Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-03-26
| South Dakota
(Serera, State News
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quarter section of land at Groton last
week at s45 an acre.
The city council OF Scotland has
granted a franchise to Diehl & Becker
to put in a gas plant.
A rancher at Cascade shot an eagle
that measured six and one-half feet
from tip to tip of it's wings.
The region about Belle Fourche is
experiencing almost drouth and cat
tie are suffering from thirst.
Troops H and e of the Thirteenth
cavalry. which were stationed at Fort
Keogh, have arrived at Fort Meade.
Mrs. Ole Christensen, for twenty-five
years a resident of Union county, was
buried in the Sphinx cemetery last
| week.
Mrs. Lena Weird Of Hill City, who
was adjudged insane several weeks
ago, has been taken to the state hos
| pital.
Work will soon begin on the new
town hall at Langford, for which the
voters authorized the issuance of
bonds. .
Richard Hays, convicted at Egan of
criminally assaulting a girl of sixteen
years, was sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary.
Father O'Farrell has been appointed
| by Bishop O'Gorman as assistant to
Father Desmond of st. Martins Cath
Ollie church at Huron.
Contracts for the erection of q Ma
sonic temple at Huron will be let soon.
| II Is proposed to have the building
ready in the early fall.
Egan looks for a building boom.
Two large blocks are being contracted
for. Several residences are needed,
as they are at premium.
A building boom will be experienced
at Frankfort this spring. Among the
! new buildings will be an opera house
and costly business block.
George E. McEathron of Huron, the
| largest breeder of Hereford cattle in
I South Dakota, is arranging for a big
! sale of registered stock on April /.
! Two children of Charles Bracht, a
farmer living two miles west of Mil
bank, broke through the ice and were
drowned. They were aged nine and
seven years. ....
| The grievance between Pete jail
ard William VOORHEES, was aired in
| Justice Hoffman's court at Selby. Voor-
hees was placed under 5000 bonds to
keep the peace. .,. .-...s ....a.~
The receipts of the Lawrence county
| treasurer for February exceeded the
receipts for the corresponding period
for any previous year. The collections
were S187,03806.
While riding on heavily loaded
wagon at Huron, Mr.. McCauley, a
farmer, fell beneath the wheels. Three
ribs were broken and he received in
juries that may prove fatal.
Mrs. Charles H. Stilwill, wife of
| Postmaster Stilwill of Tyndall, died
after an illness of three or four
months. She was an early pioneer,
coming from Hopkinton, Iowa.
Frank Wilmoth was arrested at
Aberdeen charged with stealing peck
etbook containing $110. He made a
confession and was sentenced to ff-
| teen mcnths in the peitenttary.
Norgren & Co. OF Centerville have
1ust placed new machiner yin their
roller mill, consisting of the latest
model separator and scourer, making
it one of the best plants in the state.
State Veterinarian ]. P. Foster ex-
poets to visit the Hills this spring, and
will attend the stock meetings at Belle
Fourche and Rapid. State Veterina-
'rian Brimhall of Minnesota will ac-
company him.
r. C. George, who is arranging to
sink two or more deep wells at Huron,
in the hope of striking oil or gas, has
gone to Lima. Ohio, to complete ar
rangements for shipping well-boring
machinery.
| quarter section of land twelve
miles northwest of Lead sold at pro-
hate sale for a little better than $55
an acre. Real estate transfers are not
as numerous this spring as last, but
the prices continue firm.
A movement has been begun at Egan
70 organize farmers telephone COM
many. N. H. Maupin, proprietor OF the
Egan system, is at the head and Is
meeting with success. The company
Will be Incorporated with capital
stock OF $4,000.
The village of Trent, nine miles
south OF Egan is in hard straits. oW-
ing to tn elowness of the location and
the poor chance for drainage II Is
thought almost an absolute necessity
to move the town to higher ground.
This will entail much expense.
plans are under way to open the
coal mine found near Trent last fall.
while drilling for well on the farm
of Ed Hoover The latter has been
offered 500 an acre for this three fine
| quarters, but chooses to wait and take
chances on the developments.
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