The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-01-25
SOUTH DAKOTA.

A single shipper of Alexandria has
sent off over 100 tons of old scrap IRON
this winter.
Summit is to have a public library
funds having already been raised ior
that purpose.
DR. Parker takes DR. Everharas
place ut Brookings as pension eNai''ih-
ing surgeon.
During the past year the Big stone
creamery received $1,000 pounds more
milk than in 1898,
III. NJ. Keene. formerly OF the Water
town Kampeskian, Is now in charge Oh
the Beresfcrd News
Turner Hose company Of Huron VIII
give a masquerade ball Feb. IA, WIN
number of prizes for the best cos
tuTes.
Aberdeen has advertised for bids for
the digging of n six-inch artesian Wen
and will lay nearly Slo,OOo worth VI
pew sewer this year.
Landlord Fuller of the Dakota mouse
at Huron has been appointed as
guard at the military prison mt fort
LeayenwOrth, Kas.
A yong man of Edmunds county sew
enteen gears old has been arrested ior
stealing some whisky out OF the en-
press office at Nina.
Yarkton county has developed gang
of thieves whose operations are con-
fined exclusively to raiding creameris.
During the last few days large mum
Der of tubs Of butter have been stoieh
from the creamcries at Mission nm,
Center Point, Hanson and other places
in the vicinity.
A determined effort is being made on
the par. Of the South Dakota Retail
Merchants association and others 10
defeat the bill pending III congress es-
tablishng the parcels post system.
Letters and messages have Deen sent
to REPRESENTATIVES. i'll congress from
South Dakota. and also to these from
other states, urging them to not sup
port the bill.
The following directors were elec'ti
by the First National Bank Of Lead:
Il. J. Grier, w. Il. .jmead, i. A. Gus
hurst. Ernest May and J. w. Freeman,
all of Lead. The officers elected are:
President. r. ]. Grier; vice president,
Ernest May; cashier, X. IL. Drlscoil.
The business men and laborers have
1851 81 on deposit in the bank.
William Miller, farmer Of Mime
haha county died ut the hospital mt
Sioux Falls as result OF an appar-
entity trivial accident. Last Wednes-
day. while removing the entrails from
beef he had killed, he scratched his
hand slightly. a couple Of days later
the hand began to swell ana blood
poisoning set in, causing lockjaw ana
resulting in his death.
Dell Rapids has completed extensive
additions and improvements to its Ell
CINE house. A full story has been
added TO the engine house, which Will
be fitted up as city hall and council
room, and n fifty-foot tower has been
erected for the fire bell and the drying
of hose. The new portion Of The build
inG has been constructed of brick, the
same as the first stony of the building.
A dispatch from Viborg, Turner
county, states that the town authorities
and the Great Northern railroad re-
Gently locked horns over the consruc-
ton of q Sidewalk TO the depot. Judge
Smith has granted temporary in-
junction restraining the railroad COM
pany from interfering with the work,
and the sheriff has been called to the
scene to enforce the order Of the court
which it was feared by the townspeo-
pie would be resisted.
Arlington will soon become known
as the city OF churches IL the present
plans of the church people there are
carried out. Three new churches are
to be constructed there The Catholics
are advertising for stone for the foun-
dation Of their new church. The Ger
man Lutherans and the Christian so
cieties will also erect new churches i'm
the near future. the latter society
having just purchased the necessary
grounds.
There will be an effCrt made again
this spring TO have sewerage system
put In along the principal streets Of
Lead. While Lead il one Of the largest
and most prosperous cities in the state
1T has no sewerage at all and as a
consequence the people are compelled
to throw their garbage in the most con.
venient place. There has been n large
amount OF sickness in the city this win
ter of serious nature, several deaths
having resulted from typhoid fever.
Lead has one Of the best free
libraries and reading rooms I'm the
West. Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. who owns
large share of the stock OF the Home
stake company, maintains the Hearst
free library, paying all of the expenses
herself There are mt present 5000
Volumes in the library and the average
number taken out daily is $50. There
are 1Jo children under the age of
eleven years who are members of the
library. The privileges Of the institu-
tions are for every person in the eity.
William J. Pyle, late president OF the
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