The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-08-24

pukvana reports n scarcity CT dwell
ing houses.
A new grain elevator will bc built ut
Arlington.
1t is estimated that this years wool
ers $2O0,0OO.
The Baptists at Clear Lake will. this
fall. erect handsome new residence
for their pastor.
Agnew. Thompson & Mears are
building new grain elevator at Ban
croft, Clark county.
Ground has been broken for the new
$4,000 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 the
name Of a new banking Institution at
Freeman. Hutchinson county. John
Schamber is president.
ARRANGEMENTS are being perfected
for a race meeting and base ball tour
nament at Kimball. Sept. II and Is.
The purses will aggregate $500.
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 sub
stantial strides in the way Of new
buildings and other improvements.
William BlankartZ, progressive
Cook county frmcr, is building a TO-
00O-bushel granary. and says he Will
have enough grain this fall to fill it.
Native grasshoppers are quite nu-
merous along the Missouri river in the
southern portion of Brule county, and
Lave done some damage to crops and
trees.
BY unanimous vote, Emery has de-
cided to incorporate as a town, and
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 Of
Clark, having for its 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 sock were killed in South
Dakota by lightning.
The agent Of Minneapolis company
lat Bowdle has, since April l last. pur-
chased 1896 pounds of butter and 8,
2S5 dozen eggs at that point, paying
therefor S4,G11.G6 in cash.
Disbarment proceedings have been
instituted against G.. L. Harden Of
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 ii 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 tho
charge Of forging mortgages, upon
which he drew money from the school
fund of the county. The name of his
mother-n-law was forged to one Of the
mortgages.
This is great potato year i'm 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
marble up % a goose egg. The vine
was green and the potatoes growing
when 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. He
lives near lroquois. ana the other day
sold $3.50 worth Of cattle. During the
past year lie has received $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. 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 feature of the
celebration.
Some enterprising individual at the
town Of White, BroOkings county. IL
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 comes that fakir in the vi
cinity Of Langford is selling the farm
ers goose wheat for seed 1t is said
to be a beautiful looking berry. but il
will not make -four, nor is it 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 n great deal OF it.
Lawrence county, with thirty-eight