Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-11-19
South Dakota
- state News
- Photographed.
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at so cents a bushel.
Nelson C. Bigelow, late OF Chicago,
has located at Howard and engaged
In the practice of law.
The water tank and engine house
are completed and Parker has n OF
the finest systems OF water works In
the state.
A tiny lizard, which she swallowed
In some drinking water when h was
a little girl, caused the death OF Mrs.
George Ziegler, a pioneer resident OF
Hartford.
The well which is designed to fur
nish wa.er for the new water works
system at Lennox has been completed
at a depth Of 204 feet. An ample sup
ply was obtained.
The county officers are occupying
the new court house at Parker, but as
yet the old furniture is used, the com
missioners not having received salts
factory bids for new.
Ex-Sheriff Strut, twenty miles north
Of Miller, has the bonanza artesian
well of Hand county. II is three inch
es from top to bottom, is about 1,4oo
feet deep and lows 400 gallons to the
minute.
George Morehouse, president of the
Bank OF Brookings, died after a linger-
Ing illness. He was the pioneer bank
err OF this county and had a wide ac-
quaintance because of his philanthro
pic deeds.
A women's study club has been or
ganized at De Smet. Officers were
elected as follows: President, Mrs.
c. s. whiting; vice president, Mrs. j.
II. Hubbard; secretary, Miss Anna
Wright; treasurer, Mrs. G.. e. Mallory.
Work has commenced at Orient on
d new Catholic church building which
will take the place of q similar struc
ture which was destroyed by q severe
storm which swept owe this region
last June. The new building will be
a handsome one.
Thieves attempted to blow open the
safe Of the Farmers elevator, at Fer
ney. The knob was knocked Off and
an effort made to effect an entrance
by the use of gunpowder. The burg
lars left the work unfinished and there
Is no clue to their identity.
AS an evidence OF the change in
ways OF the few s~everalty Indians
who yet remain in this part Of the
state, Lone Rock, one of them, is put
ting in time in the Jail in Pierre on a
charge of wife beating which was pre-
ferred against him by his squaw.
T. N. Matthews expects to begin
work at once upon his new opera
house block at Spearfish, for which
the foundation wallis were laid two
years ago. 1t will be three stories
high and will contain business rooms
and offices besides the opera house.
Parker has been the scene of a diph-
iberia scare for two weeks. and great
iy exaggerated reports have been sent
out from neighboring towns. There
have been fourteen cases. with three
deaths. The quarantine has been re-
moved and the city is assuming it's
normal condition.
Cardinal lodge, Degree OF Honor.
named after G. Cardinal Of st. Onge.
one of the grand officers Of the A. o.
u. W., has been organized at st. Onge.
The following officers have beer in.
stalled: Miss Elizabeth Cardinal,
past chief of honor; Mrs. Lillian Will
liams, chief OF honor: Miss Someryille,
lady Of honor; Mrs. Daniel Boone,
ri nLfof ~ nnrnr.NusNo. Chnrtn- L,,,xsN.,1
recorder; A. Cardier, financier; Mrs
Johnson, receiver.
Frank III. Hopkins, a real estate
dealer of Sisseton, has filed a petition
In voluntary bankruptcy. He sched-
ules his liabilities at $12,433 and as
sets at 1914. or the assets, property
to the value of 1892 is claimed to be
exempt. A similar petition has been
filed by Olive E. Biever, a milliner Of
Flandreau, who places her liabilities
at $2.36S.83. and her assets at
s~1,236.s0.
At the business session OF the state
encampment of the Union Veterans
union at Yankton Edmond f. English
of Yankten was elected major general
commanding the department OF South
Dakota. n. It. Paine of Aberdeen is
senior b~rigadier general. Oscar c. Pot
ter Of Sioux Falls. junior ~brigadier
general s. ]. Moore, Mitchell, surgeon
general, and H. A. Van Dalsem OF HUI.
ron, chaplain. Aberdeen was selected
for the next meeting place.
Judge William g. Rice has decided
in favor Of the plaintiff in the case OF
Meade county against the Northwest
ern Railroad company, a suit for tax
es. The amount involved was about
$4,000, and payment was resisted by
the company OF the grouni that the
levy was In excess of that allowed by
law. TIE case was argued at Dead
wood some ten days ago, Meade coun-