The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-07-20
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Short Notes.

There is strong talk or q lecture anu
musical course for the coming winter sea-
sou at Egan.
A womm's relief corps has been or
ganized in vermillion and starts Oft with
a charter membership of t~hirty-one.
A wrestling match between G. E. Hal
Jet and Harry Anderson, was pulled OF
Saturday night at Huron for a purse Of
$500. Hallett was the victor.
Members of the Evangelical Society at
Garden Prairie, near Grotop, are rails
ing the sum of 81, 200 which will be used
for the construction of a new church
building.
Steps have been taken for the location
at Alexandria of a Swedish Lutheran
church. 1t is proposed to purchase the
old Baptist church building and entirely
remodel it.
The Masonic Temple corner stone lay
ing ceremonies at miller Monday were
held as scheduled, in the presence of
1000 people. Grand Master /. w. Good
ner, of Pierre, OBLIGATED.
The Big Stone Lake Chautauqua is
now fairly under way. The weather has
been cool and pleasant, and a shower
every day has kept the dust down and the
trees and vegetables brilliantly green.
Martha Bowker, of Mitchell, has been
taken to the Yankton insane asylum. She
has for years been associated with John
Alexander Dowie at Zion City, H., and
her deep religious feeling caused her to
become demented.
1t is expected that the coming school
year will be a prosperous one for the new
Mennonite College at Freeman. Steps
have been taken to have a dormitory
erected before the mmencemen of the
next school year.
Residents of Artesian and vicinity are
taking the preliminary steps toward hav-
ing a three days celebration at Artesian
early in September. A very fine program
Of sports and other interesting features
will be prepared for the occasion.
Preparations have been completed for
the annual sports day at Iroquois, which
will be held on July %. The usual at
traction have been provided, including
two games Of ball between some Of the
best teams in the state for liberal purses.
Paul Tullnar, q resident of Marion,
paid dearly for o few fish which he could
have purchased at a store for probably
80 cents. The excessive cost Of the fish
was due to the fact that he secured them
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the state.
The Fourth of July celebration at Val
ley Springs was held on the thoroughly
wide open policy. Though the town went
no license at the spring election, liquor
was openly sold on Broadway and gam
bling devices used where intoxicants were
dispensed.
T. E. Jackson, who for years has been
connected with banking aud loan insti-
tutions at Corning, Ia, has purchased an
interest in the Turner County Bank at
Hurley. He will in future act as cashier
of the bank, having already assumed the
duties of the position.
Efforts are to be made to secure par.
dons for Bert Anderson and Clyde Hull,
who are serving terms of one year each
were sentenced from Buffalo County and
we~resentenced from Buffalo County and
were lodged in the p~enitentiary on Nov.
q last. The application for their par
don will be filed with Gov. Herreid and
be filed with Gov. Herreid and the state
board of pardons on July 10.
Improvements made at the creamery
at Revillo have doubled the capacity and
it is now in a position to care for the
rapidly increasing business transacted by
1t. Nearly one hundred farmers are now
regular patrons of the institution. Dur
ing May one and one-half tons Of butter
were manufactured and sold, while dur
ing June about three tons of butter were
turned out. This shows how the bust
ness Of the creamery is increasing.
"A large force of men is engaged in in
creasing the capacity Of the Van Dusen
elevator at Doland in anticipation of a
mammoth business next fall. The ca
pacity will be increased to $4,000 bush
els and the elevator will be made mod
ern in every respect. The elevator has
not been in operation during the past
few years, but owing to the excellent
crop prospects in this portion Of the
state, it will be reopened for business as
soon as the improvements are COM
pleted.
Petitions which are being circulated
among the people of Lake County ask
ing that the board of county commission
ers submit to the voters at the election
ext November the proposition of having
a test artesian well sunk, are being liber-
ally signed. There is now little doubt
that the commissioners will feel justified
in submitting the question to the voters.
The sinking of the well at the expense
Of the voters of the county will deter
mine to a certainty whether or not the
great artesian basin underlies the county.
A. j. Karer, a well known Lake Coun-
ty farmer, and his wife and infant child
were the victims of a peculiar accident.
The child narrowly escaped instant
death, and as it was, many never fully
recover from its injuries Karer and his
wife and child were driving to Madison
and had a cow in the rear Of the wagon.
At a point where the road sloped the an
imal lurched against one side of the wag-
onbox with such force as to overturn the
vehicle. The occupants were thrown vio-
lently to the ground, and in the fall the
child was bruised and cut about the