Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-18
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

SOUIn UHhUIA NEWS MVlES
Marvin announces that the Fourth
of July will be celebrated in that viii
lage
movement has been inaugutated
by the women of Worthwhile to organize,
relief corps.
The Presbyterian church society of
Groton has awarded the contract for
the erection of new $4,000 edifice
The Masonic Building association at
Wagner has completed it's building and
the lodge has moved into it's new
quarters.
The people of Stratford have organ
lied an independent school district
and will build new school house to
cost S6,500.
AS the result of several recent
meetings a baseball association has
been organized at Pukwana ard team
placed in the field.
An electric light system of limited
capacity has been installed at Lennon
and and will be increased until The
entire town is lighted.
The dates for the auto show at Belle
Fourche have been changed to June
% and %, so that they viii not inter
fere vt.h the dates of the horse racing
at Spearfish
Memorial day has been decided
upon as the time for the laying of the
corner stone of the fine new Sully
county court house, which is to be
erected at Onida
The Aberdeen Railway company has
added three new street cars to it's
equipment. Work is being pushed on
the extensions of the line in the south
east part of town.
Frank Garskel of Watertown, tin
ner, suffered several broken bones,
and bruises about the head and face
as the result of 30-foot fall from a
roof of a residence.
Watertown will have the honor of
entertaining the annual meeting of the
South Dakota Merchants association
next year as a result of vote taken at
their meeting at Huron.
e. o. Churton of LaDelle recently
sold fourteen Galloway steers which
averaged 1878 pounds in weight each.
altogether 1S,460 pounds and the av-
erage price was s73.S4, the entire.
bunch selling for s1,O33.76.
Arrangements are being completed
for a big historic pageant to be put on
in Yankton during the semi-centennial
celebration of Dakota, depicting the
earliest days among the Indians and
French traders. The dates of the cel-
ebration are June II to II.
Arrangements are being made for
the erection OF new public school
building at White Lake, for which the
voters at special election authorized
bonds of $4,000. Only 81 votes were
cast against the proposition. The new
structure will be ready when the falp
term commences.
James O'Brien, Joe Howard and joe
Smith were sentenced in federal court
at Aberdeen by Judge Willard for rob-
bing the postoffice at Stockholm on
December %, 1910. O'Brien and How
ard received five years each for bur-
glary and three years, but Smith was
let off with three years for burglary
and two years for robbery.
Sioux Falls has been chosen by the
national committee in charge of the
Men and Religion Forward movement
as one of the 80 cities of North Ameri--
ca which shall be used as centers of
this movement A campaign, similar
to the laymen's missionary campaign
of last year, is being planned for the
fall of 1911 and the spring Of 1912.
Aroused to the Importance of secur-
ing better fire protection, the business;
men and other residents of Claremont
have commenced an agitation for mu--
nicipal waterworks
George Croisant Of Ramona, met
with bad accident while blasting
rock. A charge of powder premature
ly exploded and the charge struck the
young man in the face, making a bad
hole in his forhead and severely injur-
ing his eyes and burning his face His
left hand was also badly lacerated and
it was necessary to amputate all but
two fingers.