The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-07-20
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

the members of the local w. G. r. u,
| an order has been placed for SAM
tary drinking fountain. to be placed On
the most prominent business corner in
the city.
FREEMAN-Rev. Mr.. Bourman
for some time pastor of the German
| Lutheran church at this place, has ac-
cepted call TO the pastorate OF a
church at Hamburg, Mimi. and will
leave for that place in the near future.
ELK POINT-Professo f. l.. Cum
mings, of this place. who recently took
| a post graduate course at the Chicago
university and graduated In June. re-
ceiving the degree OF M. A.. has ac-
cepted a position as principal of the
city schools at Forsythe, Mont.
SIOUX FALLS-Thomas r. Wells, a
| merchant of Warner filed petition in
the United States district court to be
adtudged bankrupt. Wells reports his
which total s457O.15. consist chiefly OF
stock, which is listed at $4,000.
| DEADwOOD-Thom Sterling, OF
Vermjllion. formerly dean Of the law
school at the state university, who re-
| signed to look after his campaign for
| the United States Senate, is visiting
| the Black Hills in the interests of his
candidacy.
| CENTERVILLE City Assessor
Frank Williams reports that Center
vile has q automobiles, 1853 horses, IS
cattle, So hogs, eight mules and four
| to S2l2. 122 The semi-annual apportion-
ment from the income Of the state
school fund just received by the treas
| urer of this district, is 81, 155.
| WHITE LAKE-Rev. Father Fem
Ter. formerly pastor of the local Cath
| Ollie church, Is here for q visit with
| friends. He now holds a position as
chaplain in the regular army and Is
stationed at Vancouver. Wash. On
| September / the regiment with which
| he Is connected will leave for the Phil
| ippines.
| TRENT-Two covered wagons con-
J tanning two families, the fathers and
mothers and an aggregate of nine
children. recently passed through here
| on their way to Canada from Ohio.
The occupants were in destitute cir
| cumstances, and were begging food for
themselves and horses as they went
along.
| ALEXANDRIA-The antics of speed
maniacs have recently become so an
noying that a speed ordinance now has
been placed in effect. 1t has been
customary for some automobile own
ers to speed at 20 or % miles an hour,
| but in future those who exceed the
| speed limit fixed in the new ordinance
will be arrested and fined for their
mania.
MISUNDERSTANDING that G. l. sinty,
an old resident of this county. who re.
| sided near Fairburn, was dead, neigh.
bors sent for the coroner. When the
latter responded and broke into Sinty'.
cabin. he found the old man still alive
but breathing his last. The end came
before Sinty could be removed to a
hospital. Sinty, who was 20 years old
had been stricken with paralysis while
alone.
ABERDEEN Twenty-Five candi-
dates for places on the Aberdeen Grays,
the newly organized amateur baseball
team, have already made their appear
nnce. and Manager Clark has every rca-
son for believing he will succeed i'm get
ting together first rate team to finish
the season. A number Of clerks teams
are already IN process Of organization
and by August ] Aberdeen will have a
city league in excellent shape to play
good baseball.
WAGNER-Wagner and vicinity for
some time past has been overrun by a
bunch OF Asyrian peddlers who have
had out a dozen or so OF wagons ped
ding goods over the county. The mer-
chants here retained H. d. James to
assist States Attorney A, b. Beck to
prosecute them for peddling without Q
license. Some six or eight were arrest
ed and brought before Justice Kaberna
who assessed all OF them good stiff
fines, besides requiring them to pay all
the costs.
JEFFERSON-"Fran jackson" will
doubtless survive the injuries received
in an attempt to rob the Patton post
office, at which time his partner, ].
w. Busby, was killed. He was con.
fined in the county jail here some time
and was then removed to Anamosa for
hospital treatment. Jackson writes to
Sheriff Wilson that he Is now able to
get around little, but a second OPP
GRAFTON has to be performed. He is
under indictment for murder in the
first degree, and his trial will be early
In October.
ABERDEEN--w. White and C. L.
Pier, OF Brookings, members of the
state food and dairy department, are
here examining applications for licenses
to act as buyers Of cream for cream
cries. The men are part OF force au-
thorizsd by the last Legislature to i'm
prove existing methods of producing
butter at creameries. The dairy and
creamery industries of the state have
ness Ignorance and lack of sanitation
in handling the products, and such
troubles will he corrected at once under
the new plan.
ABERDEEN--While a mass meeting
of Corson county homesteaders was
held at Morristown the other day tc
petition the government to grant the
homesteaders deeds to their property or
proving up, without further payment
there Is no disposition on the part OF
the settlers to abandon their elaine
Or sell them for a song, after having
proved up. j. Davis, of Morristown,
while in Aberdeen, stated that one man
near that town refused $4,000 for his
homestead last week, after proving up
and there Is disposition on the part
Of most Of the homesteaders to stick
II out"
P1ERRE-Locusts are reported to
be numerous along the Cheyenne river.
especially among the trees, where they
are eating the foliage, but are not do
Ing other damage so far as reported
In the eastern part of the state grass
hoppers are reported to be doing dam.
age at several places. and about this
city they have been damaging gardens.
out have not got to a point Of doing |
any field damage yet. The conditions
have been favorable for the past two
years for the propagation Of "hoppers,'
and few more dry years might make |
serious pest OF them. |