The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-04-20

Thousands of acres of G''G"FF '", I
ty lands were filed on during inc
month of March.
Terry is 10 have a new Catholic par
sonagc. The new structure VIII pc
neat and comfortable.
f.. VI. Harrison. ex-treaSure OF Cllrk
county. died last week and was buried
Monday.
Over $4,000 in taxes were paid INTO
the Moody County treasury during
March.
w. IL. Brearly of Buffalo. county re-
Gently killed wild cat weighing tWeh-
ty-one pounds.
During the last twelve months to-
tai of over 700 carloads of grain ana
stock were shipped from riandreau.
The Western Methodist Book Con-
Germ has donated 100 volumes To the
Black Hills College At Hot Springs.
During the past twelve months the
little town of Salem. McCook county,
has made Improvements agSregatlnS
500, 175 in value.
The village of Erwin, Kingsbury
county, is experiencing lively build
ing boom, in common with the whole
surrounding country.
The great Homestake Gold Mining
Company of Lead will make improve
ments during the year, requiring the
expenditure of 81 100000
Sanborn county farmers find it diff
cult to get help this spring, and have
been offering higher wages than has
been paid for many years.
Several bids for sites for the govern
ment building at Aberdeen, have been
prepared and sent forward to the
treasury department at Washington.
Pear Eslick. a young man. lost two
fingers of his right hand by an acct
dental discharge of his gun while duck
hunting near Elk Point.
Franch Burch. a prominent attorney
of Hill City. has sold his practice and
will remove TO Nermillion. this state,
where he will locate permanently.
Building Contractor Shaw of the
hustling town of DeSmet employs four
assistants, and has more work than he
can conveniently attend 10.
Fred Richards, of Van lcrDilt. has
gone to Arkansas to buy stock. He re-
Gently sold one hundred head of two
year-old steers at $34 per mead.
Postoffice Inspector Chas. T. Mccoy,
who was recently assigned TO office
duty in Chicago. has returned ard re-
sumed his work i'm South Dakota.
The Lake Madison Chautauqha As
ISOLATION is now free from debt, re-
h1y
of all claims and mortgages held
against il.
WATERFOWL people are confident that
more business will be transacted in
that hustling and progressive town
this year than during any year in the
towns history.
The Eureka Touring mill has been
undergoing extensive repairs and inn
provements. and is now prepared to
resume business with an increased ca
pacity.
The Hay Creek Coal Company Is
working about twenty-five men at this
time and is making occasional ship
ments TO meet the demand in the
Black His towns.
1t is reported that every acre OF
plowed land in Gregory county will be
sowed to crops this spring, md that
many hundreds of acres Of raw lands
will be broken out.
An amateur Mulhattan. in Faux
county. tells of having recently been
out in his field pulverizing. while the
following day the temperature regis
tered 10 degrees below zero.
The federal grand jury at Sioux
Falls reported no bill against DR. .Jo-
seph Hartman, accused of selling pro-
prietary medicine without afiixing rev
enue stamps.
The home Of /. s. Boynton. Of WAR
rem township. Clark county. was burn
ell laSt week. Loss on house. $500.
and on contents. $3.50. About /. 900
pounds OF flour were burned!
NJ. T.. Haley has just closedra, term as
instructor in the South Dakota Dairy
School and has now gone from Brook
ingS t@ Woonsocket. where he takes
charge ut the creamery for THE season
OF 1893
The secretary of the Commercial
Club of SturgiS recently received ten
mail sacks of sugar beet seed from
the Department of Agriculture. which
Will b" distributed among The TURNER'S
of Meade county.
\ beer kag got into Die DpadwNud
city sewer and caused such an obstruc-
ton that water famine was threat
ened. 1t Is believed, however. that no
great inconvenience would have been
experienced in any case.
At a meeting Of the Spearnsh Cream
cry Company: 1t was decided to omen
me creamery plant for business on
the second Monday in Nay. This is
the largest ana most successful cream
cry in the Hills.
It's an IN wind that blows nobody
some good. Lyman county las recent.
IL received a state warrant for the
sum OF $s,40345 on account of expens.
as incurred in the trial of the Phe,ns
II Crdec ease.