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ular AUGUST teachers examinations 70
he held on the 18th, nth and 18TH.
There Is o new feature In this notice
nroviding a definite schedule 70 gov
ern the order In which the various
| subjects are 10 be given. This depart
! ure is made at the suggestion OF tne
county superintendents at the meet
ling 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 gire the APP
piicants an opportunity to do their
best with a minimum of strain. The
order in which the subjects will be
given is: Thursday forenoon. pre-
| urinary, reading, geography: Thurs
day afternoon. grammar, spelling, his
tory: Friday forenoon. arithmetic.
penmanship: 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
and Friday will be permitted ito 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 can COM
plete and the remaining subjects VIII
be taken on Saturday. The examfna-
| tions for life diplomas will be offered
| only In these counties where the de-
I partment has been notified that there
are applicants desiring TO take It.
|
| The reports filed with the state aud
flor for the purpose of telephone as
sessments show that there has been
an Increase OF IS such companies In
! the state since the return was made 10
the board year ago, making 2oS 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 were the Aberdeen. Black Hills.
Northwestern and Watertown, 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 year showed EOS miles of line and
the Northwestern Is miles of line.
much of the Black Hills lire 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
viii undoubtedly bring y 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.
Judge Smith, in recent term of
court In Lyman County rendered de-
saloon licenses which have been grant
ed In Stanley and Lyman Counties.
The case came to him from Kennebee.
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
favorable vote to license has not
been had, and that where a license
was requested at a town without an
organization Of its own. favorable
vote must have been secured In the
township In which the town Is located
before legal license can be grapted
A well appointed house boat, carry
ing Jack Boyle and family with sew
efal 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 sn 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,
TO 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 to
be $62.276.sS. To show the growing
business OF that department the re-
ceipts Of 1905 were s25.5s1.3S: and
those for 1906 were ss6.2Ts.so. an in
crease OF over 5000 for the year The
heaviest receipts come from the cor
porations which file under the laws OF
this state, over $4,000 OF the receipts
being from that source.
| Hendrick Peterson. resident OF
Moody County. has been sent back to
that county by the authorities at
Pierre on account of mental infirmi-
ties He came to Pierre to file on a
claim. and purchased l-mber to take
out. which he hauled TO ranch and
tpiled up, but made no effort to file or
build house. It was feared that he
would become a public charge, and
the authorities OF Moody County were
called upon TO care for him.
l Superintendent Robinson. of the
bureau OF vital statistics. has received
notification that South Dakota has
been admitted into the registration
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