The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-12-26
South Dakota
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from Turton, email town in Sphinx
county.
Senator Gamble has secured a posi-
ton in the geological survey for, John
I. Mccoy Of Aberdeen.
The only loan of the state school fund
which was made last week was $3.50
to Hutchinson county.
Bundy * Kennedy, who recently pur-
chased a cattle ranch near Ipswich.
will sink an artesian well.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank Of
Bridgewater announces IL viii be con-
verted into a national bank.
Col Fader of wentworth sold to Mr..
Smith 5000 bushels of barley at 90 cents
per bushel, or $4,000, cold cash.
DR.. Clifford 5. Page Of Danbury.
Conn, has been appointed a physician
the the Pine Ridge Indian school
The annual masquerade ball of the
Yankton fire department will be given
at Turner hall on New Years Eve.
The First State Bank OF Ashton has
commenced business. w. s. Billing
hurst is president and #. +. Blaine
cashier.
The state land department has sent
out ffty-eight new patents TO purchas-
srs of state lands. The greatest num-
Der went to Lake county.
The commissioners OF Lake county
appointed Henry Oily, of Chester e.
township. county commissioner, to sue
coed W. II. Buxton, resigned.
Judge Bennett of Clear Lake granted
4 decree of divorce to Bessie NJ. Orr
from James G. Orr, giving Mrs. Orr the
custody of their three children.
Roy Paskard of Wentworth had the
misfortune TO be thrown from a wagon
TO the ground, sustaining a severe in
jury of the knee cap Of his left leg.
Mrs. Mary Tobin of Yankton, after
searching for her son for several years.
e fund him serving a sentence OF seven
years at Fort Madison, Iowa, for forg-
cry.
The appointments OF the following
South Dakota postmasters has been
confirmed; Walter Mckay Lead; c.
l.. Stillwell, Tyndall; James II. Lewis,
Canton.
Mr.. Harry Mcpherson and Miss En-
ly Crary. daughter of Mrs. Eliza Crary.
were united in marriage at the resi-
dence of the brides mother, a few miles
aorth of Alexandria.
A special meeting of the state brand
association has been called to meet on
The Sth Of next month at Pierre, to clear
up any business of the board which will
have accumulated to that date.
II. G.. Utley, principal of the schools
1t Volga, has been appointed by the
government ds teacher in English in
the Philippines, at a salary of 81 900
per annum and transportation there.
Paddy Ryan, a stranger, who halls
from Mitchell, was placed in Jail at
Madison, on suspicion of having in his
possession a new Astrachan overcoat to
which he could not show good title.
The reelection of Hon. Fl. j. Rice to
be president of the South Dakota Retail
Merchants association is specially APP
preciated to Huron business men and
citizens.
Contracts for carrying the mails on
The following named routes have been
awarded: Gettysburg to Potter, to f.
A. Loveless of Gettysburg. BonHom-
me to Tabor, 10 Asa Gardner of Bon
Hcmme.
F. w. Bower has purchased OF A. w.
Merrick the Black Hills Mining Re-
view, published at Deadwood. w. w.
Kelley is associated as manager. 1t is
the only mining journal published in
South Dakota
The state board, at recent meeting,
decided to dispose of several equities of
the state in tracts of Taylor lands, at
b25 each. These tracts are incumbered
property, on which the state only holds
a second claim.
A colony of between thirty and forty
Pierre people viii lie on tracts of land
in the southeast part of Hughes county
at the head Of Chappclle creek. The
claims will all pe in the same vicinity,
and it win be Pierre neighborhood.
The farmers in the vicinity of Kent,
new town in Codington county, are
very anxious that a creamery be estab-
ished at that place The county is
thickiy settled by some of the most
progressive farmers in the state.
The appointment of Robert S. Person
IF MoHward, S. D., as auditor for the
Interior department, and Herman Eller-
man of Yankton, as collector of intern-
al revenue at Aberdeen, for North and
South Dakota have been confirmed by
tho senate.
At meeting of the city council of
Woonsocket ii was decided to install
street-lighting plant in that city at
once. Large gasoline street lamps have
been ordered. and when received will be
placed at various points throughout
the town.
The assessed valuation of the person
al property of the city OF Yankton is
about $l,200,0o0. The assessed valua-
ton. however, is only about one-third
Of its value. Calculated upon that ba-
sis, the total valuation of personal
property in Yankton is about $3,60OOO0.
The A. o. U. w. lodge of Mellette
has elected the following officers: p.
M. W.. w. Waterbury; M. W., r..
Brann; F., A. Phillips; o., S. c. Black:
F., James Wrigley; r., F. f. Harring-
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