The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-12-12
South Dakota
c, State News
Photographed.

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The Commercial hotel at Centerville
has changed hands, now being owned
by Il. Carr,
Fulton is making hard struggle 10
wrest the county seat OF Hanson coun-
ty from Alexandria.
Mrs. G.. w. Hall of Violin broke her
hip by falling from a stable in which
she was hunting eggs.
Mrs. Peter Hurtig. sister-in-law of
Homo. Norgren of .Centerville, died at
her home, near Komstad.
John weiderman was taken into GUS
tody at Pierre On information of insan-
ity.
Charles Mix county will hold term
of court in January, the first winter
term ever held in the county.
I The big pulleys on the dynamo at
the Madison electric light plant went
TO pieces the other night, leaving the
city in moonlight,
The following pensions have been
granted: Increase, Christopher G. Hin
sey, Pierre SIT; John Small, Faulkton,
$40; John Horan Oelrichs, $40.
| William Wallace of Aberdeen will
leave about the middle of the week for
Washington, to assume his duties as
statistic'an of the senate for the win
ter.
The old gas we'll at Pierre. which has
been plugged up for Several weeks, has
been reopened, and the supply of gas.
which has been limited, will again be
sufficient for all demands.
Stratton G Gilborne, who gave up
the Howell well, in Brown county, after
boring LIES feet, now have their rig set
up on the Webster ranch, where they
are sure of securing flow.
When the time comes, the Black
Hills people will do all they can to get
the long distance telephone company,
recently organized at Sioux City, to ex-
tend it's line to the Black Hills.
IT. Il. Rossner of Big Stone. who re-
turned recently from Europe, brought
from Germany an intcre sting old vol
ume 1t is entitled 1.-THE Conversation
and Table Talk of Luther" published
in 1891.
The Howard Telephone company is
enjoying unusual prosperity. At a re-
cent meeting Of the directors so per
cent dividend was declared, and there
is still considerable money left in the
treasury.
Mrs Elizabeth Smith Burbeck of New
Jersey and William M. Vanderhoof of
New York, were married at Sioux FANS
recently. Mrs. Burbeck has been con-
spicuous member of the divorce colony
OF Sioux Falls.
The circuit court convened at Tyn-
DALI and occupied two days with the
case OF Mrs. George Kelner VS.. the city
of Tyndall. The plaintiff sued for ST.
coo. for an alleged injury from fall on
q sidewalk.
The barns on the Stanley Hall farm,
near Redfield, were burned, together
/, with several horses, among them val
liable stallion, Several hundred BUSH
. els of corn and a quantity of other feed
was also burned.
G.. G.. Skinner, who was arrested at
Hurley few days ago by officers from
: Brule county, on complaint filed by q
Kimball bank charging him with hav-
! ing sold mortgaged property, has been
held in bonds OF 5000.
Nineteen men are at work upon the
Masonic temple at Yankton, and the
contractors are taking every possible
advantage of the weather to rush the
!. structure to a point where work can bt
1 suspended until spring.
Q News comes from Hot Springs of the
: death of John Arnold, who went from
q Huron to the Soldiers home early in
s the summer. He was well known In
that locality, and won honors for BRAY
cry In the War OF the Rebellion.
About $4,000 was distributed among
T patrons of the DeSmet creamery fol
: milk during October. The amount Of
milk received was 6S2,937 pounds. the
!. average test being AZ. The average
price per 100 pounds was So cents.
: Master Leon. the nine-year-o sol
:, Of Mrs. Rose Sayer of Britton, ha:
: plowed this fall with horse team
forty acres. and. with the assistance o
his brother, Emmett, twelve years old
p has turned over 200 acres in first-clas
: manner.
It The vaults in the Union block a
d Yankton burned Thanksgiving morn
~ Ing, have been opened, and the book
!, of half a dozen firms, including tn
l. Yankton Building and Loan associa
d ton. were found burned to crisp an
totally destroyed.
Frank Bowman of Union county, VIII
is charged with having hired team
g year ago and sold one Of the. horses
u has just been apprehended. He waive
~ preliminary examination, and wa
,, permitted to put up a 5000 cash BON
d. for his appearance at the March tern
of the circuit court.
!, The attendance at the Indian schoc
at Pierre has increased TO poin
where the buildings are crowded, an
there Is need for more room. Congress
of will be asked this winter for an appro
n priation for new building, to reliev
. the present crowded condition
lie At meeting of the business men an