Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-22
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the sum OF So $500 for the erection of q
school building.
The September term of court for Au-
Monday. Nov. Is.
Vinton \. Holbrook OF Alexander has
been appointed assistant clerk at the
Rosebud Indian agenCy.
The pcstofice at Blue Blanket, Wal
worth county, has been discontinued.
Mail will go to Bangor.
The department has completed the
last payment Of the $3.50, 900 u the Sis
seton M Wahpeton Indians.
Material has arrived for a new grain
elevator to be constructed at Elroy by
the Lake Preston Milling company.
i. w. Adams of Mitchell drew a prize
in the government lottery a. Oklahoma.
His land is in the Lawton district.
DR.. ID. II. Cronyn of Houghton is re-
ported dangerously i'll with rheuma-
tism. Little hope is entertained for his
recovery.
The authorities OF Sisseton have pur-
chased a large quantity of hose for the
fire department, and the town has now
:irst-class fire protection.
A young son OF George Baum, who
lives in Parkston, had the toes of his
right foot taken off and a deep cash
cut In his left leg by a wv
Several cases of diphtheria are re-
ported in Yankton. The homes of as
sistant Postmaster Dunn and Charles
Noble are under quarantine.
Many Cook county farmers appreci-
ate the fact that hay is hay this season,
and are putting up all the hay they can
possibly find men to handle.
The preliminary work toward the
erection OF q new cyanide plant in
Deadwood by the Homestake company
is being pushed very rapidly.
A strong flow OF water has been en-
countered III p. II. O'Neilrs second ar
tesian well, on his large ranch, eight
miles southwest of Faulkton.
Harvest throughout the state this
year is truly 4 harvest for the small
boy. Ten and twelve-year-old lads are
receiving 81 per day and board for
The p~ostofticc at Arlington will be-
come a presidential office Oct. 1.
The annual fai- in Gregory county
will be held At Fairfax. Sept. g, 0
and Z.
The following pensions have been
granted: Increase. Gottlieb Geisert.
dead, Waubay. $40. Observation-Disclosures
Geisert. Waubay, S.; Hannah f. Hub
bard, Raymond, So.
r.s- - .nko.En. ,,,o1I ,,hioJ,
throws a good volume of water. The
we'll is said to have been sunk about
200 feet below the point at which the
first flow was struck.
The second special election at Gettys-
burg, to vote upon the question of sink
ing an artesian we'll, was a one-sided
effair. The vote In favor Of the prop
osition was unanimous.
John F. Anderson Of Chamberlain is
starting a lumber yard at Wentworth.
A postoffice has been established at
FlatirCn, Lawrence county, with Pat
rick Brady as postmaster.
While playing in a hcader-box, the
~flve-year-old son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
uel Day Of Faulkton, was hit upon the
head by a pitchfork. But small hopes
are en~tertaine3 of his recovery.
Work has begun on the vault for the
Marion State Ban6. Workmen are out
ting in a new re-proof safe, and when
the vault is completed it will be sub
stantial, roomy and fire-proof.
The A. o. U. w. and the Degree of
Honor lodges at Faulkton gave a re-
ception in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Headly, who have just returned from
their wedding tour in the East.
LeoIa township. Mcpherson county,
Is the first township in the state to pro-
vide for fire breaks around h town
ship. 1t has over $1c0 - the treasury
to be expended for this purpose.
George Grering, living three miles
east, and Nick Knickrehu, living four
miles west of Marion, each report twen-
" bushels of wheat to the acre. This
is a fair estimate OF the crop In gen
eral. ..sA- ~.
Although the building of houses has
been goiug on steadily all the spring
and summer at Colman, n number or
people have been unsuccessful in their
efforts TO secure houses in that thriving
place.
Work has been begun on the tele-
phone system OF Beulah township, in
Hanson county. Nineteen farm houses
will be connected, and will have con-
nection with the telephone system or
Alexandria.
The people around Laurel Sully
". where anthrax is allie ged to exist.
are intimating hat poison FOR spite
work on the part Of C .rtain individuals
is responsible for most of the deaths
among the cattle.
Wentworth will soon possess q nne
two-story building. The lower floors
will be used sor an engine room, councii
chamber and gymnasium. The upper
floors will be fitted UP In elegant shape
for a lodge room.
III. f. Foxton, in the northeast cor
ner of Douglas county. has thirty-hve
or forty fruit trees in his orchard that
are heavily loaded with fruit. the crap
apple trees being really ove~rburdeneo.
the limbs having to be proppcd up TO
u, event their breaking down.
The Office of the commissioner or
school and public lands has issuei
fourteen patents On final payments 10
~purchaaera of state lands. OF these,