The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-01-24
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Goror., State News
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by their New Years ball.
Gov. Herreid and family have gone
to Pierre to remain for the winter.
William Yeaman Of Desmet has been
granted a pension Of SIC per month.
B. F.. Filbert has succeeded William
e. Dudley as president Of the Bank Of
Willow Lake.
A postoffice has been established al
Pickerel. Day county. with Eva %.
Frost as postmaster.
D. McKinnon, one of Madison's larg-
est dealers in merchandise, is seriously
Ill in a Milwaukee hospital.
Charles j. Buell. has purchased the
interest of Judge William Gardner and
wife in the Cheidley Cattle company.
Henry +. Elliott Of Beresford has
filed a petition in bankruptcy. schedul-
ing liabilities at $4,000 and assets at
S465.
Eastern men have just closed a deal
through M. P. Bulu of Ipswich, for
fifty quarter sections of land in that
vicinity.
Richard Owens and Nellie Benedict.
n Melville Benedict and Maud Nc
Duffy were married a few days g at
Springfield.
The site Of the p~ostoffice at Ourtown,
Turner county, has been moved two
miles north, and Peter C. Gerring APP
pointed postmaster.
The receipts Of the United States
land office at Rapid City for 1901 were
$40. 1874 the largest since the estab-
lishment of the Office.
The Sisseton $4O,O 900 court house 4
per cent bonds were awarded to the
Minnesota Loan and Trust company,
Minneapolis, at par and accrued inter
est.
Charles Boardman, Jr.. a popular
young man Of Watertown, left last
week for Fredonia, N. Y. where he will
wed a prominent young woman Of that
city.
H. p. Hanson, a farmer living near
Irene, has just completed the delivery
of a 5,0O0-bushel corr contract to h
Irene elevators. for which he received
the sum Of 1900.
An interesting part Of the opening
exercises at the Huron college chapel
was the presentation Of a s~ixteen-foot
flag by the Junior Endeavor society of
the Presbyterian church.
The state brand commission is in
session at Pierre, and has about $50
new brands to pass upon at this ses-
sion. This will carry the total number
sof brands well over 1000.
A rural telephone system. embrace
ing abou forty phones. is being agi-
tated in Brainerd township. Hughes
county, by the farmers. The project
will doubtless materialize.
Articles have been signed by And
rev Ennis, formerly of Brooklyn, and
George Murphy Of Deadwood. to fight
In Lead. Feb. Z. for the welterweight
championship OF the Black Hills.
John Newton. a young man who has
been working at various mines and
mills in the Black Hills, died at the
hospital at Deadwood. His nearest
relatives live in Idaho and Arizona.
his house. ten miles east OF Mellette.
He was sitting in a chair. He was
about twenty-five years old and un-
married. his former home being at Wi
mona, MINI.
The eleventh annual meeting Of the
scandinavian Mutual Fire Insurance
association was held in Madison Tues
day. This association has a member
ship of 1874 farmers. It has $12S, 900 in
in force.
There have been all sorts Of guesses
and rumors as to the object and des-
tination Of the Northern Pacific sur
at work northwest of Aber-
deem, and about midway between that
place and Bismarck.
The Yankton Turnverein has elected
the following officers: Fred Pfoten-
hauer. Henry Wagner. Conrad F..
LANCE. Ferdinand Rivola, William Ba-
der, Frank Meistrik. Jacob Rathge-
Der and Peter Stefin.
A new Congregational church has
been dedicated in Badger township,
Kingsbury county. The money for its
erection was all raised in that vicinity,
n most Of the labor was furnished
by members Of the congregation.
Carl Sherwood of Clark has with
drawn as a candidate for the receiver
ship Of the WATERFOWL land Office. H.
]. Mowry and Geo. w. Chase, both Of
WATERFOWL, the latter the present in
cumtent, are the remaining applicants.
A drayman named Smith was arrest
ed at Aberdeen by Sheriff Thompson
on the charge of having stolen a large
amount Of sample goods from Fl. A.
Bateman's trunks. The trunks were
in a sample room. The goods were
recovered.
Civil service examinations will be
held on Feb. IS al Sioux City and Ok
iahoma for the position Of Industrial
at the Cheyenne River Agency
Indian school. Also, on the same date,
an examination for a disciplinarian for
the same school.
A change of venue has been granted
in the case Of George w. Chaussee Of
Butte county, who Is soon to have a
new trial for horse stealing. He will
tried at Deadwood. He was con-
victed in Butte county and sentenced
to two years and a half.
The quarterly report Of the superin-
tendent of the Brown county hospital
shows that during the three months
ending Dec. 81, the sum of 1875 was
from pay patients in the in
stitution. h same having been turned
over to the county trea S1,ror