The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-03-27
South Dakota
c.,.ra, state News
Photographed. |


| 1ankton, SlV.
A new Office has been opened at Me.
lette. to be known as the Child Land
Agency. w. w. Child is manager.
| Van l.. Ross OF Huron was thrown
| from a wagon, breaking an arm and
receiving numerous severe injuries
The supreme court meets in regula,
session April 1. The last date for get.
! ting cases on the calendar was March
| Il.
/ VIII Chase. Jr., a prominent farme,
residing southeast of Mellette, died Of
| appendicitis. He leaves a wife and one
| child.
T.. T.. Gibson and G. w. Hughes OF
Lake Preston have concluded arrange
ments for establishing a bank at Gar
| den City.
A new townsite is TO DE located sin
miles west Of Madison, on the Milwau-
kee. near the Herman Creamery COM
pany's plant.
| An Eagle lodge Is about to be insti-
tuted at Sturgis. A paper has been cir
tulated for membership signatures, and
about seventy-five have signed It.
u. r. Farnham of Madison, had the
misfortune TO have the fingers of his
| left hand badly mashed while engaged
In taking a well drilling machine TO
| pieces.
Ada piotner, the little daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Plotner OF Mitch
ell, broke her right leg the other day.
She was playing in swing at the hotel
and fell.
DIR. ". sebisken Ross. OF the Cosmo-
politsn drug store at Canton. has
leased a building in Tabor. and will es.
tablish a branch a branch Cosmopoli-
tan there on or about April l.
The Catholic families at belmont
have begun arrangements to build a
fine church as soon as weather per-
mits. A large sum OF money is already
subscribed for the purpose
At a meeting of the town council OF
White Lake. it was decided TO submit
to the voters at the regular spring
election the questiCn OF expanding the
sum OF u 500 for waterworks system.
Albert Wynn of Twin Brooks has
been arrested on complaint OF c. Elces-
sa, who charges him with having OPP
Grated a blind zig. The accused has
the circuit court
In a Grimm al case in circuit court re-
Gently. II was developed that farmer
In Beadle county had no less than sew
enteen guns. revolveIs and other shoot
ing irons in mis- house; and he is
peaceable citizen, too.
Miss Mary Neshiem. daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Andrew Neshiem OF Madison,
who Is suffering from an attack of the
SMALLPOX. has developed an unusually
severe form OF the disease, and her
condition is alarming.
Elmer johnson. treasurer OF Yankton
county has redeemed $1,000 worth OF
Yankton county bonds held by William
H. Edmunds of the Yankton National
Bank. These bonds were issued in 1888.
and were to run twenty years.
Six young men OF Yankton college
competed for the Valentine prize OF $25,
given the winners in the annual de-
clamatory contest for men. The de-
cision Of the judges gave the prizes to
Messrs. Johnson, voebil and Kemper.
All arrangements have been com
Lleted for the Early commencement OF
work on the new court house and jail
tor which the voters of Roberts county
last fall voted the sum OF s45, 900 Plans
for the new structure have been &C
cspted.
Contractor McKinnon. who will con-
struct the new building at the State
Normal school at Springfield for which
the last legislature made an approprl-
alton, has arrived on the ground, and
Will begin work as soon as the weather
permits.
ID. G. Craig has resigned as forest
ranger on the Black Hills forest re-
serve. to take effect at once. He con-
tends that the compensation is made
quate. A ranger receives $50 a month.
and is compelled to keep one horse, and
sometimes two.
County Auditor Charles Lawrence
has rented forty acres of the state
school land, near the cement works at
Yankton, to Mrs. ]. A. Piersor. for 81
per acre for the year. There are 2.4sO
sores OF school lands in Yankton coun-
~ which can be rented.
A. A. Woodward OF WATERFOWL has
purchased the drug business conduct
ed by ]. III. frey in Aberdeen for over
twenty years. Mr.. frey desires 10
have more time to devote to the propri-
etary medicine manufacturing business
which he has established.
The city council OF Kimball has
granted to the Brule County Telephone
company franchise for establishing
and maintaining a local telephone sys-
TEN. The council has reserved the
right to grant a similar concession to
other individuals or companies.
The contractors have been advised
by Eastern manufacturers that the iron
work for the new court house at Aber-
deem cannot be delivered for at least
eight months. { is feared this delay
will so retard ne building that IL can
not be completed until next year.
Mrs. Catherine Benson died at the
home OF her daughter Mrs. G.. l.. Lewis.
at Rapid City, OF heart and stomach
complaint. aged siXty-nine years. Her
husband died nearly twenty years ago.
and for the last fifteen years Mrs.
Benson has lived with her daughter.
At a special Iesslon OF the board OF
commissioners of Moody county IL was
decided to purchase land and estab-
fish county pooc farm. The tract pur-
CA1 hn An 20 Fft1