Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04
NEWsY STATE NOTES.
The Sioux Falls Masons will build q
temple that will cost $4,000 this year

temple that will cost $50. 900 this year.
Three stores were robbed in Lead last
week and none of the robbers were
caught.
A small boy with some matches
burned barn aud three horses atWhite
Rock last week.
The corner stone of the new federal
building at Pierre will be laid May 10
by the Masonic order. -
The Brown county commissioners
have awarded the contract for five
dipping tanks at 5000 tank,
The small pox epidemic has run its
course in Groton and the schools and
churches have been reopened.
A boy playing with matches was the
cause of barn belonging to James
Stenson burning in Aberdeen last week.
The Great Northern railroad COM
pany is putting in depot at Tacoma
Park, Aberdeens summer pleasure
resort.
The contract has been let and the
ground broke for new opera house in
Milban6 which is to be completed by
November,
The county commissioners ofMarshall
county have decided to build FIVE new
steel bridges and are already advertis-
ing for bids, e
4 Judge Jones has decided against the
saloon men of Valley Springs and
ordered the saloon closed because of
irregularities in the petition.
The contract for the new workshop
at the Northern Normal and Industrial
school at Aberdeen was let last week to
r. K Hafsos, of Canton, for $S0l5.
Ezra Smith, of Marshall, was tried
before Judge Mccoy last week on a
charge of stealing wheat. +. lie plead
guilty and was fined eighty dollars and
costs.
Jacob Johnson, who was supposed to
have been murdered in Hand county
some time ago, has turned up alive. He
is demented and has been wandering
aimlessly ever the state.
Arthur w. Townsley, junior in the
engineering department of the Vermil-
lion university, has been appointed
county surveyor of Clay county. He is
the youngest county surveyor in the
United States.
b. +. Smith, assistant janitor in the
Wells block at Aberdeen, fell from a
second story window Thurday and was
fearfully injured. The right leg was SO
badly injured that amputation at the
ankle, was necessary.
The bond of Nichols Wagner, Min
nehaha county farmer, who was charged
with two very serious crimes, has been
declared forfeited by Judge Jones, of
the state circuit court. Nothing is
known as to Wagner's whereabouts
Gov. Elrod, Auditor Halliday, Secre-
tary Wipf and Land Commissioner
Back, the state capitol commission, left
Pierre Friday afternoon for Helena,
Mont, to look over the capitol building
there. They went by the way of St.
Paul.
Andrew Anderson and son, Henry,
have returned from the State of WASH
ineton where they have been for nearly
two years, having gone there with the
intention of making their home out
there. They don't like the country
there and have come back to Canton to
stay for good. H f 4rr
Mrs Henry Russell, living two and
one-half miles northeast of Clark met
with an accident last week. She was
attending to her chickens in coop and
while standing on an elevation lost her
footing and fell. Being large woman
she sustained fracture of the left
shoulder bone aud other injury is feared.
Professor G. +. Koehler, who recen tly
resigned the presidency of the North
ern normal aud industrial school, has
taken partnership in the Mankato
business college at Mankato, Mimi.
and will assume the presidency and
management of the new business col
lege which the Manksto Institution will
establish at Winona.
Two sisters, separated in Germany IS
years ago, are soon to meet through the
agency of George Gfrorer, the son of
the elder sister, who has lived in Mil
bank for many years. This son, in
Denver on business, came across man
of the same surname and upon inquiry
discovered the relationship Of the Den
yer Gfrorer's wife to the inquirer
mother. .Wa.sf ~ As ~
Yale, station on the Great North
ern railway thirteen miles southeast of
Huron, is enjoying a boom. For fifteen
years 1t has been nothing more than a