The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-05-07
South Dakota
General State News
IN Para~>rhe
IN Paragraph.


Fire Of unknown origin destroyed
the big saw mill of the Mclaughlin
Tie and Timber company at West Ma
liant. Loss about $4,000.
DR.. Amer reports anthrax Is spread
ing among horses In Hutchinson
county, having been called to several
places where horses died Of the dis
ease during the last few days.
At a meeting Of the Preston town
council an ordinance was passed
granting the Lake Preston Milling
company . franchise to install and
maintain for twenty years an electric
light plant.
Forty-six out of ffty-three county
superintendent of the state answered
roll call at the opening Of their three
days meeting at Pierre. An address
was delivered by Supt. NJ. NJ. Ramer
Of the city schools.
Work has commenced 1T Oacoma
on a monster new artesian well,
which Is designed to furnish water
for domestic and fire protection pur-
poses in connection with the local
municipal waterworks system.
The recently organized Farmers
Elevator company hsa closed the ne
gotiations for the purchase Of the
elevator property of the Truax COM
pany at Plankinton. The new COM
pany paid $4,000 for the property.
AS the result of a meeting held by
the board Of directors OF the Lake
Andes Presbyterian Church society
1t was decided that the society should
erect q handsome new church build
ing at a cost of from $4,000 to $4,000.
A verdict of acquittal was returned
by a jury in the federal court s.
Sioux Falls in the case of Arson W
gar, former United States comm
sioner at Dallas, who was tried for
embezzling trust funds belonging to
homesteaders.
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After ~re-electing A. B. Hess super
.intendent of the Madison city schools
at a reduction of 5000 from his sal
airy Of $500, the Madison board OF
education has just reconsidered the
action and voted not to engage Hess
for the ensuing year.
The women Of the Plankinton Wom-
ans Relief corps have taken upon
themselves the laudable task Of rails
ing funds with which to erc"s
monument to the memory of the vet
Grams of the Civil war who are buried
in the local cemetery.
]. B. Geddis has been appointed
c~ommandant of the soldiers home at
Hot Springs. which position he has
filled since the death recently OF Col.
Dudley. Col. Geddis is a native of
New York, and served in the 126th
New York infantry during the Civil
war, from private to colonel.
In the high school oratorical con-
test at De SInet for the selection of
a representative to attend the state
contest at Vermillion next month Miss
Bearice Barkalow won first place. De
Smet Odd Fellows will observe the
ninetieth anniversary of the founding
of the order by special exercises.
John N. Harris, for years n of the
best known travelling men of Sioux
Falls and South Dakota, Is dead at
his new home on a homestead neal
the frontier town of Interior, 100
miles or more west Of Chamberlain.
He was about fifty years of age. and
was a member of the United CONNER
cial Travellers of America and Court
Of Honor.
Reports from Clear Lake Of the
death of wagon loads of black bass
in the lake during the winter. The
water in the lake was 30 shallow that
the fish were either frozen or smoth-
cred. and their bodies now line the
shore. Funds are being subscribed
to dam the outlet Of the lake and thus
prevent a repetition of the disaster
when the lake has been restocked.