Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-08-24
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

Aberdeen last week
The old settlers of Miner county have
organized an association.
A fine new Congregational church
was dedicated at Willow Lakes Sunday.
The old settlers of Mcpherson county
will hold their picnic at Herreid on
August 80
Thomas Forrest, of Lead, was Killed
while working in mine Monday, by
falling rock.
The new city well at Milbank was
not satisfactory and work was COM
menced on a second.
The contract has been let for new
$25, 900 hospital by the Presentation
Sisters at Aberdeen.
The explosion of gasoline stove
started a fire which burned the home of
Ed. Marquette at Revillo.
The plans for the new ST ,000Carnegle
library at Milbank have been accepted
anu WOIh Will etdl U dt OuCCs
William Smykeler. farmland, was
killed by lightning Friday on the farm
of Charles jacobson west of Flandreu.
A Sunday ball game at Aberdeen
between the employees of the Sherman
House and the Ward Hotel was stopped
by the police.
DR.. M. Rogers, and old time physician
in Deadwood, was found unconscious
in an alley Monday and taken to the
hospital where he died
A Lead woman has given birth to
twins weighing eighteen pounds.
Every South Dakota product is of the
bumper variety this year.
At ball game between the Bridge
water and Lennox mines at Bridgewater
man named Dodge, of Parker, being
angry at Capt. Anderson, struck him
down with base ball bat. A doctor
was necessary.
| A very severe hail storm visited
southern Campbell, northern Walworth
and Mcpherson counties last Thursday
and it is said to wrought fearful havoc
in the crops that had given such
splendid promise.
Charles Conden, of Shoal Lake, Man,
beat John Rogers,the Indian foot racer,
in l0O-yard race at Sisseton Sunday,
for purse of $500 The time was 1917
seconds. This is the first time the
| Indian has been beaten in a foot race.
Roland Pair, cowboy in the employ
of the Matador Cattle company, which
is one of the largest stock raising outfits
west of the Missouri river, met instant
death about 10 o'clock last Saturday
morning, while trying to board NOV
ing train at Evarts.
The prediction of the weather man
for light frost in South Dakota met
with a rather chilly reception from the
corn crop. South Dakota did not pro-
duce any frost on the date predicted
and resents the imputation that she
would do such thing.
The population of Iowa has fallen off
few thousand in the last five years.
This is not to be wondered at. When
it is only a step across the line into the
agricultural wonderland of South
Dakota. Iowans cannot be expected to
remain in their old homes.
Eastern homeseekers are coming to
South Dakota in 500 lots this year.
Huron reports that number as arriving
III one day to view the Jim river coun-
try, and that all of them were well
pleased, and most of them will become
owners of South Dakota property.
| A Wisconsin clergyman who pur-
chased 400 acres of land in Potter
county last year will pay for it this
year with one crop of fax. This
preacher has not forgotten at least one
half of the scriptural Injunction to be
"wise as serpents but harmless as
doves"
"A. ". Johnson, Oh the NortHWestern
road, has ranch near Frankfort on
which he has recently put two fawns
and has ordered two more. To these
will be added buffalo which the
Frankfort News essenger says was
given to Mr.. Johnson by Scotty Philip,
of Fort Pierre.
Kermit Roosevelt, the second son of
the president, left Washington last Fri
day for Deadwood on visit to Capt. |
Seth Bullock, who is long time friend
of the president. Capt. Bullock will
entertain. Master Roosevelt for about
three weeks with the best hunting and
fishing to be had in the Black Hills.
A dispatch from Manila says that
Mrs. Dubois, wife of the senator from |
Idaho, was thrown from carriage in
Manila and badly bruised but the
injuries are not considered serio US.
Mrs. Dubois, it viii be remembered,
xv.s a ne Cynot Girl a MissEdna Whitnd