. they
furnish ample water for the needs OF
the farmers who W them.
The shareholders of the new Farm
ers' Elevator company at Viborg have
elected Nj. Nj. Hansen manager. Arti-
cles OF Incorporation have beer filed
with the secretary of state at Pierre.
II work on the new elevator will be-
gin at once.
Dan Gawne, r. G. Gingles. M. f.
Conian, G. T.. Harmon and j. II. Stoltz
nave been elected directors of the new
Elevator company at Alex
andrla. Most OF the stock has been
ulsposed OF, q work on the new ele-
Vator VIII begin in the near future.
Many improvements are being made
at Br1dgewater. Charles Larsen of
Lennox was awarded the contract for
grading and curbing Main street.
stone from the Wolf creek quarry will
De used for this purpose. Many new
SIDEWALKS are also being constructed.
The town Of Armour, which draws
trade from a considerable portion of
Charles Mix county. as well as Doug
lass, Is well provided with grain ele-
vators, but it Is feared they will he
taxed to their utmost capacity, this fan
by the large crop in that part of the
state.
W~oonsocket is not a city, but thus
lar, since the LIST of July, has collected
sne SUM OF $4,000 for saloon licenses
Sl'ooo or when went into the town
treasury, D to the county, and he
remaining 5000 to the state. The only
a IN ObI1
other saloon in Sanborn county Is at
Letcher. :"
moody county has an assessed vain.
alton of S2,534,533, an Increase of S139.
42S over the assessment of 1898. There
are In the county 10, $50 head of cattle.
an increase Of 1918 over 1898: G37a
horses and colts, an increase of 40.
S,o2e sheep, an increase of 800 over
last year; $500 swine, a gain Of liza
or nearly 30 per cent
The first prairie fire OF the fall crop.
occurred a few days ago in of the
nay camps south Of the Hotch creek
railroad dam, In Presho county. The
hre covered considerable territory and
DESTROYED a large quantity of hav az
Wen as burning over some yery choice
Ia land. 1t was finally extincnlshed
oy ranchmen and their assistants.
South Dakota has scored aro,n
Jonn a son of Christopher Mannernd
OF Voiga, who is a typewriter In the
ofnce OF the Burlington railroad at Chi
cage, VIII be sent to the Paris exposi.
Ion next year by one Of the leading