The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-02-20
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The First State bank has purchased
the Hart building at Summit.
The town of Avon has a telephone
system with twenty-eight subscribers.
A rural delivery route will be estab-
''shed out Of Tabor on March 2, to
supply eighty farmers.
George Redding Is in Jail at Belle
Fouche, charged with having sold d
horse borrowed from a friend.
John Wo}zmuth's hardware store at
"'aGtsh sustained damages to IT,
TINT of S., 1000 from a fire that STAR
L Lear the furnace.
Lirs. G. A. Lancaster Of Sturgis ret
N an accident on her way hon"
ON WhitewOod which resulted in the
breaking of her left wrist.
Steps are being taken to have an
electric light system established p
White Lake. 1t is believed the cow
can borrow the money for about ) pcI
cent.
A $4,000 public school building will
be built at Centerville this year. A
committee his been appointed to nur'
chase grounds near the central par o.
the town.
BY a vote of 17S to 293 the voters OF
WatertOwn decided not to purchase
tie city waterworks. The plant is
owned by private persons. The tgi.
Vas a bitter one.
several business men Of Summit and
Gissetcn contemplate the organization
Of a syndicate with the object OF con
uolIing large landed interests in It's
county and Canada.
The officers of the Thirteenth cav
airy at Fort Meade are sending their
families to their various homes in an.
ticipation of the departure of the re5i-
ment for the Philippines.
: A Chatauqua circle has been organ
ized at Clark with twenty-three charter
uembers. Mrs. r. J. Mann is presi.
dent, Mrs. E. r. Jones vice president,
Miss Myrtle Boyle secretary.
Rev. ] B. Kettle has departed from
Rapid City, with his family, for Am
boy, Ill.,, where he has taken a charge.
The Congregational church at Rapid
City is temporarily without a pastor.
The smallpox epidemic at Summit
is almost over. Only two new cases
have developed since the last report.
The schools have been reopened and
the ban on public gatherings remove.
william Weingartner, one of the
early settlers of Wolsey, is dead. For
nral years he was proprietor If the
cotton house, and later managed the
Newton house. He was a prominent
Elk.
The commissioners of Meade county
have appointed States Attorney james
~l.v.Eenny, DR.. e. J. Sexton and County
Judge Harry P. Atwatey as a board OF
insanity for the county for the coming
!, year.
j. r. Baldwin and wife pioneer resi-.
dents of Huron, will go to Webster
:. City Iowa, to make their home with
their son Eugene. They celebrated
their fiftieth wedding anniversary
some weeks ago.
Sanders & Larson, hardware and
machinery men of Summit, have taken
IN two new members purchased the "T
rensive machinery business of 4. NJ
: houck, and will incorporate with i
capital of $25 900.
G. M. Tracy, foreman OF the Bur
lington carpenter crew on the Eoge
3 mont division, was killed while taktne
own a large stack at the Burlington
,.undhouse. Galen Mexican, an as
~sistant, was Injured.
William Muth was convicted am
: fined for turning in a false alarm a
fire at Lead. For months some onf
has been tampering with the boxes .
calling out the department when theIt
vas no fire. A watch was set anl
Muth was detected.
, A court of the Catholic Order q
Fcresters has been organized At Abe.
deem. The officers are: CHIEF ranA .
w. II. Kaarney; vice chief ranger, y
A. w. Conrad; past chief ranger, P. Il
Tracy; recording secretary, e. p. kee
nan; treasurer, John Ryan.
Inc young people VI Sdi Ih"pS' w
cause of the failure of the town boarC
! to provide for some kind of stree
LIGHTS. took the matter into their owl
< hands and gave a home-talent play j
q the opera house for the purpose, o
IS raising funds for the purchase of a few
Il street lights.
e DR.. J. P. Foster, state veterinarian
: has made a careful examination of Thu
e herd of 200 or more cattle in quaran
= une at Huron and is positive the dis
q ease with which they are afflicted Il
y "evas itch, or mango, and that no an
"a xis apparent. as reported a few
days since.
An inspector has recently been owe
d" the proposed new rural delivery rout
ircm Spearfsh to Falsebottom an
:, ~e.tennial Prairie precincts, and 1t
y -~racted the route will be establishe'
), ~ q few months. 1t will begin a