The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-09-11
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South Dakota
General State Nov.
Paragrapb.d

The state land department no.
out eleven patents to final purch. sem
of state lands In Union county 'e's
Mary, the fifteen-year old dapgh,..
of Tony Koch OF, Salem, was str -.er
by lightning and instantly killed, A
Levi Everlin was found dead on -.
Burlington railroad track n. Tar-'
and is supposed to have been strnot
by train.
Wheat is yielding as high as tb,,
ty-flve bushels per acre around Mil.
Corn needs two weeks Of warm wesb
er to mature. "'A
The Tyndall school board has :,
gagged Miss Wolfe of Tifin, Ohio Ton.
assistant in the high school in place ~
Miss Edith Sedgwick, resigned.
Henry Shaw, one of the pioneer "a,
tiers OF BonHomme county, died lss,
week at the age of seventy.two IN an
largement of the stomach and Pail
stones.
Within week or two Fred William.
will commence the erection Of HE
hotel building at Mitchell. It will bs
three stories above ground and will
cost sos, 900.
Mrs. Albert II. Perkins. who has
made her home in Mitchell for rha
past year, has left with her three lIttla
boys for the Philippine islands to ioin
her husband there.
Work has been commenced at Arts.
sian on an artesian well, which is Dc.
signed to furnish the people of that
place with water for fire protection
and domestic purposes.
Hunting & Co.'S elevator at Menno
which was damaged by the hurricane
of June "a last, is being repaired and
placed in condition to handle its share
of the grain crop this fall.
Three months tuition free at the
Sioux Falls Business College, Sioux
Falls, s. Oak, If you enter this week,
Send for catalogue.
The Aberdeen council, at its last
meeting, ordered the construction Of
cement sidewalks on several more
streets, making a total of several miles
of new walk, to be built as rapidly as
consistent.
An addition Is being built to the
public school building at Central City,
20X40 feet. The contract was let by
the board to Mullen & Mum of Dead
wood, and it is to be completed in
time for the beginning of school in
September.
G.. A. Perley, government weather
observer at the Flandreau station, re.
ports 9.S8 inches of rain for August
This is the greatest amount in any
one month in the history of the bureau
at this place.
Three boys, Ingvald Lovre, Eben
Rud and Gerhard Anderson, have been
arrested at Toronto and held to the
next term of court to- answer TO the
charge of having maliciously destroyed
farm machinery.
Mrs. Anna Morris Clark, wife of DR..
E c. B. Clark, presiding elder OF the
Black Hills Methodist conference, has
been engaged by the Deadwood board
of education to teach Delsarte and
physical culture in the public schools
the coming year.
Work on the new grain elevator G
the McCaul-Webster company, az
Lesterville, is nearing completion, ana
the company will soon be buying gram
al that place. The building was pun
to replace similar structure which
was destroyed by fire few weeks ago
The new primary school building al
BTitton is nearing completion, which
will permit two high school grades ID
the old building. The school board i
being commenced for its determine
ton to give the boys and girls two
more years of schooling than tne'
have heretofore received.
Extensive improvements are being
made on the Groton depot building o.
the Milwaukee company. The plat
form on two sides of the building mas
been torn away, and the freight room
will be moved westward, to make room
for a new waiting room.
]. The residents of Garden City have
forwarded a petition to the postmast,eal
general, asking that a postoffice De -
Gated there, and naming John NolanS
for the Office. The canvass sno"eC
that 800 persons would receive MAJ
there who are now getting II at Deau
wood and other places several mn''
distant.
Because OF the resignation and ae
parture from Artesian OF Presluen,
Wheeler, of the Artesian State pam
the institution has been reorganiLe'
and it's capital stock increased lron
$1,000 to $4,000. New officers "e :,
elected, as follows: President, D. =
Willard; vice president, l.. A. "nee'
err; cashier, d. M. Cline.
Jas. H. Mcfarland died at the nom
of his daughter, Mrs. M. G. rom, .
Spearfish. aged seventy-nine year
Old age and a complication OF dlseas,,
| caused his death. He was Dorh
Belfast, Ireland, came TO An l,,.o,
when a young man and to the D,ao,
Hills in 1878. Several other ch''ui' .
are residing in the Black HIS
A stack of barley, owned by Chatl are,
and William Arnold also lost "a
stack. Fred Kerstin, Reuben houn ~,
and Leonard Jones lost hogs anu - :,
| tie. and windmills on farms oWneu !.
William Schroepal and Frank ioun.
were shattered. A school mouse I
Madison was struck twice and oen'O
ished.
The county Republican central co oa
I mittee has issued a call fof na ~
convention at Gettysberg on sep. g :,
to place In nomination candidates -
| the various county offices and nan,