The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-06-05
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I, South Dakota
G.rera, State News
- Photographed.

cided to hold a big reception at Selby
on June 16.
The First National bank Of Tyndall
Is authorized to begin business with
s25, 900 capital.
The Congregational church society
OF Rapid City has extended a call to
Rev Stephen Butcher Of Ocean Grove.
Fla, and it has been accepted.
Mat Haverley, one of the early set.
tiers and best known men of Sully
county, died of lockjaw, the result OF
stepping on s. rusty nail about a week
ego.
James Brown, a prominent stock
man about sixty years old, dropped
dead at Miller just after he had won
a game of ~seven-up for amusement
with some friends.
A two-year child of John Hamul Of
Tyndall ate the heads off fifty match
es thinking they were candy. No ply
stefan was called and the child was
dead in twelve hours.
The t~hree-year-old son Of Senator
and Mrs. A. Royhi died at Arlington
from getting a tin whistle in his throat.
A surgical operation was performed,
but it was unsuccessful.
John Lotus, late yardmaster of the
Omaha at Sioux Falls, has been bound
over to answer to the charge OF selling
property of the company and putting
the proceeds in his own pocket.
Harry Hird of Sturgis has been rec
1-.,,o.Jal frr n ooIafchin in tha naval
academy at Annapolis, and is now dill
gently studying up for his examina-
ton, which will take place next month.
H. l.. Ferry has finished taking the
school census at Vermillion Tor 1908,
and finds that there are forty-six pupils
less in the district thar last year. His
count shows exactly 600 children OF
school age.
Mark Mcnamara was locked up In
the county Jail at Vermillion as a ft
subject for the insane asylum, but was
afterwards turned loose when 1t was
discovered that he was suffering from
an attack of tremens.
A son of George Vinson of Burbank.
while out hunting g%ophers, met with
a painful accident. The gun which he
carried was accidentally discharged.
tearing off one of his feet. The lad Is
slowly improving from the shock.
One of the features of the homestead
movement to this part of the state IL
the small number OF foreigners who
are coming. The new settlement Is
practically from the states OF Iowa,
Nebraska, Illinois and Wisconsin.
The Joint teachers institute OF
Meade, Pennington and Butte counties
will be held at Rapid City from June =
to 10. The instructors as named are
Prof. J.. N. Davis, Sturgis; Prof. E.. M.
Stevens. Rapid City; Miss Alice Cary
Williams, Des Moines, Iowa.
The calls from the permanent school
fund have been light for a week, Yank-
ton county taking $4,000 and Jerauld
AND Hyde s1S2. Applications for cash
on bonds are already in for June and
the first of July, and a large amount
will be taken out before the middle OF
the summer
Union memorial services were held
in the Methodist church at Salem, Rev.
l.. Harold Forde preaching the sermon.
In the evening Rev. w. NJ. Jennings,
pastor Of the Brookings Presbyterian
church. preached the baccalaureate
sermon to the high school graduates.
There are ten in the class.
Gesnert Somers Of Dirkstown has
furnished bonds in the sum OF $500
for his appearance at the next term or
the state circuit court to answer to a
serious charge. He was arrested on
complaint of William Humphreys OF
Dirkstown, who charges him with 2
statutory offense In which Humphreys
wife was alleged to be implicated.
Miss Ruth Paxson, a member OF the
National Y. w. G. A. committee, ad-
dressed a young ladies' meeting at the
university chapel at Vermillion n
was also in charge Of the union serv-
ices at the Methodist church. Her
visit to North and South Dakota Is to
urge the need of a state secretary for
the Y. w. c.. A. organizations.
The new fee law for filing articles
of incorporation goes n effect he
first OF July, and the corporations are
getting in rapidly at the old fee. A
total of %forty-one domestic corpora
items, with a combined capital Of S42..
$50, 900, were filed last week, the larg-
est amount for any one being of a min
ing corporation with a capital Of s10,.
OOO, 900.
Chamberlain artesian well borers
discovered a small flow OF gas IN the
last well sunk in that city, and hopes
have been built Of a supply OF gas for
that city as we'll as at Pierre. The ar
tesian flow is reached at Chamberlain
at less than 1000 feet, while at Pierre
the flow is about 1,400 feet, and the
; character of the water Is entirely diff
ferent. Chamberlain people believe
that a well sent to the same depth as
in Pierre would bring them the same
, flow as there, and with the supply OF
gas.
AdolpA Haut was bitten by a mad
dog in Mitchell, an incision being