The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-08-08
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State Superintendent Kramer has
just sent out the notices for the reg
ular August teachers examination, to
be held on the 18th, 18th and 18th.
There is a new feature in his notice
providing a definite schedule to gov
ern the order in which the various
subjects are to be given. This depart
ure is made at the suggestion Of the
county superintendent at the meet
ing at Mitchell last week, where this
feature OF the examination was dis
cussed. Heretofore only two days
have been allowed for the first grade
| and state applicants to complete the
examination, and as the time was
! deemed insufficient another day has
been added in order to give the APP
plicants an opportunity to do their
best with a MINIMUM of strain. The
order in which the subjects wll be
| given is: Thursday forenoon, pre-
liminary, reading, geography; Thurs
day afternoon, grammar, spelling, his
| tory; Friday forenoon, arithmetic,
p~enmanship; Friday afternoon, physi-
| olOgy, didactics, CiviCs. The remain
| Ing subjects for first grade certificates
| are to be given in the following order:
! Drawing, literature, physical geogra-
| ply, current events. Applicants able
to take part or all of them Thursday
J and Friday will be permitted to do
so. The remaining subjects for state
| certificates will be in the following
| order: Drawing, physical geography,
| algebra, plane geometry, physics or
botany, general history, pedagogy and
| rhetoric. AS many of them will be
! given on Thursday and Friday as all
| applicants in a given county car COM
| plete n the remaining subjects Will
| be taken on Saturday. The examina-
/ tons for life diplomas will be offered
! only in these counties where the de-
| partment has been notified that there
are applicants desiring to take 1t.
The reports filed with the state aud
itOr for the purpose of telephone as
Sessments show that there has been
IN increase of 65 such companies in
the state since the return was made to
the board q year ago, making 208 sep
arate companies which have reported
this year. This growth of telephone
business in the state has been the
! work Of less than ten years. The
| report Of the auditor for 1895 shows
but four companies operating in the
| state, while that for 1897 shows an in
| crease to Is. Those in existence in
1895 We're the Aberdeen, Black Hills.
Northwestern and WATERFOWL, two of
them being local exchanges, and one
toll line and the Black Hills company
| with both toll lines and local ex-
! changes. The Black Hills company
that yea showed 20S miles Of line and
the Northwestern Is miles Of line,
much of the Black Hills line being in
the local exchanges. This business
! has grown until the report of last
! year showed $500 miles Of line in
the state and the increase Of this year
| will undoubtedly bring it up to over
| 10000 miles. a large amount Of this
| is in farmer lines, which bring the
! agricultural communities in touch
with the outside world.
II
Judge Smith, in a recent term Of
court in Lyman County rendered a de-
| cisiOn which will affect a number Of
| saloon licenses which have been grant
! ed in Stanley and Lyman Counties.
| The case came to him from Kennebec,
one Of the new towns on the Milwau-
kee line extension, and was in the
shape OF an injunction restraining the
county commissioners of Lyman
County from granting a license at
that place. Judge Smith held that no
saloon license could be granted where
! a favorable vote to license has not
been had, and hal where a license
was requested at a town without an
organization Of it's own, a favorable
vote must have been secured in the
township in which the town is located
before a legal license can be granted.
A we'll appointed house boat, carry
ing Jack Boyle and family with sew
eral friends, tied up at Pierre last
week on their way down to st. Louis.
coming from Fort Benton. They had
been about two months on the trip
this far down the river and are in no
hurry to get to st. Louis, preferring to
keep further north during the heated
period of the year. The party came
overland by team from Portland. Ore,
% Fort Benton. where they built their
boat for the trip down the Missouri.
State Secretary Wipf Is preparing
his biennial report to submit to the
governor, and shows receipts for the
past two fiscal years ending July 1 to
be s62,276.9S. TO show the growing
business Of that department the re-
ceipts Of 1905 were $~25,591.3S; and
those for 1906 were S30,276.s0, an in
crease of over $4,000 for the year. The
heaviest receipts come from the cor
porations which file under the laws Of
this state, over $50, 600 Of the receipts
being from that source.
Hendrick Peterson. a resident of
Moody County, has been sent back to
that county by the authorities at
Pierre on account of mental infrmi-
ties. He came to Pierre to file on a
claim, and purchased lumber to take
out, which he hauled to a ranch and
piled up, but made no effort to file or