Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-03-07
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A business mems association is be-
ing talked OF at Britton.
Work will begin the latter part OF
March on a new Episcopal church at
DeSmet. ~ sA
An organization has been completed
and officers elected for a cooperative
creamery at Hecla.
The First National Bank of Fland-
reau will erect a handsome and costly
stone building in the spring.
In a period of only two weeks be-
tween $1,000 and 5000 worth of cattle
and hogs were shipped from Milbank.
Gus Craven, a rancher. who lives on
the White river, had two calves killed
by a mountain lion.
Thomas Davis, pleaded. guilty. at
Monroe, to the charge of operating a
blind pig. and paid s25 0and costs.
The new creamery at Hitchcock will
soon be running. The company has is
sure Of the milk from 600 cows to start
with.
The people of Selby are agitating the
erection of a creamery at that place,
and it is probable that m will be
built in the spring.
The winter meeting of the Old Set
tiers society and the Grant County
Historical association will be held at
Milbank March IL.
o. L. Anderson, county auditor of
Hamlin county, is said to be short in
his accounts. The county board has
taken possession of the books.
The Aberdeen Racing association an
nounces that purses aggregating ST.
$50 will be put up for the races which
will be held on Friday, Saturday and
Monday, July l9, 20 and %.
Faulkton will have more adequate
fire protection in the near future. The
city council is securing bids for the
construction Of a new artesian well.
The people, of Clear Lake have re-
Gently raised none for the purchase
OF and for a new Touring mill. which
will be put up by WATERFOWL parties.
The town of Clear Lake is to arrange
for the putting in of an electric light
plant, n the city council will 500 be
asked to grant a twenty-year fran
chise for that purpose.
The Lund land agency has decided
to open an office in Aberdeen and en-
gage in the real estate business. Law
renee Head of Iroquois and J. B. Scott
Of Conley have taken charge.
Chris Jones, a farmer, has been held
10 the next term of the district court
at Britton to answer to the charge of
shooting and badly injuring a com
panion with a gun that wasn't load
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Gov. Herreid has received a tele-
gram from Hermosa, a small town In
The Hills. saying there are twenty-five
cases of smallpox there, and asking for
assistance in the way Of nurses and
attendants.
1t is claimed that Marshall county,
II the present increase in the number
Of cattle continues, will soon be rails
ing more cattle to the square mile than
any other county in the state east of
the Missouri river.
Red Ears, a Sioux Indian belonging
On the Sheyenne River reservation, has
been arraigned in the United States
court at Sioux Falls, on the charge OF
numbering his baby. He pleaded not
guilty, and viii be tried in April.
T. j. Lannon, after being in business
continuously for fourteen years, has
sold his large retail furniture estab-
lishment at Madison TO c.. NJ. Erickson
and j. p. eJnson, who have taken pos
session, n will do business under the
l firm NJ n nf I@rinlyyan o. n-S
The smallpox scare has reached Cam
ton, and the authorities have quaran-
tined against the people Of two entire
townships in Lincoln county. Resi-
dents Of the two townships are threat
sned with arrest II they go north Of
the north line Of the townships.
Love for a divorced wife, after both
had remarked. and constant brooding
over the fact that he had lost her for
ever. caused Adolph Bischofr. a prom
lnent n well-to-do business man of
Eureka, to become violently insane.
The Farmers institute. just closed at
Faulkton, was a success. The attend
ance was large and the interest mani
tested was greater than ever before.
A creamery company was organized at
the close Of the institute, capitalized at
$4,000. with W.. G.. Faulkner, presi-
dent and Charles E. COST secretary.
The Mennonites win hold an election
at Olivet to elect officers and divide the
colony, as part of the present members
desire TO move to LAND purchased else
where. These elections are not of fire.
luent occurrence, hence, much import
ance is attached to them. as the off,
GERS elected enjoy the perogatiyes of a
king In managing the affairs of the
colony.
w. @. Porter, assistant United States
attorney, has filed a suit in the federal
court against John ID. Hale of Tilford,
for the sum of s4.735.20, the amount
claimed TO be due the government by
reason Of Hale's alleged failure and
refusal to fulfil the terms Of a contract
between himself and the quartermas-
ter's department at Omaha, for the
furnishing OF cavalry horses.
What the state insurance department
states TO be the strongest financial mu-
tual fire insurance company ever in