The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-08-11
SOUTH DAKOTA AT A GLANCE.

A tornado at Parker did much dam
age to the property of the Ford Horse
company.
Cement workers on the new Mil
waukee buildings at Aberdeen have
struck for higher pay.
Frank Smith of Milbank committed
suicide by hanging himself in his barn.
He leaves q wife.
The cornerstone of the new Hyde
county court house at Highmore will
be laid Saturday, August 5.
The board of education at Mitchell
has appropriated $4,000 for the
schools of that district during the com.
ing year.
were held up and robbed on a lonely
road by seven tramps with guns.
Through the devastating effect of
hail storm in the region of Hecla,
100000 worth of crops have been de-
stroyed.
An official garbage hauler has been
appointed in WATERFOWL. He is paid
out of the general fund of the city
treasury.
The body of Frank Olmstead of Do
land, who has been missing since June
8, was found in bushes a mile west of
Mitchell.
The architects plans for a new $751;
900 Y. M. c. A. building at Mitchell
have been submitted to the committee
in charge.
The hail damage at Hecla was great
or OF
were completely destroyed on over 100
sections of land.
Corn, potatoes and other vegetables
are reported in fine condition in the
section around Aberdeen, due to good
rains during July.
Charles O'Neil of Lowry was struck
by lightning while working in hay
field and instantly killed. A team
which he was driving was also killed.
Every butcher in Sioux Falls has
been arrested and fined for adding
borax and other personalities to sau-
sage. The fines ranged from SIS to
500.
The farmers of Brown county have
discovered great armies of peculiar
green worms, never seen before in
that section, which eat only Russian
thistle and pigweed.
A good roads campaign is on in
Trip county.
The 14-year-old son of Mrs. Charles
Perry, living near Pierre, was drag
ged to his death by pony when the
lads saddle turned and his foot was
caught in the stirrup during a race.
Lightning struck the farm house of
G. w. Schoonover at washington.
The elevator and coal sheds of the
Atlas Elevator Co. at Nolga were de-
stroyed by fire.
John Walden, president of the Lake
County bank, dropped dead at Madi-
son from heart failure.
Pollock. a town of $50 population,
was wiped off the map, according to
reports at Aberdeen.
Extensive improvements are being
made on the Milwaukee line between
Bridgewater and Mitchell.
Farmers from Bates township near
washington report the corn is six feet
high, with great prospects.
| Ralph Nicol and Miss Florence
Young, former college sweethearts of
Yankton college, were married at
Yankton.
Wade & Templeton, butchers of
Miller, found handful of ten-penny
nails in the stomach of cows car
cass.
The Yankton Auto Supply Co. has
lbeen purchased by Won Donselaar
Bros, who will continue the business
in Yankton.
The 14-year-old son of Mrs. Chas
Perry, of the Big Bend country, was
thrown from his pony and dragged to
death.
John H. Perry, one of the oldest res
idents of Aberdeen, died at his sum
mer home at Ortonville, Mimi, Of or
ganic heart trouble.
Thirteen hundred persons witnessed
the laying of the cornerstone Of the
new science hall at Wesleyan univer
sity in Mitchell.
Farmers near Yankton are alarmed
over the appearance of anthrax. State
Veterinary Hicks is taking steps tc
prevent it's spread.
The grand commandery of the
Knights Templar of South Dakota viii
convene for it's 2Sth annual conclavt
at Chamberlain on Aug s.
All the business houses and mining
plants of Deadwood closed and pait
reverence to the late William L. Nc
Laughlin, pioneer attorney, during hi
funeral.
The notaries of several registration
, towns in Gregory are forming opposi
{ ton to Judge Wittens ruling that thu
| registration books shall be kept opel
> day and night
4 The report of Dr. o. N. Hoyt, secre
> tary of the state board of health a
!. Pierre, shows that the percentage o
l deaths due to measles was greater IL
| June than that of smallpox.
The dry weather has turned the at
: tention of many farmers west of thu
> Missouri river to irrigation. Plans t
3 use the waters of the Cheyenne, Whit
Y and Missouri rivers are under way
! Several members of the South Da
/ kota state university faculty are in
= vestigating geological and biological
: phenomena in the Black Hills, particu
= larly the famous wind cave at Ho