The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-04-28
SOUTH DAKOTA AT A GLANCE.

Sunday. May IA, as mothers day.
Martin Hillaman, farmer near
Hudson is dead of heart disease.
Dick Richards OF Huron, is q candi.
date for United States senator
The Yeoman lodge at Hot Springs
took in a class Of seventy.fve candi.
dates.
Peter Hoven's granary near Hoven
was completely destroyed by fire.
DR.. S. NJ. jerks died at the age of
6S.
Parker has been dry and without a
contest on the saloon question for ten
years.
Egan Methodists have started a
campaign to raise funds for new
church building.
Paul Moody was found guilty of
rape by jury in the circuit court at
Mitchell.
A new we'll for fire protection has
been sunk by the state university at
Vermillion.
Scandinavians of Webster and Day
counties will hold a celebration at
webster III June.
G. p. Harden, disbarred from the
practice of law in South Dakota, has
moved TO Arkansas.
Nimrod, an Indian policeman at
Greenwood, is in Jail at Wagner
charged with bigamy.
The annual convention of the South
Dakota Luther league will be held at
Sioux Falls on May 1914.
Governor Wesley has granted a par.
don to Charles f. Titus, sent from
Sanborn county on a charge of grand
larceny.
son of Senator Gamble, to Miss Vir-
ginia Nesbit of FIT. Deposit, Md, was
celebrated Wednesday.
The good roads has not made hit
in all parts of the state, as several
of the counties have decided to hold
it up under the referendum.
Within forty.eight hours after he
had sawed his way out of the county
Jail at Rapid City Tim Inlay, would
be pugilist and reputed bad man, was
captured.
The 16-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William o. Clough of Sioux City
will be the piano soloist at the Lake
Madison chautauqua this season.
Governor Wesley has been mentioned
in connection with the senatorial sit
uation, but his close friends say he
will taboo politics at the close of his
present term.
Governor Vessey has fixed May IA
as Mothers day.
Two arrests were made on the
charge of illegal voting at the cleo.
ton in Mitchell.
Lead has voted to adopt the COM
mission plan OF government.
A large party of Indians will camp
in Yankton during the week of June
| II.
Albert Slowly. an Indian 20 years
old, was found dead in Rapid creek
near Rapid City.
The Deadwood Telegram is out with
| a strong editorial in favor of Theo-
dore Roosevelt for president.
The InterCounty Fair association
| has been organized at Gettysburg. A
board of ten directors was selected.
A second election TO choose city Of
ficers under the commission plan will
be held at Aberdeen next Tuesday.
Claud d. Brown of Brooklyn, S. D.,
has been elected superintendent of
the public schools of Iowa Falls, la.
Governor Wesley has granted a par
don to Charles E. Titus, who was sent
up from Sanborn county on a charge
Of grand larceny.
States Attorney Bartlett has or.
dered the sheriff to close all gambling
houses and stop all slot machines in
| COrson county.
It Is just about an even chance now
that James Elliott will be named to
fill the vacancy on the federal bench
created by the transfer of Judge John
E. Garland to the commerce court.
| Claus Stoffer. while walking on the
railroad track near Bonesteel, mar
rowiy escaped death from an exploo
ing railroad torpedo.
| At Gettysburg Ed Penny was fined
on a charge of buying liquor for his
minor son, the law enforcement lea
que being responsible for the action
| South Dakota registers OF deeds will
meet at Huron to meet on April rs
to consider the advisability Of es
tablishing a uniform system OF records
and fees.
| The executive committee OF the
State Bankers association has fixec
June and as the dates for the an
nual convention which this year vii
go to Sioux Falls.
John Treber, wholesale liquor
dealer who for nearly a quarter of ;
century has been a member of th'
city council was defeated for re-elec
tion at Deadwood.
Four barns, Twenty-Five head 0
horses and several head of cattle ant
hogs have been burned in Kenuebe
within the last thirty days by fire
supposed to be Of incendiary origin.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. ]. Bower Of Rapi'
City celebrated the fiftieth anniversar,
OF their wedding with guests in al
tendance from all parts of the state
They are pioneer settlers of the state
The state board of health will hol'
!, a meeting at Brookings on May a
which the county superintendent Q
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