The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-04-20
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Short Notes.


The new Catholic Church at Lesterville
has been completed and services are now
being held in it for the first time.
Burglars got in their work at the
wholesale liquor store Of William Tate
ut Sioux Falls. They got little for their
pains.
The members OF the Madison lawn ten
mis- club anticipate an enjoyable season,
aud are Placing their grounds in first
class condition.
The Great Northern Railroad Company
Of g. Il. Ferguson, former agent Of the
company at Henry.
The Memo town board OF trustees at
their last meeting ordered ten-foot ce-
ment sidewalks put in throughout the
business portion Of the town.
ct a meeting OF number of the mem
bers of the German Methodist Episcopal
Church east of Howard, an Epworth
League Society was organized.
Hanna, which is the new town and
named in honor of the late Senator Han
M, is situated on Little Spearish Creek,
and is rapidly becoming one of the tbriv-
The Western elevator ut Wahpeton
was again entered by burglars few
nights ago, but the attempt at robbery
was unsuccessful as only IL cents was
obtained frcm the cash drawer.
Iae next meeting of the South Dakota
state board OF pharmacy for the tfaEsac-
ton Of regular business aud the examina-
ton of candidates for registration will
be held at Aberdeen on April 20.
Charles Raschke, an Iowa Township
farmer, has completed an artesian well
on his farm. 1t is 1ta-inch bore, 700 feet
deep and sends forth between 60 and 10
gallops of splendid water per minute
The term of imprisonment of Il. 0.
RsiTers VINO was serving five years
sentence in the penitentiary at Sioux
Falls was ended Thursday morning
about $50 by death from typhoid fever.
Leroy O. Moore, government land in
spector for South Dakota, who has been
making his headquarters at Huron for
the past year, has rented cottage in
Pierre and will move there for headquar-
tiers to remain permanently.
A number of Sioux Falls people are
excursion rates to Los Angeles this
spring. They will join others from the
state in forming a party, and will have a
special car all the way through.
The members of the German Congrega-
tional Church at Java have Incorporated
their society and awarded the contract
for the erection of parsonage. The
building will be erected on lots which
We're recently purchased by the society.
The owners OF several gasoline launch
es have placed them in the river for their
summer work at Pierre. They are tax
ing chances on another run of ice from
up river and most OF the launches are
being kept out for time yet.
The April term of the supreme court
met Tuesday at Pierre with a calendar
of "A cases set for argument, which is
larger than the average calendar Of
term. A good sized class was on hand
for examination for admission to the bar
The well drilling machine is now on
the ground and it is expected that the
work of drilling an artesian well at Leoia
will be commenced III a few days. The
well is designed to furnish the people OF
Leola with water for domestic and fire
protection purposes.
What is known as the old Methodist
church building, which has been famil-
lar landmark at Washington Springs for
many years, has been moved out of town.
It is now the property of a Norwegian
Lutheran congregation in a Norwegian
settlement some miles out in the country.
and will in future be used by the congre-
on tiou far oh r.t, r,t,rpncac
The contract has been awarded for the
construction of a handsome brick build
ing for the Merchants Bank at Faux
ton. The building, which will be 25x60
feet and two stories high, will, when
completed, be enc of the finest business
blocks in Faulkton. The work of con-
struction will commence us soon as the
material arrives and men can be Sc
cured.
Manager Zei.low, of the Dakota Cen
trail Telephone Company is at Pierre
from Aberdeen booking after the interests
of his lines in that part of the state. He
will this summer change the line from
Huron to Pierre to metallic circuit cop
per line, and make it uniform with the
lines which he operates in the central
part of the state, and will also look up
the matter Of further extensions.
The people at the newer towns in cen
trail Lyman County are beginning to feel
their Importance and want the county
seat, which is now on the river in the
east edge OF the county. They are circu-
lating petitions for a vote on the ques-
ton of relocation at more central point
at this fall election. Preshc is one Of the
points which would like a court house,
and several other places are looking up
the matter.
The ferryboats in the river at Pierre
have begun their summer operations, and
as soon as the owners Of the gasoline
launches are certain that the last run of
ice has come down, they will start their
bOafs IN 1oin0 Tn the meantime <ba