The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-12-28
DAKOTA STATE NEWS

mas leased me apartments vi eic sSSche
floor of q business block.
BRIDGEwATER-Rudolph Cole. Of this
place, marketed a 20-months old Chester
White hog yesterday weighing no pounds.
TYNDALL - Extensive improvements
have been made to the local opera house,
among these being the installing OF an
electric lighting system.
YANKToN-A. w. Lavender, of this
city, has announced himself a candidate
before the June primary for railroad com
missioner on the republican ticket.
PLANKINToN-During the past week
seven boys and two girls were received
at the state training (reform) school at
this place. There now are r. boy inmates,
the greatest number for some years.
IPsWICH-A caboose and three cars of
a wrecking train from Mobridge to Orion
VILE went into the ditch two miles east
Of Ipswich. None was injured. Four
hundred yards Of track were torn up.
yILAS-A creamery is to be established
here by q cooperative company, which
has Just been organized BY 20 leading
farmers Of this vicinity. About rs per
cent of the stock already has been rub
scribed.
woLSEY-New officers Of the local
commercial club are: President, /. c.
AONh IN PACofaShI ASAhe
secretary, H. e. Barnes; treasures, r. r.
Chenoweth. Chairmen Of the various
committees also were elected.
OLIvET-Jacob Meyers, game warden
OF Hutchinson county, caused the arrest
Of several parties for SEEMING In the Jim
river. A fine of SIS was imposed In each
case. Among the defendants were MEM
bers of the Maxwell Mennonite colony.
sTURGIs-sheriff Collins left last night
for Sioux Falls with William Sperry.
Sperry pleaded guilty to adultery In CIR
cult court and was sentenced by Judge
Rice to 10 months In the state peniten-
tiary.
PLATTE-As the result Of the prellm-
mary hearing Of VIII Toben, arrested by
a member Of the city council as he was
about to burglarize the alderman's home,
the defendant was held for trial in the cir
cult court under bonds of $3.50, which were
furnished by friends residing at Wagner
BROOKINGSLThe annual business
| meeting Of the Brookings County Poultry
association will be held here Thursday,
December n, for the election OF officers
and the transaction of other business.
Several subjects Of interest to poultry
raisers will be debated by experts before
the meeting closes.
WASHINGTON sPRINGs-A second
athletic club has been organized here, with
John Roach president, NJ. o. Kidwiler
secretary-treasurer and Tom Roach man
ager. There were % charter members OF
the new club. Quarters have been Sc
cured in the old armory building, where
n. gymnasium and reading room will DO
maintained.
BROOKINGS-Twenty-fve automobile
owners nave organized an auto club and
will carry on a good roads campaign I'm
this vicinity. Officers were elected as
| follows: President, J. Ray Fridley; vice
president. Z. II. Beatty; secretary. c. c.
Bradbury; treasurer: G.. ]. Elite. 1t Is
expected the remaining 90 automobile
owners will become members OF the club.
ABERDEEN, S. D.-Joseph Grace,
one OF the first residents Of Aberdeen,
died In a local hospital, aged 8S years.
He was a native Of Ireland, but emil
grated to Canada, and In 1880 came tC
Brown county and took a homestead
adjoining the townsite OF Aberdeen. He
was twice married but both wives are
dead. -Four sons survive him.
PARKER-A La Toilette rally was held
at Hurley and was addressed by Hon
Allen Bogue, Jr., and Senator Dillon. A
club was organized differed by John
Wldlon, viborg, president; DIR. E.. L. Sy,
version, Centerville, vice president; DR.. w
8. Kyes, Parker, secretary; Dan Good.
hope, Viborg, treasurer, and a commit.
teeman for each precinct. The organiza
ton starts off with a large and enthus,
iastic membership.
PIERRE-Buffalo hunting Is getting as
popular as in the palmy days of old. Last
week Bob Hall, Of Aberdeen, shot In ole
outlaw bull In Perkins county. and yes,
terday Hugh Jaynes, a prominent Pierrs
butcher, and killed a 3-year-oiG
I'll hatfar hnlnnoin0 IN tho Gpnftu phfIIn.
herd. The buffalo weighed about 1.GN
pounds. Annually this market kills one
at Christmas time, usually selecting, how
ever, the quarter and half breeds. ],
sells at S1.W per pound.
IONA-Drunken brawls are becoming
frequent here, Notwithstanding that the
town Is without a saloon, that the people
are demanding that a town marshal b'
appointed to preserve the peace and ar
!, rest those guilty of infractions Of tn,
law. The patience of the people becam'
exhausted a day or two ago when, dur
ing a fight between several drunken men
one of them was knocked through tn
window of one of the business institu
tions.
: P~ERJ-Harold Humphrey, q student a
q the normal, sole occupant of Mrs. Eli
q Young's residence, had a narrow escap
from cremation. He was awakened at
: o'clock this morning by heat and smok
Y penetrating his room. He discovered tina
Q the house was or FIRE and barely had tim
to remove his effects. The fire hose wa
quickly brought into play and the flame
were confined to the one building. Th
parsonage OF the Christian church wa
threatened, but the little wind prevailin
was favorable and no further damage y
Il suited. Loss. $4,000, insurance, $1.7OO.
Is YANKTON-The second annual Yant
n ton county corn show conducted under th
supervision OF the county superintender
OF schools is now on the boards with
W large attendance of IN and the
.. families from all parts of the count
- Prizes aggregating $500 will go to boys
:" the county raising the best samples
corn, writing the best essays on corn ar
corn raising. etc., and nearly 600 Yankto
d; county lads have entered the contes
% Awards will be made today. Mar
u prominent speakers Of state a.
81 national repute are here for the even
ne including H.. H. Stoner. superintendent
a; state farmers Institutes; Miss Floren'
Mccoy, lecturer on home economies; G.
Lawrence, superintendent Of public i
rn struction; Prof. G. Willis, editor Of Mort
T., west Farmstead, Minneapolis, Mimi; PFC
e. n. L. Hansen, horticultural OF state &C
ne lege; DR.. A.. N. Hume. agronomist of sta
is college, and Prof. James Wilson, head
&c the department Of animal husbandry