The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-07-27
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Short Notes.

crop prospects. They have had an bund-
ance Of rain throughout that section.
Flandreau has just installed q new set
of scales and the council has appointed
James =. Mallory, city weigher M
measurer.
The grounds at the library at Pierre
are being graded and seeded and the
whole place is putting on a different
appearance.
The Commercial Club Of Aberdeen was
organized with a membership Of ninety
four Col. Charles A. Harvard was elect
ed president.
Hartford will organize a gun club.
Several barrels of clay pigeons have
been purchased and the shots are prac-
ticing weekly.
The Gamble robinson Fruit Company,
of Aberdeen, has been incorporated un-
der the laws of South Dakota, the CAPT
tai being $4,000.
The Beadle County teachers institute
closed Saturday at Huron. The attend
ance averaged 124, the number being
greater than heretofore.
Al interest in the Rival roller mills at
Bridgewater has been sold to George Il.
Powell, of Akron, Ia, who. with his
family, will take up their permanent res
idence there.
John H. Holsey was exhibiting at Cam
ton a potato raised by Robert Hannah,
and which weighed one and one-half
pounds. The seed was planted on the
Oath of April.
In western Sully County are a number
of residents who left that section to find
better locations, and after wandering
from a few months to several years have
la,AlAI Ia-Iy 40 Ahns. nl1 lAnofsAnc ,Nar-
fectly satisfied.
There will shortly convene In Water
town the state convention of the Baptist
church, and delegates from all over
South Dakota will be present. This will
be one of the largest conventions in the
history of the church.
Extensive improvements have been
made to the elevator and other property
OF the Eagle Mills Elevator Company
at Estelline. The elevator has been
equipped with all modern conveniences
for the rapid handling of grain.
Arrangements are being made for the
sinking by the town authorities at st.
Lawrence Of two a~rtesian wells in the
near future. Water from the wells will
be used largely for watering shade trees
and for keeping lawns in good condition.
But one applicant appeared at the
civil service examinations held at Wa
tertown by the postmaster for rura! mail
carriers. Oscar II. Vaux was the lone
applicant and was therefore appointed
rural mail carrier for routes one and two.
The Canistota Telephone Company is
making arrangements to extend a line q
| distance Of six miles north of that town,
where it will connect with a line running
from Montrose. This will give the two
towns direct communication with each
other.
The members Of theboard Of education
Of Vienna have concluded negotiations
for the purchase of four lots adjoining
the public school grounds. Plans are
now being perfected for the construction
Of an addition to the present school
building.
The authorities throughout the east
ern and southern portion of South Da-
kota nave been notified to keep a close
watch for a man named Samuel Burning
ton, who is wanted in Charles Mix Coun-
ty for criminal assault, his alleged vic
tim being the wife Of a farmer.
during this time, and nothing to drink.
A crew Of telephone linemen is at work
on the new copper wire through line now
being constructed to connect Sioux Falls,
Pipestone, Madison and Huron. When
the copper line is completed through
Madison it will be possible to talk "a
long distance" with some degree of salts
faction.
The force at the Sioux Falls postofice
has just completed the task Of figuring
up the business for the month Of June,
1904, and comparing it with previous
Junes. 1t is found that for the month
just closed the business Of the Sioux
Falls office surpasses that of all previous
Junes by something over $3.50.
Extensive public improvements in the
way of cement sidewalks are being made
at Faulkton. A year ago there was not
a single foot of such walks in the city,
but now many blocks of plank walks
have been replaced by cement. Faux
ton is rapidly becoming one of the most
substantial cities in northern South Da-
kota.
The management of the stat reform
school has given up the case Of Louis
Bowker, sent to that institution from
Stanley County, and after an investiga-
ton of the case by the board Of chart
ties and corrections he has been returned
to the custody Of the authorities OF that
county. He will probably get a term in
the penitentiary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henning, who reside on
a farm o few miles south of Revillo, lost
their 2-months-old child as the result of
an unusual accident. The mother left
the house to attend to some work at the
barn, leaving the child lying on q bed.
When the mother returned she found the
baby lying Oh its face dead, having
smothered to death.
Rural Route Inspector Haas, Of Sioux
Falls, has completed the work Of in
specting the proposed new rural free mail
delivery route which is intended to run
from Dell Rapids to the rural communi-
ty southwest of that town. The inspec-
TO appeared well satisfied with the pro-