Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1908-12-11

Hardingrove Happenings
Watch for wedding bells In the
near future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernhardt transacted
business In Milesville Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Denham were
business callers at Milesville Satur-
day.
Mesdames Hood and Padget visited
Monday with Mrs. J. Il. Loobey ct
Milesville.
Harry Hood and Mary Klstoh
attended the dance given Friday
evening at John Sorenson's new house.
Miss Harriet Christie made final
proof Monday on her homestead be-
fore Commissioner Nash at Marietta.
Rogers & Stanton, Of Milesville. re-
Gently put in some dry goods In con-
nection with their stock Of groceries
and hardware.
The Milesville social club will give
ball Friday, Dec. llth, and are max
ing every effort to draw large crowd
and furnish good time.
Miss Knowles was departing pass
enger on Wednesday $ stage. She has
gone to Cedar Rapids to spend the
holidays with friends and relatives.
Frank Peek was saying goodbye
Wednesday to Haringrove friends.
Report says he has gone to lows TO
spend the holidays at the parental
home.
Mr.. Wenzinger recently purchased
fine Durham-Jersey COW for 965, and
some prize winning Butt Cochin
chickens OF H. ID. Armstrong, south
east of Milesville.
Work on Miss Cora Wallis residence
north of the Grove, Is being pushed
rapidly to enable the family TO get
comfortably domiciled before severe
cold weather approaches.
Messrs. Hamill and Miles, who have
ine homesteads adjoining the town
site Of the tiourishing town OF Miles
vile, made final proof on the same
Thursday at Marietta before Com
missioner Nash.
A fine two story residence has lust
been completed on the James Spring
er ranch south OF Hardlngrove. Mrs.
Springer is one of the new arrivals on
the flats, having recently come from
Pennsylvania to join her husband,
who has resided for some time in this
locality.
A Milesyille young lady has taken
advantage of leap year by advertising
in the Topbar Ranger for life part
ner. If it really pays to advertise in
a country newspaper, the young lady
should be swamped with proposals,
Judging from the number OF bachelors
residing on claims In the vicinity OF
the fair advertiser.
That Stanley county land is both
desirable and scarce is demonstrated
| by the fact that two homestead entries
nave recently been made on land ly-
ing almost entirely within the breaks
Of the Cheyenne river. Neither en-
try contains over twenty-five acres OF
tillable land. The parties may have
been reading the article lately pub
lished under the heading Land
Panic" whereiniJ was stated that
in twenty years time at the rate our
population was increasing, the proper
tion OF land for each individual would
not exceed four acres. At any rate
the value of land in this vicinity Is
increasing beyond the most sanguine
expectations of two years ago. At
that time good relinquishments were
rejected at even $3.50, which today
could not be bought for less than $40 an
acre, and real estate men who have
Investigated the prospect OF buying
either relinquishments or decided
land through here, report that nearly
every homesteader on good quarter
section of land is holding the same
for sale at prices ranging from els to
$40 an acre, and many refuse TO even
consider $25 an acre for improved
homesteads. With the exception Of
railroad facilities, our part Of Stanley
county has nearly all the advantages
of eastern states and we have only
just begun. Watch our smoke 6ve
years hence.