The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-06-17
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George r. Cursor has been appoint
ed game warden of Custer county.
A crew of tramps struck Salem re-
Gently. They got to celebrating and
some of them were gathered in until
the next day.
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Fire at Yankton destroyed the Tralle
restaurant near the Milwaukee station.
The alarm was turned in too late to
SAY the building. Loss, 81 1000.
A cutting ARRAY at Harrison between
Postmaster C. A. Wilcox and A. B.
Beeson may result seriously for Bee
son. DR.. Robertson was called and
dressed the wounds.
A big celebration will be held at
Volga on the Fourth of July. Business
men have subscribed 81 900 and a
half-mile race track has been made;
also a baseball diamond.
Il. w. Edkll, WHO was I0e uTSJ ~
ceiver of the United States and Office
after it was established at Pierre, Is
in a serious condition at his home in
Pierre from a stroke of paralysis. His
recovery is considered doubtful.
On July l the Madison board Of edu-
cation will take up $4,000 of the $15,-
l0n how'd, NOW, o,,tr+,rI;,p cr tho ron.
trail high school building. The bonds
stated will be taken up with surplus
cash which is now in the treasury.
Graduating exercises were held in
the opera house at Volga and the fol-
lowing received diplomas: hannah
Erickson, Hattie Williams, Elmer
Erickson, Ida Styverud. Leonard
Stromme, Clara Christie and Sadie
Hanson.
Secretary Hitchcock has asked the
postmaster general to appoint addi-
tional clerks in the postofices at
Chamberlain, Bonesteel, Fairfax and
Yankton. S. D.. to handle the mail OF
prospective settlers on the Rosebud
reservation.
J.. A. Byerly was drowned in the
Vermillion river at Vermillion by the
capsizing of his boat in twenty feet OF
water. He was about 60 and leaves a
wife and five children at PocahOntas.
Iowa. The body was recovered fifteen
minutes after the accident.
The board of education Of Sturgis
has elected Prof. j. C. Roberts to the
of assistant principal of the
Sturgis schools. Miss Helen Osmoth-
erly resigned as one of the teachers
for the next term, and Miss Emma
of Edgemont was engaged
to fill the vacancy.
The following instructors have been
engaged in the public schools OF
for the ensuing year:
Prof. s. M. Smith, principal: Miss
Pearl Jamison. grammar department.;
Miss Fannie Andrews, intermediate de-
partment; Miss Jennie ~Shelleday, sec
ond primary; Miss Josie Matson. first
primary.
June q has been determined upon
as the date for the celebration OF the
ouarter-century celebration Of the
founding OF Lennox. Elaborate prepa-
are being made for the proper
of the anniversary. The
day will be devoted to sports OF vari-
ous kinds and exercises suitable for
occasion of the kind.
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A fire department has been organized
Montrose with the following ON
GERS: ]. w. Walsh, fire chief; James
assistant chief; Fred oeeger,
captain; P. C. Byrne, treasurer; p. J.
Kjelmyr, secretary. Montrose has
been without a fire company until the
present time, but has been fortunate
in never having had any serious fires.
Guy Shoudy, q farmer OF Spring
Creek, was drowned neal Sturgis. He
attempted to cross Bare Butte creek
on horseback. When nearly across he
pulled his horse up stream, and the
water being so swift turned the ami
NAL over on him. The horse was saved,
badly cut by wire. ShOudy
never came up and has not been found.
d. B. Aultz, an engineer on the Bur-
train running between New
castle and Edgemont, was scalded to
death and fireman Robert Freeman
dangerously injured by the breaking
of a tube in the boiler of the engine
which they were running. The train
e are well known all along the Bur-
lington line, especially so at Edgemont
and Alliance.
Fire was recently discovered in
Trails restaurant which is located
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul depot on the north side Of Yank-
ton. An alarm was sent in and the
fire department made the long III to
the scene. BY the time it arrived, how
ever, the entire building was in flames
and there was no possibility of saving
It. The loss is 1000.