Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-02-08
IN SOUTH DAKOTA

W. W
ing at Gayville.
Oldham is promised a new mill for
The coming season with an eighty-bar-
rel capacity daily.
The sportsmen Of Springfield and vi
entity are taking steps toward the or
saniZatloI Of a gun club.
One huLdred and forty-five carloads
Of grain were shipped from yiborg
during the month of December.
1t is estimated that fifty new fami-
lies will settle in the Hills south and
southwest of Reville in the spring.
One Of the leading brewing compa-
MES has a force Of men at work on a
new cold storage plant at Kimbau.
II. G. Brown and Il. II. Radciiff,
leading business men Of Howard, are
organizing a building and loan associ-
alton.
The st. Thomas Catholic society,
which recently constructed a fine new
church near Bradley, has dedicated
the edifice.
Alcester r~ejoices in a new opera
nouse, the scenery having been put in
place and everything made ready for
occupancy.
On the first of next month George
Francis, a well known hotel man Of
Salem, will take charge of the Logan
house at Howard.
Cotton, n of the new South Dakota
towns, already has several business
places, and efforts are now being made
TO secure a railroad promise to be sue
eeSSful.
William Edwards. a section hand in
the employ of the Burlington railroad,
dropped dead while at work on the
road at Sheep Canyon, between Min
nekahta and Edgemont.
NJ. A. Regards hardware store and
stock at Watertown, were partially de-
stroyed by fire. Loss and damage,
about $4,000; insurace, $4,000. The or
Igin Of the fire is unknown.
While doing the chores, Mrs. Gilpin,
living nine miles southwest Of Volga,
was attacked by a vicious boar, and
before help arrived was badly LAGER
ated about the limbs and chest.
In the case Of Lee and Musch VS.. the
town of Mellette, Judge Campbell has
granted a permanent injunction re-
straining the town authorities from
collecting a special tax for water
mains.
John Hanson of Deuel. county came
before Judge Garland at Sioux Falls,
and pleaded guilty to selling liquor
without government license. He was
fined 500 and sentenced to thirty
days imprisonment.
The farmers living in the vicinity of
Marindahl. Yankton county, have or
ganiZed a creamery association, with a
capital of $4,000. and will at once com.
mence work on the construction Of a
plant, which will cost $500.
Because of the depredations Of
wolves in some parts of Moody county,
interested sheep owners have inaugu-
rated a movement to induce the county
authorities to increase the bounty paid
for the killing Of the animals.
The firm of Sosiowzsky & Lee, deal
ers in general merchandise at Madison,
was closed on a chattel mortgage held
by the First National Bank of Madi-
son. The liabilities are not known.
They carried a small stock. The debt
Is but $500.
A new cattle company has been or
gained at Fort Pierre, with a capital
of $4,000. The incOrporatOrs are j. ID.
Carr, G. II. Foles, @. E.. Sumner, w.
II. Frost and c. L. Millett. They ex-
pect to put a large number of cattle on
the range this year.
The pupils of the Aberdeen school
have donated several hundred school
hnnlyc for Tho ,1cn Of Eilininn ahillrnD
The ladies of the w. Il. G., have pur-
chased a large supply Of pencils, tab
lets. etc, and arranged for the ship
nIent of the material.
1t is reported that the Black Hills
Copper Mining company has negOtiat-
ed a deal with Eastern parties for the
purchase of its eleven copper claims in
Pennington county, neal Rockford.
TheOre averages s per cent copper, 81
gold and some silver to the ton.
The Commercial State Bank Of Edg-
erton is arranging TO establish branch
banks at both terminal points on the
new extension of the Milwaukee rail-
road into Charles Mix county. That
part of the state will enjoy a decided
boom in the spring as the result of the
railroad extension.
Franc Eggebrecht, a farmer living
nine miles from Roscoe, in Edmunds
county. has been sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for a year by Judge Gaffy for
burglary. He pleaded guilty TO having
broken into the houses of ~neighhoring
farmers, from which he had stolen a
number Of small articles.
Maurice Heron, at work at Pinker-
toms saw mill at Rapid City, had a Sc
rlous accident. While at work around
a circular saw he dropped something,
and as he stopped to pick 1t up his
forehead struck against the teeth of
the moving saw and the skull was pen
etrated. He is doing fairly well.
A young man about eighteen years
Old applied recently to Delatoes Hin
man. a farmer living thrre mills north
of Yankton, for work. He was hired
ut once and began work Immediately.
After work, and having p%artaken Of a
hearty supper, he wandered out to the
barn and helped himself to n of the
best horses. also taking a saddle and
bride. Although o GERS have since
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