The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-07-29

way company has established an agent
at Wetonka, following an order OF
the railway commission, which was
issued after a hearing In this city
several weeks ago.
The state educational department
has begun to receive the papers from
fhn teachers examinations Of last
week. Stanley county sends in seven
tv-fve sets of papers from the teach
ers who took the examination In that
county.
The government is unloading heifers
at lie Beau for the Cheyenne River
Indians. These cattle Will be dis
tributed to the Indians whether they
are on allotments or still On the
reservations, and will be used to
stock up their herds.
Governor Vessey has appointed as
delegates to the National Good Roads
congress to be held at Niagara Fails
July 1929 and 80, the members OF
the state good roads commission the
three men being E. c. lseInutn, OK
Redfeld: ]. r. Dalton OF WonpSocket
]. w. Parmley Of Ipswich.
The returns TO the state auditor
show that since the assessment OF a
year ago, eighty-one new telephone
companies have commenced to do
business in the state. The total num-
her returned 10 the state assessment
board a year ago, being 293; and the
total this year running up to 374.
The state railway commission has
fixed a hearing on the 26th OF THIS
month at Carlisle, where the people
are asking for the location of a STA
tion agent; and on the 9th at ALASKA
where the people are petition1ng Tor
both a station and an agent. These
places are both on the Minneapolis
and st. Louis road.
Examination for the right to prac-
tice medicine in this state has just
been held at Lead by the South Da-
kota Board of Medicine with over a
Score Of applicants from over the
state present. A number OF the appn-
cants were physicians who have Drac-
| ticed in other states and desire admis-
sion In SOutn DdkOld.
The state assessment board had to
take a recess to wait for the reports
of telephone companies not yet sent
in. About seventy of the companies
doing business in the state have failed
to report. Under the law, the board
is authorized to add IS per cent to
their valuation which they do return,
when they fail to get them In by the
prescribed time. .,.a.
The governors Office has received a
list of the names of the members or
the First South Dakota regiment, who
are to receive money due them for
services in the Philippines. The total
amount Of claims allowed is a little
more than SIS. 900, but 20 per cent
of this goes to the attorney who got
the claims through. This is distribut-
ed in sums ranging from a few cents
IN to about s75 for the highest sum
to any one man. .M'
State Engineer Lea has returned
from Brown, county, where he had a
| conference with the commissioners OF
Brown CUuUly III "ICldIiOb 10 n
ace ditch asked by the residents OF
southwestern Marshall county, While
the Marshall county people bear all
| the expense of the work, they must
find an outlet through Brown county,
and REQUIRED action OF the board OF
that county, which was secured.
Articles OF INCORPORATION have heen
fled for the Farmers Telephone COM
pany of Kadoka, with a caDital Of
$4,000, for the purpose of a local eS-
change and long distance onrer,
tions. The incorporators are Otto G.
Shennon, F. Rounds and j. P. Serr.
For the Dexter-Germantown Tele-
phone company with headquarters at
South Shore, and a capital OF $780, 900,
the incorporates are E. G. Ellingson,
Arthur Xix, Robert Naldner and Mar
tin Amdahl.
The South Dakota Interurban Rail-
way company has filed with the secre-
tary of state, an amendment to its
articles of Incorporation, which pro-
vides for an increase in the capital
stock frome one million dollars to two
million dollars and also to extend the
western terminal of the system from
Bijou Hills to Chamberlain. This line
is to run from Sioux City into South
Dakota and while no construction
work has been done on the line, the
promoters have been busy for more
than a year acquiring right OF way
and other preliminary work, and have
shaped up a great deal along that line.
Rev. DR.. George Kenngott or Low
ell, Mass, is in this part of the coun-
try as a representative of the Elliott
fund for the benefit of Indian educa-
tion. This fund was established
nearly three hundred years ago In
New England, and has been a growing
fund for some years DIR. Kengott Is
in the west. looking up a suitable To-
! cation for the use OF a portion OF the
fund and As looking over the situa
ton at Oahe. Just north OF this city,
where DR.. Riggs has conducted q
school for a number of years, but was
compelled to discontinue II this year
on account of lack of funds to con-
tinue the work.
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