The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-12

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five patents to final purchasers Of
state lands. Two Of these went to
Union county and n each to Moody.
Miner and Lake.
Fred Hermanson, the nineteen-year.
old son of Ole Hermanson, who was
so severely injured in a runaway &C.
cident, died at his parents home two
miles west of Yankton.
A new grain elevator is being erect.
ed at Esmond by B. Garland and Rob-
ert Wilson of Iroquois, who will en-
gage in the grain buying business.
Manchester.
Louis Skalinder is dead at Pied.
mont. He anne to the Hills in 1876
and was a member Of the Society of
Black Hills Pioneers. He was inter-
ested in a good many mining proper
ties in the Black Hills.
Citizens Of Gettysburg at a mass
meeting decided to aid Lake & Lam.
bert, who recently purchased a -four
ing mill at Forest City, to the extent
of $4,000 in cash if the mill is remov-
ed to Gettysburg and it's capacity in
creased.
]. w. Macmackin of st. Joseph, Mo-,
who has been buying horses on the
market at Pierre for several years,
was arrested at Wolsey and taken to
Pierre charged with having obtained
81, 900 from the First National bank Of
Pierre by false %pretenses.
A number of the Webster sports
men have taken the preliminary steps
toward the organization of a gun club.
One of the principal objects of the or
ganization will be to assist the coun-
ty game warden and his deputies to
enforce the fish and game laws.
The business Of the creamery at
washington Springs shows a crafty
ing increase. There are now eighty
one patrons Of the institution and
about two tons of butter are shipped
each week to Eastern markets. Near
ly $4,000 was paid to farmers for milk
during the month of June.
AS the result of a special election
held at Spencer, the outstanding
school bonds of the town, which draw
Z per cent interest. will be replaced by
new ten-year binds of the same denom-
nomination which will draw but 5 per
cent interest, thus making a good an
nual saving in interest.
The officers of the Cooperative
Elevator company, which was recent
ly organized at Lake Preston by a
number of the farmers living in the
vicinity, have purchased the grain ele-
vator of the S. Y. Hyde line at Lake
Preston, and will be ready to engage
in the grain business when this sea-
sons crop is marketed.
Butler is enjoying a building boom
this summer. Thus far three or four
new business houses have been erect
ed and a number of new dwellings and
other buildings have been put up,
among them being a fine new church
building, which is rapidly nearing
completion. The aggregate improve
ments this year will exceed those
made here during any former year.
A nine-year-old son Of A. House
man, a prominent Kingsbury county
farmer, is the champion hunter Of the
state for his age. He won the dis
tinction the other day by killing a
twenty-pound badger with a shotgun.
The lad naturally was greatly elated
at this evidence of his prowess, and
the next heard of him he may be in
the wilds Of Wyoming or Montana,
en~deavoring to annihilate the bear
family.
Prof. H. l.. Jones, who early in the
summer was elected principal of the
public schools at P%lankinton, has
greatly surprised the members of the
board of education by rendering his
AS the fall term OF
school starts in September the men,
bers of the board fear they will have
difficulty in securing a good man to
fill the place made vacant by the res
ignation.
President Roosevelt will press the
button that will start in motion The
machinery of the new experimental
plant that will treat the ore at the
worlds fair, which has been built by
the Black Hills mining men. A wire
will be strung to the White House.
and as soon as the first car load OF
ore, which is now en- route from the
Golden Reward mine to st. Louis, ar.
rives, it will be II through.