The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-07-20
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

The Mission Hill Farmers Elevator
company has declared a dividend Of 20
per cent.
The gold ore production in the
Black Hills promises to break all pre-
vious records in the present year.
Hot Springs reports are to the eff
feet that there are many spots in Fall
River county where the crop yield
will be better than the average.
An engineer has been engaged and
0 will visit Winner for the pur-
pose of preparing plans and specitica-
tons for a new municipal waterwOrks
system.
The various committees have been
appointed 10 have charge Of the ar
engagements for the annual Aurora
county fair, to be held at Plankinton
September >, 6 and I.
During a sham battle fought near
the Rosebud agency by q large num-
Der of Sioux warriors, a ~14-year-oid
Indian boy. whose name was not as
certained, was accidentally shot and
killed.
Pat Stevens, who broke Jail at Fair
fax about a year ago, has been appr@
hended at Billings, Mont, and Sheriff
Pierce will go there for him. He was
in jail charged with robbing a Gregory
man.
Otto Biederman, living on the state
line, three miles south Of Fairfax, at
tempted suicide by slashing his throat
with a razor, barely missing the jugu-
lar vein. He may recover. No cause
is known or given.
In his opening address at the Wa.
tertown c~hautauqua the president,
Geo. w. Chase, insisted that if the
people of Watertown wanted to see
the chautauqua pe~rpetuated they must
give it better support.
Mitchell Presbyterians have passed
resolutions condemning the open air
meetings held by some of the denom-
nations in that town. They intimate
it gives the Young people too much
opportunity for ]spoOning.
The federal government is conduct
ing a sugar beet experiment at the
South Dakota State College at Brook,
ings, the government furnishing the
seed, plant expert, etc, while the
state College furnishes the land and
the tools.
The Mitchell city council is spend
ing s. 1900 in improving the road lead
ing from the city to Graceland Gene
terry. 1t is claimed the road will be
the best one-mile t~horOughfare in the
state when the improvements are COM
pleted.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the farmers elevator COM
pany which conducts an elevator at
Elkton, a dividend Of 10 per cent was
declared and the remainder OF the
years profits was placed in the bills
PAYABLE fund. The old board of Girec-
tors was elected for another year.
A heavy fall of frost is reported
within a radius of ten miles of Dead
wood. A number of truck farmers
declare their gardens are ruined. The
frost lay as white on the ground as
on a November morning. No rain has
visited that section for nearly a
month.
NJ. F. Weaver, president of the Muir
do Gun club, has issued a challenge in
behalf of the club to any team of -four
or FIVE men from any club in Lyman
or Stanley counties for a match shoot
at 100 birds for each man, for a purse
of S25 or $50. The choice of grounds
will be left to the club accepting the
challenge.
The new Lutheran church building
at Lowrey has been dedicated. An
elaborate program was prepared for
the occasion. Rev. Mr.. Tauber ond
Rev. Mr.. Haag of Eureka had charge
of the dedicatory exercises.
A cyclone covering a narrow strip
near Gary caused the destruction Of
considerable property, the loss OF
several head of live stock and the
ruination OF the crops in the direct
path OF the storm. Among the build
ings damaged by the wind was the
state blind school, where the roof was
blown off the new dormitory.