Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-02
South Dakota
Cararo, State News
. Photographed.
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cupied by the 18th.
Miss Mary f. Meyer of Crow Creek
has been appointed ~laundress at h
Grace Indian school.
John 4. Patton died last week at the
home OF mis- son, Homer Patton, who
resides south of Alexandria.
c. L. Brockway has been confirmed
as register, and L. b. Laughlin receiver
Of the Chamberlain Ian Office.
Robert e. Dye has been appointed
postmaster. vice Richard Davenport,
removed, at Alpena. Jerauld county.
Albert c. Bennett of Belmont has
been appointed tagger in connection
with h bureau of animal industry.
Pensions granted: Cyrus H. Johnson,
Pierre, So; Frank S. Kittredge, Hud-
son, $40; Niles H. Case, Redfeld, $40.
August Goetz of Yankton has the
contract for constructing a new frame
church building at Wagner. to cost
s., 1000.
Rev. Thomas A. Stamp of Egan is
convalescing from an attack of typhoid
fever at the home Of his parents in
Tyndall.
Postmasters appointed: South Da-
kota-Ludlow, Ewing county, Amanda
Mach; Tararville, Lawrence county, III.
O'Connor.
Pensions granted: In~crease-Archi-
bald Branaugh, YaEkton, $40; William
o. Brown. Bovine. S2; Margaret Ca
hill, Albee. So.
The postmaster general has accepted
the lease of Franklin d. Smith for h
premises now occupied by the postoffice
at Deadwood.
The last horse sale OF the season was
held at Pierre. While the severe wealth
er reduced the number of buyers, a
number of good sales were made.
The deer-hunting season is at it's
height in the Hills this month. Deer
are Plentiful within twenty-five miles
of Lead, and one party brought in i've
animals.
A band has been organized at Letch-
er, and Prof. Ireland, instructor of h
bands recently organized al Alpena and
Woonsocket, has been engaged as I'M
strdctor.
White Lake is the latest South Da-
kota town to decide to ave lis streets
lighted. The city council has author
lied the purchase of 60O-candle power
gasoline street lamps.
The new building of 81. Martins
academy, at Sturgis, is practically COM
pleted, and. will be turned over to h
Sisters of the Benedictine Order Jan. l.
The building has cost $4,000.
Senator Gamble has secured the APP
pointment of Anton Jureck of Lead as
1900 Itnv,4aaarf a., the raortlur a rtn is
He was recommended for the appoint
ment more than a year ago
Indian Commissioner Jones has decid-
ed to authorize, for the first time, the
leasing OF grazing lands on the Chey-
enn reserve and Standing Rock Indian
reservations, in the Dakotas.
Mrs. Rose Drey. who recently pur-
chased the Davis hotel, at Davis. from
Mrs. G. H. Hensen, has taken possess
sion. Mrs. Hensen has gone to Irene,
where she will conduct the local hotel.
The state lands board has decided TO
offer for sale next year that portion of
the old Fort Sisseton reservation which
is not now under lease, and will also
offer the other lands in Marshall coun-
ty.
III. G. Utley, a Dakota university
graduate, has received an appointment
as teacher of English In h Philip
pines at a salary of $1,000. Mr.. Utley is
q. present principal Of the Volga
schools.
During the last thirty days there
were shipped from Alpena sixty-two
car loads of wheat, / of oats, / Of var
ley, Is of hogs. % Of cattle, z of sheep,
IL, 600 ponds OF butter and 1000 pounds
Of eggs.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Hare of Sioux Falls
conducted services at ST. Marks church
In Pierre on Sunday morning and after
noon. A class of seventeen was o n
firmed by the bishop at the close of the
morning service.
Andre Folberg Of Piedmont had his
entire scalp torn away Friday night
by the kick of a horse, and is in a crit
ical condition. The top of one ear was
also taken Off and the skull indented
back of the ear.
Postmasters appointed: Cheyenne
Agency, Dewey county, Samuel O..
Overly, vice J. Z. Whitlock, resigned:
Hermosa. Custer county, John McCar-
thy. vice John T. Baker resigned;
Arlington, George A. Reed.
The Aberdeen District Medical society
held It's b.-monthly meeting at Aber-
deem recently. A very interesting pro-
gram was presented and ably dis
cusred. The attendance was large, sew
eral physicians from abroad being pres
emit.
Henry Lason, Jr.. who Is on the corps
Of United States engineers at ul-
10, Panay Island, Philippines. writes
home to Tyndall that he is recovering
rom a serious attack of typhoid fever.
The disease reduced him from 1853 to lis
rounds.
Otto p. Th. Grantz Of Lead has re-
ceived the ANAL payments on four min
ing claims and fractions that he sold to
the Hidden Fortune company on North
Lead Hill. The purchase price was
$40, 000. Mr.. Grantz had taken over
$500, 600 out of the ground before selling.
The city council of Milbank has ap-
propriated $500 toward the mainten-