Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-07-23
South Dakota
General State News
- Photographed.


Three months tuition free q.
Sioux Falls Is. d. Business cous
II you enter Sept. 1St. Write for os,9
logue.
From the present outlook the ~.
prospect in Faulk county is ho..
than was ever before known IN -
history of the county.
The Sioux Falls Brewing CONN.,.
has begun the construction Of a Ia
cement block in Egan, in which viii :.
located Crook Bros saloon ana
cold storage room. II
John McRae, the ex-solicitor MI.
forged a check a few weeks ago ~.
sente,eed at Sturgis by Judge Rice =
two years in the penitentiary at sions
Falls.
The application of Mrs. Roland D
Molineaux for divorce is said to bay.
been rejected because she sent a mn.
to a reporter admitting that she was i
South Dakota to ecure a divorce
One of the most interesting lana
contest cases in the history of Fapls
county has just closed, which occuniaa
almost two weeks taking the testt
mony in the case. NJ. H. ODonnen
contestant, VS.. w. II. Race.
The water mains are laid, the wau
dug and the foundation for the power
house almost completed for a fine Wa.
terworks system at Egan. The Na.
tional Construction company is rush.
ing the work.
Robert Wilson, who was arrested a
short time ago for the theft of a ouan.
tity of wheat from a farmer near Brit
ton, has been bound over for appear.
ance at the next term of the state cir
cult court to answer to the charge
against him.
The equalization board at Faulktou
has Just closed a two weeks session
One of Faulkton's very well-to-do bus.
mess men had been paying taxes on
S1,00. which the board raised to $1,000
Mr.. A. went before the board on oath
and alleged that he was not worth one
dollar.
During the past week the town Of
Faulkton has been improved by the
laying of a number of new cement
walks and crosswalks. Several con.
tracts have been let for cement walks
in the business portion of the city.
The erection Of a fine Catholic church
will commence at once.
Meyer Winter of Westoyer was
bound over TO the circuit court in
bonds of 5000, on the charge of brand.
ing an spimal which is alleged to have
belonged to County Treasurer Walker.
The evidence before the justice was
divided, and he announced that the
case ought TO be determined by the
circuit court.
Filing Opsal, formerly engaged Ia
the Canadian land business, has been
appointed sheriff of Lincoln county
by the board of county commissioners
to succeed Robert Buchanan, resigned
Mr.. Opsal was sheriff of the county
four years prior to the election OF Mr..
Buchanan and 1t is thought that ne
will give entire satisfaction.
Rev. w. II. Thrall of Huron dedi.
Gated a Congregational church 10
/ Clear Lake, preaching the dedicatory
sermon to a very large crowd. The
church cost more than $4,000 and was
dedicated free from debt. Rev. n
r. Hammond is the pastor. In the
evening a platform meeting was held
In which the different pastors OF me
city participated, the occasion beng
Of the greatest in the history Oh
Clear Lake.
L. s. Gillette of Minneapolis, who
came to Fort Pierre to collect for the
steel furnished by the Gillette-HerzoS
Bridge company of that city for a
bridge across Bad river, was not sat-
is1ed with the action of the STANLEY
county commissioners in the matter
and started to obstruct the bridge Dy
tearing up part of the floor, he was
stopped by being arrested on a charge
OF committing a public nuisance, pu'
was allowed to leave for home by pun
ting up bonds for an appearance.
Much feeling has developed at Ree
Heights against a citizen of that town
on accounts of reports that he ma
been ~mistreating his ten-year-old step
son. II is said that he beat the cnilc
so numerically that the neighpol,
had TO interfere. They took the cnn.
and found his arms and legs black ant
blue and swollen from the effects .
the brutal treatment. The other morn
Ing an efigy was found hanging IRON
a tree stretched across one OF 'a'
principal streets. Popular feeling =
running very high, and there Is a pos
sibility Of more developments.