The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-10-03
n foundation is completed for a
lie" Methodist church at Rowe,a

IL completed for a
lie" Methodist church at Rowena.
"A 4so-acre farm near Wessineton
springs sold last week for $40 per acre.
buIaio is said to be the only county
III 'he state without a telephone. 1t
may nave one by his time,
Inc drawing powers of Fulton as a
siain market are felt for twenty miles
and business is good as a result.
1hlrty-eight members Joined the new
"A. y. L. w. lodge organization at
Hudson last week.
isaac Forest of st. Onge has heen
pound over to the next grand iury at
Lead on the charge of selling liouor
without a license.
}. B. and Warren Dickover have dis
posed OF their grocery business at
Rapld City, and will remove to Sioux
City, where they will open a grocery
store.
"A homegrown watermelon weighing
lhlrty pounds was served last week by
a ana company at Onida. 1t is not
claimed that it was the smallest in the
patch, but there are Others"
IA 10 PROVIDED with q branch or
the Coe Commission company, with
George Shaffer in charge. This is an
increased convenience for the Gate City
business men.
Ihreshing has begun in Sully coun-
ty. On the farm of Thomas Schreib-
er the yield was twenty-six bushels per
acre. Most of the fields will 20 TWEEN
ty bushels or better this year
Well diggers at Alexandria found a
decided curiosity in the form of part of
a human jawbone. The curious feat
ure is that it came from a depth of
over n hundred feet below the sur
face of the ground.
Good corn is matured as far north as
Gary, where binders are now in opera
tion, saving both corn and fodder for
winter feeding. w. Hunter, near
Gary, has sixty acres that will yield at
least forty bushels to the acre.
Alexandria has wisely passed an or
dinance which will cause all new side
walks in the business section to be
built of cement, and the campaign is
now on to see who will get the most
walk built before cold weather comes.
At the meeting of the Sully County
Old Settlers association, the officers
elected for the ensuing year were:
w. H. Green, president; Mrs. A. J.
Bunch, vice president; J.. A. Livings-
ton, secretary; l. McGannon, treasur-
er. The meeting for neXt year will be
held at Okobojo.
Normy Won Hagen. ~five-year-old son
nf Nv an1 NTrc Jn1i,,c IIopor nP
Elkton, was accidentally shot in the
hea with a % rifle ball Sunday after
noon, and is in a precarious condition.
The little fellow and a playmate about
the same age found the rifle unbe-
known to the parents.
At a mass Democratic convention at
Clear Lake the following ticket was
nominated: Senator, Thomas Bogstie
representative, l.. E.. Cochrane; audi
tor, August Krause; treasurer, Christ
Jacobson; register of deeds, George E,
Force; sheriff, E. E. Gilman; clerk OF
courts; Ben f. Rowe; coroner j. r,
Fonger, Jr.
The plant of the Belt Electric Light
and Power company at Puma Station
near Deadwood, is being replaced by
new material. A new building is be
ing erected over the old, which will be
torn down and removed as soon as the
new one is completed. The machin,
cry is being replaced piecemeal, SO as
not to interfere with the operations OF
the plant.
The second squadron Of the Thir'
teenth cavalry, under command OF
Maj. C. W. Taylor, has returned to
Fort Meade after it's three-week~ prac'
tice march. The route was a complete
circuit of the Black Hills, and every
town and point of Importance was Wis
tied. Two more troops left the post
under the command of Capt. Sweezy
for a three-weeks' march to the north
ward.
The sheriff at Watertown has in
charge an insane man, who was found
wandering on the prairie north OF that
town. No one knows the man, but he
saws his name Is Charley Martin. He
Is not violent, but is afraid some de-
tectiye will arrest him. He says that
detectives are after him for crooked
work which he did six months ago IN
the Iron Range country in Minnesota
He will not be taken to the asylum i'm,
mediately.
At the Yankton county Republican
convention these nominations were
made: State senator, G. H. Dillon;
sentatives, T. E. Price, p. Stol-
Ter. John Larson; register OF deeds,
Henry Grebe; assessor, H. Helgerson;
treasurer, E. Johnson; auditor, Chas'
I,awrence: clerk of courts, Peter Bow
am: sheriff, ]. Rathgaber; states at
torney, John Holman; county Judse'
S. A. Boyles; superintendent, Il. "A
Williams; surveyor, Ed Palmer. the
county officials were all renomlnated'
Word has been received at Custer OF
the death Of B. R. Noble, president OF
Marble company and vice president OF
the Black Hills Porcelain Clay and
the Saginaw Mining company. at his
home. in Yale, Mich. Mr.. Noble was
the original promoter of both compa,
MES. and had enlisted a large amount
Of eastern capital in the southern part
If the Hills. BY his death that region
has lost a valuable friend; but MS
companies are now in a position where
their affairs will not be affected.
Articles of Incorporation have peer
e,ed for the Columbus-Hancock Oll
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