The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-04-03
The concrete footings Of the Fed.

week. Upon this concrete about a
foot in depth. the brick foundation
will be laid. The wall will be four
feet in thickness. A steam concrete.
mixer is in operation in the base
ment which attracts considerable at
tention, as it is a novelty to most
people here.
Mr.. and Mrs. q. A. Stocking and
daughter, Jettie, left on the Monday
morning passenger for Minneapolis
where they will visit a few days be-
fore they will leave for their new
home at Petcskey, Mich. They have
been residents in Claremont for many
years and leayea large circle If friends
who will regret to see them leave,
but what is our loss will be Petoskey's.
gain.-Claremont Tribune.
3. F.Jones leaves for New Salem N.
ID. Friday evening, shipping from CO.
lumbia. He takes a car, carrying
with him household goods ard dr!v-
ing rig. MI. Jones goes up there to
sell Wards remedies in Morton and
Stark counties. Frank leaves many
good friends behind who wish him all
kinds of good fortune. He has lived
stwenty-two years ear Plana, and as
a boy, eleven yeas old, was on the
spotwhere Aberdeen stands before a
building was up.
G. VonWald, of Hanson township
passed through Aberdeen Tuesday on
his way home from Pierre where he
had been visiting for a week. He
was eyewitness to a most shocking
tragedy in the yards at Huron.
Aman who was serving as a juror in
a case pending in the district court,
was seen to throw himself under the
wheels of the mail cal of the east
bound train just pulling out of the
yards. He was killed instantly and
the trucks of the car thrown from
the track.
Rev. Steel a promin ent evangelist
from New York, opened a series OF
meetings at the Presbyterian church
on Tuesday evening. This is a con
tinuation Of the season of extra
ordinary religious activity pervading
the churches of the city. The meet.
ings at the Baptist church closed last
Friday having been very largely at.
, tended. The meetings now in prog
ress draw crowds of people who evince
the same earnestness that has char
) acterized the attendance at the Other
churches.
Frederick Free Press: Franz
Strachan went to Aberdeen Monday
Evening to take his choice between
the jobs of firing on,the south run O
= the Jim River division or in TIN
Aberdeen brick yards. Frank was
contestant some time ago in. trial il
= which he burned only about one-hal
the amount of coal used by his oppo
nent to keep the Aberdeen mill il
q operation, which record attracte'
7 much attention at the time amon|
railway and stationary engineers ant
! secures to him a good offer from tn
: Milwaukee company. His brothe
Thomas is now fireman on the ives
,,run from Aberdeen.
I'll Leo Anderson and family have re
turned from the Pacific coast ano
4 their house being rented to deputy
:, auditor Lum, have secured room
! on Eighth Avenue. While in Wasf
ington they met a number OF old-tlm
:. Columbiaites now residing in tn
coast country. They had Christina
dinner with Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Dea
who are living at North Yacima on
k ten acre farm, and in comfortaol
" circumstances. A. w. Foy, once
blacksmith at Columbia, has an il
e. terest in a grocery store in Seattl
III where CudS. I1OICOAAO3 1Ao
ID is also in business as an optlclal
t. Frank Elliott, an old Columbia boy,
also engaged as an optician at u
same place. R. w. Jones, ont
county superintendent Of schoo
ne here and resident Of Columbia, is clel
n Of the city schools of Seattle, a lucr
le tive position.
st
The first county camp of the WOO
= men of Brown County assembled
Aberdeen Wednesday April LIST. ~
oniect Of the convention was to sele'
as three delegates from this county
en- the state camp which assemblies
"a Sioux Falls May 9th. Twelve cam
". we're represented. Aberdeen, u
a largest camp, had seven delegate
DIS and Groton, four: the other can
er had each one to two. The who
number Of delegates was tWenty-nln
cax,on candidates were pr