The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-03
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South Dakota
coa, state News
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ton Driving Park association.
Dougherty & Daniels have com.
menced the erection of new 10000
bushel grain elevator at Britton.
A new train service has gone into
effect on the Centerville line, giving
an early train north and An evening
train south.
The Elkton board OF trustees has
decided to have lighting system es-
tablished. A special election will
soon be called.
Frank Prouty, who says he is Kan.
sas City prize fighter, was fined $50
or fifteen days in Jail at Salem for as
saulting citizens.
The Pioneer Association Of 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 standing reward Of
$500.
The building is completed fer the
belmont city waterworks and the en-
CINE is in place, and as soon as the
pipes arrive the mains will be placed
all over 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, was 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 frst-grade.
IL for second-grade and for third.
The belmont state bank is nicely
settled in the new bank building,
which is a brick structure costing
nearly $4,000. The building formerly
occupied blythe bank will soon be used
as millinery store.
Early in September a change will
be made in the management of the
Bank CT Alpena. t. l.. White, ex-
county treasurer, will be elected CASH
Ter. Mr.. Cory, the present cashieL,
will go to Washington.
The State Bank of Brldgewater has
been "nationali2ed, the controller Of
the currency issuing tho permit a few
days since. The state bank had a
capital of s12,500, and the new nation
al bank has $25,0Oo capital
AT the annual meeting of the Sunday
school association of Minnehaha co IN.
ty officers were elected as follows:
President, j. v. Colmsn, Dell Rapids;
secretary, Mrs. F. p. Leach, Sioux
Falls; treasurer, L. s. Hetland. Valley
Springs.
Workmen are rapidly pushing to
completion the new schcolhouse at
Belmont. which will be ready for the
school Sept. TO- The upper. rooms will
not be finished this year, but the two
teachers will have two large rooms
below.
James H. Dryer OF Salem has dis
posed OF his livery barn and the lot
on which it stands to Henry Ingleman
for quarter section of land near
Beaver City, Neb., which neither man
has ever seen. The land is valued at
$4,000.
Residents of the busting 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 center.
Roadm -ter MCGEE has measured
on a site TO ra new elevator on the
track leading to the city power plant
lat Madison, a little west and south OF
the Schlitz icehouse. The elevator
Will be built by the Union Seed and
Grain company.
J. w. Strstton was arrested at Sa-
lem for stealing coat from ]. 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. c. Reynick, government print.
Ter for the weather department, Min.
neapolis, came TO Elk Point to ceie-
brate his mothers sixtieth birthday
Mrs. Reynick's children planned
pleasant surprise, in which over sixty
ladies participated.
The new dormitory building for the
state blind school is well under way
at Gary, $4,000 having been appropri.
ated by the state. The $1,000 public
school building is being pushed rap.
idly. School will commence Oct. 1,
and the building viii be finished by
that date.
Mrs. E. r. Farmer of Canton, who
was recently declared insane, has COM
menced an action that is likely to
n, q la trofIhIa for tba authorities ATrs