Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-24
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General State News :
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Ihree-pound potatoes have ceased to
attract attention.
A good quality Of Ignite coal has
peen found near Walhalla.
Many Dickey county farmers ar.
proving up or their claims.
Dickey county old maids are renorta5
10 De filing on homesteads in the Hius
A Watertown justice imposed a fine
Oh 80 for profane language On the
streets. -"
h = Freeman was arrested at New
Hoekior on a charge preferred by an
Iowa girl.
sully county will vote. Nov. 5, on the
question OF funding their outstandine
indebtedness.
alhsate has another proposition to
replace cid fire apparatus with new
and soIne coin.
Pensions granted: NJ. T~rowhrldpa
deceased, Milbank. $12; Mary E. Trow-
bridge, Milbank, S..
Musically inclined people at Summit
are agitating the question of organizing
a band at that phase.
The Northwestern Railway compan
Is laying substantial hagstone crossings
in its yards at Yankton.
Business is so good at the Minot land
office that prospective homesteaders
congregate before Office hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. 3. Etnshuth Of Car
rington will winter in Florida for the
benefit of Mr.. E%inshuth's health.
When the Washburn road is com
pieted there will be excursions from
Bismarck to celebrate the event.
Miss Mary L, Beales Of Junction City.
han., has been reinstated as assistant
teacher at the Rosebud Indian school.
Fifteen thousand dollars is the sum
the Northwestern viii expend on it's
new depot and grounds in W~atertown.
John Potter la retired from the man
aeement Of the Barnes house at Mel
little The new landlord is ]. c.. Dor
reIi.
Roberts county voters will vote on the
question of issuing $50,GG0 bonds to build
a new u house and equip a poor
farm.
Stephen Whitfori. train dispatcher at
the Madison depot, has been promoted
TO be assistant train dispatcher at La
Crosse.
The supreme court has admitted to
Point. on a territorial certificate of ad-
mission.
FL. N. Cooper Of Canton. public ex-
aminer for the State of South Dakota,
has invested in a half section of Yank-
ton county land.
c. B. Collins of Grotou, Brown coun-
ty, has announced his candidacy for
state treasurer before the Republican
convention of 1902.
Adjt. Gen. Corbin is looking after the
organization of a troop of cavalry al
Watertown. This organization will give
the state four troops.
Lightning struck the farm residence
of Z. J. Wagner, IL Beadle county. A
big hole was torn in the roof and the
interior was damaged.
Mat Degon was seriously hurt at Wa
tertown while working in a water ditch
A six. inch main fell from the top of the
ditch and struck his head.
Four train loads Of cattle went
through from Aberdeen from the west
and north Saturday night, for Sioux
City and Chicago markets.
Eugenne Hurd, who was arrested for
stealing horses at Evarts and selling
them at Redfield, received a sentence of
one year in the pnnitentiary.
The controller of the currency has ap-
proved the First National Bank of Min
n~earoIis as a reserve agent for h First
National Bank Of Bookings.
The Pierson farm, near Yankton, is
Welding seventy-fve bushels Of corn
per acre. One nusky husker husked,
weighed and cribbed Ill bushels in ten
hours.
A wear or two ago Chas. Woodward,
a Grant county man, purchased a farm
for less than 81. 900. The other day ne
sold it for $500. There are no build
ings on the place.
The earnings Of the Milwaukee COM
many at the Madison depot depot duT-
ing September last, were the largest IN
the history of the station, $4,000 great
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err than ever before.
II, q recent fire al Evarts, Walworth
county a large livery barn was burned
Among the losers we're Napoleon Du-
chneau, who lost a horse, and BUCK
Williams, who lost a team
A drunken Indian gave the people OF
veblen a taste Of the Wild west. ne
O his horse al full speed down az
main street. coI1iding with another
mounted Indian, whose horse vas
killed.
The state school Of minerals at Rap
"a CITY has an enrolment this year OF
seventy students, twenty more thah III
anv preyious year. Students are IN at
tendance from many states, i've oeing
from Illinois.
or. Swicard was returned as pastor
RI the M. r church at Aberdeen TOT tne
s,xtb tine by the conference recently
held at Milbank. His congregatioh
and citizens generally are highiy grali-
fled at this action.
AZ yankton recently, Sidney J. cor
nal, IT.. and Myrtle Maud Iaicot.'
aanybter of Mr.. and Mrs. James III
cctt were united In marriage. Inc cei
emony was performed at the nome
the brides parents.
TIA w~edding.of Marshall A. kellogg
c,4u and Miss Ella Barton or