Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-02-21
REPORTER AND FARMER.
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in public. These matches hav
brought out the fact that the averag
young person is usually deficient il
spelling. Other towns might follow
the lead of WATERFOWL in this matte
and provide a profitable line of enter
talnment for the young folks during
the winter months, Ii is said tina
most of the young people OF Waterfowl
have become greatly interested in these
spelling down" matches and are now
spending much Of their time learning
the correct spelling of words.
A sensation of generous proportions
has been created among the railway
mail clerks whose routes are in South
Dakota by the discovery that they are
not exempted from the provisions of the
anti.pass law recently enacted by the
state legislature, and which has already
gone into effect, having contained an
emergency clause. 1t is now a violat ion
of the law, by the oversight, for the
"A'A W hAhS VII NiC tlhlub uuN
handle the mails of Uncle Sam without
paying full fare. Some OF the con.
ductors are collecting full fare from the
clerks, while others are passing them
until they can receive instructions from
headquarters.
Shortly after IL o'clock Monday night
an explosion wrecked Daniel Sharp's
jewelry store in Elk Point, blowing into
the street a solid brick wall without
even cracking the plate glass front.
Fire Immediately followed, but was
easily controlled by the fire department
with little damage except from water
ana smoke. The explosion is supposed
to have been caused by the falling of a
Gasoline lamp. There are hints of dyn-
amite, but the gasoline explosion theory
is more reasonable. The loss will be
800 on the building and about the same
on the stock, aud is fully covered by
insurance.
While switching a belt from one pull
ley to another, a bolt projecting from
one of the pulleys caught in the cloth.
ing OF Fred. Everett, an employe at the
Thompson elevator in Vermillion. He
was caught in such a way hat il would
have meant sure decth for him if his
cries had not attracted attention at once
The stopping of the electric motor and
machinery suddenly ccused the victim
TO fall to the floor, receiving several bad
bruises. The nervous shock was SO
great that young Everett is still unab's
TO be at work.
Officers have returned with "Jim"
Brill, formerly an employee Of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
company, who is wanted in Gregory
county on the charge Of horsestealing.
In default of bonds he has been placed
in the county Jail pending trial. Brill
borrowed q horse and saddle from Arvid
johnson, of Fairfax, and, In company
with Frank Phillips, rode 3 o Bonesteel
where it 10 alleged Brill traded the
horse to a Bonesteel man for another
horse, receiving IS ito boot"
Senator Kittredge and Congressman
Burke and Martin, while Gamble was
j%rstfying himself at Pierre, have secured
appropriations for the state as follows
XI0 NM For rarosr 80 hutllsnva ~ Dipo
Ridge, $41, 800 for the Chamberlain
school, $3.50 for the Flandreau school,
SIT $50 for the Pierre school, including
$4,000 to be Immediately available for
.one building and repairing structures
recently damaged, and $500 to pay a
claim of Mrs. Jane E. Waldron.
The phase of the Pierre council row
was settled in justice court there when
Justice McCord held that Chief of
Police Oldfield was acting within his
rights when he on order of the mayor
drew Alderman Billinghurst from his
chair and pushed him back into the
crowd. The alderman swore out a
warrant charging assault on the part of
both the mayor and chief. end the hear
ing on the charge against Oldfield was
the first T. be brought to trial, resulting
in acquittal.
A convention at Bonesteel of the
editors Of Boyd and Keya Paha coun-
ties. Nebraska, and Gregory county,
South Dakota. resulted in the ~organ,za-
ton of what will be known as the Ponca
Vally Press association. The following
were elected officers: President, Mrs.
A. X. Armstrong, Butte Gazette; score.
cary, Opie Chambers, Herrick Press
treasurer, w. #. Kinney, Burke Gaz-
cite. The next meeting will be held at
Herrick in May.
Col. Dick Woods, of Sioux Falls. il
"a honest man." A short time since,
one Of the boys at the Salem depot, in
makingchange passed up a twenty dollar
gold piece to Col. Dick instead OF q silver
dollar. He went on to Pierre. leaving
the boys in the sweat box for a few days,
and after they had made mp the deficit
and felt $40 apiece poorer for a week. he
came back and cheered them up by
returning the coin. with a few jollies-
Some Of our exchanges fear that Sen.
ator Kittredge's activity against the
lumber trust Is merely 70 keep his name
before the people. They should be
-,a~cus and remembar that Senato,