The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-03-20
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South Dakota |.
G.r.,a, State News
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diphtheria at Marion during the past
three weeks
The real estate firm OF Wightman.
Babcock & Labrie has opened an office
in WATERFOWL.
DR.. s. ]. Hadley Is dead. Ee moved
to Hot Springs only few months ago
from Arlington. Neb.
C. +. Smith has been appointed post
master at Putney. Brown county. vice
s. I. Spratt. resigned
The business men OF Platte have or
ganized a stock company, and will put
in a local telephone exchange.
A movement is on foot at Lake Pres
ton to incorporate a company to estab-
fish system of electric lights
Some Burlington cars loaded with
coal fell through a trestle, and ID. G.
Taylor was almost instantly killed.
The postoffices at Brisbine. Sanborn
county, and Aoslyn, Day county, have
been ordered discontinued after March
81.
The petition for vote on the dues-
ton of license TO sell liquors in Aber-
deem has been filed with the city audit
or.
Mrs. William Mercer of Spearfish is
dead, aged seventy-two. She had
son in Lead and daughter in Hulett.
Wyo.
The Deadwood school board has been
compelled to engage additional teach
ers. Al! the rooms in the three schools
are filled.
The Aberdeen Harp orchestra has
been er gagged as ore of the attractions
for the Big Stone Chautauqua assem-
bly, for 1902.
Mrs. Dora e. Richmond of Rapid
City, the wife of Irving Richmond and
a daughter OF w. NJ. Blair. died after
short Illness.
Mrs. NJ. p. Peel OF Yankton has sold
TO Leo Klemisch 100 acres OF land lying
on the James river in Yankton county,
for $3s per acre
John Nolan. who was a miner in the
Black Hills for several years, has re-
turned from Alaska. He expects to re-
turn to the North goon.
The Olivet Cooperative Creamery
| company is building and equipping a
station about twelve miles north of the
main plant at Oiivet
ArliI gton lodg A. o. u. W., took IN
ffty-nine new members during Febru-
airy, and now has 2O7 members in good
and regular standing.
During the recent storm 500 head OF
cattle on the Brown ranch, thirty miles
southwest of Kimball, stampeded into
a deep creek and were drowned.
The controller of the currency has
approved the Corn Exchange National
Bank of Chicago as a reserve agent for
the Chase Nation al Bank of Water
town.
The millinery store OF Mrs. ID. q.
Root, at Huron, has been closed upon
an execution.in favor of the Des Moines
Millinery company The stock has oeen
removed.
Rev. w. E. Steinmeyer. who for
some time has been paStor of the Ger
man Lutheran church at Bridgewater,
has decided to remove in the near fu-
ture to Illinois.
The contract for carrying the mail
between Hill City and Deerfield has
been awarded to J. p. Owens for sS25
year. The contract is for four years,
beginning July 1. 1902.
Mrs. Will Kaveny died at Sacred
Heart hospital after an Illness of two
weeks. Her illness was OF such a char
acter that there was little hope of her
recovery at any time.
The special county election, to vote
on the proposition TO issue $4,000 bonds
of Sankorn county for the purpose or
| building a court house, was defeated by
a ma iority of about $50.
Farmers In the northern part of the
state are shipping in quantities Of high
grade seed corn. and the prospects are
that a larger acreage will be planted
this sprin gthan ever before.
Petitions are being circulated in the
northern portion of Hand county ask
ing that a mail route be established be-
tween Orient and Miller, to leave Orient
one day and Miller the next.
| Hon Lewis Richards, ex-member OF
! the legislature from Brule county and
a prominent business man of KimbaP,
has a sister visiting him from Germany
whom he has not seen for fifty years.
| Telephone communication with Chi
! cago from Aberdeen, via Minneapolis
is now In force, connection having been
made east OF the Twin Cities for the
/ new metallic circuit recently completed.
! J. s. Mason. receiver of the Aber-
deem Implement and Transfer company
/ is paying a dividend Of 20 per cent to
/ the creditors of the company. This Is
the first dividend declared by the re-
| ceiver.
! Elk Point has a first-class Touring
/ mill. employing eight men. new soda
! water facto-y Ia just beginning bust
| ness, and efforts will now be made 20
stcure he location there OF a canning
| factory.
Mayor Frank Abt has appointed M.
| ], Carr;gan chief OF police OF Lead to
succeed ]. p. Greer, who rendered his
resignation after serving two years.
/ Mr.. Green is going into business for
himself.
| Jacob Fletcher, aged ninety-one years
eleven rcnths and ten days. died at the
home OF his daughter. Mrs. G. l.. Dick
son of Dalzell. Meade county. He was
horn In Dalphin county, Pennsylvania,
March II, 1910.
The Methodist Episcopal church go
c,etv IS Offering for sale its church
property In Madison. The present edi-
Acc has become entirely too small 70
accomrr odate the large and increasing
congregation.
The business mems league, organized
AZ Arm our has elected permanent Off
cars and is rapidly getting into work
rrLn.rn3nars, n II Wa.