Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-22
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Viborg has voted to iss ue bonds In
the sum OF > 800 for the erection of a
school building.
The September term of court for Au-
rora county has been postponed until
Monday. Nov. is.
Vinton \. Holbrook Of Alexander has
been appointed assistant clerk at the
Rosebud Indian agency.
The pcstofIice at Blue Blanket. Wal
worth county. has been discontinued.
Mail win go TO Bangor.
The department has completed the
last payment Of the $500 o 10 the Sis
seton and Wahpeton Indians.
Material has arrived for a new grain
elevator TO be constructed at Elroy by
The Lake Preston Milling company.
l.. w. Adams of Mftch2ll drew a prize
in the government lottery a. Oklahoma.
His land is in the Lawton district.
DIR. d. II. Cronyn of Houghton is re-
ported dangerously i'll WIKI rheuma-
tism. Little hope is entertained for his
recovery.
The authorities Of SissSton have pur-
chased a lorge quantity of hose for the
fire department. and h town has now
first-class fire protection.
A young son OF George Baum, who
lives in Parkston, had the toes of his
right foo taken off and a deep cash
cut in his left leg by a mower.
Several cases Of diphtheria are re-
ported in Yankton. The homes of as
sistant Postmaster Dunn and Charles
Noble are under quarantine.
Many Cook county farmers appreci-
ate the fact that hay is hay this season,
and are putting up all the hay they can
possibly find men to handle.
The preliminary work toward tie
erection of n new cyanide plant in
Deadwo0d by the Homestake company
is being pushed very rapidly.
A strong flow OF water has been en-
countered in p. II. O'Neilrs second ar
tesian well, on his large ranch, eight
miles southwest of Faulkton.
Harvest throughout the state this
year is truly n harvest for the small
boy. Ten end twelve-year-old lads are
receiving 81 per day and board for
driving teams hitched to header boxes.
The p~ostofice at Arlington will be-
come a presidential Office Oct. /.
The annual fair in Gregory county
will be held At Fairfax, Sept. 3, 9
and Z.
The following pensions have been
granted: Increase. Gottlieb Geisert,
dead, Waubay, $40. Widows-Elizabeth
Geisert. Waubay, IS; Hannah T.. Hub
bard, Raymond, IS.
Huron has a new artesian well which
throws a coed volume of water. The
well is said to hlve been sunk about
200 feet below the point at which the
first flow was struck.
The second special election at iet.ys-
burg, to vote upon the question III sink
ing an artesian we'll, was a one-sided
affair. The vote in favor of h prop
osition vas unanimous.
John f. Anderson Of Chamberlain Is
starting a lumber yard at Wentworth.
A p~ostofice has been established at
Flatircn, Lawrence county, with Pat
rick Brady as postmaster.
While playing in a header-box, the
~fve-year-old son CT Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
uel Day of Faulkton. was hit upon the
head by a pitchfork. But small hopes
are entertained Of his recovery.
Work has begun on the vault for the
Marion State BANK. Workmen are FIT
ting in n new fire proof safe, and when
the vault is completed 1t will be sub
stantial, roomy ard fire-proof.
The A. o. U. w. and the Degree of
Honor lodges at Faulkton I'VE a re-
ception in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Headly, who have just returned from
their wedding tour in h East.
Leola township. Mcpherson county,
is the first township In the state to pro-
vide for fire breaks around the town
chip. It has over $1e0 n the treasury
to be expended for this purpose.
George GrerinG, living three miles
east, and Nick Knickrehu, living four
miles west of Marion, each report TWEEN
~ bushels of wheat to the acre. This
is a air estimate OF the crop In gen.
eral.
Although the building Of houses has
been goiug on steadily all the spring
and, summer at Colman, a number or
people have been unsuccessful in their
to secure houses in that thriving
place.
Work has been begun on the teie-
phone system OF Beulah township, in
Hanson county. Nineteen farm houses
will be. connected, and will have con-
nection with the telephone system OF
Alexandria.
The people around Laurel, Sully u
ty. where anthrax is alleged to exist,
are intimating that poison FOR spite
work on the part of certain individuals
Is responsible for most Of the deaths
among the cattle.
Wentworth will soon possess a nne
two-story building. The lower floors
will be used 20; an engine room, counci
chamber and gymnasium. The upper
floors will be fitted UP in elegant shape
for a lodge room.
II. f. Foxton. in the northeast =
ner of Douglas county. has t~hirty-hve
or forty fruit trees In his orchard tnat
are heavily loaded with fruit, the crap
arpie trees being really overburdened.
the limbs having to be pro2red up %
pl event their breaking down.
The Office OF the commissioner OF
school and public lands has issuei
fourteen patents On final PAYMENTS TO