Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-09-03
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ton Driving Park association.
Dougherty G. Daniels have com
menced the erection OF a e JIG. 5000
bushei grain elevator at Britton.
A new train service has gone into
effect on the Centeryille line, giving
an early train north and an evening
train south.
The Elkton board Of trustees has
decided I have a lighting system es-
tablished. A special election will
soon be called.
Frank Prouty. who says he Is a Kan.
sas City prize fighter, was fined $50
or fifteen days in Jail at Salem for as
ssulting citizens.
The Pioneer Association or Bon
Homme county will hold its annual
meeting and picnic at Springfield,
Thursday, Sept. 10.
John Ice, a youn- farmer east OF
Miller, states that he will clear 81, 200
from grain ard hogs this season. A
few years ago he had nothing.
G. A. Lindquist, for seventeen years
agent OF the Milwaukee at Newark,
has resigned to become cashier In a
newly organized bank at Langford.
Owing to the fact that horse steal
ing appears to have developed into a
fad around Britton the commissioners
have offered a standing reward Of
$500.
The building is completed for the
belmont city waterworks and the en-
CINE is in place, and az oon as the
pipes arrive the mains will be placed
all owe the city.
A snake Of enormous size, around
the entrance Of whose den were scat.
tered the bones Of animals and the
feathers of fowls, wac shot by f. w.
Warner of Orient.
The first county examination of
teachers for certificates has been held
at Salem under the new law. OF is
candidates, 2 applied for f~irst-grade.
IL for second-grade and 4 for third.
The belmont state bank is nicely
settled In the new bank building.
which is a brick structure costing
nearly $45 5000. The building formerly
occupied blythe bank will soon be used
al a millinery store.
Early in September a change will
be made in the management of the
Bank CT Alpena. r. l.. White, ex-
county treasurer, will be elected cash
Ter. Mr.. Cory, the present cashier,
will go to Washington.
The State Eank of Bridgewater has
been ''nationalized,n the controller OF
the currency issuing the permit a few
days since. The state bank had a
capital of 1i2. 500, and the new nation
al bank has $25 900 capital.
At the annual meeting of the Sunday
school association of Minnehaha coin.
ty officers were elected as follows:
President. j. ". Colmsn, Dell Rapids:
secretary, Mrs. #. p. Leach, Sioux
Falls; treasurer, L. S. Hetland, Valley
Springs.
Workmen are rapidly pushing to
completion the new schoolhouse at
Belmont, which will be ready for the
school Sept. 10. The upper rooms will
not be finished this year, but the two
teachers will have two large rooms
below.
James III. Dwyer OF Salem has dis
posed Of his livery barn and the lot
on which 1t stands to Henry Ingleman
for a quarter section Of land near
Beaver City. Neb., which neither man
has ever seen. The land is valued at
5 3 200.
Residents OF the bustling town Of
Orient are boiling because the Mil
waukee company took out the tele-
graph instruments of the station and
in other ways displayed a spirit OF
economy. The town Is a good bust.
ness cer-er.
Roadn Ster MCGEE has measured
on a site TO IA new elevator on the
track leading to the city power plant
at Madison, a little west and south Of
the Schlitz icehouse. The elevator
will be built by the Union Seed and
Grain company.
J. w. stratton was arrested at Sa.
lem Cor stealing q coat from j. Fen
bricks saloon. Justice r. w. Holly
gave him $40 Or twenty days In Sioux
Falls. Stratton Is a stranger and says
the coat was taken by mistake when
he was drunk.
Alex. G. Reynick. government print
er for the weather department, Min.
neapolis. came to Elk Point to ceie-
brate his mothers sixtieth birthday.
Mrs. Reynick's children planned a
pleasant surprise, in which oyer sixty
ladies participated.
The new dormitory building for the
state blind school is well under way
at Gary, $4,000 having been appropi-
ated by the state. The $4,000 public
school building is being pushed rap
idly. School viii commence Oct. 4,
and the building will be finished by
that date.