Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-08-22
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Viborg has voted to iss tie bonds in
the sum OF 81. 500 for the erection Of q
school building.
The September term of court for Au-
rora county has been postponed until
Monday, Nov. is.
Vinton 4. IIolbrock OF Alexander has
been appointed assistant clerk at the
Rosebud Indian agency.
The p~cstofiice at Blue Blaraet, WAL
worth county, has been discontinued.
Mail will go to Bangor.
The department has completed the
last payment IF the $3.50, 900 10 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 a prize
in the government lottery a. Oklahoma.
His LAND is in the Lawton district.
DR.. d. III. Cronyn of Houghton is re-
ported dangerously i'll with rheuma-
tism. Little hope is entertained for his
recovery.
The authorities of SissSton a pur-
chased a large quantity of hose for the
fire department, and the town has now
frst-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 mower.
Several cases OF dirhtheria 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 TIE
erection of n 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'Neill's second ar
tesian well, on his large ranch, eight
miles southwest of Faulkton.
Harvest throughout the state this
year is truly y harvest for the small
boy. Ten and twelve-year-old lads are
receiving 81 per day and board for
driving teams hitched to header boxes.
The ~postoffice at Arlington will be-
come a presidential Office Oct. l.
The annual fai: in Gregory county
will be held At Fairfax, Sept. o, 0
and Z.
The following pensions have been
granted: Increase. Gottlieb Geisert.
dead, Waubay, $40. Widows-Elizabeth
Geisert, Waubay, IS; Hannah +. Hub
bard, Raymond, IS.
Huron has a new artesian well which
throws n coed 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 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 p~ostofice has been established at
Flatircn. Lawrence county, with Pat
rick Brady as postmaster.
While playing in a header-box, the
five-year-old son OF Mr.. and Mrs. sam
uel Day of Faulkton, was hit upon the
head by a pitchfork. But small hopes
are entertained of his recovery.
Work has begun on the vault for the
Marion state BanS. Workmen are put
ting in a new fire proof safe. and when
the vault is completed 1t viii be sub
stantial, roomy and fire-proof.
The A. o. u. w. and the Degree of
Honor lodges at Fauikton gave a re-
ception in honor Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Headly, who have just returned from
their wedding tou In the East.
LeoIa township, Mcpherson county,
Is the first township In the state to pro-
vide for fire breaks q the town
chip. 1t has over $1c0 Il the treasury
to be expended for this purpose.
George GrerinG, living three miles
east. and Nick Knickrchu, living four
miles west Of Marion, each report twen-
ty bushels of wheat to the acre. This
is a fair estimate OF the crop in gem
eral.
Although the building of houses has
been goiug on steadily all the spring
and. summer at Colman, a number OF
people have been unsuccessful in Their
efforts 20 secure houses in that thriving
place.
Work has been begun on the teie-
phone system of Beulah township, In
Hanson county. Nineteen farm houses
will be. connected, n will have con-
nection with the telephone system OF
Alexandria.
The people around Laurel, Sully coun-
~. where anthrax is alleged TO exist,
are intimating that poison for spite
work on the part of certain individuals
is resi- onsible for most Of the deaths
among the cattle.
wentworth will soon possess q nm
two-story building. The lower noors
will be used Coz an engine room. counci
chamber and gymnasium. The upper
| floors will be fitted up In elegant shape
for a lodge room.
II. 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 o~verhurdened.
the limbs having TO be propped up 10
r, event their breaking down.
The Office OF the commissioners OF