Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-01-21

Clark county, died at his home In Cor
don City.
The Webster creamery has Just
closed a successful year, the net
amount distributed being about $25..
600.
The apartments Of Sam Kaucher at
Yankton were broken into and valu-
ables to the extent Of about $500 TAX
en-.
The drug business of DIR. H. A. Pea
body at Webster has been sold to J.
Allan Cowan. DIR. Peabody will con-
tinue the practice of medicine.
Robert Gillies has just secured .
flow of water in his artesian well In
Logan township. near Clark. of fifty
two gallons q minute. The well Is 967
feet deep.
Several recent attempts OF frebugs
to burn some Of the best buildings at
Garretson have aroused the citizens to
action and a fund Of $1,000 has been
raised for apprehension and prosecu-
ton.
James earns, a merchant and m
Of the earliest settlers OF Faulkton, 10
dead. He came here from Iowa In
1883 and resided here continuously
ever since. He was a charter men,
Der Of Faulkton lodge. A. F. and A. M.
William Dittrick. a farmer OF Bone
steel. was driving a nail into a hard
wood post. The nail ~rebounded from
n I'll nt~A1yN nj fhn N N ~ M NV
striking him In the light eye, and the
attending physician says the sight IL
no doubt destroyed.
A sensation has been created at
C%astlewood by the arrest of T. l.
Stevenson, who two months ago pur.
chased a stock Of goods from w. M.
Harris and has since conducted the
business. Stevenson Is charged with
disposing of m~ortgaged property.
The directors of the Salem Milling.
Lighting and Heating company or
ganized as follows: l.. V. Schneider,
president; e. F. Westfall, vice presi-
dent; III. c. Torrey, secretary and
mnager, and L. S. Tyler, treasurer.
The company is earning a fair profit
for the stockholders.
The state treasurer has received Q
draft fro mthe general government for
$3.50 to apply to tho agricultural col
lege fund. The governors office has
also received a draft for s9,283 from
the interior department as the due OF
the state on 5 per cent OF government
land sold in South Dakota
Capt. Meyer and Adjt. Throckmorton
of the Salvation Army held a meeting
in the M. Il. church at Washington
Springs for the purpose Of raising
funds for the home to be erected in
Sioux Falls. At the close of the meet.
ing s102 was subscribed. The winter
term Of the seminary opened with a
large attendance.
A term Of state circuit court for
Hamlin county which has been ad.
journed several times. but which Il
was believed would convene this
month, has again been adjourned. this
time until March 8 next. There are q
great many cases to be tried, and
there was some disappointment be-
cause of the adjournments.
A new f~ifty-horse power Ideal en-.
CINE and Fort Wayne dynamo was
started up at the normal school at
Madison recently. supplying the 200
lights of the school. The system IL
direct, and the initial trial was q
success. Additional lights will be
placed around the grounds and the
normal will soon blaze like a jewel.
The following officers were elected
bv Gen. Wertzel post, G.. A. r., Of
Clark: G. w. Hopgood, coT,mander:
James Thoreson, senior vice; John
Hubbard, junior vice; Frank Walker.
adjutant; r. b. Mills. ouartermaster;
Il. F. Damn, surgeon; w. Mead, chap
lain; w. X. Moore, officer Of the day;
s. N. LeCount, officer of the guard: o.
M. Baker, quartermaster sergeant;
James Grand, sergeant major.
The midwinter graduating exercises
Of the Madison state normal school
took place in the opera house at Madi.
son. The graduating class was COM
posed Of nine young women, Gather
Inc Allen, Nettie Bates, Rose Coch.
rane, Anna Larson, Emily lie Count,
Sadia Millet, Bessie Phillips, Dema
Ray and Bessie Wilkinson. They will
start teaching ct once.
The preliminary skirmish on the
fight for the removal OF the county
seat of Walworth county to a railroad
point mas taken place and Sieby has
secured the requisite number of sign
ers to her petition, which entities her
to become a candidate against Bangor,
the inland county seat. Presidential,
state, county, capital removal and
county seat removal elections promise
to make the 1904 campaign an inter-
esting one In this section.
The opening OF the winter term Of
Dakota university was one OF the
most successful in the history of the
institution. The enrolment is the
largest at the beginning Of a winter
term, and the rooms are so crowded
that President Nicholson will have to
draw on the Twentieth Century Me.
..o~fol lAtI Co. c1Itff,, 5000. ~ =