Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-07-08
After being dry two years Groton
started July with three saloons.

AiteT Ueius ury TWO years 0Iotou
started July with three saloons.
Thomas Evans,a young man employed
by the Great Northern road at Garrett
son, was drowned there July end.
The Pierre city council at a meeting
last week placed limit of five saloons
for the next year and granted licenses
to that number, refusing such permits
to four other applicants. This action
will reduce the number of saloons in
the city by two,
Jessie Hendricks, charged with kill
ing his wife at Runningwater May 80,
was acquitted at Tyndall last. week at
his preliminary hearing. The COR
oner's jury gave verdict of suicide but
he was indicted later. He was freed
for lack of discriminating evidence.
The first heat fatality in the Black
Hills in many years occurred near Belle
Fourche Friday morning on the train
from Deadwood, when Robert Plant, of
Hulett, Wyo., expired suddenly just as
the train neared town. Plant had with
him his. bride of two days. She is pros
trated by the sudden death.
Governor Vessey on July 1, com.
missioned o. S. Basford as insurance
commissioner and w. E. Egge, of
Centerville, as telephone commissioner
Both are reappointments. Herbert
Gregory, of Washington Springs, has
been selected by the insurance COM
missioner as assistant fire marshal and
examiner for the department
The examination of papers of the
applicants for teachers certificates at
the June examinations are about COM
pleted by the state superintendent at
Pierre, and out of the list of nearly
thousand, about fifty per cent have
passed, and been granted certificates,
giving the state about five hundred
additional teaching force.
The board of regents of South Dakota
have elected Professor Carl Christophels-
meier, late Of GERMANY, to the chair of
History and political science in the
state university. The educator is q
graduate of the University of Nebraska,
aud received his Phi. ID. Degree from the
u. of Berlin. During the past year he
has been engaged in writing a book on
the French revolution.
Fred Lapincer, ADMINISTRATOR OF the
estate of Andrew Helgelien, of Aber-
deem, s. D., who was luled to Laporte
in January, 1909, by Belle Guinness was
awarded S3,145 on July l, by jury in
Laporte circuit court at Laporte, Ind,
in suit against Wesley Gogle, execu.
tor of the will of Mrs. Guinness. This
was the amount with seventeen months
interest, which Mrs. Guinness Is alleged
to have obtained from Helgelien before
she murdered him.
The next regular meeting of the
South Dakota board of pharmacy, for
the examination Of candidates for
registration and general business, will
be held at Mitchell on July IA. The
sessions will be held in the high school
building and will begin at eight o'clock
Application blanks can be secured from
the secretary, E. Q. Bent of Del
Rapids, and should be filed at least five
days prior to the date of the examin
alton.
Word comes from Mitchell that w
NJ. Grafton, state superintendent OF thu
Anti.Saloon League, has announced
that the anti-treating law will b
enforced in every county in the state
It is also announced that test case vii
be made of the new law at once. Man
. of the leading attorneys of the stat
have given it as their opinion that tn
l law is unconstitutional. 1t Is under
stood that a case will at once be take
to the supreme court, so as to have I'll
question settled at once.
Not con tent with the record of pc
feet attendance for nine years at Il
Faribault schools, Canton claims
student who has not been absent n
tardy once during twelve years,
from the primary grade to the hil
school, from which she was gradual,
last year, Miss Neva Bacon is &
young women with the wonderf
record, and one which few can equi
Her sister, Amelia, has attended soho
for six years, and has perfect reco
for that time. bidding fair to match h
sisters attainment.
The Chicago, Milwaukee q Pug
Sound railway July /, filed 9th {
secretary Of state plans for two INC
extensions in the northern part of
state. One extends from Mobridge in
southwesterly direction to the son
line of Standing Rock reservation, a
from thence in general westerly dir,
ton to the Slim Butte country, a
lance of $50 miles. The other exten
from Mclaughlin up the valley of 0
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