The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-07-01
South Dakota
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John L. Murphy, a freight conductor
on the Great Northern running out Of
Aberdeen, was accidentally killed by the
cars at Claremont Wednesday of last
week. He had a run out of Aberdeen
for the past eight years.
The citizens of the thriving little
village of Condo, in Sphinx county, by
their votes recently decided to change
their form of government to that of a
city, and will on the 18th day of July
elect their first new set of officers.
The state land department has sold
eighty acres of state school land ad-
joining the town of lie Beau, for sixty
dollars an acre. The tract will be plat
ted as an addition to lie Beag, which
promises to be one of the live river
towns of the state.
The forest reserves il Harding coun-
ty are to be r~esurveyed and the line
definitely established as the first sur
veys were hurried ones and covered land
which may be more valuable for agri-
cultural purposes, and left out tracts
which should be within the reserve.
Sunday was a red letter day for the
members of Trinity Lutheran church
Of Vermillion. The occasion was the
dedicatory services for their new
church, which has Just been completed.
The church is a handsome structure,
both interior and exterior and costs
$4,000.
Joseph Pospisel, who resided on a
rented farm in the coded portion Of the
Rosebud Indian reservation, in Gregory
county has committed suicide. Arising
in the middle Of the night he went to
the granary tied a rope to a raftcr,
neck and jumped to his death. He is
survived by a widow and several small
children.
The South Dakota Retail jewelers.
association, which met in Aberdeen dur
ing Dakota Homecoming elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
President, A. w. Voedisch of Aberdeen;
vice president, Charles Halbkat of
Watertown; secretary, D. Sharp of
Bookings; treasurer, Carl Damuth of
Redfield. Watertown was chosen as the
meeting place next year.
Mrs. f. II. Kent, of Huron, wife of
one of the best known hotel men in
the northwest, and for twenty-five years
past a resident of that city, recently
died at the home of her husband i s sister
in Evanston, III. Mrs. Kent has been
in poor health for some time and in
fact has spent the past few years in
California and other sections of cOun-
try ~endeavoring to regain her strength.
The good people of Forte Pierre have
just dedicated a new Congregational
church at a cost Of over $12, 900. DR..
Frank Fox of Sioux Falls preached the
dedicatory services and raised nearly
$4,000 for the society. DR.. Fox also
South Dakota have raised and expend-
ed in new edifces throughout the state
during the past two years, more than
5000, 000.
Thos. Keegan, a well-to-do farmer of
Faulk county, who had been temperate
ly placed in the county Jail at his own
request while laboring under the hal
l%ucination that he was being persued
by men who were about to take his
life, tried to kill himself by cutting the
arteries in his arm and neck. He was
discovered before the loss of blood had
affected him seriously and will be held
as a fit subject for the insanity board.
The record sale of Sully county
farm land was made last week when
Frank Goddard disposed of his Good
water township farm of $50 acres at
fifty dollars an acre. The tract is well
improved, and one of the best farms in
that part of Sully county, and the price
Of fifty dollars an acre is one which is
looked upon as considerably above the
ordinary for real estate in a county
without railroad facilities for mark
citing the products of so large a tract
OF land.
The society Of the First South Dakota
Infantry composed Of members of that
regiment who served in the Philippines,
has been organized and the following
officers elected: President, Col. A. s.
Frost; vice president, Major Charles A.
Howard; secretaY-treasurer, Adjutant
General c. H. Englesby. Practically
every surviving member Of the regiment
has Joined the organization, or has signi.
fed his intention of joining. It is pro-
posed to have annual reunions Of the
regiment.
Hetland will soon have a hospital of
its own that will probably be one of the
most unique In the country in that it
will be owned entirely by farmers. A
stock company has been organized and
practically all the stock is held by
country men living in the neighborhood.
The entire sum necessary for the hospi-
tai has been subscribed and building
will begin at once. The new institu.
ton will probably be the only one of
its kind that is owned entirely by
farmers.
Owing to a reduction in salary by the
South Dakota State Board of Charities
and Corrections, Mrs. Humbert for many
years superintendent of the Blind AsS.
lum at Gary, has resigned her position
and Mrs. Leila M. Curl, Of Watertown
has been appointed to the vacancy. Mrs.
Cur Is not new to the position, having