The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-10-31
South Dakota
c, State News
Photographed.
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,orted in Sanbo:n county.
O. G. Meredith of Bridgewater has
disposed of his drug business.
3 A. Wug has been appointed post
master at Brisco, Walworth county.
lanes G. Medium of Dell Rapids
has decided to start lumber yard at
that place.
J. f. Meyer OF White has sold his
stock of general merchandise to Hicks
Z 4 Co
prairie dog town, lying few miles
southeast OF Platte. covers thirty
acres.
G. Il. Tlmmons has leased the Beebe
hotel at Platte, and viii Overhaul and
rtfurni5h It.
The teachers of Bridgewater have
cry nized a teachers association and
reading circle.
TIE postofice at Casta'il. Charles
Nix county has been discontinued. the
nail going to Platte
The artesian well at Wooasocket has
been successfully rep9ired. and is now
under complete control.
d. G. Jamison of Bridgewat ter has Sc
surcl a contract for building a Presoy-
teiian church at Salem.
Arrangements have been completed
foe the removal OF five more buildings
from st. Lawrence TO Miller.
II has been decided by the Deadwooi
city council to send to Omaha for bids
on gas lighting plant for that city
The sta te treasury has received from
the naticn nal government $l05, for care
of insane Indians at the state asylum.
s. r. Cornell. Jr., American express
agent at Yankton, has been transferred
10 the Sioux City Office OF the company.
A. E. Parmenter of Scotland has been
granted twenty-year franchise for
an electric plant by the council of that
place.
Paul Voy Of Grotou. who eloped with
the young daughter of near neighbor
recently, is now said TO be violently in
sane.
The authorities of Ramona have APP
pretended horse thief, with a span OF
horses stolen in the neighborhood of
Alpena.
w. b. Webb, leading business man
Of Worthwhile, proposes starting bank
at Webster, and is there looking the
ground over.
Ole K. Medgard died at his farm res
dence, eleven miles west OF Madison,
after several weeks illness sfrom ca
tarrh OF the stomach.
Sanborn county has got one pauper,
and he has earned money enough to
buy and pay for a comfortable house,
which he now occupies.
A telephone line is being constructed
between Kimball and Platte. the ter
minus of the Charles Mix county extern
sion Of the Milwaukee road.
Sam Fordyce was arrested for Great
Ing disturbance in the Madison opera
house and pleaded guilty. He was
fined $40 and costs. $14.1o in all.
w. S. Goodwin has been appointed
superintendent Of construction upon
Y the Yankton Masonic temple by his
brethren Of the Masonic bodies.
The attendance at the Pierre Indian
school liz the largest 1t has ever been.
about ls0 pupils being on the rolls. and
the school is UP to its full capacity.
The Allan Black company Of st. Paul
has been awarded the contract for the
erection Of a city water works and cleo
trio light plant ct Webster. on a bid Of
4 1854.
The Lennox roller mill has resumed
operations, after being shut down for
more than month While new and i'm
proved machinery was being placed in
position.
Seven or eight prosperous farmers or
BonHomme county are considering the
advisability Of putting In a telephone
connection with Tyndall, BonHomme
and Tabor
In a period OF thirty days the land
transfers In Brookings county aggre-
gated 1900 acres, the total considera-
ton being s152,043, an average Of about
2l per acre.
Judge Bennett, at this term Of court
IN Castlewood. granted divorce to
Mrs Robert Landers. Mrs. Landers.
by the terms Of the decree. resumes her
maiden name, Vaux.
Five pupils escaped from the reform
school at Plankinton. Three were re-
captured. OF the two still at large, one
Is young counterfeiter named Booke,
from North Dakota.
The last payment on the debt Of the
methodist Episcopal church and par
sonage at Iroquois has been paid on.
All the churches at that place are now
entirely free from debt.
Fred Cordes Of Redfeld. painter.
was seriously injured by falling from a
ladder. He struck on his head and
shoulders and his friends fear that his
injuries may prove. fatal.
The Pierson ranch, on Smutty Bear
oottom, near the Yankton cement mill,
mas been sold for about $35 per acre,
ana there are 1000 acres of 1t. Iowa