Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-26

is contemplated by this suit, the result
of the election will be reversed. Notices
of the contest have been served upon
the mayor and members of the city
council of Beresford. The a S will be
heard by Judge j. W. Jones, of Sioux
Falls, unless there are questions of fact
to be determined, when it will be taken
to the higher court.
Tony Geisler, of Hudson, died in
Yankton IN May 10th. at the Sacred
Heart hospital from wounds hat he
is supposed to have received by falling
from an excursion train when return
ing home the Sunday night previous.
Geisler was found unconscious between
Yankton and Gayville close to the
track. A fracture of the skull over the
right ear, in which a large piece of
bone was driven over an inch into the
skull was the cause of death.
1t is announced that on June Mr..
and Mrs. w. B. Sherrard will retire
from the active management Of the
Children's Home at Sioux Falls. The
home has cared for over 900 children in
the twelve years it has been in exist
ence and has grown from the time the
S~herrards turned their farm home, near
Clark, into a founding asylum, until
at he present time the society occupies
a fine building at Sioux Falls and car
ries on an organized work in all parts of
the state.
John Dereleau, of jefferson, Iowa,
one of the members of the bridge gang
at work for the Milwaukee road at
Sioux Falls met with quite a serious
accident Thursday Of last week. He
was at work with the pile driving gang
and fell a distance of twenty feet light
ing on rocks and injuring both legs
severely besides receiving a number of
cuts and bruises on the head. He will
be laid up for some time but considers
himself lucky that he got off without
being killed.
Jenner s. Gould, a young man of
twenty-five years, was killed by being
run over by a Chicago and Northwest
ern train near Rousseau last Tuesday.
The engineer saw IN object on the
track and sounded the whistle. Gould
raised his head and looked at the
approaching train but made no attempt
to get off the track. The air brakes
were applied but the train was on a
heavy down grade and before it could
be stopped the entire train had passed
over the young man grinding his body
into a pulp.
A team, a top buggy and three sets of
harness were stolen from the barn of
Walter Stacey, seven miles south of
Bradley last Thursday night. Marshal
Martin Holmes took the trail while it
was fresh and bagged the thief with all
the chattels in his possession about four
miles north of Bradley and took him to
the Clark county Jail for safe keeping.
He is a young man who came to
Bradley on the train dressed in a light
check suit, which he had changed for
another. The supposition is that he is
a recently released convict by the name
of Johnson.
The state grand lodge of Independent
Order of Odd Fellows elected the fol-
lowing officers at their session at Yank-
ton last week: Grand master, V. @.
Wass, of Centerville; deputy grand
master, j. M. Burgess, of Spearfish;
grand warden, j. II. Mclaughlin, of
Fort Randall; grand secretary, Harvey
j. Rice, of Huron; grand treasurer, G..
w. Stow, of Springfield. Sioux Falls
and Redfeld were the candidates for
the next grand lodge. Redfield won on
roll call by a substantial majority. The
Rebekah assembly elected the follow
ing officers: President, Maude Patter-
son, of Gettysburg; vice president,
Emely Grippen, of Hot Strings; war
den, Blanche Spaulding, of Huron; sec
rotary, May Billinghurst, of Pierre;
treasurer, Jennie Nash, Of Canton.