The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-08-22
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South Dakota
General State News
Photographed.
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The woodmen of Centerville have
arranged for their annual picnic, to be
held Sept. 2.
yiborg has voted to issue bonds in
the sum Of $500 for the erection Of
school building.
The September term Of court for Au-
rora county has been postponed until
Monday. Nov. Is.
vinton A. IIolbrook Of Alexander has
Rosebud Indian agency.
The postoffice at Blue Blanket. WAL
worth county, has been discontinued.
Mail win go to Bangor.
The department has completed the
last payment of the $4,000 TO the Sis
seton and Wahpeton Indians.
Material has arrived for a new grain
elevator to be constructed at Elroy by
the Lake Preston Milling company.
L. w. Adams of Mitchell drew prize
in the government lottery at Oklahoma.
His land is in the Lawton district.
DR.. d. 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 81 large quantity of hose for the
fire department. and the town has now
first-class fire protection.
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 mower.
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 in p. III. O'Neilrs second arr
tesian well, on his large ranch, eight
miles southwest of Faulkton.
Harvest throughout the state this
year is truly a harvest for the small
boy. Ten and twelve-year-o lads are
receiving 81 per day ard board for
driving teams hitched to header boxes.
The postoffice at Arlington will be-
come a presidential Office Oct. /.
The annual fair in Gregory county
will be held At Fairfax, Sept. S. 0
and z.
The following pensions have been
granted: Increase, Gottlieb Geisert.
dead, Waubay, so. Widows-Elizabe beth
Geisert, Waubay, IS; Hannah f. Hub
bard. Raymond, IS.
Huron has a new artesian well which
throws a good volume of water. The
well 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 well. was one-sided
affair. The vote in favor of the prop
osition was unanimous.
John F. Anderson Of Chamberlain is
starting lumber yard at Wentworth.
A postoffice has been established at
Flatircn, Lawrence county, with Pat
rick Brady as postmaster.
While playing in a header-box, the
fve-year- son of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
uel Day of Faulkton, was hit upon the
head by a pitchfork. But small hopes
ere entertained of his recovery.
Work has begun on the vault for the
Marion State 'Ranx. Workmen are put
ting in new fire proof safe, and wher
the vault is completed 1t will be sub
stantial. roomy and fire-proof.
The A. o. u. W. and the Degree OF
Honor lodges at Faulkton gave 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 the town
ship. It has over $1c0 in the treasury
to be expended for this purpose.
George Grering. living three miles
east. and Nick Knickrehu, living rour
miles west of Marion, each report TWEEN
ty bushels of wheat to the acre. This
is fair estimate Of the crop In gen.
eral.
Although the building Of houses has
been going on steadily all the spring
and summer at Colman. number OF
people have been unsuccessful in their
efforts to secure houses in that thriving
place.
Work has been begun on the stele-
phone system Of Beulah township. In
Hanson county. Nineteen farm houses
will be connected, and will have con-
nection with the telephone system OF
Alexandria.
The people around Laurel, Sully coun-
ty, where anthrax is alleged to exist
are intimating that poison Tor spite
work on the part Of certain individuals
is responsible for most Of the deaths
among the cattle.
Wentworth will soon possess me
two-story building. The lower floors