Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-31

A new Methodist Episco,o,
mas been dedicated at Onids
new hotel has been opera,a -
"cotiahd by Alois Trutnovsky,
forty-seven car loads of Cattle uoro
shipped from Alpena in one week
The telephone line has haar a
rom mound City to Artas, a new town
In Mcpherson county
The new gas plant at Egan Is. near
ing completion, and in a short Time tho
town will be well lighted.
Never before in the history of Alma
nj nave SO many men been ar WORT ~,
puefic Improvements as AT nrAsa,+ -.
AT Bismarck some of the propertv.
o"ners want to build sidewalks wider
than the ordinance requires. In Fa ron
II Is dlu1cult to get them wide enouph-
TOT the fellows who return from Moor.
head. },.E0 ft'' NA''i-
the 500 o has been extended TO
within twenty miles of Fort Yates.
4hls VIII cause a change in the stage
ana freight routes, and the 500 will get
the business formerly done through
Winona, Emmons county.
j. ;. Mueller has resigned his posi-
ton in the Hutchinson County hank
at Parkston. and is said to have mr.
chased the interest of Christian Rem
pier in the business of Rempfer 4
Doerlng at that place. .
For the first time in the history of
the state university it's college paper.
the Nolante, appears as a weekly. It
is a bright, newsy sheet. and contains
as many columns every week as half
the weeklies in the state.
The building at the Sisseton agency
known as Indian police Headquarters.
a landmark, was burned to the ground
recently. The fire started from a cigar
stub. David %Faribault, an Indian, lost
his barn and a horse by the fire.
Andreas Wollman, a Hutchinson
county farmer, has reason to congratu-
late himself. He has just completed
thresking 200 bushels of wheat, and,
in addition TO this, has nearly 5000
bushels of old wheat in his ana
r. Collins of Franklin township,
Brown county, declares that 81 900 in
value has been added to the 480-acre
farm of Collins Bros. within the past
two weeks by the drilling of an arte-
sian we'll costing but half that sum.
Applicants for appointment to the
position of messenger at the United
States weather bu eau at Huron will
be examined there by a representative
of the civil service commission Nov.
10. There are six applications now on
file.
Elmer Stevenson, a postal clerk liv-
ing at Redfield, at the request of the
Canadian government, has departed for
ottawa TO explain to the postal author
titles of Canada an ingenious device re-
Gently patented by him for locking
mail pouches.
w. A. Pinkerton's general store, at
Worthwhile, burned. with it's contents.
Loss. $4,000; insurance. $4,000. The
building was owned by the A. O.. U. w.
the upper story being used as a lodge
room. 1t was insured for $500. The
origin of the Gre is a mystery.
The Union hotel at Estelline, which
has been run by Mr.. and Mrs. I. ID.
| Kean for many years, is soon to change
hands. The property has been bought
| by w. S. Carpenter, who, in turn, has
leased it to A. II. Nickerson of Tracy,
Mimi, who will conduct it in person.
Some of the Sisseton Indians who
visit n~eighboring towns are making
themselves very obnoxious. They are
in the habit of taking farmers teams
that are tied to hitching posts. without
permission and driving home with
them, in order TO save themselves q
walk.
Commandant Lucas, of the State Sol
diers' home at Hot Springs, a snort
time ago, applied for two steel rlhe
PARROT cannon. They have arrived
h.m the arsenal at Rock Island. the
two guns. with their carriages. weigh
IL 500 pounds. and have been placed Ill
front of the home.
David Riley Of Bridgewater is some
thing OF a Jonah. He started Tor d
dance. and while en- route his horse
got caught and badly cut in a oarpeu
wire fence. Next ne lost his pocket
book through a hole in his pocket ana
then somebody who wanted a good nat
took his new one and left him a ragged
one which was several sizes too small
Sr,pt. Hill, Of the Bookings school,
has inaugurated a fire drill In the
school, and the purils have been put
ro,g the exercises three or four
times. At first the fire alarm frigh-
cred a good many. and the exercises
were characterized by some confuslon'
but at the last trial the building was
emitted in about two minutes
The only rural mail delivery route
established from points In the southern
mart of Union county runs southwest
from Elk Point; nut thus far no one
hos been found who is willing to under
taka the work of distributing the mail.
Tn some portions Of the year two teams
and a beat would be necessary TO make
the trip. MIR
Gabriel rret1and last spring puL
chased forty acres of school land nsaI
oulbam. paying SIS per acre for II. az
ro;sed eax on the land. and the crop on
he forty acre. brought 500, =" T'
more than he paid for the n
Rev. A. f. Cahart of Mitchell Is 70
take charge of the Methodist churc al
platte. Mr.. Cahart has been OUT OF ,uz
nTfr,strv for several years dufinE
1,bicb he has been associated with the
anti-saloon league work of the s'a'e.
nav, annual meeting or tne