Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-17
A fine new Methodist church huildiu,
has just been completed at Ravinia.

A fine new Methodist church Eulldinh
has just been completed at Ravinia.
G. w. Forncrcok OF Grant county is
the owner OF fve-legged calf which
walks on three legs, giving the other
two rest.
Eagle Butte, in Dewey county,
claims the distinction of being with
out single equal suffrage advocate
among it's women.
Thet new town and public hall
building at Running Water is COM
pleted and has been dedicated and
formally opened to the public.
Many towns over the state are re-
porting shortage of ice. The intense
heat early in the season made such a
draft on the supply put up that houses
are empty.
Out of the nine grain elevators op-
Grating at Groton, il is said but three
will be kept open this season, the 9TH
ers closing down on account of the
short crop.
Lightning struck the o. W. Beach
house near Lebanon during storm,
doing considerable damage. Mr.
Beach's 11-year-old son was severely
burned by the electric fluid.
Fire recently destroyed the black
smith shop and residence of MIR. Eough
at Glenhaim.' Ihe 'hfe bfo;kkes' e out iii Yfle
middle of the night, and the hotel near
by was saved with difficulty. -.
The board of education at Peeyer
has awarded the contract for the cree
tion of new school building, which
will cost about $4,000. 1t will be COM
pleted and ready for occupancy about
October Is.
Labor won its first battle in secur-
ing the unionizing of the job of the
Elks' building at Rapid City after a
one day strike. This carries an ad-
vance of Is cents per hour to the brick
masons and nine hour day.
Edward Woitha, aged s, son of Mr..
and Mrs. A. j. Woitha, who reside on
a farm near Scotland, had narrow es-
cape from being killed by ferocious
bull. The boy had been BADLY in
jured when the animal tossed him in
to ditch. This saved The boys life,
for the bull rushed headlong past the
ditch and the boy was able to run to a
place of safety.
Just twenty-four hours after eating
some banaSas, which her mother had
given her. Margaret, the 3-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Simp-
son of Paullina, Ia died at st. Joseph's
hospital, at Deadwood, the physician
diagnosing the case as ptomaine pois-
oning. The child with her parents
had been visiting relatives at Dead.
wood 1t is thought that the bananas
were over-ripe.
The officers of the Charles Mix
County Fair association are now work
ing hard for the fair which will be
held at Platte the 9th, 7th and Sth of
September. The outlook for good en-
hibits were never better than they
are this year. Secretary Button is a
busy man and ne says everything
points to the best fair in the history
of the association. Some very good
attractions have already been secured
While William kniseley, farm
hand. and son of his employer were
in a pasture near Aurora shooting
blackbirds, the former had one of his
hands blown off by the accidental dis
charge of a shotgun. He had stopped
hn OS
ment and had placed the stock of the
gun on the ground and had his hand
over the Tnuzzie, when in some unae
countable manner the weapon was
discharged
Completely exhausted from the eff
fects of deadly gasses in the shaft OF
we'll in which he was working, Chris
Johnson of Clear Lake, lost his grir
on rope thrown to his rescue and
perished before further aid could be
secured. Johnson was sent down in.
to the we'll to investigate roaring
sound and discovering gas, he called
for help but by the time rope reach.
ed him he had lost hi strength. He
was found crouched on his hands and
knees at the bottom. johnson was
single, 25 years of age.
The death of Mrs. George Porter,
near Plankinton, by lightning, as re-
ported in the daily papers, was follow.
ed by the death short time later of
Samuel Boyd, one of the well-known
farmers of the region near Plankinton.
He was assisting neighbor in thresh-
ing, when bolt of lightning struck
him on the head, tearing away nearly
all his clothing and killing him In.
stantly. He was 36 years old and came
to South Dakota four years ago from
Jones county, Iowa. He is survived
by widow and four children.
Black Hills Shriners are working
on plan for a summer horae of the
order at some point in the Hills. At
the Rochester meeting last month it
was decided to purchase tract of
5000 acres for recreation resort for
Shriners. 1t is proposed by the order