The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-05-12

(tnC OLD man niIllSclll,
The receipts of gopher tails at the
county auditors Office are the meagef-
est on record up to the preSenf date.
Cold weather and rains have retarded
the harvest.
Murray e. Dickey, formerly in bust
ness at Frederick, now proprietor OF
a general store at Garner, Iowa. IS
visiting his friends in this county
after an absence of nearly two years.
Chas. w. Anderson has erected a
cottage, IA by 20, on bis west side lots
at Tocoma Park. This makes the
second cottage built this spring on
the west side and two more will go up
when it quits raining.
The Grand Lodge Of the A. 0. U.
w. meets at WATERFOWL next week.
&. II. Kimball goes to represent the
local lodge; j. S. VetUer as chairman
of the finance committee. ]. d. Lavia,
grand recorder, and c.. e. Baldwin,
editor of official organ also. attend, OF
course.
The heavy rain 80 soaked the ground
that the area wall under the sidewalk
south of the Telephone building gave
way under the weight of wire piled
thereon. The collapse came near cut
ting this office off from Communication
with the outer world, except by tele.
phone.
A new real estate company has
opened quarters in the McCaughey
building on the corner of Lincoln
street and Second Avenue. z. j.
Roam, formerly of Rock Rapids, Ia,
is here and the other member of the
company, q, L. Goodwin of Howard,
S. D., will be in the city soon.
The Supreme Lodge Of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen opens this
week in Milwaukee. James River
Lodge No. 673, the local organization
of the brotherhood, is represented by
Chas. Liedtke, foreman of the Mil
waukee yards. While absent he wi. |
visit friends farther east and be alb
sent several weeks.
Aberdeen is coming to be more and
more appreciated as a distributing
point. Another concern has estab-
lished a distributing agency in the
city. 1t is the LeMaire Perfume
company of Chicago, New York and
Paris. Charles f. Smith, formerly
merchant at Putney, has charge OF
the distribution to the retail trade in
the territory tributary to Aberdeen of
the stock handled by this concern,
consisting of toilet preparations, per-
fumes and extracts. Mr.. Smith has
secured rooms in the Telephone build
ing and is already doing business.
e. #. Coleman, accompanied by
Mrs. Coleman and the children made
a trial trip with his auto, the Clyde,
last week, passing through Sphinx.
Clark. Hamlin, Kingsbury and Cod.
dington counties. The trip was q
delightful one until on the return the
rain caught them at Doland. They
continued in the rain as far as Yer
don, where the deepening mud made
further progress impossible. There
they took to cars. George .Raskop'
went over Monday and brought the
auto home. The register showed 6
record of 27O miles for the trip.
, The Ed nj. Hall Stock Compan,
appeared at the Gottschalk two night
last week in a society play, "The Fou:
Hundred" The play itself is th'
best the company has put on. L
gives Mr.. Hall a better opportunit!
than did any of the others and he i'm
. proves it. OF the large cast it cal
. truthfully be said that had a strange
happened in at the Gottschalk OF
. either evening he might well be ex
cused were he ito take it for a play b
+ professionals. The costumes worl
/ were appropriate and costly. Spac
!. forbids individual mention of each O
the amateur artists though all are er
!: titled to warm praise for their work
: Huron Huronite: G. A. Sauer, Hi
; ron's pioneer merchant. sold his es
tablishment last week to A. Bordy G
Freeport. Neb. Mr.. Sauer has bee
! in business in this city since the yea
{ 1880, and leaves his place behind til
counter only on account of old age
! His first stock of goods was haule
/ to Huron from Watertown in a WACO
+ as the railroad had not yet been cor
structed. From this time on he ha
conducted a successful business in dr.
goods and groceries and has raised
family of which any father might we
be proud. For the last twenty-iy
+ years he has watched Huron's extr.
ordinary development and alway
. maintained his faith, even during I'll
: former years of great business depre
sion, in her future prosperity. He +,