The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-05-14
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South Dakota /
G.rara, state News
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SudliDSlietAu W tomptle III the TOUT
nament June 2, 3 and 4.
Lewis Elecson and S. ID. Halliday
have resigned their positions as rural
carriers out Of Elk Point.
There is talk of organizing a stock
company and erecting an opera house
at Tyndall, to cost $4,000.
Many residents of Clay county be-
lieye new court house should be
erected, and the question is being agi-
tated.
Joseph G. Best, for many years cIrief
of police of Vermillion, has resigned
and will so back to his trade, that of
a wagonmaksr.
Z. G.. Nelson Of Bloomingdale is
dead. Pneumonia caused his death.
He had been a resident of Clay county
for many years.
A choral union has been organized
at Rapid City with the following OFF,
GERS: G. A. Wiegand, president; j. 8.
Thompson, vice president; Mrs. c. M.
Cation, secretary; Mrs. j. B. Gossage,
treasurer.
Dunlap Bros, vermillion, sold their
general merchandise store to J. b.
Camerer, who lately moved there from
Alexandria The retiring statesmen
will go into the wholesale vegetable
and fruit shipping business.
The Centerville board of education
has made a contract with J. w. Par
sons & Son, architects OF Des Moines,
to furnish plans for a school building
and superintend construction. 1t will
cost about $40, 900 and is to be finished
by Sept. /.
The Hot Springs school board re
elected the entire faculty for the en-
suing year, except the priRcipal Miss
Cunningham, who goes elsewhere.
Mrs. Breeder of Newcastle, Wyo., sue
ceeds Miss Cunningham The pupils
observed Arbor day by planting trees
upon the school grounds.
For her sixth season Miss d. May
Miller of Elk Point has closed a con.
tract as pianist for the Chatauqua as
sembly at Madison, S. D., for the COM
Ing summer Joseph Hankin and Miss
Louella Comfy, violinists, have been
engaged for one week each.
The Evans house at Hot Springs was
opened, with II. ID. Clark as manager.
He has managed the hotel most of the
time since it was built. Many per-
sons have already engaged rooms for
the season and the prospects are that
the hotel will be crowded. Both plunge
baths have also opened and are doing
a fine business.
e. w. Miller Of Elk Point, secretary
of the Lucky Strike Gold Mining COM
pany of Deadwood, received a dispatch
saying the company had struck very
rich vein at eighty-five feet. Nine as
says show yields running from S32.40
to s104.s0 of free-milling ore A large
share of the stock is held In the vicin-
ity of Elk Point and the shareholders
are much elated at the outlook.
A. Gloege Of Scotland has purchased
the creamery plant of the Scotland
Creamery company, the directors OF
the company having recently decided
not TO operate the plant In future. The
purchaser has not decided what TO do
with it, but expects TO make arrange
ments so it can be reopened and oper-
ated again.
Woonsocket will hold celebration
July 2, and A. The Grand Army en-
will be held there at that
time and is to be one of the largest
gatherings of old soldiers in the state.
The events will include horse races.
boat races, baseball games and band
tournament AS II Is the city's TWEEN
tieth anniversary, preparations are
being made to make it great sue
cess.
james Nugent, one of the substan-
tial farmers of McCook county, togeth-
ca with his family and two young men,
Luke O'Brien and Pat Mccormick, left
some six weeks ago for the State of
with the intention of max
Ing their future home there. But call
Is not gold that glitters." and recently
the entire company returned TO Bridge
water, thoroughly convinced that there
are a whole lot OF worse places than
South Dakota.
At a recent session OF the Mitchell
city council one of the important fea-
lures was the acceptance of the plans
and specifications for Mitchell's new
city hall that will cost $4,000. The
auditor was authorized to advertise for
bids and they viii be opened and the
contract let June 1. The council de-
cided that concrete blocks will be
used Instead OF stone. Mayor Silsby
announced that Andrew Carnegie had
made another appropriation of $1,000
with which to finish the library build
ing. 1t will be ready for opening in
about three weeks. Mayor Silsby
made his annual appointments and re-
tanned all the officials who served I'M
der his first years administration. The
new aldermen took their
places: Corles Newbury, Martin
Gleason, George Il. Foster. @. A.
Reeves and j. L. Wells.
Two prominent citizens and old
settlers OF Milbank died recently-An- |
drew Croal, aged about eighty-three