The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-09-26
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nova house. at Canova, and will take
possession Oct. /.
| Parties have been looking over vi
borg. with a view to erecting a roller
mill there. with a capacity of 100 bar
| Joseph Macarthur, who came to the
Black Hills in 1877, died In st. 'Joseph's
hospital in Deadwood, of dropsy Of the
heart. He was a well known farmer
on the Little Spearfish.
In one day recently a party OF land
seekers, six from Mendoza, ILL.,, and one
| from Chicago. purchased $4,000 worth
of farm lands from land agency at
Davis. Turner county
A Bryant man named Burns inter-
of the peace was making an arrest. and
was fined S35 or seventeen and half
days in Jail for his fun.
The wife Of Hugh Montgomery,
| farmer living near Worthwhile. has
cleared the sum of $e4.76 from the sale
OF chickens and eggs so far this year,
| and has 200 chickens left.
The James river is at present lower
! than it has been for years, and several
mills along it which have been operated
by water power have been compelled to
resort to gasoline engines.
| A Sioux Falls contractors has just
completed, at Egan. the largest single
contract for cement sidewalks ever CIV
en- in the state. The contract covered
about half mile of walks.
The postoffice at Memo was robbed
| recently, and about $675 distracted.
This was the same right that the office
at Harvey was burglarized of nearly
800 worth of cash and stamps.
c. b. Foncanon of Eureka superin-
tendent of schools in Mcpherson coun-
| ty, says that the question OF securing
teachers for his county is a very seri-
Gus one. He wants forty teachers.
South Dakota postC ffices have been
established as follows: Chorce, Rine-
hart county. with NJ. o. Veal as post
master: Little Eagle, Foreman county.
with Effie E. Noble as postmistress.
Some of the coursing enthusiasts in
| that city are talking Of the possibility
Of holding coursing meet In Mitchell
some time the latter part of the month,
following the big event at Madison.
| Mitchell's board of health has passed
resolution requiring every one who
has not had the smallpox or who can
not show successful vaccination within
three years, to be vaccinated before
| Oct. 1.
! The Northwestern water tank, stu
ated at the Jim river bridge four miles
/ east of Yankton, fell into the stream
/ Sunday evening. The foundation be-
came insecure, and the heavy tank top
! pied over.
/ Fifty tubs OF creamery butter were
adjudged in the dairy department of
/ the recent state fair, and Judge F. CAL
lagher of Chicago pronounced it the
most uniformly good display he had
/ ever seen.
While attempting to load steam
threshing machine on the ferry boat at
| Scalp Creek, the machine became un-
manageable and ran across the boat
into the river, where 1t sank in twenty
| feet of water.
Supt. McClenon reports an attend
ance of Gil pupils at the Madison
schools Monday. sixty-six more than
on the opening day year ago. or the
total number in attendance 101 We're In
| the high school.
Rev. A. H. Anderson has resigned the
pastorate of the Baptist church at Vi
borg, and will remove from there early
next month. Rev. N. Tychson. an old
resident of Viborg has been appointed
to fill the vacancy.
1 City Supt. Fitch reports that the total
/ enrolment of pupils in the public
schools of Aberdeen has reached S12.
The high school has lib pupils, just
about one-half more than were in at
tendance last year.
Cotton & Cloutier will not open a
| general store in Poland, as was report
ed short time ago. The building
which they intended to occupy will be
used by l.. f. Culver, who will put in "a
! stock of boots and shoes.
The citizens of Cotton have decided to
! put in a local telephone system, which
will be extended to adjoining farms.
AS soon as sufficient amount of stock
is subscribed for the work of establish
ing the system will be begun.
Mr.. Dobler of Eureka, who contem-
plated building new flour mill at Ash
ley. has abandoned the project, and in
stead has purchased the mill at Kuhn.
Dyer Bros. of Kuhn have secured the
site intended for the Ashley mill.
George Clark laboring man from
| Omaha, who has been working on the
farm os knute Peterson, was run over
and killed by the north bound train on
the Milwaukee, road Saturday evening,
about a ,potle and a half from Brya Mt
Revk mix w. Straw has accepted
the nRfHF4te of the First Methodist
church, wDeadwood He is at present
preaching at Eau Claire, Wis. He will
succeed DR.. T. B. Clark, who has been
appointed presiding elder of the Black
| Hills district.
The Flandreau telephone system is
being enlarged and improved. The old
| switch board which had fifty keys, has