The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-08-17
A fine new Methodist church building
has just been completed at Ravinia.

A fine new Methodist church building
has just been completed at Ravinia.
G. w. Forncrook of Grant county is
the owner Of a tive-legged calf which
walks on three legs, giving the other
two a rest.
Eagle Butte, in Dewey county,
claims the distinction of being with
out a single equal suffrage advocate
among It's women.
Tibet new town and public hall
building at Running Water is com
pleted and has been dedicated and
formally opened to the public.
Many towns over the state are re-
porting a shortage of ice. The intense
heat early in the season made such a
draft on the supply put up that houses
are empty.
Out of the nine grain elevators OPP
Grating at Groton, it is said but three
will be kept open this season, the 9th
! ers closing down on account Of the
short crop.
lightning struck the o. w. Beach
house neal Lebanon during a storm,
doing considerable damage. Mr..
Beach's 11-year-old son was severely
burned by the electric fluid.
Fire recently destroyed the black
smith shop and residence of Mr.. Hough
at Glenham. The fire broke out in the
middle of the night, and the hotel neal
by was saved with difficulty.
The board of education at Peever
has awarded the contract for the cree
ton of a new school building, which
will cost about $4,000. 1t will be COM
pleted and ready for occupancy about
October Is.
Labor won it's first battle in secur
ing the unionizing of the job of the
Elks' building at Rapid City after a
one day strike. This carries an ad-
vance of Is cents per hour to the brick
masons and a nine hour day.
Edward Woitha, aged 8, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. A. j. Woitha, who reside on
a farm near Scotland, had a narrow es-
cape from being killed by IA ferocious
JUL II wy hhd DSSh b"NiJ ~
jured when the animal tossed him in
to a ditch. This saved the boys life,
for the bull rushed headlong past the
ditch and the boy was able to run to a
place of safety.
Just twenty-four hours after eating
some bananas, which her mother had
given her, Margaret, the ~3-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Simp-
son of Paullina, Ia, died at st. Joseph's
hospital, at Deadwood, the physician
diagnosing the case as ptOmaine pois-
oning. The child with her parents
had been visiting relatives at Dead
wood. 1t is thought that the bananaS
were oyer-ripe.
The officers of the Charles Mix
County Fair association are 10Y work
ing hard for the fair which will be
held at Platte the 9Th, 18th and Sth of
September. The outlook for good eX-
hibits were never better than they
are this year. Secretary Button is a
busy man and ne says everything
points to the best fair in the history
of the association. Some very good
attractions have already beer secured.
While William Kniseley, a farm
hand, and a son Of his employer were
in a pasture near Aurora shooting
blackbirds, the former had one of his
hands blown off by the accidental dis
charge of a shotgun. He had stopped
for the purpose Of resting for a mo-.
ment and had placed the stock Of the
gun on the ground and had his hand
over the muzzle, when in some unac.
countable manner the weapon was
discharged.
Completely exhausted from the eff.
fects of deadly gasses in the shaft OF
a well in which he was working. Chris
Johnson of Clear Lake, lost his grip
on a rope thrown to his rescue and
persisted before further aid could be
secured. Johnson was sent down in
to the well to investigate a roaring
sound and discovering gas, he called
for help but by the time a o p reach
ed him he had lost hi strength. He
was found crouched on his hands and
knees at the bottom. Johnson was
single, 25 years of age.
The death of Mrs. George Porter,
near P~lankinton, by lightning, as re-
ported in the daily papers, was follow
ed by the death a short time later OF
Samuel Boyd, one of the w~ell-known
farmers of the region neal Plankinton.
He was assisting a neighbor in thresh-
ing, when a bolt Of lightning struck
him on the head, tearing away nearly
all his clothing and killing him IN
stantly. He was sc years old and came
to South Dakota four years ago from
Jones county, Iowa. He is survived
by a widow and four children.
Black Hills Shriners are working
on a plan for a summer home of the
order at some point in the Hills. At
the Rochester meeting last month it
was decided to purchase a tract Of
5000 acres for a recreation resort for
Shriners. 1t is proposed by the order
to allot a plot of ground to each tenn
pie, on which a club house may be
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