Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-09-05
South Dakota
coraro, State News
- Photographed.

is to move TO Madison.
Some Springfield hunters paid $40 and
,osts for four prairie chickens.
The assessors find over a million cat
tie in the state. worth, actual value.
about $34,0 900, 900.
Pensions granted: Increase-James
Kerr, Hot Springs, So. Widows-Helen
Codding. Clark, IS.
Hotel keepers all over the state have
to use cots at night for the land seek
ers who crowd in.
The scavenger tax list of Brown
county makes forty pages and or
Hughes county 200 pages.
John Keenan, OF WATERFOWL a sold
his interest in the hardware business
TO his partner, Arthur Poulson.
The barn and contents of William F.
LANCE of Worthwhile was burned. There
was insurance on the property.
John Van Asch. residin & a few miles
north of Milbank, lost two horses by
lightning. He will receive 800 insur-
ance.
Six grain elevators In the village of
Worthing are expected to ship 200 car
loads Of grain per mcnth the rest OF
the year.
The Mitchell university baseball club
is going to challenge che state univers-
ity ball club to play a series Of games
this fall.
The store Of Hegness jacobson ut
Moe, Lincoln county, was robbed or
about $500 worth Of shoes Il dress
goods.
Asa G.. Harris, the advance agent for
the Sells & Gray shows, dropped dead
at the Gilmore hotel in Redwood OF
heart trouble.
A new furniture store is being put in
at Wakonda by Finley Bros. of Center
vile. They expect to conduct stores In
both places.
w. H. Ward. the alleged Puma MUIR
derer, was bound over at his prelim-
mary trial at Deadwood to answer to
the charge of murder.
The marriage of Miss Elena ]. Pea
body, daughter of DIR. III. A. Peabody,
ana David T.. Rouse of Columbus, Ohio,
occurred at Webster.
Pensions granted: Silas +. Breese,
Wakonda, IS; Nelson R%alston. Canton.
$14; Mary A. Dimmick. Highmore, $l2;
Anna Like, Alexandria, SIS.
Judge Smith has adjourned the regu-
lar term of court for Aurora county
from the first Tuesday in September to
the third Tuesday in November.
At a recent state fair meeting 1t was
definitely decided to erect a restaurant
building at the state fair grounds and
work will be begun on 1t al once.
The controller OF the currency has
approved the Hanover National hank
Of New York as a reserve agent for the
Citizens National bank of Woonsock-
ct.
The hay crop in McCcok county Is
the hest for several years past. No
greater effort was ever put forth by
the farmers to save every particle of
grass.
The implement men are selling a good
many corn binders. There is a belief
that cutting corn n curing 1t will do
away with all danger OF the cornstalk
disease.
Gov. Herried has appointed John r..
Taylor of Webster as game and fish
Warden for Day county In Ilace of
George Bathan, who has removed from
the state.
A great amount of building and re-
pairing IS going on in Lead. Two nun
dred dwelling houses are now In course
of erection, which will be occupied by
those building them.
John Bothanex, living lear Duncan
refused to tie the rope about him while
being let down a l30-foot well. and.
losing his strength. fell 10 the bottom
and was killed.
The week following the Aberdeen car
nivaI there will be three days of racing
and baseball at Huron. the dates being
Sept. "a, 25 and &c, purses aggreSating
1900 being offered.
The indiana residing in Marshan
county are becoming heavy taxpayer.
Over 81, 900 has been paid in by them
during the past few days, n a consid-
cradle amount is still DUE.
Messrs. Marshall and Hubbell. who
had the contract for completing the
third story of the new dormitory at
Madison. have completed the work,
and received $2.673 for the job.
Another free delivery rural mail route
will go into operation at I~.resiord Oct.
/, with Frank J. Davis as carrier. The
route is % miles long, overs an area of
% square miles and serves a population
of 44z in 1o6 houses.
Three hundred and sixteen volumes
for the Lake county library have arr
rived and there are $50 yet to he re-
ceived. Sixty Of the 80 school 20 which
these books go have bought lakewood
| cases TO receive them.
The Coursing Club OF Madison re-
quests farmers and all others TO refrain
from shooting jack rabbits until after
the national coursing meet. that their
guests in that event may be favored
with a good chase.
The quantity of cream being pro-
duced In Brown county is steadily in
creasing, the daily receipts in Aberdeen
reaching large quantities. One shipper
received and sent $50 gallons 40 Min
neapolis in one day.
James Schneider, a well known Dead
wood miner. was crushed to death In
the Portland mine. He was one OF the
pail bearers Mt the funeral OF his friend
Harry Campbell, who was killed a few