The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-04-24
The Finland famine relief fund to
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one, with which to purchase q city
telephone system.
A special election was held to vote
on Incorporating Volga as q city. The
vote carried by IS majority.
Jacob Webster Of Wakonda has re-
Gently refused $40 an acre for his
farm. the highest price ever offered in
that locality.
J. w. Harris was the first to ship in
cattle this spring from Evants, bring
Ing in a train load and disposing Of it
to local buyers.
Aaron Frey of Elrod has invented
an alleged perpetual motion machine
which may be used in the running Of
machinery and vehicles.
The Lyman county creamery propo-
sition has reached the incorporation
stage. The capital is $4,000, with
headquarters at Dirkstown.
Charles Hotter, ~ten-year-old son of
M. E. Hotter of Canton, was struck in
the face by a baseball and seriously
injured. His nose was broken.
Gold Bros Brick company is build
ing drying sheds at Big Stone and
will make over 5000, 900 brick this
year, two-thirds of which are now
sold.
Two old citizens died in East Pierre,
n being Seth H. Willard, who was
born in Maine in 1926, and the other
George Lennox. born in New York in
1898
Miss Nora Leroy of Piedmont has
been appointed instructor in the In
dian school at Fort Berthold, n. d.
She will leave Immediately to take her
position.
The Centerville council and board
to the voters the proposition of issu-
ing bonds in the sum Of $4,000 for a
new school building.
Several good rains in Walworth
county and SHOWS have soaked the
ground and put it In the finest shape
to start grass and grain. Range stock
is in the. best of condition.
Roosevelt is the name of a new post
Office just opened at the Roosevelt
mine of the Grant, Gold Mining com.
pany, seven miles northwest of Gus
ter. Mrs. Marie M. Simmons is il
charge.
The Interstate Epworth assembly
promoters are making extensive inn
provements on their grounds at Can
ton. They are also preparing a more
extensive and better program than
ever before.
A rural telephone company has been
organized by farmers near Hudson
and will be known as the Norway
Pleasant Telephone company. The
line will have connection with the sys-
ten at Beresford.
The stockholders OF the Deadwood
Opera House company reelected Off
GERS as follows: Joseph Hattenbach,
president; James Mum, vice presi-
dent; w. S. Elder, secretary, and Ma
than E. Franklin. treasurer. The com.
pany is capitalized at 100000.
A man named Spears who spent the
winter at Miller with his fourteen
year-old daughter, was surprised to
have his wife, from whom he was di.
vorced eight years ago, come and take
the girl back to Milwaukee with her.
He VOWS to regain his daughter.
A new Maccabee lodge was recently
organized at Castlewood with a rood
charter membership. About twenty
five Macabees from Clear Lake were
present to assist in instituting the new
lodge. Castlewood is a good lodge
town, there being eight organizations
there now.
The numerous wagons loaded with
lumber. on the top of which is perched
a trunk, a shack stove and q box of
supplies, are forcible reminders to the
old-time homesteaders of twenty
years ago. The prairie west of the
river will be thickly dotted with these
"shacks" before the end of the sum.
mer.
G. A. Coggins, principal of the pub
lie schools Of Spearfsh, has resigned
his position and will leave for Idaho TO
locate. He has taught In the Spear,
fish schools for three years. The
school board has engaged J. E. Elem.
ming of Perry, Iowa, to fll the posi-
ton for the remainder of the school
year.
The Knights Templars Of Salem
working under a d~ispensation, have
elected William T. Ellis eminent com.
mander, Edward H. Wilson generals
simo, Isaac l.. Niggle captain general,
S. NJ. Gilbert senior, w. e. Lane
warder. L.. Harold Forde recorder,
They decided to ask the grand COM
mandery for a charter.
Mrs. G.. M. Boies. a widow. has ser
an example for men in developing a
new country. Last fall she settled on
a government claim thirty miles south
west OF Miller, and has lived contlnu.
ously on the land since. The wolf or
prairie lion that prowled near her sod
house was quickly dispatched by her
unerring Winchester. She expects to
raise a crop on her land this year. re.
fusing to prove up without showing
the best of intentions.