The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-07-30
South Dakota
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kinds are fine in that locality.
Three months tuition free at the
Sioux Falls Is. D. Business College
Il you enter Sept. LIST. Write for cat
alogue.
The longest timothy heads ever seen
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-
ar.
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
81 800 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
city under an act of the recent legis-
lature. The necessary steps may soon
be taken, when Viborg would take its
place as the third city in Turner coun-
~.
An elopement is charged to Robert
n. Crawford. aged twenty, and Miss
Alice Adams, seventeen years old,
laughter of A. T. Adams, a we'll known
resident of Spearfish. The young man
Is a son of r. +, Crawford, a well
known attorney at Spearfish.
! The Jail burned at Rapid City and
an unknown tramp arrested early in
the evening was cremated. The pris-
Dner is supposed TO have set fire to the
Jail. The fire was discovered at
o'clock in the morning and at that
time It 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 the
cars will be running part way up Main
street in a few weeks.
The postofIice department has or
dered a postoffice at the pumping sta
! ton OF the Homestake Mining COM
pany on the Little Spearfish, to be
called Hanna The Homestake COM
pany has a $1,000 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 IL
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
streess 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 water system as there is in
the state in proportion to its extent.
Members of the yermillion fire de
partment have ordered brand new uni.
forms, which are expected to arrive In
few days. The old department had
good uniforms, but when 1t disbanded
J on account of a mixup with the city
council the retiring members kept the
J suits. The boys expect to properly In
itiate the new uniforms by wearing
them TO Sioux City during the Iowa
!, state firemens tournament
A violent storm struck Yankton re-
Gently. The rainfall was $50 inches
almost breaking all previous records.
II was at first feared irretrievable
damage had been done TO crops, but
although oats are fiat in places, and
corn and wheat are also down, IL Is
thought no great injury will result as 9
general thing. The heavy rainfall
coupled with very heavy wind, made
a combination that leveled crops in q
way that seldom happens in this coun
ty.
Supt Tucker Of the Milwaukee Is
preparing 10 begin the handling OF
range cattle from west Of the Missouri
by way of Eyarts, 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 was 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
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