The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-01-28
week IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
important Events in the State
Briefly Told.

Aberdeen-There were thirty-five
births and twenty-nine deaths in this
(Brown) county during the month of
December.
Sioux Falls-The third annual con-
vention of the Farmers Grain Deal
ers association Of South Dakota. will
be held in Sioux Falls, February 9
and 10. This association was organ
ized but a few years ago, but during
its short existence it has proven of
great value to the farmers Of this
section. An excellent program has
been arranged in connection with
the coming meeting.
Morristown-At an election held OF
the 18th of January, 1910 the voters
here decided to incorporate the town
by a unanimous vote. The people
here are getting ready to handl the
large immigration to this part of the
state next spring, and have incOr-
porated with the idea of keeping
down the rough element that always
follows the opening of Indian Reser-
vationS.
Aberdeen-A report comes from
Wakpala to the effect hat Great No.
thern surveyors are running a line
from Herreid to Wakpala. h Great
Northern does not enter Iferreid the
500 being the road there. and it
Is surmised here that the 500 rath-
er than the Great Northern, contem-
plates entering the reservation oun
try by way of Wakpala, which is on
the Milwaukee's Puget Sound line.
Vermillion-This city's new $500
opera house is rapidly nearing COM
pletion, and it is expected that it will
be ready for the first attraction Feb
urary /. 1t is one Of the finest play
houses in the state, considering it's
size. and will fill a long felt want in
the State University city. The man
agement will be under the supervision
Of the city council, and the bookings
have been turned Over to Maurice w.
Jencks.
Vermillion-Clay county is per-
haps the only county in the state that
has an unbroken record for county
fairs, and so successful was the n in
1893 that the stockholders have con-
cluded to hold another in 1910, fol-
lowing the Interstate fair at Sioux
City. The officers for the ensuing
year are. E. Fl. Maurer, president:
Charles Chaussee, vice president; Jas
Partridge, secretary and c. J. Cum
derson, treasurer.
Pierre-The state LAM department
has made the January apportionment
Of income funds due the various lnstl-
tutions of the state entitled to the
same, the amount sent out being:
University s17S.6T; Deaf and Dumb
school, 1926; State Training school.
$3.50; Agricultural college, $3l1.6O:
Madison normal, $157.19; Spearfish.
normal, s157.1S; Springfield normal.
$500 Aberdeen normal, $7s1.15:
School of Mines, $96.O7; experiment
s~ub-stations, $12.2O.
Pelle Fourche-LOcal newspapers
take exception to the statement en-
anating from the town Of Sturgis
that place did the ann business for
the year in the railroad freight. 1t is
claimed here that the annual figures
for 1909 snow that Belle Fourche eX-
ceeded Sturgis by s156,000 for the
year. One month in the year alone.
totaled over 500, 900 for this point.
but as the figures do not state
whether this includes the outgoing
cattle and stock freight. 1t is probable
that it does.
Rradley-At an enthusiastic meet
ing held here this evening a CONNER
cial club a organized with a mem
bership of 80. j. d. Mckinney was
elected president, Joel Mckee, vice
president, w. II. Dudley, secretary.
Hugh Seaman treasurer, A. E. Gates.
+. ID. Kenyon, II. Y. Scarborough, s
b. Caldwell, D. Perry and w. A. Day
as a board of directors. The meet
ing will be held on the first and third
Mondays of each month and a cam
paign of advertising and town i'm
provements begun.
Aberdeen-Aberdeen has acquired
an airship factory among its list Of
manufactures. Professor Fred w.
Smith, science teacher in the North
ern Normal and Industrial school, is
making an airship in the factory on
trolled by him for the manufacture
of automobile supplies. h model
is somewhat similar to the Curtiss
machine, and Professor Smith is con-
fident it will navigate the air as well
as any of the airships now in use. AS
soon as the machine is complete he
expects to make an ascension.
Whitewood-Caught in a blizzard
in which he lost his way and only
through sheer pluck saved his life
and reached Sturgis in safety, Char
les Barton, stage driver between Vale
and Bixby, was so badly frozen that
he will lose boil hands and feet. Bar
ton is a young man and when found
he had lost his way, abandoned his
rig and set out across the prairie in