Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-05-14
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South Dakota
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have resigned thoir positions as rurai
carriers out OF Elk Point.
There is talk of organizing a stock
company and erecting an opera house
at Tyndall, to cost $4,000.
Many residents OF Clay county be-
lieve new court house should be
erected, and the question is being agi-
tated.
Joseph G. Best, for many years cffief
of police of Vermillion, has resigned
and will go back to his trade, that Of
wagonmaker.
e. G.. Nelson of Bloomingdale Is
dead Pneumonia caused his death.
He had been a resident of Clay county
for many years.
A choral union has been organized
at Rapid City with the following Off
GERS: G. A. Wiegand, president; ]. s.
Thompson, vice president; Mrs. G. M.
Cation, secretary; Mrs. J. B. Gossage,
treasurer.
Dunlap Bros, Vermillion, sold their
general merchandise store to ]. b.
/ Camerer, who lately moved there from
Alexandria. The retiring statesmen
will go into the wholesale vegetable
and fruit shipping business.
The Centerville board of education
has made contract with j. w. Par
sons & Son, architects of pes Moines,
to furnish plans for school building
and superintend construction. 1t win
cost about $4,000 and is to be finished
by Sept. 1.
The Hot Springs school board re-
elected the entire faculty for the en-
suing year, except the princip !, Miss
Cunningham; who goes elsewhere.
Mrs. Breeder of Newcastle, Wyo., sue
ceeds Miss Cunningham. The pupils
observed Arbor day by planting trees
upon the school grounds.
For her sixth season Miss d. May
Miller Of Elk Point has closed con-
tract as pianist for the Chatauqua as
sembly at Madison, s. d. for the COM
Ing summer Joseph Hankin and Miss
Louella Comfy, violinists, have been
engaged for one week each.
The Evans house at Hot Springs was
opened, with H. d. Clark as manager.
He hes managed the hotel most of the
time since it was built. Many per-
sons have already engaged rooms for
the season and the prospects are that
the hotel will be crowded Both plunge
baths have also opened and are doing
q fine business.
E. w. Miller Of Elk Point, secretary
of the Lucky Strike Gold Mining COM
| pany of Deadwood, received dispatch
/ saying the company had struck very
! rich vein at eighty-five feet. Nine as
says show yields running from $S2.40
I to $10460 of free-milling ore. A large
share of the stock is held in the yicin-
I ity of Elk Point and the shareholders
are much elated at the outlook.
A. Gloege of Scotland has purchased
the creamery plant of the Scotland
Creamery company, the directors of
the company having recently decided
not to operate the plant in future. The
purchaser has not decided what to do
:. with 1t, but expects to make arrange.
ments so 1t can be reopened and oper-
ated again.
/ Woonsocket will hold celebration
/ July 2, 3 and A. The Grand Army en-.
campment will be held there at that
I time and is to be one Of the largest
gatherings Of old soldiers in the state,
The events will include horse races,
boat races, baseball games and a band
tournament. AS 1t is the city's TWEEN
tieth anniversary, preparations are
being made 70 make it a great sue
cess.
James Nugent, one of the substan'
tial farmers of McCook county, togeth'
a. with his family and two young men
Luke O'Brien and Pat Mccormick, left
some six weeks ago for the State OF
Washington with the intention of max
Ing their future home there. But "all
Is not gold that glitters," and recently
the entire company returned to Bridge
water, thoroughly convinced that there
are whole lot of worse places thar
South Dakota.
At recent session OF the Mitchell
city council one Of the important fea
lures was the acceptance of the plans
and specifications for Mitchell's new
city hall that will cost $4,000. The
auditor was authorized to advertise fol
bids and they will be opened and the
contract let June /. The council de
cided that concrete blocks will b.
used instead of stone. Mayor Silsb,
announced that Andrew Carnegie hat
made another appropriation of $1,000
with which to finish the library build
ing. 1t will be ready fcr opening II
about three weeks. Mayor Silsb!
made his annual appointments and re
tanned all the officials who served un
der his first years administration. Tbs
following new aldermen took thei
places; Corles Newbury. Martin
Gleason, George r. Foster, G.. "A
Reeves and j. E. Wells.
| Two prominent citizens and oil
settlers of Milbank died recently--An