Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1911-06-15
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

tournament on the Fourth of July.
The First Presbyterian church at
Wataugua was organized recently.
Edward Keever, a claim holder near
Dupree, will put in 100 acres to fax
this season.
Chandler Quincy of Yankton lost the
first 1oint of his right hand index finger
by catching it in the wheel Of bicy.
Gle.
The members of the Odd Fellows
lodge at Vermillion have completed
preparations for erecting a fine lodge
building.
A baseball association has been or.
ganized at Alphena and team placed
in the field, with DR.. Burns as manager
and Karl Aisenbury, captain.
Mrs. Maria Weldert, one of the ear
Hest and highly respected pioneers
of Douglas county, died at her home
eieh miles northeast of Armour, aged
"a years.
Petitions recently forwarded to the
postoffice department have been ia
'SAo1Ay ISbCA upOhs dAO III dSNOI udhCS
with the request the Madison postof.
Ace will be closed on Sunday here
after.
Crops never looked better around Ar
mour than at the present time. There
is an abundance of rainfall and the
growing conditions are ideal. The
acreage is much in excess of any pre-
vious year
Isabel business men and citizens
have subscribed $4,000 to fund to be
used in arranging for a celebration at
Isabel on July 4. Races, fireworks,
speeches and other attractions are be-
ing planned for.
The people of Howard have petition
ed the Milwaukee company to extend
the night train, which now stops at
Madison, as far west as Howard. 1t
would be great convenience to the
travelling public.
The town trustees of Alhee have
purchased at considerable cost a great
deal of fire fighting apparatus, and Al
bee will in the future have good pro
lection. A movement is now on foot
to erect a fine town hall.
Great interest is being taken in the
annual school election, to be held at
Bancroft soon, for at the election the
proposition of issuing bonds in the
sum of $4,000 for the erection Of new
school building will be submitted to
the voters.
Asking for drink and swallowing
what was believed to be whisky, Bi
Bolster of Spearfish fell in a convul-
sion and died in few minutes. Inves-
tigation proved that the young man
had been accidentally given a jug con-
tanning gopher poison.
The Foresters of Hoven originally
planned to exclusively own a new OPP
era house which now is In course of
construction, but it has been decided
| to sell an interest in the building to
the local st. Joseph's society. When
completed the structure will be known
as the Catholic Society hall.
The record of the count of mail In
the Plankinton postoffice shows that
q total of $500 pieces passed through
the office during the month or this
number 1885 pieces were dispatched
from the office and 1926 received.
These figures include all classes Oh
mail received and dispatched.
A cooperative union syndicate mas
been formed at Scotland and the SV~
acre tract of land owned by Ale Brown
was planted to melons. stockholders
in this new enterprise NUMBER ABOUT
80, who each subscribed 20 cents. Tney
say thew will be exporting melons by
the carloads if the season is favorable
for such crop.
Fritz Walstrom, young farmer, lit
eralIy blew his brains out" with q
shotgun. dying almost instantly. He
Iieyed with his mother and sister six
miles east of Fairfax, near the Ne
braska and Dakota line, and was i'm
dustrious and apparently fairly pros
porous. Walstrom had been observed
lately seemingly brooding over some
imaginary or other trouble. He was
80 years old.
Armed with an ordinary metal beer
bottle opener, John Brenna, aged Is,
a messenger boy at Sioux Falls, held
a man wanted by the police for assault
and battery until officers arrived The
lad, hardly four feet tall, found Peter
Hindlin hidden in an alley. Pointing
the metal opener at him he promised
death II move was made.
Emmanuel P. Hebner, farmer liv..
Ing 10 miles from Oelrichs, was taken
to the hospital at Hot Springs with a
bullet In bis right leg. Hebner let q
pistol fall on the ground when it 81.
pioded. The bullet lodged IA his hip.