The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-04-28

Inc FAIR dSSociaIioh
has been organized at Gettysburg.
Plans are being laid for the building
of a $4,000 Elks' home in Yankton.
The county board OF Buffalo county
will erect a court house at a cost OF
$4,000.
A stock company has been organized
at Custer to install an electric light
system.
Swift & Co. have let a contract for
the erection of a $4,000 packing house
supply building and office at Lead.
l.. B. wadleigh, who owns about
ten sections OF land in Sully and
Hughes counties, has decided to drill
for oil.
An election for voting on issuing
bonds for $685. for the erection of a
new school house will be held at
Woonsocket
F. C. w. Kuehm, architect, Huron,
has drawn plans for a two story brick
block for the Beadle County Herald
and p~ostoffice at Wolsey.
The executive council Of the South
Dakota Bankers association have fixed
the dates for their annual convention
on June Z and s at Sioux Falls.
A steam engine prairie breaking out
fit from Presho last week started In
on a 700-acre prairie breaking con
tract in the vicinity of Reliance.
G. A. Bradley, an employee of the
Morrell Packing company at Sioux
Falls, was killed by a heavy timber
falling from one of the buildings.
A baseball association has been or.
ganized at Trip. A team will be kept
in the field throughout the season,
with G. J. Klaudt as manager and G.
w. Hahn captain.
The Dakota Cereal Co. of Aberdeen
has resumed operations after having
been out of business for some time.
A new brick school building Is be.
ing talked of at Viborg.
Gust B~eckrath, a timberman In the
Homestake gold mine at Lead, was in
stantly killed and his helper, Ben
Mattson, sustained a broken leg In a
cavein in the mine at the 600 foot
level.
G.. M. Poe has sold the New theater
at Yankton to Fred H. Hoerman OF
Washington, Kan, the consideration
being $4,000. w. A. Brodt will be
manager of the playhouse for Mr.,
Herman.
C. J. McBeth, a rancher on Chey.
enne river about 20 miles north OF
Wasta, has placed a current motor of
his own devising in the stream, and
by 1t is pumping water for irrigation
of his land.
The McCook County Odd Fellows
association celebrated the 92d ami
versary of the founding of Odd Fellow
ship at Bridgewater. The lodges OF
Spencer. Salem and Canistota com
prise the association.
Hot Springs is following the lead
Of larger and weather. cities In estab-
fishing a press service, which will be
maintained by the Commercial club.
Their purpose is to advance the repu.
tation of Hot Springs as a health and
pleasure resort.
Lying face down in Rapid creek, in
Rapid City, the body OF Albert Slowly,
an Indian boy. formerly a student at
the Indian school there, was found by
a passefby. He was subject to cpl
leptic fits and is believed to have been
attacked just as was crossing the
stream.
Slightly damaged by long exposure,
a package of notes which formed a
part OF the booty secured by yeggmen
when they robbed the Peterson bank
at Cotton about two and one-hali
years ago, was recently found by Ole
Opoein, a farmer living Is miles north
west OF Sioux Falls.
Farmers from the Missouri valley
country north of Pierre report putting
in a much lager acreage Of crop of al
kinds this year chan Tor any former
year. This has been brought about
in a large measure by the use Of trac
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