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cement sidewalks will soon. supplant
the wooden walks at Orient.
The Ethan board OF education has
awarded the contract for a large add
ton to the public school building.
Three months tuition free at the
Sioux Falls Is. d. BUSINESS College,
If you enter Sept. 1. Catalogue free.
B. F. Kale, farmer residing, near
Stanley. intends to keep warm next
winter. having opened up coal mine
in his back yard.
Charles Zehnpfennig has torn down
his old grain house at Parkston and a
modern elevator of $4,000 bushels ca
pacity will be erected in its place.
Mercer Sorant and Fred Couchaise
lost their lives in the Belle Fourche
river near Belle Fourche. They had
been in town and started for their
ranches intoxicated.
Work is now in progress on the new
opera house building at Volga. 1t Is
hoped to have 1t completed by the
middle Of next October, when the ded'
ication exercises will be held.
At the annual meeting OF the Clark
Chautauqua circle the following off,
GERS were elected: President, Mrs. A.
d. Warner; vice president, Mrs. c. G.
Sherwood: secretary, Mrs. Z. NJ. Jones
Pearce & Fetzner Salem hardy
firm, were awarded the contract J.
fit the school house with anew steam
heat plant. The improvement will be
thoroughly modern and cost about
$1,000.
There is a decided shortage Of school
teachers in Kingsbury county. There
are 1873 schools TO be supplied, while
there are only about 100 teachers. II
is probable ten or twelve Of the, schools
will not be opened.
NJ. p. Fowler of Morris, MINI, who
was recently granted franchise for
an electric light plant in Slsseton, has
purchased an interest In the Sisseton
Milling company. which will now put
in the lighting system.
The teachers institute for Douglas
county will be held in the high school
building in Armour during the week
commencing Aug. II. Conductor
Prof. G. NJ. Smith; instructors, Miss
Elena Johnston, Miss Fannie Foster
and Prof W. B. Schiller; county su.
perinntendent, l. w. Addle.
A five-year-old girl, whose name
could not be ascertained, but whose
parents are members of the Mennonite
colony near Memo, was drowned
while bathing with some other chils
dren below a dam in the Jim river.
She was taken with cramps and her
companions we're unable to rescue her.
The new school building whiCs has
been in course of construction Rt BIT.
ton this summer is rapidly nearing
completion. The brickwork is now
finished and the roof Is in place. I'm
less something unforeseen occurs 1t
will be ready for occupancy at the
commencement OF the fall term of
school.
At the annual meeting Of the mem
bers of the Parker volunteer fire de-
partment the following officers were
elected for the coming year: Chief,
Edmond Wilson; foreman, Dick Stout;
assistants, Andy Merrigan, A. L. Gre.
bel; secretary. w. H. King; treasurer,
A. H. Hammarstrom; trustees, Willis
Sheldon, E. c. Robertson and NJ. Sage.
The contractor has begun opera.
tons on the construction of $4,000
worth of new buildings at the Cham
berlain Indian school, A complete
water system will be put in, so that
Missouri river water will be available
for all purposes. When the improve
ments are completed quarters will be
provided for about $50 Indian pupils.
A new trial has been ordered for
Jacob Mulch. who was convicted in the
circuit court at Central City several
months ago of criminal assault and
sentenced to the penitentiary, which
he is now serving Mulch will be
brought back to Deadwood for trial at
the coming term of court in Septem-
Der. His application for new trial
was heard at Pierre in June.
It has been decided to incorporate
the Charles Mix County Fair associa-
ton with capital stock of $1,000, and
with the hearty backing of the best
business men in the county. The pur-
pose of the fair association is to- hold
an up-to-date and well-conducted fair
in order to advertise the resources OF
the county and district and to give
the people an outing in the fall.
The Pierre city health authorities
have for the past week been busy get
ting rid of thousands OF sparrows
which were killed from some cause by
the recent storm. AS the lower parts
of the city were flooded, the dead birds
were washed into these places and
after the water disappeared they Gre
ated such stencil that it was neces-
sary. to remove them, and the street.
cleaning force has been kept busy at
that work for time.
The town council of Bridgewater has
awarded the contract to Beloit, Wis,
firm for constructing a new $4,000
waterworks system. II will be an air
pressure system.