The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-02-27
South
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eighty-fifth year at the home OF her
bnly living child, F. D. Moore, at Sa-
lem.
The quarantine has been lifted from
The last case of smallpox at Salem,
md the doctors are now busy with an
Epidemic of la grippe.
George Martin has sold the Red
Front grocery at Aberdeen to Alex
McDiarmid and George Slater. o. A.
Grifis, late of Geddes has bought the
drug business of M. Bennett.
Fire destroyed the Harry Peek gen.
eral store at Lakeside eighteen miles
north Of Huron. The origin Of the
fire is unknown. Loss on building
and stock, $1,000; insured for $500.
Potter & Drake are now putting in
The casing and finishing the we'll for
Quart Anderson at Carthage, having
struck a fine flow at a depth of 1872
feet. The water is warm, clear and
soft.
Preliminary arrangements have
been made by farmers around Madison
for the construction of a rural tele-
phone system. One Of the proposed
lines will run as far south as Went
worth.
The board of insanity at Deadwood
has pronounced Mrs. Alice Christman
bf Memo insane. She was arrested
several days ago for setting fire to the
coal sheds of the Homestake Mining
company at Memo.
James Hartzell, doc" Middleton
and e. B. Jones of Deadwood and J.
w. Boyd and Charles Boyd of Sioux
Getty are forming a company at Dead
wood for the purpose of putting a Wild
West show on the road.
J. G. Sheldon has beer appointed
general agent and manager for the
Mccormick branch of the I~nternation-
bal Harvester company for the north
ern part of South Dakota. He has
had charge of the collections for the
company for several years in that ter
Iritory.
Fred c. Seivert's house, three miles
north of Watertown, was burned, the
origin of the fire being unknown. Most
of the household goods were saved.
The house was valued at $1,000; insur-
kance of $500. Mr.. Seivert moved here
from Iowa a year 6 and is a wealthy
Farmer.
Gov. Herried issued a requisition to
the governor of Nebraska for Al Tur-
ner, who murdered Ezra Dunlap at
nj Lead a few days ago and who was
caught at Alliance, Neb. The requisi-
ton, of course, was issued before he
death of Turner, which occurred at
Alliance the following day.
MN On May IT the A. o. u. w. grand
&@lodge will meet at Lead, and on June
ne the Masonic grand lodge will meet
#Nthere Special excursion trains will
be run and tickets will be made good
via Hot Springs. A rate of SIS from
Sioux City and return has been made,
which will insure large crowds, which
always enjoy visiting the Black Hills,
which is so vastly different from that
portion of the state.
Barbara Threnson, aged forty-six,
was found dead beside the road eight
miles west of Siseton. She was but
~scantily clad and is supposed to have
frozen to death. She was an unmar-
ried sister of Knut Threnson, whose
two girls lost their lives in a blizzard
e short time ago. The body lay two
days beside the road before being dis
covered.
The F. D. Smith building, occupied
by the Deadwood postoffice, was dam
LACED by fire. The fire started In the
basement near the furnace, and two
floors were badly burned before it
could be controlled. The postofice
effects were moved out and the only
s6oss the office sustained was in stamps
and stamped envelopes from water.
After the fire was extinguished the
office was moved back. The damage
to the building was $4,000 and to furni-
ture $4,000, all insured.
The officials of the United States
land office in Watertown have received
the past two or three weeks over BOO
Inquiries concerning a tract OF $40
acres of land in Codington county
which was reported to be vacant. The
report was published in a Twin City
paper several weeks ago, but is erro-
! uoOuS, us LuSlO 40 ~ "
of land In Codington county. Over
half of the inquiries are from a dis
lance, and one man came 20O miles
for the express purpose Of filing on
the land. Codington county land is
worth from $40 to $40 an acre.
A new town named Loomis has been
located eight miles northeast OF
Mitchell on the Milwaukee road. About
a dozen buildings have been erected
and business is carried on. A grain
company has put up an elevator and
other additions are to follow. April
cation has been made to the postof1ce
department for a p%ostofice, and there
are half a dozen candidates for the
appointment. The town is located IN
a good section of the county ana II
has every chance to grow and become