Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-09-06
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Miss Alice Flavin is successfully con-
Quoting a hotel at the new town or
Platte, in Charles Mix county.
Mrs. Charles Warner fell from a load
of hay at Bonesteel and broke her
right arm ust above the elbow. DR..
ason reduced the fracture.
H. j. Quincy, the Union county fruit
raiser, has his season raised abou 200
bushels of plums, which were nearly all
sold in the northern part of the state.
Douglas county now contains two
Incorporated towns. The proposition
to incorporate h town OF belmont
carried at a recent election by a vote
of % to 20.
The citizens of Jefferson are having
heated discussions over the Sunday
opening OF h general stores on ac-
rount OF many farmers coming to town
10 purchase articles omitted during the
week.
A flow was struck in the new city ar
tesian we'll at Chamberlain at a deptn
IF $50 feet. At first the water raised
torty-three inches above h top of the
pipe, but the flow Is constantly IN
creasing.
The authorities of Montrose have de-
clared war on gambling devices In the
shape of machines, tables, ETC., and All
| places have been closed. The marsnal
has also been empowered TO keep them
closed in the future.
Napa is the name Of the new station
between Yankton and Utica. where the
new Charles Mix county extension
ln nee grnVn IN araQin line A
small depot has been built and a regu-
lar agent stationed there.
The state treasurer has received w.
s12.50 liquor license money during the
past week. OF this, Lincoln county
sent 81, 0S7.5 so: Moody county, $1,000;
Hughes county. $500; Walworth county,
S1S7.5o; Grant county, $3.50
George Coos, large store building was
moved from Edgerton TO Platte last
week. The stock IA left on the
rhelves and trade was continued during
the removal. 1t is said the last vestige
of Edgertor has disappeared.
Paul Brown and Scott Hauser had a
rather peculiar experience while driv-
ing in Mcpherson county. A thunder
storm came up, and one of the horses
they were irving was killed. Both the
young men were stunned, but soon re-
covered.
A terrific hail storm visited Webster
recently, causing many hundreds OF
dollars damage. In Webster almost
every city lost from n to twenty
panes of glass. No stock loss has been
reported, though the storm was a
fer north of there.
IT is said that 400 head of cattle on
the ranges west of the Missouri are
waiting for the completion of the ex-
tension of the Milwaukee to Bowdle 10
be shipped to market. Feed is very
short in that part of the state on ac-
count of the drought.
r. L. Holcomb of Rapid City has pur-
cha sed of Peter Duhamel a large irri-
gated farm located in Rapid valley,
east of Rapid City. The farm contains
800 acres and the consideration was
81. 900. Cortin Morris purchased of j..
w. DazelI $50 head of range stock at
s35 per head.
A lodge of Elks was organized at
| Chamberlain Wednesday evening py a
delegation of about fifty of the mem
bers of the order, who arrived in a spe-
cial car from Sioux Falls. About twen-
ty-five members were initiated. A pam
uet was given the visitors and local
members at the opera house.
Alexander Hoy Of Aurora reports q
regularity in the form Of an apple tree
on his farm that, in addition to having
ripe apples on 1t, also has It's TOP COW
cred with blossoms. Joseph Martens
living near Milbank, also reports that
his apple and plum trees are budding.
several of the trees being already IN
blossom.
Edward Corrin, a blacksmith OF Mill
Ter. claims to nav solved the propiefn
of perpetual motion. He says that the
Idea came to him thirty years ago In a
dream. He has done a little work on
the machine each year since the incep-
ton of the idea. The inventor claims
that IT will be useful in furnishing
power IL made in large dimensions.
A policeman found two men acting
suspiciously in the rear of the Witt
hardware store at Aberdeen. On the
officers approach the men fed, and the
noliceman, later, found a piece of dy-
Mantle and a fuse near the back door
of the store. Two men. alleged to be
the offenders, were later arrested, and
are being held. 1t is alleged they In
tended to blow open the safe In the
store.
Charles Holmberg, a farmer living
near Centerville, was almost instantly
killed recently by the accidental dis
charge Of a 22-caliber rifle. He was
about to shoot a chicken for dinner,
and was pulling the loaded rife
through a fence, the muzzle toward
him. when the trigger caught and dis
charged the load. The ball severed an
artery of the lung, causing his death
in fifteen minutes.
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed for the California Gold Recovery
company, at Pierre. with a capital OF
$500, 900; incorporators. Anthony p.
Morris. Charles l.. Morrill, and t. p.
Estes. For the Yellow Bee Gold Min
ing company, at Pierre, with a capital
of 1886, 900; incorporators, Edward A.
Holman, Walter f.. Lloyd and Curtis A..
winsor. For the National Mining COM
pany, at Deadwood, with a capital OF
$3.50. 600; ~incorporators, John Baker, 8.