The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-04-23
The Finland famine relief fund TO
date is S2.O31.07.

w. McEvan OF Howard naval cadet.
Brookings voted bonds. by two to
one. with which to purchase a city
telephone system. ... .
A special election was held to vote
on incorporating Volga as city. The
vote carried by 48 majority.
Jacob Webster of wakonda has re-
Gently refused $40 an acre for his
farm, the highest price ever offered In
that locality.
J. w. Harris was the first to ship in
cattle this Epring from Evants. bring
ing in a train load and disposing Of it
to local buyers.
aaron Frey of Elrod has invented
an alleged perpetual motion machine
which may be used in the running OF
machinery and vehicles.
The Lyman county creamery propo-
sition has reached the Incorporation
stage. The capital is $4,000, with
headquarters at Dirkstown.
Charles Hotter, ten-year-old son Of
M. E. Hotter of Canton, was struck in
the face by a baseball and seriously
injured. His nose was broken.
Gold Bros Brick company is build.
ing drying sheds at Big Stone and
will make over 100000 brick This
year, two-thirds of which are now
sold.
Two old citizens died in East Pierre.
one being Seth H. willard, who was
born in Maine in 1926, and the other
George Lennox, born in New York in
1893
Miss Nora Leroy of Piedmont has
been appointed instructor in the In
dian school at Fort Berthold, n. d.
She will leave Immediately to take her
position.
The Centeryille council and board
Of education have decided to submit
to the voters the proposition of issu-
ing bonds in the sum of $4,000 for a
new school building.
Several good rains In Walworth
county and SHOWS have soaked the
ground and put it in the finest shape
to start grass and grain. Range stock
is in the best of condition.
Roosevelt is the name of a new post
office just opened at the Roosevelt
mine of the GrantZ Gold Mining COM
pany, seven miles northwest Of Gus
ter. Mrs. Marie NJ. Simmons is in
charge.
The Interstate Epworth assembly
promoters are making extensive i'm
! &c .r,y1tp1o NJ INon-
ton. They are also preparing a more
extensive and better program than
| ever before.
A rural telephone company has been
organized by farmers near Hudson
and will be known as the Norway
Pleasant Telephone company. The
line will have connection with the sys-
tenn at Beresford.
The stockholders of the Deadwood
Opera House company reelected Off
GERS as follows: Joseph Hattenbach,
president; James Mum, vice presi-
dent w. S. Elder, secretary, and Ma
than e. Franklin, treasurer. The COM
pany is capitalized at 100000.
A man named Spears who spent the
winter at Miller with his fourteen.
year-old daughter, was surprised 10
have his wife, from whom he was di-
vorced eight years ago, come and take
the girl back to Milwaukee with her.
He vows to regain his daughter.
A new Maccabee lodge was recently
organized at Castlewcod with a good
charter membership. About twenty
five Maeabees from Clear Lake were
present to assist in instituting the new
lodge. Castlewood is a good lodge
town, there being eight organizations
there now. ..
The numerous wagons loaded with
lumber, on the top of which is perched
a trunk, shack stove and a box OF
supplies, are forcible reminders to the
old-time homesteaders of twenty
years ago. The prairie west of the
river viii be thickly dotted with these
"shacls" before the end of the sum.
mer.
c. 4. Coggins, principal of the pub.
lie schools of Spearfsh, has resigned
his position and will leave for Idaho to
locate. He has taught in the Spear
fish schools for three years. The
school board has engaged J. e. Elem.
ming of Perry, Iowa, to fill the posi-
ton for the remainder of the school
year.
The Knights Templars Of Salem
working under a dispensation, have
elected William T. Ellis eminent com
nander, Edward H. Wilson generals
simo, Isaac l.. Niggle captain general
S. NJ. Gilbert senior, W. f. Lane
varder, L. Harold Forde recorder
They decided to ask the grand com
mandery for a charter.
Mrs. Z. M. Boies. 1: widow. has sc,
an example for men in developing q
new country. Last fall she settled or
a government claim thirty miles south
west Of Miller, and has lived continu
ously on the land since. The wolf OF
prairie lion that prowled near her 500
house was quickly dispatched by hei
unerring Winchester. She expects Il
raise crop on her land this year. re
fusing to prove up without shown;