Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-01-27
REPORTER AND FARMER
Thursday, January u, 1910.
NEwsY A NOTES.

20 Sell the siO,UOO school bonus recently
voted.
Representative Martin has introduced
"a bill TO establish a new land district in
western South Dakota, with an office at
LeBeou. A favorable report has been
made on a similar bill in the senate
The town council of White Lake has
called a special election to be held Feb
s, OF which the proposition of issuing
bonds Of 81, 800 for the construction OF
a municipal system Of waterworks will
be submitted.
After two years of tickling the earth
in the vicinity of the milwaukee, round
hskse at Aberdeen a splendid flowing
artesian well has been attained. But il
was a long task and three different out.
fits worked on the job before it was
done.
Stockholders of the Big Stone Cream.
cry association voted $50 to the National
Dairy union 10 carry OF the fight
against the proposed change in the
oleomargarin laws, The business tran.
sacted by the creamery in twelve
months amounted TO nearly $50 600
The old directors and officers were
reelected.
Judge Frank McNulty has refused
the petition of N. Geib, of Minneapolis
for the appointment of a temporary
receiver for the Aberdeen Hardware
company, of which Geib is a heavy
stakeholder. The matter of the
appointment Of a permanent receiver
will come up at the February term of
court in AberdeeH.
At "a meeting of the stockholders of
the Aberdeen street railway company,
IL was resolved TO proceed at once to
comply with the company's charter
requiring the construction and opera.
tion of the four miles of street railway
in the cify in 1910, aud former Governor
Charles n. Herreid was chosen as active
manager of the company.
The office of the secretary of the
state board of agriculture at Huron in
charge of q. n. McIlvaIue, is "a very
busy place. Arrangements for next
falls exhibition are materializing and a
force of clerks are pushing the work as
rapidly as possible. A number of
counties, Sphinx being in the lead, have
appropriated funds for an agricultural
exhibit at the 1910 fair, which action
likewise.
The joint Boards of commissioners of
Clay and Yankton counties will meet
in a few days 10 settle with the dredg-
ing company for the construction of
the Clay Greek drainage ditch, bur
there is sure TO be friction when the
boards that they propose to
hold back SO per day from April i,
1909, for failure 10 complete contract
by that time II the company accepted
the claim OF the county il would lose
about 81 600. The cases is likely TO 60
into the courts.
The first man 10 be placed in the
Sioux Falls peuiteutiary under the
indeterminate sentence law passed by
the last legislature is Frank Leonard.
Leonard was at the last term of the
circuit court in Charles Mix county
convicted Of the charge Of attempted
murder. Il ) Mckay took Leonord in
and turned him over TO Warden Sven
son at Sioux Falls last week. He may
be let out in one year and he may be
forced 10 serve ten years. All. will
depend on his conduct
AT a meeting OF the beard of regents
held at Brookings last week il was
decided 10 add another year to the pre-.
paratory department of the state col.
lege, making admission to the freshman
class the equal 10 graduation from a
first-class high school. This makes the
preparatory course four years instead
of three. TO become operative at the
beginning of the college year next Sep.
tember. The regents also authorized a
correspondence course in agriculture.
home economies and nature study.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad
has just made several important appro
priations for improvements and extern
'sicrs. among others being one of $l65.
900 for the new station and depot at
Watertown and improvements in and
about that city Plans for the new
station, 1t is understood have been
accepted and there will be no delay in
starting building operations. Provision
il made for a new system Of sidings and
freight tracks. the plan being to make
Waterfowl the chief division point for
al lines Of the system operating west
of Minneapolis, The new station at
Wnsrrtown is to be the best in the
Efa,e OF South Dakota
the South Dakota State Horticultural
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