The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-06-15
SOUTH DAKOTA VIEWS NOTES


The First Presbyterian church at
Wataugua was organized recently.
Edward Keever, a claim holder near
Dupree, will put in 100 acres to flax
this
Chandler Quincy of Yankton lost the
first 1oint OF his right hand index finger
by catching IL in the wheel of a bicy.
Gle.
The members Of the Odd Fellows
lodge at Vermillion have completed
preparations for erecting a fine lodge
building.
A baseball association has been or
ganized at AlpheIa and . team placed
in the field, with DR.. Burns as manager
and Karl Aisenbury, captain.
Mrs. Maria Wcldert, one of the ear
liest and highly respected pioneers
of Douglas county, died at her home
Gig hit miles northeast of Armour, aged
"A years.
Petitions recently forwarded to the
postoffice department have been IA
vorably acted upon, and In accordance
with the request the Madison postof-
fee will be closed on Sunday here
after.
Crops never looked better around Ar
mour than at the present time. The
is an abundance of rainfall and the
growing conditions are ideal. The
acreage is much in excess of any pre-
vious year.
Isabel business men and citizens
have subscribed $4,000 to a fund to be
used in arranging for a celebration at
Isabel on July 4. Races, fireworks,
speeches and other attractions are be.
ing planned for.
The people of Howard have petition
ed the Milwaukee company to extend
the night train. which now stops at
Madison, as far west as Howard. IL
would be a great convenience to the
travelling public.
The town trustees OF Albee have
purchased at considerable cos a great
deal Of fire fighting apparatus, and AL
bee will in the future have good pro.
lection. A movement is now on foot
TO erect a fine town hall.
Great interest is being taken in the
annual school election, to be held at
Bancroft soon, for at the election the
proposition of issuing bonds in the
sum of sc, 1000 for the erection of a new
school building will be submitted to
the voters.
Asking for a drink and swallowing
what was believed to be whisky, hi
Bolster of Spearfish fell in a convul.
sion and died in a few minutes. Inves.
tigation proved that the young man
had beer accidentally given a jug con.
tanning gopher poison.
The Foresters of Hoven originally
planned to exclusively own a new OPP.
era house which now is in course of
construction. but it has been decided
to sell an interest in the building to
the local st. Joseph's society. When
completed the structure will be known
as the Catholic Society hall.
The record of the count of mail in
the Plankinton p~ostoffice shows that
a total of $3.50 pieces passed through
the office during the month. OF this
number 1855 pieces were dispatched
from the office and 1925 received.
These figures include all classes Of
mail received and dispatched.
A cooperative union syndicate has
been formed at Scotland and the so
acre tract OF land owned by Ale Brown
was planted to melons. Stockholders
in this new enterprise number about
so, who each subscribed % cents. They
the carloads If the season is favorable
for such a crop.
Fritz Walstrom, a young farmer. lit
orally blew his brains out" with a
shotgun, dying almost instantly. He
lieved with his mother and sister six
miles east of Fairfax, near the Ne
braska and Dakota line, and was in
dustrious and apparently fairly pros
porous. Walstrom had been observed
lately seemingly brooding over some
VI othei po"o'N' NC was
30 years old.
Armed with an ordinary metal beer
bottle opener, John Brenna. aged 10,
a messenger boy at Sioux Falls, held
a man wanted by the police for assault
and battery until officers arrived. The
lad, hardly four feet tall. found Peter
Hindlin hidden in an alley. Pointing
the metal opener at him he promised
death IL a move was made.
Emmanuel p. Hebner. a farmer liv.
ing 10 miles from Oelrichs. was taken
to the hospital at Hot Springs with a
bullet in his right leg. Hebner let a
pistol fall on the ground when II ex
oloded. The bullet lodged In his hip