Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-04-23
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| proclamation, setting the date Tor Fri
day, May 1.
The Ayres farm, one mile west OF
Bonesteel, was sold to an Iowa man
for $40 an acre.
Seeding is in full blast around Wau-
bay. A great many farmers have
seeded 100 acres and over.
Catholics are discussing the matter
Of the erection of handsome new
church building at Clear Lake.
II has been discovered that all the
fish in the lake near Lake Campbell,
which gives that place its name. are
dead.
L. N. Grill has the foundation In for
a new elevator at Elk Point. He will
establish a line of elevators In that
vicinity.
Job voak. one of the early pioneers
of Marshall county, was found dead in
bed and is supposed to have had an
epileptic stroke.
Mrs. H. Fort, recently appointed sub
stitute carrier on one of the routes
out Of Aurora, is the only woman rural
mail carrier in the state.
The shareholders of the First Ma
tional bank of Waubay elected the fol-
lowing officers: William Jones, pres
ident, and E. F. Guernsey cashier.
Peter Swenson of Elk Point has sold
his eighty-acre farm to Tans B. Han
son for $50 an acre, He then bought
Ingebret Halverson's place at $3.50
an acre.
S. w. Russell of Deadwoo6. vice
president of the American mining con-
gress. has announced his committees
for the session to be held at Lead and
Deadwood in September.
The date for the annual tournament
of the state firemen's association at
Chamberlain has been changed to June
2 to 5, inclusive, so as not to conflict
with the annual encampment Of the
state guards.
David Harm, who was shot by
Thomas Hawkyard at Garden City.
will recover. The ball of 38-caliber
revolver passed through the lower
part of the right lung. Hawkyard Is
in the Deadwood Jail.
J. H. Vallette of Bonesteel, manager
of the Johnson Realty company, has
returned from a trip to the Black
Hills. where he went for the purpose
of comforting with Congressman Mar
tin relative to the opening of the Rose
bud lands.
The cobalt mineral claim near Stur-
gis, discovered by B. G. Morris and of
which he, Jesse Brown and M. F. Hill
are owners, has been bonded to a
wealthy Minneapolis company which
will make full exposure Of the min.
eral bearing ledge.
The annual meeting Of the Western
South Dakota Stock Growers asso-
citation at Rapid City was the most
largely attended in the history of the
organization. Charles X. Howard was
reelected president, d. A. Dawson
vice president and F. NJ. Stewart Sec
retary-treasurer.
J. P. Cannon OF Spearfish has sold
q half-interest in his horse ranch in
Wyoming, and will move his horses TO
Northern Montana. DR.. Lewis of Wy
oming, who made the purchase, will
go into partnership with Mr.. Cannon
In the purchase of sheep for the ranch.
The town council OF Volga has
granted to the Farmers Mutual Tele-
phone company of Lake SIM permits
SION to construct and operate long
distance telephone line within and
through the town. In consideration
of this permission the town authorl-
ties are to have the free use Of the
line for strictly municipal business.
At a school entertainment at Slsse-
ton at which about SOC persons were
present the six departments of the
city school were presented with hand
some silk flags By the John, Gibbon
Relief Corps. The remarks and charge
to the pupils by the patriotic instruc-
tor, Mrs. Minnie r. Matthews, were
short but full of patriotism, and were
ably replied to by Prof o. H. Jones,
principal of the school.
Liewelly p. Jenkins of Lead has
been installed AS superintendent OF
the United States assay Office in Dead
wood, succeeding p. j. Miniter, whose
term has expired Mr.. Jenkins filed
his bond of $4,000 several weeks ago,
and upon the arrival of his cammis-
sion from Washington 1t was only nec-
essary for him to take the oath of
office and accept the formal transfer
of the Office from his predecessor.
There is no change in the Office force.
Since early last fall no servir~
have been held in St. Mary's Epist
pal church at Mitchell, owing to the
fact that there has been no rector. AT
the service Sunday Rev. Mr.. Babcock
announced that Rev. Mr.. Powell of
Ashtabula. Ohio, had been sent to
Mitchell by the bishop. Rev. A. ID. D.
Fraser, who has supplied the pulpit
In the Presbyterian church for four
years, has rendered his resignation
and will leave for Sault Ste. Marie,