The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-04-07
SOUTH DAKOTA AT A GLANCE.

SOUTH DAKOTA AT A GLANCE.
A Rebekah lodge has been organ
lied at Corsica.
Langford will be dry because OF lack
OF signers TO the saloon petition.
A gang OF thieves is believed to be
operating IN Brookings and vicinity.
The Milwaukee ticket Office at Nc
Laughlin has been made n first class
office.
The campaign for the endowment
fund of Huron college has reached
$3l .943.45.
The st. Louis Railway Co. was vot-
ed franchise right through the city
OF Pierre.
The city OF Vermillion is considering
the advisability OF taking over the
waterworks.
The annual meeting OF the South
Dakota presbytery will be held at
Scotland April II, IL and 10.
The rumor is being revived that the
South Dakota Central is planning to
extend from Watertown to Fargo.
The 3-yearold son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. d. Hanson of washington Springs
was kicked by a horse and may die.
John l.. Jolley, former South Da-
kota congressman, was operated on at
the Mayo hospital at Rochester, MINI.
William Heinz in the Stanley county
circuit court entered plea of guilty
to the charge of numbering Rolfe II.
Miles.
Sanborn county authorities are
searching for Walter Burk, who eS-
capped from the county Jail at Woon-
| socket
A government surveyor is marking
each quarter section corner on the
Cheyenne river reservation with an
iron post
The annual debate between Creigb-
ton and the University of South Da-
kota will take place at Vermillion on
March 81.
The Odd Fellows at Parker win cel-
citrate with banquet on April q the
| oath anniversary of the founding OF
| the lodge there.
| Creditors of the roller mills at Ar
mour, which recently went into the
hands of receiver, expect to realize
100 cents on the dollar.
J F. c. Mills, owner of the $4,000
Mills hotel at Faith, has been granted
an electric light franchise and will put
in light plant at Faith.
| Fire broke out in the Charles G
Leyh pantorium at Yankton and com
pletely destroyed the outfit and badly
burned the interior of the building.
| Prof. J. W. Browning for the past
three years superintendent of schools
at Clinton, H., has been elected su-
perintendent of schools at Brookings-
The Catholics of Eagle Butte are ar
ranging to build a church.
Charged with the abandonment OF
his child, Arthur Skells was brought
into justice court for an examination
and was bound over to the circuit
court at Mitchell.
The South Dakota board Of pharma-
cy will meet at Brookings on April 10.
The residence of Fred Love at HUI
ron was partly destroyed by fire.
Derius Giles of Cavour, a pioneer of
Beadle county, is dead at the age Of
81
Kingsbury county old settlers will
hold their annual reunion at DeSmet
on June 10.
Albert +. Lawrence, a farmer living
near Huron, is dead of heart failure
and pneumonia.
/. The Nebraska Telephone company
is making improvements at Rapid City
which will cost $4,000.
Forest fires are becoming numerous
in the Black Hills. The government
is establishing lookout stations.
/. Disbarment proceedings against At
torney General Royal c. johnson were
commenced in the supreme court.
, A Minnehaha county farmer has
: filed petition in bankruptcy, the first
, farmer to take that step in ten years.
} In prospecting for oil a company
eighteen miles southwest of Belle
I Fourche struck a flow of from one to
t three barrels per day, which was pure
! lubricating oil.
: Chicago physicians performed a
, very dangerous operation on the wife
of former Senator Pettigrew.
( A special election will be held at
{ Woonsocket, at which an appropria-
ton for a new school house will be
{ voted on.
I Joe Phillips, porter at the Central
hotel. Sioux Falls, was given a jail
( sentence for robbing the till at the
D hotel
t The Sioux Falls Ad club has land
. scape gardner on the job to teach
; Sioux Falls folks how to make the
city beautiful.
y Thirty young men OF Pollock have
a organized a military company and are
t holding daily drills. They expect TO
|. enlist in the army.
y The citizens of Pierpont are taking
great interest in the result Of a special
d election to issue bonds in the sum OF
t $4,000 for the construction OF system
a OF ,waterworks.
f Fred Mobeck, travelling salesman
a for the John Perkins wholesale gro
4 Gerry in Chicago, fell into a basement
n at Huron, crushing his skull, and died