Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-29

The crown Elevator viii
erect a new grain elevator at Orient.
Fishing s good again in the yermil-
lion. Bullkeads are the mosr plentiful,
bet some pickerel and bass are caught.
Every report from the range country
b. TO the effect that 1t vas never In
better shape. The only fear is that the
rains may continue all month and keep
the grass green until the frost catches
il and snoils ii for winter feed.
Game Warden Allen j. Phelps OF
Clark county. brought n gun and two
prairie chickens into WATERFOWL, which
he a taken from Dan Currie and
Adrian Darling, in Phirps township.
Miss Eva Dougherty OF Mt. Vernon.
who went to sioux City several weeks
ago to submit to an operation for APP
pendicitis, is reported to be improving
rapidly. and will soon return home.
Brookings' new hospital is q N assured
fact. The entire amout which was
asked for will no doubt be secured this
week. and as oon as the plans and
specifications arrive matters will begin
moving.
Bookings is now making arrange
ments fer a street fair. to be held the
middle of September. The Commercial
club has taken the matter up and APP
pointed a committee TO secur the CO.
operation CT all the business men.
The Milwaukee. the Northwestern
and the Great Northern railways are
all preparing to haul big punches of
cattle and other stock from the states
south of us into the ranges OF South
no Enfp fnV fall N ,a yyinfar fandfno
Lieut.. Arthur Fuller of Pierre has
received notice OF his assignment to the
Seventy-Ninth Company of coast artil-
lery, which as at present stationed at
Fort Adams. Newport, p. /. He will
temporarily report at Niobrara, Neb.
Abe Van osdel Of Mission Hill.
Yapkton county, has established q
beautiful public park, improved IL ex-
tensively at his own expense and do
rated ii TO the people OF that place.
He has invested about $1,000 in better
ments alone
A lad by the name OF Jensen, four
teen years OF age, was killed by light
ming on the Broken Kettle in Iowa. lie
was an orphan, and v as buried beside
his mother from st. Paul's church, sew
en- miles northwest of Elk Point, in st.
Paul's cemetery.
A~herdeen's public library board has
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Louis Lager: vice president,
Mrs. r. N. Jewett; secretary, M. III.
Kelley; treasurer, Albert Young; IL
brarian, DIR. George f. Countryman;
assistant Librarian, Miss KOSHER.
Thus far, two threshing machines
been destroyed this season In the
state by fire. Judson Browns ma
chine, operating in the vicinity of Wes-
singtou Springs, was one Of them, ma
the other belonged to Edgar Dickinson,
and was at work near Wakonda.
During last week seventy-four car
OF cattle were shipped through
over the Milwaukee 10 points
west, where the stock will be pastured
and fed until ready for market. The
cattle were brought In from the dry
to the south of South Dakota.
The fourteenn-year-old son o. @. T..
McMullen of Henry came near being
killed the other day. He was cleaning
out from under the blower of a thresh-
ing machine. when a rope broke and
the blower fell, striking the boy on h
and shoulders. 1t was feared ne
would not recover.
August Dunsizer Of Gary was before
Commissioner Adams 1T Aberdeen for
a preliminary hearing on the charge OF
having sold liquors in DEUEL. county
" ithout first having paid the special
tax to the federal government for h
privilege OF doing SO. He vas held to
tie next term or h United States
court, ard. being unable to obtain bail,
was committed to Jail.