The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-31
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Sioux Falls Is. D. Business College
# you enter Sept. LIST. Write for cat
alogue.
The longest timothy heads ever een
n the vicinity Of Armour were brought
10 Armour by G. w. Paulson. The
heads measured eleven and one-half
inches, and perfect in e~ery particu-
lar.
The city council of Lead has grant
ed a franchise to the Nebraska Tele-
phone company, owner of the Black
Hills system Of telephones, to estab-
fish a central Office and lay its wires
In Lead.
Parker is growing rapidly this sum-
mer. At the present time nine new
residences, costing an average Of about
IL 500 each, are in course Of construc-
ton. Other buildings to the value Of
about $4,000 are also being erected.
An agitation has been commenced
Tor the Incorporation of Viborg as q
city under an act Of the recent legis-
ature. The necessary steps may soon
be taken, when Viborg would take it's
place as the third city in Turner coun-
~.
An %elopement is charged to Robert
a. Crawford, aged twenty, and Miss
Alice Adams, seventeen years old,
daughter of A. T. Adams, a we'll known
resident of Spearfsh. The young man
Is a son of R. F. Crawford, a well
Ennwp oftorrnyy ~ SrnorGch
The Jail burned at Rapid City and
an unknown tramp arrested early in
the evening was cremated. The pris-
oner is supposed to have set fire to the
Jail. The fire was discovered at 3
o'clock in the morning and at that
time 1t was beyond control. The
charred remains cannot be identified.
The Burlington trolley system
through Lead is expected to be com.
pleted by September. 1t is being built
as the grading Of the city streets is
done, by the same contractor, and will
follow the paving crew up Main street.
The poles and wires are up, and tho
ears will be running part way up Main
street in a few weeks.
The postofice department has or
dered a postoffice at the pumping sta
ton of the Homestake Mining COM
pany O the Little Spearfish, to be
called Hanna. The Homestake COM
pany has a 5000, 900 pumping plant at
this point, and raises water for supply.
Ing the city Of Lead and the Home
stake mills.
Kingsbury county was the first to
get in all the reports asked for by the
state auditor for the work Of making
up the annual report of that Office.
and also the first to get in the county
returns for the use of the state board
Of equalization. The return from that
county is practically the same as It
was for last year.
Men are at work on the large wells
for fire protection at Volga. One well
Is completed and two more are under
way. Work has begun on the opera
house, and several blocks of cement
walk are laid at the south end Of Main
street. John Lawless' new building Of
cement Is well along. Several dwell
Ing houses are being built.
Work Is well under way on the new
city waterworks plant at Bonesteel.
Contractor Hughes having put down
the last Of four points, and is now at
work on the concrete foundation which
will be placed above the points. The
excavation Of the bitches is also under
way and very soon Bonesteel will have
as good a water system as there Is in
the state in proportion to its extent.
Members Of the vermillion fire de-
partment have ordered brand new uni.
forms, which are expected to arrive in
a few days. The old department had
good uniforms, but when 1t disbanded
on account of a mixup with the city
council the retiring members kept the
suits. The boys expect to properly in.
itiate the new uniforms by wearing
them to Sioux City during the Iowa
state firemen's tournament.
A violent storm struck Yankton re-
Gently. The rainfall was 2.60 inches,
almost breaking all previous records.
1t was at first feared i~rretrievable
udildSO hdo uCCu uOIC " CIOpS, UuI
although oats are fiat in places, and
corr and wheat are also down, It is
thought no great injury will result as q
general thing. The heavy rainfall,
coupled with a very heavy wind, made
a combination that leveled crops in a
way that seldom happens in this coun.
ty.
Supt. Tucker Of the Milwaukee Is
preparing to begin the handling Of
range cattle from west Of the Missouri,
by way of Evarts, on Aug. /, the Lake
Lamb company being the first ship
pers. A pontoon bridge will be COM
pleted about the date named and the
ferries will not be used the present
season after the bridge is completed.
The Milwaukee road hauled about
1900 carloads Of cattle from Evarts
last season, which vas the first Of the
business.
Raymond F. Walter OF the United
States geological survey has selected
five sites in Western South Dakota
which are deemed suitable for reser-
! voirs under the national scheme of irri.