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ton the Fourth.
In one day recently the Howard
creamery shipped 4,S20 pounds of but
ter.
A new general merchandise store has
been opened at olivet by Brown &
Walker.
The Milwaukee Railroad company lie
shipping in the material for new pas
senger depot at Redfield.
The committee on music for the
Fourth of July celebration at Parkston
for that day.
The first shipment was made the 9TH
er day from the new creamery at Sis
seton, and aggregated one ton and ten
pounds of butter.
A special election will be called at
Hazel in the near future to vote upon
the question of issuing bonds for the
construction of new school house.
Although there Is good deal OF
building being done at Wentworth, car
penters are not able to complete the
buildings fast enough to supply the de-
mand.
been completed shows that Chamber
lain has 1877 children of school age,
169 boys and les girls, an increase of rs
over last year.
The state land department distrib-
uted S241,214 of the interest and income
fund to the schools of the state. This
apportionment is just 81 per capita on
school children.
Marshal Dwyer of Centerville has
been notified that his claim for the
government reward for the capture last
fall of Murphy, daring postoffice rob-
Der, has been allowed.
Thus far this season 1900 feet OF new
watermains have been laid at Mitchell.
creased, further extension of the
mains will be made.
Fred G. Newell, who has been living
several years on hacienda in Old
Mexico, has arrived at Lake Preston
to take the position of station agent.
He formerly resided at Aberdeen.
Kingsbury county farmer named
Page has been received at the peni-
tertiary at Sioux Falls to serve for two
years for being implicated in the
''whitecap" raid on Nels Sands last
July.
At the annual meeting Of the grand
commandery of South Dakota at Sioux
Falls Huron wos selected as the place
for holding the next meeting. Morris
H. Kelly of Aberdeen was elected en-
inent grand commander.
Gov. Herreid has appointed as fish
and game warden for Fab River eeaa--
ty, H. A. Gayhart. A. +. Lindquist
has been promoted from first sergeant
to second lieutenant of Company X OF
the state guard at Milbank.
Charles Page. an early settler in
Beadle county, died at the home of his
sister, Mrs NJ. f. Fuller, aged sixty
eight years. He was a brother Of A.
w. Page Minneapolis. The funeral
and burial occurred at Broadland.
The Parkston creamery broke all
previous records IN turning out l19
tubs of butter in period of one week.
Thus is just twenty-five tubs more
than were produced during the best
previous record for the same period.
For the first time since the new state
LIQUOR license law went into effect sew
eral years ago, suits have been insti-
tuted in Minnehaha county against sa-
loon men for damages for selling liquor
to an habitual drunkard. The state
Iiauor license law permits suits TO be
brought on this ground. The party
who hos instituted the suits Is Mrs.
Mary Garrigan, now of Sioux Fails,
but until recently of Dell Rapids,
where her husband, Michael Garrigan,
a short time ago committed suicide
after a prolonged spree. She sues the
three saloonkeepers of Dell Rapids and
their bcndsmen for $1,000 each. The
defendants are Joseph Huntimer, John
Thomson and Samuel Kennedy. The
bondsmen are all well-to-do residents
and business men of Deli Rapids The
suits are based upon the contention
that Garrigan was an habitual drunk
ard. and that the saloon men, While
Knowing him to be such, sold him
LIQUOR up to the time he took his own
life.
The State Historical society, which
has been In existence only short
time. is making rapid progress in Sc
curing documents and other matter re-
lating TO interesting and important
events of the early days of what Is
now the state of South Dakota. The
latest valuable papers to come into the
possession OF the society are the pri-
yate papers and other documents
which were once the property or the
late Jud.e Kidder There are num-
Der of these. the most interesting being
the various commissions issued TO
Judge Kidder as Judge of, the supreme
court of the territory OF Dakota. There
are five of these commissions. The
first was issued in the early sixties and
bears the signature OF President LIN
coin The next two bear the sigma
lures OF President Grant, the next pres
idant HAYES and the last that of Presi-