Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-02-19
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The town of Avon has a telephone
system with twenty-eight subscribers.
A rural delivery route will be estab-
lished out Of Tabor on March 2, to
supply eighty farmers.
George Redding is In Jail at Belle
Fouche. charged with having sold a
horse borrowed from a friend.
John Wolzmuth's hardware store at
Spearfish sustained damages to the
amount of SIS 900 from a fire that start
ed near the furnace.
Mrs. G. A. Lancaster of Sturgis met
with an accident on her way home
from Whitewood which resulted In the
breaking of her left wrist.
Steps are being taken to have an
electric light system established at
White Lake. 1t is believed the council
can borrow the money for about 5 per
cent. .
A $4,000 public school building will
be built at Centerville this year. A
committee hNs been appointed to pur-
chase grounds uear the central part of
the town.
BY a vote of ITS to 293 the voters of
Watertown decided not to purchase
the city w~aterworks. The plant is
owned by private persons. The fight
was a bitter one
Several business men of Summit and
Sisseton contemplate the organization
of a syndicate with the object of con-
trolling large landed interests in tsis
county and Canada.
The officers OF the Thirteenth cav
airy at Fort Meade are sending their
families to their various homes in an.
ticipation of the departure of the regi-
ment for the Philippines.
A Chatauqua circle has been organ
ICED at Clark with twenty-three charter
members. Mrs. r. J. Mann is presi-
dent, Mrs. e. r. Jones vice president,
Miss Myrtle Boyle secretary,
Rev. ] B. Kettle has departed from
Rapid City, with his family, for Am
boy, ILL.,, where he has taken a charge.
The Congregational church at Rapid
City is temporarily without a pastor.
The smallpox epidemic at Summit
is almost over. Only two new cases
have developed since the last report.
The schools have been reopened and
the ban on public gatherings removed.
William Weingartner, one of the
early settlers of Wolsey, is dead. For
several years he was proprietor IF the
Cotton house, and later managed the
Newton house. He was a prominent
Elk.
The commissioners of Meade county
have appointed States Attorney James
McNenny, DR.. e. ]. Sexton and County
Judge Harry p. Atwater as a board of
insanity for the county for the coming
year.
]. r. Baldwin and wife pioneer resi-
dents of Huron, will go to Webster
City Iowa, to make their horne with
their son Eugene. They celebrated
their fftieth wedding anniversary
some weeks ago.
Sanders & Larson, hardware and
machinery men of Summit, have taken
In two new members purchased the ex-
tensive machinery business Of A. M.
Houck, and will incorporate with a
capital of $25, 900.
G. NJ. Tracy, foreman of the Bur-
lington carpenter crew on the Edge
mont division, was killed while taking
down a large stack at the Burlington
roundhouse. Galen Mexican, an as
s~istant, was injured.
William Muth was convicted and
fined for turning In a false alarm of
fire at Lead. For months some one
has been tampering with the boxes and
calling out the department when there
was no fire. A watch was set and
Muth was detected.
A court of the Catholic Order OF
Foresters has been organized at Aber-
deem. The officers are: Chief ranger,
w. H. Kearney; vice chief ranger, H.
A. w. Conrad; past chief ranger, p. H.
Tracy; recording secretary, e. 3. Kee-
nan; treasurer, John Ryan.
The young people of Carthage, be-
cause of the failure of the town board
to provide for some kind of street
lights, took the matter into their own
hands and gave a home-talent play in
the opera house for the purpose of
raising funds for the purchase of a few
street lights.
DR.. j.. p. Foster, state veterinarian.
has made a careful examination of the
herd of 200 or more cattle in quaran-
tine at Huron and is positive the dis
ease with which they are afflicted is
Texas itch, or mango, and that no an
thra xis apparent, as reported a few
days since.
An inspector has recently been over
the proposed new rural delivery route
from Spearfsh to F~alsebottom and
Centennial Prairie precincts, and 1t Is
expected the route viii be established
In a few months. 1t will begin at
Spearfsh and follow the Deadwood-