The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-09-07
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

ital 500, 600, of Pierre; Multigold Cn
of Custer: National Audit and An,
praisal Co.. of Huron.
CARRYING local w. C. 7. u. elec+oa
the following officers for the coming
year: President, Mrs. Bassett. yioe
president, Mrs. Carlson: secrsts Ti;.sa
Mrs. iiliagen n Mrs. Carr; treasurer
Mrs. L H. Huffman.
WAGNER-A tract of land adioinine
the city limits was sold by Frank PAT.
ton, a we'll known pioneer, for $500 an
acre-the highest price at which farm
land ever was sold in Charles My
county. The land is highly improved,
ABERDEEN-At an examination
held before William Wallace. United
States commissioner, H. H. Tilley, pro-
prietor of the Dakota Hide and Fur
company, of Aberdeen, arrested on a
charge of having used the mails to de-
fraud, was bound over to await the ac-
ton of the federal u Tilley will
fight the charge, and has retained L.. T..
Van Slyke, former states attorney for
Brown county, to defend him.
neutrality-suspicious. are being COM
pleted for the annual conference of tho
Central West Bohemian presbytery.
which will be in the Bohemian Presby-
terrain church at this place IN Septem-
her IA to is. Delegates will be present
from a number of the states of the cen
trail west.
PIERRE-1ngineer Green, of the
state engineers office, has returned
from Rifle township, north of Mid
land, Stanley county, where he located
four artesian wells for the township.
They will be three inches in diameter,
will cost about $3,0 0 apiece, and will
be used for stock watering.-
wHITE-In q period of less thar two
weeks after the death of her husband.
Mrs. George B~oothroyd, a well known
pioneer resident of this region, also
passed away and followed her husband
to the grave. She was 81 years Of age
and herself and husband had been res
ideuts of this part OF the state for more
than 30 years.
SALEM-Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Bengt-
son, pioneer and prominent residents
of the farming region near here, re-
Gently celebrated their golden wedding
Sweden so wears age. They took up
their residence in this vicinity early in
the Sos. They have four children, all
of whom are married.
ST. ONGE-His horse stumbling
which threw him forward On the sad
die horn, caused Il fatal accident to
Rudolph Johnson 16-year old son of
Charles Johnson, n farmer here. The
boy was riding home when the accident
occurred, his head coming violently in
contact with the horn of the saddle
n was crushed.
SIOUX FALLS-Preparations have
been completed for the annual nve
tion of the South Dakota Rural Mail
| Carriers association, which will be held
in Sioux Falls on Monday and Tuesday
of next week. The address OF welcome
to the visiting rural mail carriers will
be made by G. l.. Dotson, president of
the Commercial club.
MENN0-In a period of IL working
days. Fred II. Mettler, jr., and his
brother. well known farmers of this
vicinity, with the formers traction
engine and eight plows. plowed an ag-
gregate of 325 acres of iald-or an av-
erage of q acres per day. The 325
acres were plowed at a cost of only
1922 for fuel and oil and for the
sharpening of the plows.
CARRYING state school for the bin
at this place Will open for the fall and
winter term on Wednesday of next
week. The faculty remains the same
as during the last term, with the ex-
ception that Miss Harriet Ainsworth,
of WATERFOWL, will succeed Miss Whit
telsey as teacher of music. The at
tendance at the state school is expected
to be larger this year thar last.
VERMILLION = Yeggmen entered
the store at Greenfield, and after blow
Ing off the safe door with nitro-gly-
cerin, took about $50 in currency and
many valuable papers belonging to H.
j. Hansen. the proprietor. Mrs. Han
sen had just banked $500 the day prev
ious at Vermillion. Nine years ago this
month this same store was entered and
$50 was secured, besides a quantity Of
postage stamps.
REDFIELD-The local campaign for
an endowment and building fund for
the greater Redfield college has culmi-
mated with a total subscription of $685.
600 by the citizens Of Redfield and
Sphinx county. This is a greater amount
than has ever been subscribed by any
other South Dakota city. Redfield has
a population of 1850, and in proportion
to population this subscription has
never been equaled in the United
| States. 80
PIERRE-The state board of embal-
mers has filed a statement of finance
of that board for the past year with
/ Governor Wesley. They show receipts
of $710.50, leaving; a balance of 1884, 95
in the hands of the treasurer of the
board. Most of the expenditures for
the ear were incurred in conducting a
school of instruction for emblamers at
this city during the time of their an
nnal meeting in June, at which an in
struetor from Chicago was employed in
the work for a week.
MISUNDERSTANDING a few hours aft
ter returning Rome from a vacation
! sNtfs; H. iesy had spent the Pacific
coast Benjamin B. B%oothroyd, a
pioneer of Brown county, vas taken i'll
and died within a short time. He was
Form at Red Wing, Mimi, in 1851, and
came to Brown county in 1889, residing
on a homestead near Warner, S. D.,
until 1892, Whea he moved to Aberdeen.
He was for a number Of years an ex-
press messenger for the W~ells-Fargo
E.rress company on h milwaukee
road.
HOT SPRINGS-The team. wagon
and every earthly possession of John
I-averY. a prairie schooner ens:-s.t
i wcreTiost III the Cheyenne river YES
terday at the Sleeve crossing, a few
miles cast Of this city. Lavery came
through Hot Springs on his way to Ne
bTaska. He had been on e ranch some
distance west of here. but deserted it
and had all his effects with him. THE
river was high and he drove some
loose horses into the water to see
where the best ford was While he
was a short distance away his team
4 followed the horses .fryf,ae 4 f,a5 81 a a :,