Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-04-07
Minor Mention

Press.
so Webb went to Gettysburg
Tuesday to meet Col. Knight, the
allotting agent.
Geo Lee and Bill Campbell left
for.I i'm Pearman's ranch Monday
| to work for him this summer.
T Miss Leone Ellis of Gettysburg
was the guest of Miss NIargie
Gates last Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs NJ A Comeau went up to
Egarts few days ago to visit her
daughter, Mrs w Benoist. The
latter had just lost her youngest
ehld.
j Arthur Lake made his head
quarters at the Gates house while
here Wednesday and Thursday.
He was oyer to the A gency to
balance accounts with the Indian
Agent.
MIR Smear the Russian who has
been living two miles west of
Bulky, is moving to another farm
solhc distance north of Gettys-
burg.
DR. Driesbach, Chief Clerk Muir
ply. Boss Farmer Comstock and
Capt John Olson, from the Agen-
cy, took dinner at the Gates House
today, the storm keeping them on
this side of the river.
Alex Kelso started for Canada,
Tuesday. His intimate friends
say he left just 1O1 bottles in his
room to remember him by. He
will settle where the Petro's are if
he finds things satisfactory there.
VIM VanNess, Scotty Urquhart
and Ambrose Dunn were up from
the island yesterday. Mr. VanNess
came out from Indiana last fall
and is expecting to file on u home
stead in the vicinity of Forest City
TW Elliott, with Finch, Young
& McCouville. dry goods mer-
chants of St Paul, with seven or
eight trunks, and other travelling
i. men were in town this week. 1t
was Mr. Elliott's first trip to For
est City.
The Press has omitted to men
tion that Jno Olson, the Agency
gasoline launch man, is on hand
to operate his boat here again.
He has given it new coat of
paint and overhauled ard cleaned
up it's machinery.
The school at the upper town
closed last Friday. The teacher,
Miss Myrtle Davis, who is the
daughter of Co. Commissioner, d
I Davis, is reported to have taught
successful school, satisfactory to
both pupils and parents.
We understand that the Bulky
neighborhood is to have another
family this week, with several
children, coming from Missouri.
who ale to settle on A l. Ellis land.
adjoining j B Harman's. The
place has a fine two story resi-
dence and windmill with unlimited
water supply.
Forest City camp of Woodmen
are doing some rustling just now.
They have the applications of Roy
Gates, a w Cooper and Jno Otto
to act ON. with the transfers OF
Chief Clerk r N Murphy and Issue
Clerk } e Jones, of the Agency,
. in prospect. jake Kluth will also
join as soon as he RECEIVERS his
health.
Ed Swan and Fred LaPlant were
in town Wednesday. Ed reported
that the subagency store at Cher
ry Greek had orders for $4,000
, pounds of barb wire from Indians
who had taken their allotments in
Pasture No 4. They are going to
fence in their allotments with it.
: and it is said Mr. Webster, the
lessee of the pasture, don't like il
a little bit.
A W Cooper and family cele-
: brated Easter Sunday by having a
wild goose for dinner. with other
good things which only success
ful farmers wife knows how to
provide. This verdict was render
ed by Messrs Geo Aldritt and A
, c Mclaughlin, with the Editor of
The Press as foreman of the jury.
The goose came from Georges
''lakebed' lake and Ye Editor
happened in to see the host about
Joining the Forest City camp of
! Woodmen just at the right time.
We should add that fortune favor
ed the brave again. and he got the
goose and Woodman too,