The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-11-08
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South Dakota
r.-.~o, State News
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The new sewers and waterworks at
Aberdeen are approaching completion.
In one week over $780, 900 was paid
out for grain at the F~landreau ele-
vators.
Elkton has made extensive public i'm
provements in the way of cement side
walks, etc.
The Aberdeen Mill is build
Ing a new brick fire wall between the
mill and elevator.
The business men of Alcester are ar
ranging for the establishment of a To-
cal telephone system.
The business men of Ellington are
agitating the question OF establishing
4 creamery at that place..
A prairie fire burned over a large
part of the Vermillion flats, in the
south part of Kingsbury county.
The county commissioners of Miner
county have reduced the salary of the
county attorney from 5000 to $500.
The enrolment in the public schools
Of Aberdeen last month reached 500,
he largest in the history OF the city.
A small flow was struck in the new
artesian well at Aberdeen at a depth
IF 720 feet. 1t raised almost to the
surface.
Martin Cusack, an old resident of
Hecla, was killed and mutilated by an
explosion of dynamite. He was blast
Sg in a well.
John Bremner of Yankton has ac-
cepted the position of cashier of the
rripp State bank, of Trip, and en-
tered upon his duties Nov. /.
The annual session of the State Edu-
,~ational association will open in Yank-
ION, Dec. %. Reduced rates will be
given by railroads and hotels.
Judge Jones sentenced Lorenzo Ste
vens of Elk Point to life Imprisonment
IN the Sioux Falls penitentiary for the
murder of Samuel Livingston.
Ivan Jacobs, the ~ten-year-old son Of
John Jacobs of Columbia, was thrown
from a horse and so badly injured that
ne died from confusion of the brain.
Some damage is being lone in the
state by prairie fires. Near Kimball.
fire destroyed It's tons of hay and
burned over considerable pasture land.
During a recent heavy thunder
storm, S. G.. Gooding of Ordway had
two COWS killed by lightning, an unu-
sual occurrence for this season of the
year.
The Western Electric Telephone
company has added a fourth wire to
The system at Parker. 1t permits of
connection with the north lines with
gut switching them.
The new bridge on the east side at
Madison has been completed, and
scraping has begun on Washington
avenue, north of it, to fill up the gap
where the old bridge stood.
A very bungling attempt was made
by a negro at Milbank to raise a IS
draft, purchased at the First State
bank Of that city, to $4,000. He was
detected, but managed to escape.
The authorities of Lead have re-
,eived the blank bonds which are to be
issued for the construction of a first
Glass sewer system in that city. There
are forty-five of them Of $1,000 each.
The mercantile firm Of Starkweather
& Kludt, which has been doing BUSH
ness at Emery for some time, has been
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tinue the business as sole proprietor.
Carl Beck, the young German farmer
near Hecla, who was reported al hav-
ing cut his throat and slashed his
wrists with a razor. has since died. No
cause is given except that at times he
was Respondent.
The railroad and telegraph employees
making thir homes In Aberdeen ave
organized a branch Of the national or
yanizatior Of the Railway and Tele-
graph Employees League, with a mem
bership OF, seventy-five.
The members of. the Woman's Relief
corps are planning for a chrysanthe-
mum show and sale at Aberdeen IN
Nov. 1e. The proceeds Of the affair
will be used toward the purchase Of a
monument for our deceased soldiers.
Scallin Bros, who for Ave years
have been one of the leading business
arms of Scotland. nave sold their drug
store in that town to A.. A. Woodward
and B. F. Filbert of Clark. The name
IF the new firm will be Woodward &
Hilbert.
The best yield Of grain reported from
Kingsbury county was raised on the
farm of Mrs. Kjos. Her wheat yielded
an average Of thirty bushels per acre.
The crop was put In. by a boy fifteen
years old, who has charge OF his moth
sr's farm.
Several grain elevators at Wagner,
one of the new towns in Charles Mix
county. have been completed and be-
gun business. The gang of men who
built them has gone to Geddes, anoth-
sr Of the new towns. to erect new ele-
vators there.
Tyler Smith, twelve years old. OF
Hutton, ooh a loaded gun with which
he had been hunting. by the muzzle, to