The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-11-28
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f3enara, State News
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me postofice at Stock, Jerauld
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 SO per
month.
Work on the gas lighting plant at
DeSmet Is being rapidly pushed to
completion.
II. J. Standish, a farmer living near
Groton, lost five valuable horses by
the burning of his stables.
All departments Of the schools at
Summit are closed by order of the
board OF health, owing to the preva.
lence of scarletina.
Mrs. Lena Young died at her home
IN Mellette of d%iphtheria. She was
the daughter Of G. Young and was
nineteen years of age.
Choice corn is being shipped from
Elk Point in a lots to points north
for seed. 1t brings Is cents per BUSH
Ell delivered at the cars.
The safe in the lumber office at
Manchester was blown open and cash
amounting to $4,000 and some valu-
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-seventh 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 OH 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 it's wings.
A big killing of ducks was made at
Beresford by foul 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 am
pie funds have been secured.
Good positions secured for all grad.
yates of the Sioux Falls Business Col
leee, Sioux Falls, s. d. Enter before
Dec. l and get one months tuition
free Send for catalogue.
The clerks at Mitchell have organ
lied, and are getting better wages
and shorter hours. The cigarmakers
have just completed a. small union,
and the BARRIERS have also organized a
union.
C. G. Blair has purchased ten acres
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1t, two and a half miles east of Elk
Point, of William Farguson, for $3.50
per acre. MIR. Farguson will remove
to Canada.
The Beadle county delegation to the
legislature has secured a fine suite OF
rooms at the Locke, and will 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 Redfeld, and
one cannot find a house to rent.
Thomas Sterling, dean of the law
school of the state university, has
been attending to his legal practice
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 will be one
of the finest of it's kind in the state.
The directors Of the Black Hills
Mining Mems association have organ
lied by the election of the following
officers: Harris Franklin, Deadwood,
president; George M. Niv, Lead, first
vice president; S. w. Russell, Dead
wood, second vice president; J. E. Pill
cher, Custer, third vice president; ".
S. Elder, Deadwood, secretary and
treasurer.
The administration of Mayor H. e,
Tbayer of Canton, which began last
April, has been attended by a remark
able record of industry and business
activity. The waterworks system has
been extended and otherwise i'm
proved; a $4,000 extension has just
been completed to the wv system;
lots were recently purchased and ar
rangements are being made for the
construction of a $4,000 city hall, and
many public improvements are in evil
dence everywhere. Notwithstanding
, all this, the financial affairs of the city
have been so economically conducted
that city warrants are worth 80 cents
on the dollar. Some $500 vas saved
by iudicious management in the con
struction Of the sewer extension, and
at least 5 1000 more were saved at the
recent meeting of the council, by the
passage of an ordinance refunding
SIC, 900 of the city's t~wenty-year, 6 pei
cent waterworks bonds. The new
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