The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1909-04-08
Great Empire of Stanley

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was buried yesterday morning.
This is thy third death from diph-
liberia the past two weeks. two
being in the Turner family. The
disease is now well under control
and no more serious cases OF
symptoms have been reported. -
Fairplay. Fort Pierre.
Charles b. Hoyt. National
Grange Organizer of Concord. \.
H., who was here and instituted a
Grange. Monday evening. went to
Midland. Tuesday and from there
he will 90 to Philip. where he in
tends to organize a Grange. The
Ottumwa.
The new NJ. +. church at
Sansarc will be dedicated on April
25th ut Ii o'clock Il. m.. central
time. Rev. &. ID. Royse. d. ID. ,
of Rapid City will preach and con-
duct the dedicatory exercises. He
is HI able and powerful speaker
and anyone will be amply repaid
for the distance travelled by the
privilege of hearing him speak.
The dedication day will be pre-
ceaded by two weeks of revival
effort. All are cordially invited
to be present and entertainment
will be furnished to those who
come from distance.
&. :. Saxton, representing
capitalists from Blue Earth. Minn.
has been in town few days this
week looking over the situation
here with the view of erecting q
$50, 100000 milling plant. Mr.. S.
was very much taken up with our
town and has opened negotiations
with the Commercial club as to the
mill end Of the deal. A mill would
pay big here ut Cottonwood and
every booster in town wants to
get busy so we may land the
plant. < Cottonwood Republican.
Aurclius Bowen was taken from
Highmore to Sioux Falls yester-
day to start serving his eight year
sentence for the murder of
Katherine kille. His attorneys
tried to get IN order from the
court to have him taken to the
Hughes county Jail for sixty days,
pending an appeal, but their re-
quest was not granted and Judge
Boucher sent an order from Onida
to Highmore on Wednesday to
have the prisoner removed to the
penitentlary at once. -Fa'rplay.
There are lot Of people that
are mighty slow to keep pace with
time. This is true in an instance
this week when we received a
letter from q party at DeSlnet,
asking if there was restaurant or
hotel in town here and what the
prospects would be for starting
one. and then they asked if we
thought the railroad would run
through or close to town. The
letter would be all right if we had
received it four years ago. Mid
land Star.
The change which has come over
Stanley county in the last four
years is little short of marvellous.
While the population has been in
creasing from three or four thou
sand to over twenty thousand
there have been other changes go
ing on which have made of it such
a different looking country that
one can hardly believe such a
transformation possible in SO short
time. One thing which pleases
US greatly is the manner in which
most of the old timers tit in with
the new order of things, q great
many of them taking the lead in
making this one Of the best agri-
cultural districts in the best state
in the Union. We have always
held that it takes a good man to
make a good ranchman or a good
range hand, and they have to have
some gray matter in their upper
stories, too. Now that the ques-
ton of feed is the big question in