Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-07-27

of Centerville, recently celebrated
their silver wedding anniversary.
Nearly 100 persons were present
l.. A. lockwood, who recently drove
from Oklahoma to Dupree, told Du-
pree folks when he reached there that
he had found it as dry al the way
along as it was at Dupree.
The city authorities of Woonsocket
recently ordered a number of sanitary
drinking fountains, which have been
received and installed at various
points in the business district
Word comes from Armour that
Yanlton academy last year, was killed
by lightning while attending to his
duties on the farm near that town.
The first cha,ltauaua attempted in
Yankton closed Saturday night, and
was complete success, financially
and o~aerwise. 1t will probably be
come a permanent annual feature in
that city
Christopher Brown, a 14-yearold
| Tripp county lad, was bitten by rat
| tlesnake, but he whipped out his knife
and cut a deep cash where the wound
had been inflicted, causing the niuo,
to flow freely. and suffered no great
inconvenience from the occurance.
While crossing the Jim river with a
traction engine at Yankton, the engine
went through the bridge and Earl He'd
elson, the engineer, went down with it.
| He rose to the surface and was res
cued with minor hurts, but the engine
was wrecked, entailing a loss of $500.
While playing with loaded A re-
| yolver. the 9-ycarold son of Mr. and
MIS-. Andrew Hopper, Perkins county
homesteaders, accidentally discharged
the weapon, the bullet lodging in the
| body of his 3-year-old sister The
child was hurried to physician at
Bison, but it died in short time.
Clarence d. Hoff, homesteader
north OF Faith. expects to raise from
eight to twelve bushels of durum wheat
\
Hoff has twenty acres in durum wheat
and says that although not drop OF
rain has fallen on his fields this seas
on, the grain is about two feet high
and we'll headed out
William Conway. farmer near Art
as, met with severe loss last week
when the state veterinarian found
three horses and a colt afflicted with
glanders and killed them. Conway
will receive $50 apiece for the horses
and $25 for the colt. from the state.
but that will not nearly compensate
4 him for the loss.
| S. P. Jensen, a farmer living some
miles from washington Springs, had a
narrow escape from death. He was
engaged in moving when his horses
| became frightened and ran away He
was thrown from the mower and drag
ged a considerable distance. having
| two ribs broken and being otherwise
seriously injured.
| Reports made at the annual meeting
of the stockholders of farmers CO.
| operative company of Henry, show
that during the past year the company
made profit of $4,000. With the div
idend paid this year it makes an ag-
gregate of 1913 per cent that the COM
| pany has paid it's stockholders since
| it was organized four years ago. !,
| At the anual business meeting of
- -{1 ,1l -
Cooperative Elevator company it was
ordered that the profits, amounting
to 20 per cent, be paid to several
| stockholders from whom the company
borrowed money couple of years ago
An interest payment on the stock also
was ordered The company now has
been placed in excellent financial CON
ditnon
Il don't know whether I can swim
or not, but here goes for a try at for
ty miles an hour" said 19-year-old Ed
gar Baldwin to his companions at the
Christianson ice pond near White
wood. The other boys were dressing
on the bank and thought Baldwin was
fooling as he dove into the deep water.
When he failed to come up the second
time help was summoned and the body
fished out.
The county commissioners of Doug
las county in session at Armour voted
an appropriation amounting to 80 per
cent of the premiums paid at the coun-
ty fair to be held at Armour August
80, 81 and September 1, 1911. The
crops in Douglas county are better
than the average in the state this year
and there is feeling among the far
mers to have good fair. One day
has been set aside for an old settlers
picnic and the management assures
the public of some excellent attrac.
tions.
Huron.-The authorities OF the city