The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-06-30
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

The city council and business men
ut Mobridge have inaugurated a cam
paign to improve the streets of that
nourishing town.
Burglars entered the Blue Front
grocery at Aberdeen during the night
and ransaked the place in search of
money, but secured nothing of great
value.
The mangled body of Charles Sterr
Of Ramsey was found three miles east
of Woolsey. II Is believed he fell from
the blind baggage on the westbound
express.
James Bargasser who was among
the original pioneers of Chamberlain,
is dead He was ~ years of age. He
had been in poor health for number
of years.
The board of education OF white
Lake has awarded the contract for the
enlargement of the public school
building. The improvements will cost
about $4,000.
AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Farmers Elevator COM
pany at Florence, dividend of 20 per
cent was declared, after leaving $1,000
in the treasury.
Crazed with drink, Hawkins Erie
of Lead, former Homestake miner,
aged 4S, slashed his throat from ear
to ear and was dead an hour later. He
has a brother living somewhere in
Iowa.
William Moore, manager OF the Ar
mour Roller mills of Armour, has filed
petition in voluntary bankruptcy.
The case has been referred to Henry
A. Muller, referee in bankruptcy, of
Sioux Falls.
The city council of Groton is arrang-
ing to take up outstanding bonds to
the amount of about $4,000 The
bonded indebtedness of Groton has for
years been gradually reduced and soon
will be wiped out entirely.
Five offenders against the peace
and dignity of the United States, who
had been sentenced to spend SO days
In the jail at Yankton and to pay fines
of 500 each, have had their fines re-
mitted by the United States authort
ties.
At a meeting In Sioux Falls of the
officers and directors OF the Retail I'm
plement and Vehicle Dealers associa-
tion of South Dakota, southwestern
Minnesota and northwestern Iowa, De-
cember 5, 6 and next was fixed as
the time for the annual convention of
the association. Sioux Falls was Sc
lected as the place for the convention.
John Steffes, resident of Strool,
s. $ d., died in an Aberdeen hospital as
the result of knife wound received
in a quarrel in a butcher shop at
Strool, and he accused the man who
stabbed him of being too attentive to
his wife. A fight followed, and Steffes
received the wound which caused his
death. The man who stabbed Steffer,
and Steffer's wife, are in the Perkins
county jail awaiting trial.
In an address delivered in Sioux
Falls before the teachers who are at
tending the summer school at the
Lutheran state normal school, G. w.
Lawrence, state superintendent of pub
lis instruction, declared in favor of
teaching the children how to do useful
labor by adding vocational education
to the cprriculums OF the schools. The
consolidation of rural schools, he
stated, was an important step In Sc
curing vocational education.
At the annual reunion of the G.. A.
r. in Pierre, the following officers
were chosen: Commander, Thomas
Brown OF Sioux Falls; senior com
mander, D.. b. Murray, of Hot Springs;
Jennings of Pierre, Joseph Elsom of
Groton; chaplain. Farsett. vi Hot
Springs; medical director. DR. Smith,
OF Huron: national delegates H. d.
Jennings of PPierre, Joseph Elsom of
Worthwhile, and William Box OF Yank-
ton. The encampment next year will
be held at Mitchell
September IL, 70 and II have been
fixed as the dates for the annual joint
fair OF Fall River and Custer counties,
to be held at Buffalo Gap. President
Stewart is making arrangements for
many new and interesting attractions.
This years fair Is expected to be the
most successful ever held.
Robt Ferris, manager OF the electric
light plant at Yankton. announces the
installing OF day service. Extensive
Improvements bave been started and
ty ssQtsm2sr 1 a contlnna,la day sSS As.
night service viii be started to supply
q big commercial demand.
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