Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-09-17
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South Dakota
G.rar.. State News
- Photographed.


Schools were opened at Bath, with
Prof. e. e. Furman of Iowa as princi-
pal.
The motion for the discharge of DR..
William G.. Smith of Sturgis, bankrupt.
was referred to Granville G. Bennett
Of Deadwood, special master.
Changes made In the running of
passenger trains on the Chicago &
Northwestern are far from satisfactory
on the Hawarden-Oakes division.
Rev. o. o. Sando, for twenty-seven
years pastor of the Nideros Lutheran
church at Baltic, has rendered his res
!gnation because of falling health.
j. w. Post, who has been route agent
for the American Express company.
has returned to Rapid City, having re-
signed his position with the company.
Lake Preston is to have a ~irst-class
hotel. Frank Zoller has arrangements
made and work will be commenced at
once upon a modern forty-room hos
telry.
Mrs. G. d. Runyon. living a few miles
northwest of Salem. fell from a trap
door to the bottom Of a cellar, suffer
Ing several broken ribs and internal
injuries.
Thieves broke into three stores at
Groton and stole about SIS from the
cash drawers. Nothing else was mo
Tested. Entrance was made through
back windows.
A new Jail has been completed at
Erwin and 1t is expected that in fu-
tura the criminal element among the
transient harvest hands will give this
town a wide berth.
Threshing is we'll under way around
Lake Preston and good yields are re-
ported. Wheat is going from Is to 80
bushels, barley 80 to As bushels and
oats 40 to 20 bushels.
The three men held at Castlewoed
on suspicion of having robbed the
postoffice were discharged by Justice
Morgan after a preliminary hearing.
No new arrests or clues.
Ed Kruger, q farmer. walked into a
hardware store at Ipswich, took down
a revolver and fired a bullet into his
right breast. He will probably die. He
has a wife and three children.
Prof. e. l.. Fullmer, who has occu-
pied the chair OF natural science In
Dakota university for four years, has
been elected to a similar position in
Baldwin university, Berea, Ohio.
A verdict of guilty was returned in
the United States court at Deadwood
In the case against Joe Black Pipe, a
Rosebud Indian, charged with intro
ducing liquor on Indian territory.
Daring a heavy thunder storm light
ming struck a setting" of wheat on
the A. Wachholz farm near Salem and
burned one stack. The grain was in
sured in a local farmers mutual COM
pany.
Two indictments were returned by
the grand jury at Deadwood, one
against the three moonshiners and the
other against a person not in custody
and whose name is accordingly with
held.
A resident of Aurora named Fort
experimental this year with the rails
ing of tobacco and believes he will
demonstrate that the cultivation of this
plant can be made a success in South
Dakota.
Owing to lack of patronage. the
creamery at La Dele has closed tenn
porarily. The farmers in that vicinity
raised such big crops this year that
they have no time to haul milk to the
creamery.
Irwin Thomas. a member Of the
Northwestern bridge crew, fell under
a moving train at st. Onge and his
right leg was so crushed between the
ankle and knee that amputation was
necessary.
The creamery association Of Center
vile has SUGGESTED IN buying twenty
acres one mile north OF town. which
will be plated at once. This tract is
high and dry, and was the only avail
abs land near town.
Work is progressing rapidly on a
new Methodist church building which
is in course of construction at Chand
Ter. 1t will replace a similar struc-
ture which was destroyed by a tornado
In the summer OF 1899.
In the last year scores of artesion
wells have been sunk in Edmnnds
county, which now has So such wells
All of them are of medium size and
furnish an abundance OF water for
farm and stock purposes.
John M. Henton, formerly engaged
as a chemist among the cyanide plants
in the His, is in Mexico on a pros.
pecting tour. He recently wrote that
he was working about 100 miles south
Of Peral in the state of Durango.
A r~attlesnake six feet long. with
oravor tarvn hrsltianf raftIac ~ ite