The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-24

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death by an angry bull while visiting
the farm of his son, Lewis Clark,
south of Plankinton.
], H. Matthias has been recently ap-
pointed chief clerk in the United
States land office at Chamberlain. Mr..
Matthias took the civil service exam
nation several months ago..
The gallery Of the state historical
society has been presented with good
pictures of Senator Gamble and of the
late John r. Gamble, who died while
a member Of congress from South Da-
kota.
Through the efforts of parties at
Pierre, a range stock department will
be provided for at the state fair this
fall and special premiums will be of.
fered for this class Of cattle. It Is
likely that a good showing will be
made.
The Aberdeen Gas company has be-
gun the work of installing a new
plant. The capacity will be three
times that of the present plant, and
will be thoroughly u%p-to-date in all
respects. The work is in charge Of
R. A. Manley of Philadelphia.
The plans for the Hundemer blcHk
at Madison have been delivered by
Architect Schwartz of Sioux Falls and
accepted. Work on the structure will
begin as DOR as the material a be
secured. 1t is understood that orders
have already been placed for it. The
the Chautauqua city.
The government has been granted
permission by the city council Of Stur-
gis to lay a water main through the
line. 1t is said that the government
will shortly put a strong force Of men
On the proposed work in the hope Of
completing the waterworks system for
Fort Meade before Jan. l..
Armour has adopted the plan Of
working it's DRINKS on the streets.
When a man is brought up before the
city justice and receives a fine, he is
ordered to work on the public high
way if he hasn't the money to satisfy
the authorities. 1t is having a very
good effect, for the drunk is only al
lowed s1.25 per day.
Prof. e. Spencer, who has been prin-
cipal of the Valley Springs public
school for the past two years, was en-
dered the position for a third year., out
Ioo1irnl ,oo,,.t re b,,oj,oc~
opening elsewhere The members of
the board of education have published
a card showing the boards a%pprecia.
ton of his work and it's regret at his
departure.
An agitation has commenced among
the farmers in the vicinity of Lake
Preston for the forming of a company
and the construction of a farmers
grain elevator at Lake Benton. Those
~favoring the movement say the con-
~struction of such a building would re-
suit in the improvement of the local
grain market by increasing prices paid
for grain a cent or two a bushel.
State Stpt. Nash announces that the
first examinations under the new law,
which provides for uniform state GER
tificates to teachers, will be held in all
the counties of the state Aug. II and
%. Under the new law the papers are
all marked in the state superintend-
ent's Office, and will be marked by a
board which will be appointed for
that purpose by the superintendent.
Company H, South Dakota National
guard, of Howard, expects to spend a
couple Of weeks next September At
Fort Smelling, Mimi, where a gather
ing of the guards of Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Iowa and Minneso-
ia will be held. Company H is the
crack company of the South Dakota
boys and did splendidly at the Wafer
town e%ncampment in June, and ex-
pect to do fully as well at Fort SHELL
ing.
The shipping of mohair from the
flock of Angora goats owned by Polk
& Farwell Of Sturgis has been finished
and all concerned are well pleased
with the result. The main part OF the
product was consigned to Sanford.
Me, the leading market of the United
States, while the longer product went
to Levissove Of New York. This firm
stated last year that the mohair ship
ped from Sturgis was the finest ever
received by them.
The Farmers Cooperative Ware
house company Of Baltic, which held
its annual meeting recently, has de-
cided to soon begin the erection of q
large flour house. In the last year tho
company did a business of SIS, 900 and
handled it SO wisely that it was pos
sible to declare a dividend Of Is per
cent. At the annual meeting the old
board of directors was reelected and
E. j. Cyan was retained as manager
70 ranother year.