Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-11-27
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South Dakota
Genera, State News
Photographed.

Inc postoflce at Stock, Jeranla
county has been discontinued,
Frank McGrath has been appointed
postmaster at Westover, Lyman coun.
ty.
Lyman E. Parrund Of Madison has
been granted a pension of $40 per
month. h"'
Work on the gas lighting p,ant At
DeSmet Is being rapidly pushed to
completion.
II. J. Standish, a farmer living near
Groton, lost five valuable horses nv
the burning Of his stables.
All departments of the schools Of
Summit are closed by order of the
board of health, owing to the preya.
lence Of s~carletina.
Mrs. Lena Young died at her home
In Mellette Of d~iphtheria. She vas
the daughter OF g. Young and was
nineteen years Of age.
Choice corn Is being shipped from
Elk Point in Car lots to points north
for seed, It brings rs cents per bush.
ell delivered at the cars.
The safe In the lumber office at
Manchester was blown open and cash
amounting to $500 and some yau.
able papers were taken. No clew.
The material has been received for
the construction of a new Lutheran
church at Castlewood, and work on
the building commenced last week.
Mrs. s.. s. Jewett celebrated her
seventy-seyenth birthday anniversary
with her sons, r. N. Jewett and H. c.
Jewett and their families at Aberdeen.
The commissioners of Sully county
have authorized a reward of $500 for
the apprehension of George Matusch,
who was indicted for grand larceny
but escaped.
Otto Raben and Charles Rody were
arrested at Geddes on a charge Of SELL
Ing liquor to Indians belonging at the
Yankton Agency. They furnished the
required bonds.
THE young people of Worthing are
about to organize an amateur dramat-
ic club. 1t is their intention to give
several entertainments during the
coming winter.
The only black eagle ever seen in
that part of the state was killed by
George lie Count of Bradley. The
bord measured nearly seven feet from
tip to tip of its wings.
A big killing of ducks was made at
Beresford by four men. After thirty
five minutes of shooting the party
gave up the hunt, having bagged six
ty-four birds in that time.
The committee having in charge the
raising of sufficient money for the
erection of a German Lutheran church
building at Madison, report that m
pie funds have been secured. I'd
Good positions secured for all grad
yates of the Sioux Falls Busines4 Col
Iage, Sioux Falls, S. ID. Enter before
Dec. / and get one months tuition
free Send for catalogue.
The clerks at Mitchell have organ
ized, and are getting better wages
| and shorter hours. The cigarmakers
have just completed a small union,
and the BARRIERS have also organized a
union.
G. G. Blair has purchased ten acres
of land, with a comfortable home on
1t, two and a half miles east of Elk
Point, of William Farguson, for $3.50
per acre. Mr.. FGrguson will remove
to Canada.
The Beadle county delegation to the
legislature has secured a fine suite OF
rooms at the Locke, and viii have as
convenient a place Of rendezvous at
Pierre the coming winter as any dele
cation in the state.
The boom is still on in Redfield, n
one cannot find a house to rent,
Thomas Sterling, dean Of the law
school of the state university, has
been attending to his legal practlce
there the past week.
The high school building, which IS
now being built at Beresford, to re-
place the one destroyed by the heaVy
storm during the summer, is near com
pletion, and when finished viii be one
of the finest of its kind in the state
The directors OF the Black Hills
Mining Mems association have organ
ICED by the election Of the following
pfncefs. Harris Franklin, Deadwood,
president: George M. Niv, Lead, nrst
vice president; S. w. Russell, Dead
wood, second vice president; J. Il. III
cher. Custer, third vice president; w,
s. Elder, Deadwood, secretary anu
treasurer.
The administration of Mayor n; ~,
| Thayer of Canton, which began last
Anril has been attended by a remark
allie record of industry and business
activity. The waterworks system mas
heen extended and otherwise I'M.
nroyed. a $1,000 extension has just
been completed to the sewer system
lots were recently purchased ana az
rangements are being made Q tns
construction of a $4,000 city hall, ana
MANY public improvements are IN eNE
dence everywhere. notwithstanding
all this. the financial affairs OF the cry
have been SO economically cohauclea
that city warrants are worth " cenes
IN the dollar. Some 5000 was saved
nv malicious management in the con
strnction of the sewer extension, anu
kat least 5 1000 more we're saved az Ihe
recent meeting Of the councli, py .ne
massage OF an ordinance reInnulns
a. nor