The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1908-12-03
The Great Empire of Stanley


Dan Powell, John Curington and
Dick Mattheson were shippers
from this place, the balance being
Cheyenne cattle. -Wokama Lead
er.
Postmaster Rousseau has been
notified by the postoHice depart
ment that after Jan. ! this town
will be named Powell. This is in
accord with petition sent in by
our citizens and is a fitting tribute
to Dan Powell, an old-time ranch
cr. on whose land the town is
located. w okama Leader.
At their meeting last Monday
night the city council let the con-
tract to NJ. l.. Gary to cover that
part of Main street between the
railroad track and the east inter-
secting line Of DcAdwood street,
and that part Of Deadwood street
from Main street north to the
north line of Second Avenue, with
eight inches Of gravel, the streets
to be first leveled and brought to
within eight inches of grade. The
contract price for the work is
So. 800, and it will be paid by as
seSsment against the property
abutting on the streets where the
work is done. The cost will run
between $50 and $40 PEI; lot. =
Stock Growers News, Fort Pierre.
Jake Addison of Midland, says
his squaw corn turned out forty
five bushels to the acre this year,
and he says some of his neighbors
had even better fields of squaw
corn than he. 1t yielded better
than any other variety of corn in
b., neighborhood this year and it
hat made its growth and matured
before the late rains, without
W25ch much of the other varieties
OF corn would have been a failure.
There is no question but that
sauaw com is particularly we'll
&1ag.gd 20 this climate and soil,
q eH one should plant some of
il. even if they do depend on other
All, OF corn for a principal crop.
ee5.gr Index.
aa Thomas is here this week
wta the county pile driver and
/ as gonmeuced the construction
of t1e county bridge across Cotton
WOOD Creek just south Of town.
y aen completed it will be claksed
as one Of the great improvements
10 this country. cottonwood Re
puoIcan.
\ special school election will be
held in NadDka, December 10,
vlen the question of issuing bonds
10 the amount OF S2.SOO will be
suplnitted to the election of the
school district. 1t is proposed to
build a four-room building at the
north end of Main street on
ground recently purchased OF Nels
Nelson. Kadoka needs \ school
building and we believe the propo-
sition will carry with scarcely q
dissenting vote. .-Kadoka Press.
\ cornet band of about twenty
pieces is one of the probabilities of
the near future. An informal
meeting was held few days since
and list of twenty-five names
was made of persons who would
join. Among this number, fifteen
are old players and with the new
ones splendid organization can
be perfected. A good band is a
very helpful institution in ! town
and now is the time to organize.
The long winter evenings are be-
fore US and they may be pro6tably
employed in band work.-Kadoka
Reporter.
Miss Lottie Eldridge returned
the last of the week from Fort
Wayne, Indiana, where her poo-
pie live. She is here to continue
her residence on her claim north
of town, as her proof which she
made in October was rejected by
tho Chamberlain Land Office. -
Kadoka Reporter.
Marietta he's completed = now