Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-12-11


Egan has a scarlet fever scare. there
being several cases under quarantine.
j. j. Dufak OF Yankton has been
granted q pension increase to SIG q
month.
1t is estimated that fully $50, 900 were
spent In improvements in Scotland
during the past year.
The Lake Preston Cornet band has
been r~organized under the leadership
of Professor q. d. Waters.
a letter the death a few
days & at Hull, ILL.,, OF DIR. c. c.
Sprague, n OF the pioneer physicians
OF Pierre.
The city OF Flandreau has completed
a new system of gas lights, which
makes a great improvement over the
old system.
The mild weather is causing trouble
for stockmen. especially sheepmen, on
account of wolves. They are very nu-
merous and ravenous.
Frank E. Smiths farm residence,
eight miles south of Lake Preston. was
destroyed by fire. Most of III furni-
ture was saved. No insurance.
Those who have business with the
Milwaukee railroad company at Trip
have been greatly pleased by the APP
poiHtment OF #. T.. Adams as the local
agent of the company.
Martin Schrieber, the Sully county
apple, grower, who too all the first
prizes for apples at the Huron fair, re-
ports the yield from his small orchard
10 be lao bushels for this year.
The meat market of Branch & Ward
at Yankton lost a dozen chickens on
Thanksgiving eve at the hands OF a
thief. who broke the store window and
relieved the firm of all he could reach
on display inside.
C. NJ. Henry, cashier OF the State
Bank Of Hitchcock since its ~organiza-
ton, has accepted the position of cash
Ter for the First National Bank Of Red
field, and entered upon his new duties
the 1st OF December.
The tour OF visitation TO voluntary
weather observers In this state, just
made by s.. w. Glenn, will result I'm bet
ter service throughout the state. The
tour was made by direction OF the de-
partment at Washington.
AT the Brown county educational as
sociation's annual meeting, held at
Aberdeen, Prof. j. M. Hunter OF Groton
was elected president, Prof. @. B. Ames
OF Columbia vice president, and Adeline
Crowley OF Aberdeen secretary.
The annual charity ball, one of Yank-
toms social events, was very success
fully held under the direction OF the
Kings Daughters. A substantial sum
was raised for the charitable work
done by the circle every winter.
I. rrbn arya.&,~.tn- - 49,
suited in the death OF, John Thompson,
a teamster In the employ OF the Price
Baker Lumber company. The accident
happened a few miles from Rapid City.
Thompson sustained a fracture OF the
skull.
viii Gasser, the engineer who had
his hand and arm badly mangled while
running an engine on a grader at JEFF
ferson, is still in st. Joseph's hospital
at Sioux City, n IL reported to be get
ting along as nicely as could be ex-
pected.
w. =. L Skill and M. C. Corners,
weIl-known cattlemen OF Spearfgh, are
preparing to go to old Mexico TO pur-
chase cattle for early spring delivery.
Mr.. Cqnners will also buy several hum
dred Mexican bronchos for use on his
range.
Ole Rendestvedt OF Dawson. MINI,
died Of typhoid fever at st. Luke'R hos
pitalt at Aberdeen He came here TO
represent Gotham & Co. OF st Paul In
Bouth Dakota, when he was taken sick.
His body was sent to Dawson for
burial
The manual training school OF North
Dakota was defeated at football by the
Northern normal and Industrial school
of Aberdeen by a score Of 81 to o. About
$50 rooters came down from Glendale
by special train. This closes the sea-
son here.
There is yet no trace OF the persons
who robbed the Thompson safe at BAN
croft a short time since, although ef-
forts 10 apprehend them have been
made. The amount secured was about
81, ZOO, and the Job was done 30 neatly
that II is attributed to experts.
The matter OF a deep well in Pierre
has not been given up. and men from
Chicago have been looking the ground
over. 1t is too late to work on borings
probably this year. but The matter is
shaping up for the sinking OF a well TO
a depth of 1000 feet or more in the
spring.
The council has voted q new water
works system for Egan. which will cost
about 5000. In six months there have
been six fires. Flowing wells can cas-
lily be secured at a depth OF from so to
100 feet. there being one OF the best in
the state here now. rhe water works
question Is easily solved.
r. D. Kri5s, ~member-eiect Of the leg
~islature, has resigned as postmaster at
Columbia, the requirements being that
postmasters whose compensation
reaches $500 cannot serve in the legisla-
ture. The Republicans OF Columbia
have united in a petition for the APP
poIntment Of Hiatt WILDER.
Harry Gilmore, Edward Carr and
Daniel O'Connell. convicted OF robblng
the Duffner jeweiry store az WATERFOWL
last July. were sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary at Sioux Falls. Gilmore was
let on with a sentence OF only one year
and four months, while Carr received
the heaviest sentence OF ALL three years
and six months.