Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-03-07
NEWSY TATE NOTES.

orphanage asylum which will soon be
established in this state.
Henry ~Schlosser, father of George
S~chlosser, of the South Dakota News
paper Union and Mrs. Charles III. Burke,
died at Sioux Falls last week.
The Scandinavian Lutheran society
at Canton, is figuring on building a new
church this summer The plans call
for a stone structure and it will cost
something like $4,000.
Conductor Antrom Jenkins, who lives
in Yankton, aud is an employee of many
years of the Milwaukee road, was seri-
ously injured at Platte last week by
breaking a leg while his train was
switching in the yards. He will be
brought home il he can be moved.
AT a meeting If the state board of
regents of education in Pierre last week,
Il. @. Erickson was chosen president,
and the committees for the different
institutions selected. Nothing was done
in regard to the selection of a sec rotary
at the meeting.
Mrs. Bridget Shannahan is dead at
the home of her son, Denny S%hannahan,
in Foster township, Beadle county, aged
100 years. She was a native of Ireland,
came to this country about the year 1910
and TO Dakota Territory in the early
part Of 1882, locating in Foster county.
The little child of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris
Hague was saved from being burned 10
death Saturday by A. w. Griswold
who discovered the child's crib and
clothing 10 flames and promptly smoth-
cred the blaze. The fire Is supposed to
have originated from the child playing
with matches.
There is an ice famine in Miller.
While th, crop was never quite so
good as it was early in the season, the
heavy snow made il impossible to gather
il, and row the thaw and high water
has carried it all away Ice will have
to be shipped in unless another crop is
frozen this spring.
Word was received in Sturgis Friday
that the bodies of Bessie Sim and her
sister, who persisted in "A blizzard Feb
ruary l, at Seim, were found a few days
ago, one within a hundred yards from
the house, the other so yards further
away Bessie was a school teacher and
m uroJnnfa 80 Tho GnlarGah .o..,nl
school
Adjutant General Englesby in accord
ance with an order by the governor,
Saturday made the appointment of the
state regimental band of the 4th Infan-
try. Waterfowl was the one to receive
the appointment in place of Sioux Falls
There has been quite a little rivalry for
this distinction. Aberdeen being one
that was anxious for the honor.
The building for the new creamery,
which is being established by farmers
in the vicinity of Vivian, is about COM
pleted. Aside from the machinery the
costs will be about $3, 900. The cream
cry has excellent facilities for getting
cream from the surrounding ~ranchers,
who are instrumental in starting the
plant, aud a ready market is assured
Walter Sawyer, a young man who
worked with a Surveying crew on the
Milwaukee extension fror, Sioux Falls
to Madison last summer, was arrested
In Michigan several days & and was
brought back TO Minnehaha county by
Sheriff Nelson to answer TO a statutory
charge preferred by a young woman
down at Baltic. The prisoner waived
examination and was bound over TO the
spring term of the circuit court. 1t is
said that there is some prospect of the
affair being fixed up ont of court.
1t is not generally known that Lyman
county has n resident who is the cham
rion corn husker of South Dakota in the
person Of William Hasebrook, who has
a homestead southwest of Murdo. Dur.
ing the winter months Hasebrook has
been in the rsstern part Of the state
earning a Ittle exSSa money by hushing
corn He holds, as stated, the state
record as a corn husker, having husksd
1,402 bushels in fourteen consecutive
working DAYS. His best record for M
day was 132 bushels.
MRS Kate Ulmer wife of a promi-
uent farmer Of Douglas county, while
cutting meat, severed the arteries of
her left wrist. She was alone, with
the exception of her little daughter,
who was o able Il do anything for
her. Mrs. Ulmer was unable to bind
the wound to stop the bleeding and by
the time that neighbors happily dropped
in she was in q state of collapse. Medi-
cal aid was at once brought, and
arrived in the nick Of time. Had aid
been denied her for another ten minutes
she would have died.
e. O. Issenhuth, who introduced the
bill making Lincoln's birthday . legal
holiday in this state, has received from
Robert T. Lincoln the following letter
II received your letter Of Feb s., ani
I assure you that ! appreciate most sin
pcerely the sentiment which prompted
the legislative action 70 which Jon refer
1T u very gratifying to me to receiv'
inch evidence Of the est en- In which m,
- ,;t~ end nnhlio earvico ~ hal