The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-11-27
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South Dakota
Genera, State News
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Frank McGrath has been appointed
postmaster at Westover, Lyman coun-
/. ty.
Lyman E. Parrund of Madison has
been granted pension OK $40 per
month.
Work on the gas lighting plant at
DeSmet is being rapidly pushed to
! completion.
II. j. Standish, farmer living near
Groton, lost five valuable horses by
the burning of his stables. as
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 horne
In Mellette Of diphtheria. She was
the daughter Of G. Young and was
nineteen years of age.
Choice corn is being shipped from
Elk Point in car lots to points north
| for seed. II brings 70 cents per bush
ell delivered at the cars.
The safe in the lumber Office at
Manchester was blown open and cash
amounting to $500 and some valu-
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 II. c.
Jewett and their families at Aberdeen.
The commissioners of Sully county,
have authorized reward of $500 for
the apprehension of George Matusoh,
who was indicted for grand larceny.
but escaped.
Otto Raben and Charles Rody were
| arrested at Geddes on 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
severa! 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
UP 10 UP Oh lIS wings.
A big killing of ducks was made at
Beresford by four 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
'ege, Sioux Falls, S. ID. Enter before
Dec. l and get one months tuition
Tree Send for catalogue.
The clerks at Mitchell have organ
ICED, and are getting better wages
and shorter hours. The cigarmakers
have just completed a small union,
and the bar 5ers have also organized
union.
G. G. Blair has purchased ten acres
of land, with a comfortable home on
It, two and a half miles east of Elk
Point, of William Farguson, for $3.50
per acre. Mr.. Farguson will remove
to Canada.
Legislature has secured a fine suite of
rooms at the Locke, and will have as
convenient place of rendezvous at
Pierre the coming winter as any dele
cation in the state.
The boom is still on in Redfleld, 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 its kind in the state.
The directors of the Black Hills
Mining Mems association have organ
tied by the election of the following
officers: Harris Franklin, Deadwood,
president; George M. xiv, Lead, first
vice president; S. w. Russell, Dead
wood, second vice president; ]. K. Pill
cher, Custer, third vice president; w.
S. Elder, Deadwood, secretary and
treasurer.
The administration of Mayor H. e,
Thayer 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 inn
proved; a $500 extension has just
been completed to the sewer 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 SO cents
on the dollar. Some $500 was saved
by tudicious management in the con-
struction of the sewer extension, and
at least 81 900 more were saved at the
recent meeting. of the council, by the
passage of an ordinance refunding
SIS 900 of the city's twenty-year, per
cent waterworhs bonds. The new
bonds only draw per cent interest,
and were sold to a Chicago house at
premium of $902.50.
Several hunting parties are out
from Fort Meade, on leave, the Cold
Springs region, in the western part or
the Hills, near the Wyoming line, be-
ing the principal rendezvous. Some
of the officers and soldiers have re-
turned, having been reasonably sue