Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-05-04
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sold his confectionery and restaurant
business to Fred Ptister of Flandreau.
The cement works at iankton nave
started up with forty employees. Last
wear the product amounted TO A3o,VVV'
Frank Boyer died at Sioux Falls re-
Gently from injuries received by ms
taking gasoline for kerosene and using
It for kindling a fire.
The Bangor Methodist congregation
dedicated their new church at that
MACE sunday. and raised S4a1, when
cleared the debt due on the church.
A Faulkton dealer, in TIVE days, SOFA
over $500 worth of farm machinery 10
formers living in the vicinity Oh llat
town.
Mrs John Conway, mother OF James
Conway, proprietor Of the fremont
house at Elk Point, died at her nome,
north of that city, of heart failure.
Byrd Jones. of the Pierre National
Rank. and Miss Laura Madsen, daugh-
daughter of T.. Madsen, a prominent
stockman, were married at Pierre.
+, A new dry goods store has been
opened mt Yankton by Fred A. klop-
ping. who is well known In state mer-
camille circles.
Wheat seeding In all parts or South
Dakota has been rushed since its com
mencement, about the 10th inst, II
Is now nearing completion.
Ole Paulson of Dell Rapids has been
awarded the contract TO build a new
store building for Rhine 4 Co, or that
place, at a cost of SS,619.
George ID. Meikeljohn, assistant sec
rotary of war. owns a whole addition
10 enc of South Dakota's best towns
Iiroton.
Mrs. Minnie Omeg, who died last
week at Vermillion. anne TO America
I'm 1858, locating first at Sioux City,
but has been a resident of Vermillion
since 1860.
ID. X. Pearsons of Chicago has prom
Used Yankton college $4,000 in June.
next year, providing all outstanding
ilebts against the college are paid or
ut hat time.
Erick Olson died at Madison, aged
~sixty-seyea years. He is said 70 have
to have been the first white settler in
Dakota Territory, locating near Yer
million in 1858.
The graduating class of the Tyndall
high school will contain eight mem
bers. Nina Cotton, frankie Davis, Ella
Eads, Fred Eads, Myrtle Forrest, Lyd-
la Rayak, Martha SWEET, John Hahn.
A. G.. Young, one Of Bookings most
prominent citizens, was stricken with
partial paralysis while loading freight.
He is suffering severely. but his ply
sician has hopes of his recovery.
The Campbell County Abstract COM
pany, at Mound City, with a capital
Of $1,000, has been incorporated. In
corporators. G.. w. Eckert. Elizabeth
n. Claybourne and Maud A. Stewart.
The Minnehaha Mining company. at
Sioux Falls, with a capital of 100000,
has been Incorporated. lncorporators,
J.. I. Hamilton, III. III. Keith and II. &.
Trask.
Jacob Skor, a young man working in
the creamery at Milbank, had his
right arm caught by a revolving shaft,
breaking 1t in several places. Ampu-
tation will probably be necessary.
New settlers continue TO arrive in
all parts of the state. The influx this
spring has been very large, and it is
expected that next fall the incoming
Of new settlers will take on the pro
portions of a stampede.
The jury in the case of X. A. Tubbs,
mayor of Alcester, charged with send
ing obscene literature through the
mails, returned a verdict finding the
accused guilty Of seven out Of the eight
counts in the indictment.
Articles or Incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state for the
Carr Mining company, at Pierre. with
a capital of Sl.000,000 Incorporators,
Frank Niece, II. l.. Squire and Rufus
s. King.
Rasmus Sorensen was drowned In
Vermillion river. near Sermillion. He
fell from a bridge and was drawn un.
der by an unusually swift current,
His body has not been found, and
probably never will be.
The Parkston creamery. I'm March
received $4,000 pounds of milk. fol
which S21 600 was paid, the farmers
receiving IL H. cents per pound fol
butter, or 20 cents per 100 lbs for 4
eper cent milk.
A movement is on foot to secure q
pardon for James Pettyman, who was
convicted of rape in the circuit court
at Clear Lake. and sentenced by Judg.
Andrews. in June, 1897, TO five years
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Postmasters appointed In South Da
kota: DeGrey, Deuel. county Mrs
Eliza Chandler, vice Henry Jones. re
moved; Little Bend. Sully count ]
w. Oswald, vice Joseph b. Binder, r.
signed.
Col. j. p. Megrew, formerly com
mandant of the South Dakota Soldiers
home, but more recently In charge q
the soldiers home at Lafayette. Ind.
is again out Of a job, the trustees O
the latter institution having placed an
other In charge.
AT the spring term of court for Han,
county, held at Miller, h. G.. Andersen
pleaded guilty to misrepresentation O
funds of Hiland township while treas
urer or the same. and was SENTENCED
TO n year in the penitentiary a
Sioux Falls.
Eliot Lyons. aged sixty-two wears
died at Plankinton OF cancer of TN