Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-03-03
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| South Dakota
c.,.-., State News
- Photographed.

NAs oASfCl Va oth01d oOlu WV LIVES
that weighed $40 pounds at ten months
old for SAL.
The Clark board of education has
voted to purchase the four lots west
OF the school house.
A petition to the town board calling
for an election to determine whether
or not Clark shall be incorporated As a
city is being circulated.
At a meeting of the farmers at
Clark it was decided to organize a
farmers elevator company. A board
of seven directors was elected. The
shares were fixed at 20. i
David Walton of Miller, eighty-one
years old, with his right hand cut off
above the wrist, will farm again this
year without help. He is a powerful
man. more than six feet tall.
Roy Dickerson, aged twenty-four, of
Riceland, was found dead by the Sioux
river below his fathers home. having
killed himself by shooting. He had
been afflicted with ST. Vitus' dance for
several years.
The Lawrence county court house
was severely criticised by the grand
jury in its final report The accom-
modations and general arrangements
are condemned and new quarters are
recommended.
While intoxicated, William O'Con-
nell of Central City, an employee OF the
Columbus Mining company, tried tc
kill himself by shooting with a re-
volver. The bullet passed through his
body, but did not infict fatal injuries.
The grain dealers Of Southern Min
vention in Watertown. there being
about sixty members present. Two in
teresting sessions were held, n in
the afternoon and M in the evening.
The Centerville Cemetery associa-
tion has purchased twenty acres OF
land. 1t is the intention of the asso-
citation for the Catholics to use half
and the Protestants half. This is the
| opening of the first cemetery for Cen
terville.
SOAlPdny II u ihoPCNtCh ~ ~
by Col. Stewart Of Pierre. Adjt. Beck
with and Quartermaster Dewell Of
Pierre and Maj. Coursey of Mitchell
were present. These officers appeared
TO be pleased with the work Company
f is doing.
The insurance department has re-
fused to permit the Des Moines Mu-
tual Insurance company of Des Moines
to do business in South Dakota. 1t
has employed counsel to contest the
right of the commissioner to shut it
out.
The commissioners OF Meade county
have instructed the auditor to publish
a notice of warning to all persons IL
censed by the county to sell intoxi-
eating liquors that unless minors are
excluded from their places of business
the laws in reference to such viola
tons will be strictly enforced.
Parties up from the Belle Fourche
river state that a large number Of cat
tie have drifted in there from the
northern ranges, quite a number of
which are dying from want of feed.
1t seems the ranges are covered with
snow SO that the cattle cannot get at
the feed.
There will be a meeting of the
school district officers of Meade county
in Sturgis Wednesday, March 2. State
Supt. Nash will be present. The OBJ
ject of the meeting will be to discuss
all the various details of the school
laws, and get thoroughly posted on
the many little questions that come up
to vex the school officer.
One of the finest Catholic churches
In South Dakota, costing $40, 600, will
be erected at Wakonda this spring.
The contract is for a building 112 feet
In length. AZ feet wide with side walls
% feet high, with a tower 104 feet in
height. The building will be of Goth
| C style Of architecture. built OF Quin-
cy brick with Sioux Falls granite trim
mings.
About six months ago William
Lewis Of Sully county was sentenced
to a year in the penitentiary on the
charge Of perjury. A petition asking
the governor to pardon him is being
circulated in that county. and some OF
the people in that county are Directing
to any clemency, taking the position
that the sentence was light enough and
should be served.
A fire in the Chamberlain postofice
resulted in the destruction OF five pa
per pouches filled with mail for the
stage lines south of town. The cause
of the fire is unknown, as the pile of
mail was lying fully ten feet from the
stove. The prompt action Of the fire
department subdued the flames with
but triiing loss to the building.
John z. Owens. who has been North
western agent at Rapid City for the
last year. has disappeared and 1t has
been disclosed by the travelling audi
tor In checking up his accounts that he
owes the company some $1,000. Mr..
Owens left Rapid City about two
weeks ago on leave of absence for the
avowed purpose of a short vacation.
1t Is not known where he is.
The case Of Elmer Barnhart VS. p.
| w. Anderson has been decided at Sa-
lem in favor OF Barnhart A year ago
| Earnhart aold bts uvorv st.by~ a.