The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-11-10

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Huron belonging to the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway company, en-
failing a loss of about $1,000.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the State Bank Of Carpenter,
Clark county, with a capital Of $4,000.
The in%corporators are ]. G.. Opsahl, w.
A. Hicks and others.
Yankton Lodge No. /, I. o. O. F., has
purchased the old court house from
: Yankton county for $4,000. The build
ing will be remodeled over into quar-
tiers for the local lodge.
E. H. Squirting of Leslie last spring
planted an acre of potatoes on Stanley
county sod. He has just harvested the
crop, securing $50 bushels of fine tu-
bers from the single acre.
Nose Lancer of Rapid City, a we'll
known pioneer, dropped dead at the
door Of the Central drug store, where
he was going to fins q friend. He was
uIIoShSu WAN fASAhoi
Miss Eta Hilmer of Canning met
her death from an accident while as
sisting her brother in haying opera
tons. While helping with the team a
singletree clip flew off, striking her
on the head, inflicting a wound which
resulted fatally.
Still another golden wedding Is to
be recorded at Yankton, the scene of
almost a dozen in the past rear or two.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Y. Pearson celebrated
the fftieth anniversary OF their we'd
ding day, having been married in 1855
at Atwater, Ohio. They now make
their home with their daughter, Mrs.
F. J. Cross of College Hill.
G.. p. Bissett, route agent for the
Great Northern, while in Aberdeen
stated that the tracks into the city
will be laid Immediately and that work
will also be commenced at once on the
company's downtown station. Aber-
deem business men who have been
Silo"h lLS RiuliS io1 Ih1 oCotioA
say it will be a handsome structure.
The snow in the late storm extend
ed we'll owe the western part of the
state, but was light west from Hayes.
From that point almost to the river
about a foot of snow was left on the
ground, but it has all melted, leaving
tbn yooIc o1,onct ir, oScah ln anH ylonU
~landseekers are waiting for better
travel before starting for their claims.
AS a result of the building of the
Catholic church at Bonesteel several
German Catholics from Carroll county,
Iowa. have bought farms near Bone
steel within the past week, and several
more are expected here within a few
days. The church is nearly completed
and is an imposing STRUCTURE. A Sis
ters' school will be opened next spring.
The new county court house at
Yankton was formally opened to the
public by suitable exercises last week.
The principal address was made by
Bartlett Trip, who was followed by
several prominent local citizens in
short speeches. This fireproof build
ing cost $4,000 and stands to-day one
of the best equipped in the state and
country.
oSuly county claims to have a record.
With a territory larger than the State
of Rhode Island, it has no saloon, Jail
or pauper. Further, the county has no
debt, and the cash in the treasury is
sufficient to meet all calls upon it
which emergency might bring forth.
The tax rate is at the bottom limit, and
the county never had but two licensed
saloons. They lived but a short time,
at the boom town of Fairbank, on the
river in the northwestern part of the
county.
Now that the Northwestern road is
at work on it's extension west from
Pierre, the city is beginning to move
toward Improvement matters that have
been allowed to rest as long as there
was no railroad movement here. Peti-
tons are being circulated for an ex-
tension of the fire limits to cover most
of the territory in the central portion
which has neve been included in such
limits. This move comes for a pro-
lection against the erection of small
wooden buildings in territory that the
change in railroad territory will make
valuable for business purposes, but
which up to the present has not been
so occupied.
Charles Auerswald of Herrick, one
Of the new reservation towns, was
nearly killed by Henry Ousley, a citi.
zen of the same place, over a dispute
about some town lots. Auerswald was |
fencing some lots claimed by Ousley, |
and in the mixup Ousley struck Greg.
CRY with an iron posthole digger, max
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