Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-04-25
South Dakota
Canera, State News
- Photographed.

purchased two chemical engines.
Z. T. and Mark Miller OF Galva, Iowa.
will establish a new bank at Davis.
The City Hotel and Hotel Commercial
at Beresford have been consolidated.
G. p. Gilbertson, proprietor of the
Farmers Home at Vermillion, died
suddenly of heart failure.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has made a
number OF important improvements
about her kindergarten in Lead.
Several persons are figuring on build
ing a hotel at Monroe The present no
tel accommodations are inadequate.
The city OF Redield has made appli-
cation to Andrew Carnegie for 5000
with which to erect a library building.
Quite a number OF immigrants are
coming into Faux county this spring
from Iowa, Wisconsin and other states.
George Lavender, a mixed-blood In
dian, was fined n sentenced to i'm
prisonment in Moody county for selling
liquor to Indians.
DIR. l.. NJ. Bickmore Of Sioux Falls
has been rendered the position of sur
geo in the South Dakota Soldiers
home at Hot Springs.
c. A. Fowler, aged seventy-seven.
was found dead in bed at the home OF
his son, Fred Fowler of Huron. He
was a native OF Ohio.
Faulkton's smallpox scare was OF
short duration. There was but one
case. and the quarantine has been lift
ed from that for some time.
Highmore expects a building boom
this summer, owing to the scarcity OF
houses. At present there is not a va
can't dwelling in the place.
During the month Of March an ag-
gregate of OF $3.50 acres of farm lands
were transferred in Marshall county,
for a total consideration OF $780, $50.
Frederick Benedict, who was con-
victed of selling liquor to Indians at
Springfield. was sentenced TO pay u fine
OF 800 and serve sixty days in jail.
Deputy Sheriff whiteside of vermill-
Ion has taken Clarence Kinney n
Villain Melrose to the penitentiary for
one and two years, respectively.
There will be a change in the state
board of charities and corrections. DR..
II. l.. Finnerud of WATERFOWL will re-
sign, on account of private business.
w OTh uDOu lut new water Nd SyS-
tenn at Howard. for which the voters
recently authorized the ssuance OF
$40, 900 in bonds, will soon be com-
menced.
Gideon Dashman, an Indian youth,
who was indicted for raising a money
order. pleaded guilty at Sioux Falls.
and was sentenced TO one year and one
day I'm the ~penitentiary.
A militia company Of seventy mem.
bers has been organized at Redfeld.
The officers are: II. F.. Jacobson, a p
tain; G. +. Squire, first lieutenant:
Clay Carpenter, second lieutenant.
Thomas White and Joseph Amrheim.
Hamlin county farmers, had a lawsuit
over q trivial matter-the boundary line
between their farms. The case has
reached the supreme court, and to date
has cost Amrheim $233.35.
Warden Bowler, of the Sioux Falls
penitentiary. has been decapitated by
TIE state board of charities and correc-
lions, as organized under a recent de-
cisioE of the supreme court, with foui
| Republicans and n Fusion member.
Drillers of the artesian well In Pear
township. Sully county, struck a strong
| nov u water dI lbOfU lCtls u "NiI
several feet deeper. They will at once
start on a second well in the same
township.
The militia company has perfected a
temporary organization at Milbank,
with the following officers: E. III. Ben
edict, captain; Berth ID. Gamble. frs,
lieutenant; Sherman Nixon, second
lieutenant; A. F.. Lindquist, first SER
geant.
Hattie r. Meredith was granted q d.
vorce at Miller from Thomas F.. Mere
dith on a cross bill. The latter Is a
Christian minister evangelist and pro-
fessional church singer, well known in
South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska
and Iowa.
Quincy H. Edwards. son of the post
mistress at Memo, who was recently
indicted for issuing fraudulent money
orders and forging h name OF his
mother to letters of advice, will not be
tried during. the present term Of the
federal court.
John Harrison, an Indian. had a fight
at Woonsocket with Dell Hamilton.
The Indian was an easy winner, al
though Hamilton was an expert boxer
and a%ll-round athlete. Both men were
arrested, but Hamilton broke away and
escaped.
Farmers are busy with their spring
work around Faulkton, seeding having
been in progress for the last two weeks.
The weather, however, is not very ia
vorable, there being too much moist
ure. The wheat acreage will be some
what larger than usual.
Miss Emma Maynard. the blind di-
rector of music in the state blind asy-
ium in Gary. has been engaged to play
two organ r~ecitals In he Temple of
Music at the Buffalo exposition. She
will be one Of seventy representative
~organists to appear during the EXPOSE
ton months.
The fourteenth annua oratoricai con-
test of Redfeld college was held in the
opera house at Redfeld, recently. the
successful orator being George Will
Jams Of Redfeld. Miss Lizzie Clark OF
Gettysburg was second. The winter
term, just closed, has been one of the
most successful in the history OF Red
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