Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-10-10
NEWSY STATE NOTES.

new Cathoilo churce at WatertoWn or
October %.
Fifty per cent of the persons who
took the teachers examination during
July, August and September failed to
pass.
A b. Conley, who was arrested in
Sioux City, and Jesse White and Morris
Harmon are in the county Jail al
Yankton on the charge of stealing 1000
cigars from Milwaukee car at Gay
Vile
w l.. Williams, who eloped from
Yankton with Clara Beales. aged about
10, is IN custody at Omaha, where the
girl is in charge Of the police author
tiles The prisoner has wife and
child at Sidney, Neb
r. e, Griffith has been bound over to
circuit court of Yankton county on
charge of robbiDg Henry Wilkinson Of
Yankton. Griffith is wanted at Scot.
land by the Milwaukee road for alleged
ShhuoAZitmeub VI SSo.
Richard Minnick, roundhouse fore
man for the Great Northern at Yank-
ton, was found in front of an engine,
where he had been overcome by gas
and had been lying for an hour Part
of his hair had been burned off and he
was found just in time to save his life.
p. q. Crane, of Long Lake, Mimi,
who has spent the past month looking
for bis daughter, the Huron milliner,
who disappeared after proving up OH
her claim near Pierre, has been rewarded
by finding his daughter in Sioux City
where she has been very sick but is
now recovering.
Sam Pettigrew, one OF the incediaries
who burned the barn OF Fred Sweeney
near Gwynner, N. D., entailing loss
of $1,000, was captured at White Rock
Sunday by Marshal Lin Anderson. He
had in his possession the stolen team,
the theft OF which the men endeavored
to cover up by burning the barn. He
was well armed, but was taken by the
strategy of the marshal.
Citizens Of Gregory have voted to
build $4,000 waterworks system.
The specifications call for largo
cement reservoir forty feet in diameter
to be built upon the top of Gregory
butte, which Is about 100 feet abode
the general level Of the city. This will
afford pressure sufficient, to throw a
three-inch stream over any building in
town. The mains will be laid through
the business district only at this time.
Later il is the intention to extend them
throughout the entire residence sec-
sections
Mrs. John w. Tuthill, of Sioux Falls,
owes her life to the fact that one end
of heavy ice wagon which had been
thrown over in runaway fell upon the
curbing and thus prevented her being
the ice wagon ran into the Tuthill car
riage, in which were Mrs. Tuthill and
the coachman, who saw the danger too
late. The ice wagon, the carriage and
its occupants, as we'll as two men who
were on the ice wagon, were thrown
into heap with the horses No one
was badly injured
When William Poulson, said to be a
travelling man from Minneapolis, left
some conyivial friends and headed for a
barber shop in Lead, Monday, he found
1t closed, according to the 2 o'clock rule
Violation Of this rule would cost the
barber just $40, which fact was
explained to Poulson. But in no wise
daunted, he brought ont the required
note and told the tonsorial artist to go
ahead. When Paulson had been shaved
he announced that nothing short Of q
banquet for the Lead barber union
would do him and his plans were soon
carried out.
The state educational department
estimates the shortage of teachers in
the state at between 700 and 800, and
finds IL no easy matter TO help the
county superintendents who desire
teachers to fix the schools The reason
for this shortage are ascribed to differ
emit causes by different p, ople. but IL ia
found that in the counties where the
lowest wages are paid for county teach.
ere, the shortage Is most severely felt,
while in counties with better wages
there is not so much complaint
although this rule is not a set one. al
the shortage is reported from the coun
ties with better wages as well as those
with low wages, but not TO such al
extent.
William Schroeder. of Pierre
threshsd about $40 worth Of alfalfs
seed last week which grew on one-hal
acre Of ground. The second crop OF
this pasch did not seem to promis'
much Of hay crop. so he let 1t 60 Il
seed. He paid . man one dollar to Gu
and rake IL three weeks ago. ant
loaded Il on hay rack, whsre IL W.
allowed 10 remain until e was threshed
Thers was bnt hall : load Of alfalfa
bus 81 throshpd ont about seven busbslI
end eonnting u worth about 90 IN Il
prsssne s)sts. IL valpe b ebout o7o.s 4
addition y 1his one ssod hay erop ~