The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-08-04

->SaSOu VI ccNtf WAS A
'Ior al the county seat Tuesday.
r.. G. Price has heeu ON the .,rk
list this Week.
Jim" Rvau returned Yesterday
from his Minneapolis trip.
Link Gotteswert came up from
Minneapolis yesterday
MISS Eva Pulver of this Office is ON
the sick list this week.
Theodore Thorsnn nr the Arm o,
lhcrson & Hendricks. returned from
the cities Wednesday.
Mrs ii. NJ. Nrrrill of Minneapniis
is The guest of Rev and Mrs. Eyans
"f Good Will Mission
Mr>. Charles Perkins and children
returned Tuesday from ENJOYING "A
season OF camp life at Plckerrl Lake
Editor b. l.. OpSal of the Peeyer
Pilot was a pilgrim in the city Tues
daN
MISS tinY Parmeter. lmOkkeeper
for the peever Gurham Co. left YES
terlhy Tor visit with friends IN
Minneapolis
u. z. Strand left Tins morning for
Swea City. Iowa. ia response To a
telegram announcing THE serious ill.,
ness of a daughter
The Milwaukee Railway Co. have
recently caused several carloads of
gravel To tie unloaded and spread
about IN the yards at this place.
much Va the improvement thereof.
A. ID. Paulson is no SLOUGH when it
comes To selling choice chunks OF the
earth. He sold Two quarters this
week, one TO Louis jacobson in Ag-
ency township and one To Juuu Ber-
quIst IN SI>seLOu townships
The interior Department has af
tirined the decision If the local office
ln he case OF Sister Aluysia of st
.Authony's convent whereby DIR.
Brown Of SlsSetun contested her claim
adjoining the city of Slssetul. and
the land office decided IN favor of
the sister and the land office has af
f1rm"d the decision.
John Rogers, the second baseman Of
our team left last week for Sisseton
aud vii uuL t. seen am, more This
season. He was To have ID foot race
IN that city a week or so ago but The
''ther fellow backed out We under
stand the other man Is ready now
aud Rogers went up Their. To do his
lrAining. = Watertuwu Herald.
Earl Barnet and Rob Hnwells went
To Wilmot Saturday in the auLomu-
nile, Earl remained at WilmuL oyer
Sunday and Rob drove the auto on TO
Ortnnvllle. Dan Eyre and A, w.
l.indqulst went with him from Will
mot and they aver that The machine
only hit the high places. When they
got to Ortonvile They found that
the front axle was broken squarely in
two.
The following is taken from the
Relingham (Wash.) Herald Ut July
29lh: 3D. A. Rlckert aud family
have taken rooms for a week at the
White House Mr.. RIckrrl is mayor
uf Slsseton. South Dakota. and pres
ident OF the First National Bank of
that city and largely interested in
grain elevators and real estate in his
state. Mr. Rlckert is an nld time
friend OF George j. Jenkins of the
'remplin Feed company. Mr.. Jen-
kins is partly responsible for Mr.
Ricketts, presence IN Bellinghan and
may become interested in some bus
mess proposition here.
Edgar M. Bennett, the versatile
and loquacious legal luminary, was
called to Peever yesterday to defend
case in justice court where man
was being sued by the town to re
cover the amount of his road tax
which tie had not worked because
the road master in serving notice IN
him had dated his notice the 18Th
and ordered the man to work his tax
on the 18th. ''Ye whiz," said he
chow skull man work hes tax nay
behind yesterday" This recalled to
the Judge the only time that he was
eyer called upon to work his road
tax. He got out on the road, shovel
in hand and made stall at working.
In about an hour the road overseet
handed him receipt IN full for his
tax and remarked: "EdgaL, please
20 home AS long as you stay here